Methods Classes: Ethnography & Field Work
UMass
Method: Ethnography
School: Umass
Course: Communication COMM
Course Level (G/U): Graduate
Course Title: Performance Ethnography
Course Description:
Instructor(s): Claudio Moreira
Fall 2012 Schedule: Not offered
Method: Ethnography
School: Umass
Course: Communication 781
Course Level (G/U): Graduate
Course Title: The Ethnography of Communication
Course Description:
Exploration of ethnographic inquiry and some of its possibilities for creating insights into human communication. Basic philosophy, theory, and methodological issues.
Instructor(s): Donal Carbaugh
Fall 2012 Schedule: Not offered
Method: Ethnography
School: Umass
Course: Communication 794M
Course Level (G/U): Graduate
Course Title: Field Research Methods in Communication
Course Description:
Ethnographic approaches to recording and analyzing communicative events and practices in their sociocultural context. Emphasizes hands-on application of theoretically-informed methods. Students practice ethnographic observation, audio-visual recording, interviewing, transcription, and presentation of analyses of interaction. Students must have semester-long access to a research site and receive written permission from the subjects of their study.
Instructor(s): Ben Bailey
Fall 2012 Schedule: Not offered
Method: Ethnography
School: Umass
Course: Political Science 697A
Course Level (G/U): Graduate
Course Title: Ethnography & Policy
Course Description:
Instructor(s): John Brigham
Fall 2012 Schedule: Not offered
Method: Ethnography
School: Umass
Course: Sociology 797O
Course Level (G/U): Graduate
Course Title: Ethnography
Course Description:
Instructor(s): Millie Thayer (2008)
Fall 2012 Schedule: Not offered
Method: Ethnography
School: Umass
Course: Linguistics 404
Course Level (G/U): Undergraduate
Course Title: Field Methods
Course Description:Provides hands-on experience in linguistic analysis. Students elicit language data from the speaker of an unfamiliar language, both in class and individually. Under the guidance of the instructor, students analyze various aspects of the phonology and syntax of the language.
Instructor(s): http://people.umass.edu/scable/LING404-FA10/Materials/LING404-Syllabus.pdf
Fall 2012 Schedule: Alice Harris,
Ellen Woolford
Method: Computing, Ethnography, Research Design
School: Umass
Course: Anthropology 697D
Course Level (G/U): Graduate
Course Title: Digital Ethnographic Film Methods
Course Description: This course will provide graduate students in cultural and linguistic anthropology with hands-on training in the use of digital audio and video as a part of ethnographic methods and analysis. Through guided semester-long ethnographic research projects, students will gain experience in the collection of digital audio and video data, as well as in manipulating, editing, transcribing and analyzing audio-visual material. Students will also learn first-hand about negotiating the IRB approval process for research involving human subjects.
Instructor(s): Thea Strand (visiting)
Fall 2012 Schedule: Not offered
Method: Ethnography, Writing
School: Umass
Course: Anthropology 697CC
Course Level (G/U): Graduate
Course Title: Writing Ethnography
Course Description: This graduate seminar takes ethnography as its object of analysis and its subject of practice. The seminar provides students with tools for thinking through the politics of representation. We examine the ongoing consequences of the representational crisis that plagued ethnography, with vehemence in the 1980s, and investigate how and to what degree the genre has recovered. As Veena Das asks, “What is it to engage the life of the other in the context of the everyday?” We may also question whether we are committed to ethnography as a genre, and if so how and why? In addition, the seminar will provide students with a space to practice their own ethnographic writing. In both our reading and writing, we will explore conventional as well as experimental (or blurred) forms of representation, including critical ethnography, the ethnographic novel, creative non-fiction, and cross-cultural memoir.
Instructor(s): Elizabeth Krause (Spring 2012)
Fall 2012 Schedule: Not offered
Method: Fieldwork, Interviewing
School: Umass
Course: Sociology 791N
Course Level (G/U): Graduate
Course Title: Fieldwork & Interviewing
Course Description:
Instructor(s):
Fall 2012 Schedule:
Method: Fieldwork/GIS
School: Umass
Course: Anthropology 597AE
Course Level (G/U): Graduate
Course Title: Field Archaeology and GIS
Course Description:NOTE: This is a part of Archaeological Field School Israel, a program that students must apply to each year. Review links to get more details. Will train students in archaeological excavation, survey, field documentation, and artifact processing. Students will be introduced to Geographical Information Systems (GIS), an important set of research tools for mapping archaeological data and understanding human settlement patterns.
