Spring 2024 Anthropology BC3868 section 001

ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELD RESEARCH IN NYC

ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELD RESEAR

Call Number 00867
Day & Time
Location
R 2:10pm-4:00pm
323 Milbank Hall (Barnard)
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required Instructor
Instructor Kaya N Williams
Type SEMINAR
Course Description

This course provides the aspiring anthropologist with an array of primarily qualitative methodological tools essential to successful urban fieldwork. As such, it is a practicum of sorts, where regular field assignments help build one’s ability to record and analyze social behavior by drawing on several key data collection techniques. Because we have the luxury of inhabiting a large, densely populated, international city, this class requires that you take a head-first plunge into urban anthropology. The NYC area will define the laboratory for individually- designed research projects. Be forewarned, however! Ethnographic engagement involves efforts to detect social patterns, but it is often a self-reflexive exercise, too. Readings provide methodological, analytical, and personal insights into the skills, joys, and trials that define successful field research.

Web Site Vergil
Department Anthropology @Barnard
Enrollment 19 students (18 max) as of 9:06PM Thursday, December 12, 2024
Status Full
Subject Anthropology
Number BC3868
Section 001
Division Barnard College
Section key 20241ANTH3868X001