COURSE OUTLINE:

This course aims to familiarize students with a range of qualitative and ethnographic research methods in social and cultural anthropology. Students will have an opportunity to design a research project, employ qualitative research methods such as participant observation and interviews, and produce fieldnotes and ethnographic texts. This course is designed as a required core course for graduate students in our Public Issues Anthropology M.A. program at the University of Guelph.

In this course, students are encouraged to apply appropriate research methodologies to address contemporary, social and/or global issues. Students are also encouraged to critically reflect upon the limits of various anthropological methods and approaches.

FORMAT:  Seminar

EVALUATION: Presentations, in-class workshops, in-class exams, ethnographic research paper, and thesis/major paper proposal

TEXTBOOK:

Course Packet prepared by the instructor (available via the library’s e-reserve, ARES).