Instructor(s): Director: Michael Sugerman
Fall 2012 Schedule:
Method: Fieldwork
School: Umass
Course: Communication COMM special topics
Course Level (G/U): Graduate
Course Title: Field Research in Media and Cultural Studies
Course Description: This course introduces students to the logics and practices of field research, drawing from anthropological and sociological traditions and examning contemporary field research in media and cultural studies. The course considers the place of field research in theoretical discussions of structure and action in social life, and in epistemological debates about positivism, naturalism, subjectivity, and reflexivity.
Instructor(s): Lisa Henderson
Fall 2012 Schedule: Not offered
Method: Fieldwork
School: Umass
Course: Communication COMM special topics
Course Level (G/U): Graduate
Course Title: Field Research Methods in Social Interaction
Course Description:
Instructor(s): Ben Bailey
Fall 2012 Schedule: Not offered
Method: Fieldwork
School: Umass
Course: Communication COMM special topics
Course Level (G/U): Graduate
Course Title: Social Interaction Analysis
Course Description:After an introduction to Anglo-American theoretical and historical perspectives, students will organize and conduct small-scale field projects in sites of "cultural production," meaning any context where people get together to engage in the practice of signification or the production of meaning in some form. (Practically speaking, this means wherever there are people, though historically the range of settings, contexts and approaches designated by "cultural studies" is more particular than that.) Through their field research, students will develop skills in participant observation, constructing a field record, conducting interviews and engaging in other forms of talk on site, and developing an analysis of field materials. The course sustains a discussion of ethical and political questions about field relations, and ends on field research and ethnography as written forms and on their place and adequacy in decolonization.
Instructor(s):
Fall 2012 Schedule: Not offered
Method: Fieldwork
School: Umass
Course: Sociology ?
Course Level (G/U): Graduate
Course Title: Participant Observation
Course Description:
Instructor(s): Fareen Parvez (Spring 2012)
Fall 2012 Schedule: Not offered
Method: Fieldwork
School: Umass
Course: Sociology 314
Course Level (G/U): Undergraduate
Course Title: Field Research Methods
Course Description: This courses focuses on five data collection techniques: participant observation, respondent interviewing, informant interviewing, systematic observation of naturally occurring behavior, and documents and archives.
Instructor(s): Wenona Rymond-Richmond(2011)
Fall 2012 Schedule:
Method: Fieldwork
School: Umass
Course: Anthropology 367/697
Course Level (G/U): Graduate/Undergraduate
Course Title: Archaeological Survey Methods
Course Description:none available
Instructor(s): Elizabeth Chilton (2007)
Fall 2012 Schedule: Not offered
Method: Fieldwork
School: Umass
Course: Anthropology 597
Course Level (G/U): Graduate
Course Title: Madagascar, Past and Present: Biodiversity, Extinction, and Conservation (Register through IPO)
Course Description:NOTE: This is a program that students must apply to each year. Review links to get more details. Students in this course travel to Madagascar to learn practical skills for studying nonhuman primates in field environments – specifically to observe lemurs in continuous rainforests as well as fragmented or “disturbed” forests near villages or clear-cut agricultural fields. They will have the opportunity to observe and handle the remains of recently extinct lemurs, and to learn how paleontologists glean from them an understanding of past environments and extinction processes. The emphasis of the course will be on the lemurs of Madagascar (past and present) and associated megafauna, how to better understand changes in biodiversity over time, and how to build conservation plans and prevent future extinctions through involvement at the local level. We will travel from the capital, Antananarivo, to the zoological park Ivoloina, and from there to the fragmented forest site of Tsinjoarivo. Students will work together at all three of these sites and will select individual projects in accordance with their preferred academic focus on primatology, conservation, or paleontology, to fulfill the requirements for the course.
Instructor(s): Director: Laurie Godfrey
Fall 2012 Schedule:
Method: Fieldwork
School: Umass
Course: Anthropology 597
Course Level (G/U): Graduate
Course Title: Archaeological Field School Israel (register through IPO)
Course Description:NOTE: This is a program that students must apply to each year. Review links to get more details. This field school is divided into two courses: ANTH597AE and ANTH597AC. See those listings.
