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Jan 28, 2025
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COMS 7170 - Contemporary and Critical Approaches to Ethnographic Methods
An advanced qualitative methods seminar focusing on critical and contemporary ethnographic research. Students understand the history, meaning, and evolution of ethnographic fieldwork by learning about mainstream, marginalized, de-colonial, indigenous, transnational, and feminist approaches to ethnographic practices. Students explore the crucial relationship between researchers and participants, researcher subjectivity and positionality, cultural translation, the crises of representation, and ethnographic claims to knowledge. Students are exposed to critical writing epistemologies such as experimental and performative writing, ethnopoetics, and autoethnography The course is both conceptual and practical, with theoretical discussions and hands-on training in participant observation, interviewing, analysis, and writing.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Discuss ethnographic research exemplars rooted in contemporary and critical discussions.
- Critique the theoretical ideas that inform critical ethnographic research.
- Identify the criteria for evaluation of critical ethnographic studies.
- Employ a critical lens in developing a research proposal.
- Describe and use appropriate participant observation methods in a chosen field site.
- Describe and use an appropriate interview protocol for conducting field interviews.
- Identify the criteria for high quality critical ethnographic research.
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