? Credit Points : 20  ? SCQF Level : 11  ? Acronym : SPS-P-ETHSEM

This course focuses on ethnography both as 'process' and 'product'. Through readings and assignments, it helps students explore: the historical development of ethnography in the Anglophone world; a variety of 'classic' ethnographies; the ways in which text and theory are linked; and some individual ethnographers.

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Home subject area

Postgraduate (School of Social and Political Studies), (School of Social and Political Studies, Schedule J)

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

By the end of the course, students will be expected to demonstrate:
- an understanding of ethnographic fieldwork as a process and its links to writing ethnography as product
- an ability to read critically academic literature on ethnography
- an ability to read ethnographic material and grasp how they have been 'put together'
- an understanding of how ethnographic writing might be evaluated

(i) 1 long essay (4000 words) worth 80% of the available marks
(ii) 1 short written assignment (max. 1500 words) worth 20% of the available marks

The Course Secretary should be the first point of contact for all enquiries.

Course Secretary

Mrs Sue Grant
Tel : (0131 6)51 1777
Email : sue.grant@ed.ac.uk

Course Organiser

Dr Jeanne Cannizzo
Tel : (0131 6)50 6860
Email : J.E.Cannizzo@ed.ac.uk

School Website : http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/

College Website : http://www.hss.ed.ac.uk/