- Video Ethnography

Catalog description

Video can be used as a research tool to better understand social life. Students will explore key theoretical and empirical works in visual sociology and visual studies and will  enhance their skills in ethnographic data gathering and analysis. Students will work on a semester-long research project to produce a sociologically-informed  ethnographic documentary from start to finish, becoming conversant in methodological and filmmaking practices. Prior experience with video equipment and editing software is not a requirement