Course Description from Hell
Kate Wrightson
This is an actual course being offered at my university this summer. My
major professor says that I can't go develop my own hegemonies until he
decides what they're going to be. *grin* I'd MST this but I can't stop
laughing.
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EEN 960: Writing Up Qualitative Research
This doctoral seminar focuses on the final stage of the
qualitative research process, representation, or what is often called
"writing it up." Intended for students who have data in hand and are
ready to begin writing (either for a dissertation or some other project),
the seminar provides a site from which to wrestle with issues of
interpretation and representation. How we choose to transform "data" into
"writing" makes a difference theoretically, practically, and ethically;
and in this seminar we will explore issues such as the following: how do
we inscribe lives in our texts, how do we contribute to hegemonies by
maintaining marginality/dominance in our texts, and how do our academic
practices affect how and what we write? There will be a special focus on
the politics of interpretation, drawing on feminist, neo-marxist, and
poststructuralist challenges to and reformulations of empirical inquiry in
the human sciences. The work of Clifford Geertz, George Marcus and
Michael Fischer, Kamala Visweswaran, Laurel Richardson, Patti Lather, John
Van Maanen, and Harry Wolcott, among others, will help us not only to
think about writing but also to write. In addition, we will experiment
with the development of writing communities, peer support, and
self-authorization. There will be opportunities to prepare drafts of
dissertation chapters or other research reports and to seek support and
guidance for the resolution of the very complex issues informing
representation.
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ka...@eyrie.org Kate Wrightson www.eyrie.org/~kate
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the world moves and it swivels and bops'
Jim Kingdon
> This is an actual course being offered at my university this summer.
Hmmm. Sounds pretty bad.
My favorite course title is "history of the philosophy of history".
Kai Henningsen
kin...@panix.com (Jim Kingdon) wrote on 26.03.98 in <p4wbtut...@panix.com>:
> > This is an actual course being offered at my university this summer.
>
> Hmmm. Sounds pretty bad.
>
> My favorite course title is "history of the philosophy of history".
That *could* be interesting. It could also be awful.
Kai
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