Ethnography & Ethnographic Methods

Catalog description

This course examines the epistemology, ethics, and politics of ethnographic fieldwork and is designed to provide students with the methodological tools to conduct ethnographic research. Through close reading and seminar discussions, students reflect on the origins of ethnographic inquiry and engage with decolonial responses to Western ethnographic inquiry. Having developed a critical understanding of ethnographic research as theory and method in the first half of the course, students develop and workshop their own ethnographic research project and gain hands-on experience collecting, analyzing, and writing up ethnographic data.