Ethnographic Research Methods in Communication
Prerequisites: COMM 175 or COMM 201; Junior standing.
This course teaches principles of participant-observation research as a critical practice to produce a 'thick description' of meanings, values, hierarchies of interests, power structures, and ideals of a particular cultural group or community.
Outcomes: Students learn to conduct ethnographic research and its procedures - taking field notes, conducting interviews, examination of data and artifacts, and producing research results to a public audience.
This course teaches principles of participant-observation research as a critical practice to produce a 'thick description' of meanings, values, hierarchies of interests, power structures, and ideals of a particular cultural group or community.
Outcomes: Students learn to conduct ethnographic research and its procedures - taking field notes, conducting interviews, examination of data and artifacts, and producing research results to a public audience.