3 credits
Fall 2025 Lecture
Focuses on ethnographic research design, methodology, and ethics, discussing the appropriate selection of any method. Students gain experience with the varieties of ethnographic practice across anthropology and sibling sciences, the generation and analysis of data, and the writing up of ethnographic and of other qualitative research.
Learning Outcomes1Meet the Graduate School learning objectives of knowledge, communication, critical thinking, and ethical research through the goals listed here.
2Learn about qualitative research design, ethics and methods.
3Understand when and how to appropriately select qualitative and quantitative methods and identify how and when to use them.
4Gain an understanding on how anthropologists across the subfields and other scholars use and apply qualitative methods.
5Gain experience in generating and analyzing qualitative data, including being exposed to common qualitative software packages (such as NVivo).
6Achieve qualitative literacy for understanding and working in a mixed methods environment.
Restrictions
made by Purdue students.