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
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