Double the Pleasure, Double the Fun!
I fleetingly presented my blog yesterday, Wednesday, June 10th, at the DL meeting. Now that I'm afraid I'm on the "radar" and my colleagues might be reading this, I unquestioned to get cracking and do a double session today!
Here's the update:
Lou Acierno, the Director of the Library, has offered to help m with me on designing a DL version of the Communicating Across Cultures course. I reworked the syllabus and sent him a copy which I'm also posting as full words here. Be kind: I was given this syllabus rather late in the semester prior to teaching it and it is still in development. Any suggestions you have for making it more DL clubbable are appreciated!
[Faculty information, Course Description, Objectives, Requirements, and Assessment have been removed here]
Week 1
Introduction to Procedure
Week 2:
What is Anthropology? What is Ethnography?
Read:
· Franz Boas excerpt TBA
Week 3:
Studying Culture & Thick Category
Field Trip One
Read:
· Geertz, “Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture,” The Exegesis of Culture (NY: Basic Books, 1973), Chapter 1, Part I-VIII
· Spradley, The Ethnographic Interview, Chapter One
Week 4:
Methodological Critiques of Anthropology & Ethnography
· Behar, The Unprotected Observer, Chapter 1
· Spradley, The Ethnographic Interview, Chapter Two
FILM: A Couple in the Cage
Week 5:
Research Methods, Fetching Field Notes
Field Trip Two
Read:
· Spradley, The Ethnographic Interview, Chapter Three
· Behar, The Vulnerable Observer, Chapter 2
Week 6:
Locating & Interviewing Informants
Peruse:
· Spradley, The Ethnographic Interview, Part Two, Step One
· Behar, The Vulnerable Observer, Chapter 3
Week 7:
Interviewing Informants (Practice Assembly)
Field Trip Three: Interview #1
Read:
· Spradley,...
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