Course Subject Code
AN
Course Number
206
Course Long Title
Doing Ethnography
Status
Active
Division
Social Sciences
Department
Unit(s)
0.25
Unit(s) Max
1
Schedule Type
Block Seminar
Instruction Mode
Traditional
Grade Modes
Letter Grades, S/CR/NC, Audit
Course Attributes
CLAI, CLCP, CLSH, CPG
Course Description
Provides a foundation for understanding and doing ethnographic, contextually based research. Students execute hands-on projects grounded in participant observation and such complements as interviewing, questionnaires and surveys, archival work and projective methodological techniques; final results vary from ethnographic texts or films to exhibits or applied recommendations. Addresses such ethnographic fundamentals as: intellectual history; disciplinary contexts; epistemological validity and reliability; ethics and Institutional Review Boards; using ethnography for cross-cultural comparison; qualitative data analysis and software. Students learn varied forms of ethnographic inquiry such as exploratory, experimental, critical, historical and action/applied.
Courses
AN206 is a prerequisite for:
Programs
AN206 is a completion requirement for: