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Root number
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506465 |
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Semester
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HS2025 |
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Type of course
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Exercise |
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Allocation to subject
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Social Anthropology |
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Type of exam
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not defined |
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Transversal Field Methods |
| Description |
Be aware: if you sign in for the course, you signed in for the exam!
This course introduces some of the principal methods for conducting field research in social anthropology and cultural studies and related disciplines (sociology, history, geography, and political science.) It is geared toward students preparing for their first encounter with field methods and for those who have already had some experience in this medium of inquiry. Students are highly encouraged to complement this course with the Blockkurs with titled «Interviewen», taught by Dr. Carla Hegen, focused on interviewing.
Transversal Field Methods offers a general preface to what fieldwork is, deals with the entry to the field, participant observation, keeping a field diary and analyzing it, and the first stages of authoring texts premised on field research. Constructed as an interactive process, the course rests equally on discussing theoretical texts and examples of texts written based on field methods and the firsthand field experience that course participants undergo.
Students are expected to cover the required readings for every class and to submit questions for class discussion before class.
Weeks 1-9 will each feature lecturing and in-class discussion of texts, with examples from the course convener’s and the students’ own research experience.
As regards the field methods exercise, between weeks 3 and 9 (i.e. for a total of 7 weeks), in groups of two, students will engage in field research at a site that they choose, researching a topic that they define. To this end, by week 3 students are expected to announce their groups for the field research exercise and the projected topic of their inquiry, and from week 4 onwards students will submit individual fieldnotes from their chosen field sites (one page every week). In week 6 (halfway through their exercise) student groups will sign up for consultations with me in order to discuss the progress of their exercise, and in week 9 (the final week of the exercise) they will consult with me on turning their exercises into reports.
Weeks 10-12 will be dedicated to group presentations of the field research projects in class |
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ILIAS-Link (Learning resource for course)
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Registrations are transmitted from CTS to ILIAS (no admission in ILIAS possible).
ILIAS
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Link to another web site
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| Lecturers |
Dr.
Moslem Ghomashlouyan, Institute of Social Anthropology ✉
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ECTS
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5 |
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Recognition as optional course possible
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Yes |
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Grading
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1 to 6 |
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| Dates |
Wednesday 12:15-14:00 Weekly
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| Rooms |
Seminarraum 324, Mittelstrasse 43
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