Course Schedule and Readings
Weekly Schedule
Module 1: Preparing to undertake ethnographic research
- Thinking Like An Ethnographer
- Ethnography: A Comprehensive Guide for Qualitative Research
- Deep Ethnography
- Ethnography overview
- Engaging Culture as Text
- What is culture?
Module 2: Building a team dynamic and cultivating reflexivity
- Defining a Collaborative Ethnography
- Susan Silbey: Team Ethnography
- Reflexivity
- ‘Nobody Stands Nowhere’
- Feminist Ethnography and Social Reproduction Theory
- “Emotional Reflexivity” new Ethnography Made Easy chapter by James Sevitt (to be inserted when ready)
- Module 2 – Extra Resources
Module 3: Research Ethics
Module 4: Research Design: Choosing a topic and field site, and crafting a research question
- Proposing Ethnographic Research
- Community Scoping
- Selecting a Research Site
- Crafting a Research Question:
Module 5: Preparing to Enter the Field
- What exactly is anthropological fieldwork?
- Participant Observation
- “Collecting Data and Taking Notes”
- Ethnographic Mapping
- Handout on note-taking during fieldwork and interview
- Considering Types of Fieldnotes
- To be developed: OER repository of Collective Fieldwork Guides developed by James Sevitt’s students in Ethnography of Work I and II and Ethnographic Methods at Work classes from 2022-2024
Module 6: Developing Fieldnotes and Writing Ethnographic Vignettes
- Expanding and Revising Fieldnotes and Observations
- Ethnographic Vignette Printer
- “Writing the Moment”
- The Art of Writing Ethnographic Vignettes
- To be developed: OER repository of Ethnographic Vignettes written by students in by James Sevitt’s Ethnography of Work I and II and Ethnographic Methods at Work classes from 2022-2024
Module 7: Conducting Semi-structured Interviews and Focus Groups
- Conducting Interviews
- Interviews
- Semi-structured Interviews
- Qualitative Interviewing
- Focus Groups
- Transcribing and Translating Data
- Voices from the Heart of Gotham
Module 8: Digital Ethnography and Archival/Historical Fieldwork
- Digital Ethnography – Types, Methods and Examples – https://researchmethod.net/digital-ethnography/
- An open educational resource for doing netnography in the digital arts and humanities –
- Teaching Online Participant Observation
- Archival and Historical Research
Module 9: Analyzing Ethnographic Data and Findings
- Analyzing Ethnographic Data
- Content Analysis
- Data Analysis and Coding
- Advanced Codes and Coding
- Data Management and Analysis
Module 10: Reviewing and Analyzing Ethnographic Literature
- Searching for Sources
- Reviewing the Literature
- Summarizing Sources
- Building An Annotated Bibliography
Module 11: Writing Ethnography