Instructor(s): Director: Michael Sugerman
Fall 2012 Schedule:
Method: Fieldwork
School: Umass
Course: Anthropology 597AC
Course Level (G/U): Graduate
Course Title: Archaeology, Conservation and Heritage
Course Description:NOTE: This is a part of Archaeological Field School Israel, a program that students must apply to each year. Review links to get more details. Will entail excavation and a general overview of the archaeology and material culture of the Middle East and the eastern Mediterranean. This course will emphasize artifact processing and conservation of on-site architectural remains and interaction with the various communities and stakeholders involved with the preservation and interpretation of these sites.
Instructor(s): Director: Michael Sugerman
Fall 2012 Schedule:
Smith
Method: Fieldwork
School: Smith
Course: Environmental Science and Policy 100
Course Level (G/U): Undergraduate
Course Title: Environment and Sustainability: Notes from the Field
Course Description: This one-credit lecture series will introduce students to theory and practice in fields related to the environment
and sustainability. Students will gain insight to how their liberal arts education and associated intellectual
capacities are applied in a variety of contexts.
Instructor(s):
Fall 2012 Schedule: Paul Wetzel
Mount Holyoke
Method: Fieldwork
School: Mount Holyoke
Course: Psychology 331f/s
Course Level (G/U): Undergraduate
Course Title: Lab in Early Social and Personality Development
Course Description:In the role of a participant-observer, each student studies intensively the social and personality development of the children in one classroom at the Gorse Children's Center at Stonybrook. Students learn how to articulate developmental changes and individual differences by analyzing detailed observations. Topics include social cognition, peer relationships, social skills, concepts of friendship, emotional development, identity formation, self-esteem, and the social and cultural context of development.
Prereq. Psychology 200, 201, and 230 or permission of instructor; 2 labs (3 hours each) required at Gorse Children's Center at Stonybrook
Instructor(s): Not available
Fall 2012 Schedule: yes
Method: Assessment; Fieldwork; Action Research
School: Mount Holyoke
Course: Psychology 340f
Course Level (G/U): Undergraduate
Course Title: Laboratory in Perception and Cognition Cognition and Literacy
Course Description:Community-based learning course. Adult illiteracy in the U.S. presents an ever-growing challenge. To understand this problem, we will learn various theories of reading. However, since many models of reading are based on data gathered from children, we will also examine how the cognitive abilities of adults are different from those of children. A large component of this class concerns learning the lab techniques associated with assessing reading abilities. In addition, since this is a community-based learning course, each student will become a tutor for an adult enrolled in an area literacy program.
Prereq. a 100-level course in psychology, 201, 200 and permission of instructor. Students must meet with the professor during advising week to get permission to enter the course.; 3 hours per week as a literacy tutor in Springfield is required.
Instructor(s): Binder
Fall 2012 Schedule: yes
Method: Ethnography; Interviewing; Research Design
School: Mount Holyoke
Course: Anthropology 275
Course Level (G/U): Undergraduate
Course Title: Doing Ethnography: Research Methods in Anthropology also listed as Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology
Course Description: This course examines anthropological fieldwork techniques, including interviewing and participant observation, as well as qualitative approaches to the analysis of cultural data. Topics include cross-cultural field techniques, research design, ethical dilemmas, and the difference between academic and applied research. Research projects are an integral part of this course.
Prereq. Anthropology 105 or 4 credits in department
Instructor(s): Roth (2011)
Fall 2012 Schedule: Not offered
Method: General Methods; Research Design; Writing; Interviewing; Ethnography; Fieldwork; Historical; Content Analysis?
School: Mount Holyoke
Course: Psychology 323f
Course Level (G/U): Undergraduate
Course Title: Laboratory in Qualitative Research
Course Description:(Speaking- and writing-intensive course) This course offers a hands-on introduction to methods of psychological research that focus on the qualitative description and analysis of human experience. Students learn a variety of techniques of data collection (interviewing, intensive observation, archival research) and methods of analyzing textual sources -- from historical accounts to blogs, memoirs, observational narratives, and interview transcripts. Readings focus on specific methodological practices as well as on the history and philosophy of science differentiating qualitative methods from other approaches to psychological research. Students work both collaboratively and individually on projects throughout the course.
Prereq. Psychology 200 and permission of instructor. Students must meet with Prof. Hornstein during advising week.
