| SOSC 3B07 (Re)Writing Culture: Reflexive Ethnography in a Globalized World 0.50 Credit(s) Academic Course |
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| Prerequisite: 7.5 credits, including all first-year requirements (5.0 credits), and 1.0 credit of second-year liberal arts & sciences (including 0.5 credit in VISA/VISC/VISD/VISM). |
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| Ethnographic writing of the last 25 years has served as an important catalyst in the production of critically reflexive and interrogative works across geographical and disciplinary terrains. To this end, students will be exposed to different ethnographic styles that derive primarily from anthropology, but also include sociology, journalism, and literary studies. In addition to critically reading a selection of diverse ethnographies, students will pay attention to context specific methodologies that both facilitate and contest the “writing of cultures”. The production of ethnography will serve as a tool to unpack and engage with issues of power, resistance, ethics, inequality, objectivity, alternative socio-cultural arrangements, fieldwork and “thick” cultural descriptions. |
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| Course was last updated May 2, 2012 - 4:29 PM | |