Doing Ethnography
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.
Prerequisite: Consent of Instructor.
1 unit — Hautzinger
Offerings
Term | Block | Title | Instructor | Location | Student Limit/Available | Updated |
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Spring 2022 | Block 8 | Doing Ethnography | Sarah Hautzinger | Barnes Science Center 412 | 25 / 21 | 05/16/2022 |
Spring 2023 | Block 8 | Doing Ethnography | Sarah Hautzinger | TBA | 32 / 32 | 05/16/2022 |