Ethnography in Asia
The course examines ethnography in Asian contexts through writing, photography, and film.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Spring 2024: 3.95 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Report on how the practice of ethnography relates to research agendas.
Understand how the craft of ethnography impacts the study and articulation of “Asia” as a place and an idea.
Reflect on ethnography in writing.
Learn how to identify and analyze visual ethnographies in filmmaking and photography.
Relate the history, practice, and production of ethnography to particular courses of study (i.e., majors and certificates) and, if applicable, to senior theses and/or final projects.
Demonstrate how the practice and production of ethnography relates to specific disciplines and, if applicable, to dissertation projects.
Articulate how the history, practice, and production of ethnography relates to prior research and experience “on the ground” in Asia.
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the class
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Spring 2024: 3.95 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades).
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Topics
- Qualitative ethnographic research methods.
- Asian themes including religion, health, economics, and sexuality.
- Ethnography as theory, practice, and scholarly motivation.
Skills
- Report on how ethnographic practice connects to research agendas.
- Analyze how ethnographic craft shapes understandings of Asia.
- Reflect on ethnographic writing.
- Identify and analyze visual ethnographies in film and photography.
- Connect ethnography to majors, certificates, senior theses, or final projects.
- Relate ethnography to specific disciplines and dissertation projects.
- Connect ethnography to prior research or field experience in Asia.
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