Instructor(s): Hornstein
Fall 2012 Schedule: yes
Method: General Methods; Writing; Interviewing; Ethnography; Fieldwork; Historical
School: Mount Holyoke
Course: Psychology 202f
Course Level (G/U): Undergraduate
Course Title: Qualitative Methods in Psychology
Course Description: (Writing-intensive course) This course provides an introduction to the skills necessary for qualitative research. Students learn a variety of methods of data collection (interviewing, intensive observation, archival research) and interpretation of findings (phenomenology, grounded theory, narrative analysis), as well as the philosophy of science that underlies qualitative research. The course culminates in an original, collaborative research project.
Prereq. Psych 100, 200
Instructor(s): Hornstein(2004)
Fall 2012 Schedule: Not offered
Method: General Methods; Writing; Interviewing; Ethnography; Fieldwork; Historical
School: Mount Holyoke
Course: Sociology 216f
Course Level (G/U): Undergraduate
Course Title: Introduction to Qualitative Research and Data Analysis
Course Description: This course introduces students to qualitative research methods. The course is designed for students to receive basic training in the collection and analysis of qualitative research data, gain experience writing and presenting qualitative data, get exposure to the theoretical assumptions underlying qualitative inquiry, and to gain insight about the ethical responsibilities surrounding qualitative social analysis. We will focus on methods such as in-depth interviews, focus groups, participant observation, and archival analysis.
Prereq. Sociology major
Instructor(s): Banks
Fall 2012 Schedule: yes
Amherst
Method: Ethnography
School: Amherst
Course: Anthropology and Sociology 230
Course Level (G/U): Undergraduate
Course Title: EthnographicMethods
Course Description: This course will explore ethnographic field methods and techniques as well as the epistemological, political and ethical debates about them. In order to explore various approaches to writing an ethnographic text, students will read excerpts from classic ethnographies and full-length contemporary ethnographies; discuss content, method, and style of each piece; and examine the connections between theory and method. Students will gain an understanding of differing approaches to fieldwork and analysis and discuss the broader ethical and theoretical implications of each approach. Issues to be discussed will include: the politics of representation; power, ethics, and fieldwork; feminist methodology; “insider” critiques of anthropological knowledge; and Participatory Action Research (PAR) approaches, among other topics. Students will gain first-hand ethnographic experience and apply what they learn as they engage in ethnographic fieldwork throughout the course and produce a written ethnographic project.
Requisite: ANTH 112. Not open to first-year students. Admission with consent of the instructor. Limited to 15 students. Fall semester. Visiting Professor Araujo.
If Overenrolled: Preference will be given to anthropology majors.
Instructor(s): Ana Araujo
Fall 2012 Schedule: TTH 10:00-11:20
Hampshire
Method: Ethnography; Fieldwork
School: Hampshire
Course: CSI (Critical Social Inquiry) 103
Course Level (G/U): Undergraduate
Course Title: Performance and Ethnography
Course Description:
Music, dance, and theater may be viewed as performance arts, but they are also situated in social, economic, and cultural contexts. This course both explores social science frameworks for analyzing performance, and introduces students to qualitative research methods that address performance as embodied experience, as ritual, as a product of economic relations, as a site of symbolic meaning, and as a site of contested power relations. Students will conduct limited fieldwork and develop a research paper on a related topic of their choice. Through this process students will consider questions of power in the ethnographic setting, develop interviewing and transcribing skills, and explore interpretive anthropological methods.
Instructor(s): Michelle Bigenho
Fall 2012 Schedule: Not offered
Method: Ethnography; Fieldwork
School: HAMPSHIRE
Course: CSI (Critical Social Inquiry) 296
Course Level (G/U): Undergraduate
Course Title: Producing Youth Culture
Course Description: This course examines youth culture and performance. We explore these topics through an integrated approach, focusing on the dynamics between educational, socio-cultural, and deveopmental perspectives. This course emphasizes field methodology, requiring
Instructor(s): Kristen Luschen & Rebecca Miller
Fall 2012 Schedule: Tu12:30-3:20
Method: Ethnography; Research Design
School: Hampshire
Course: CSI (Critical Social Inquiry) 301
Course Level (G/U): Undergraduate
Course Title: Ethnography of Law, Science, & Medicine
Course Description:
This course introduces Division II students to qualitative anthropological methods. Through a series of ethnographic exercises, students will build a methodological toolkit for investigating complex social problems. Through the critical reading and analysis of ethnographic texts, students will also learn about the substantive areas of legal anthropology, science studies, and critical medical anthropology. The course will culminate in final mini-ethnographic research projects designed by students.
Instructor(s): Jennifer Hamilton & Rebecca Chappell
Fall 2012 Schedule: Not offered