Online Field School in Ethnographic Research Methods
The Comitas Institute
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Getting ready to do fieldwork?
18th CIFAS Field School in Ethnographic Research Methods
There are still some vacancies available at the 18th CIFAS Field School in Ethnographic Methods. The course will be offered online on Tuesdays and Thursdays from August 12 to September 11. For more information, see our website: https://www.cifas.us/field-school/field-school.
The Field School aims to offer training in the foundations and practice of ethnographic methods. The faculty works closely with participants to identify the required field methods needed to address their academic or professional needs. The Field School is suitable for graduate and undergraduate students in social sciences and other fields of study that use qualitative approaches (such as education, communication, cultural studies, health, social work, human ecology, development studies, and consumer behavior, among others), applied social scientists, professionals, and researchers who have an interest in learning more about ethnographic methods and their applications.
The program includes topics such as the foundations of ethnographic research; ethics in fieldwork; feminist, multi-species, and decolonial perspectives; research design and data generation techniques; logistics; digital ethnography; ethnography in specific fields of activity (applied social sciences, health, social service, environmental studies, public policy design, business, and others); principles of organization and indexation of field data; analyzing field data; basic principles of qualitative analysis software packages.
The total workload of the course is 30 hours. In this edition of the summer school, the option of earning credits is not available.
Places are limited. The tuition fee is US$1,300.
The application should be completed online at https://www.cifas.us/field-school/field-school. For more information, please check our website or email us at field...@cifas.us.