Ethnographic Methods in Language, Interaction, and Culture

4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

Seminar, three hours. Requisite: course 252A or Sociology 244A. Ethnographic approaches to recording and analyzing communicative events and practices in their sociocultural context, involving student-initiated fieldwork in community setting. Emphasis on hands-on activities within theoretical frameworks that consider language as social and cultural practice. Devoted to skills related to collecting socially and culturally meaningful data. Letter grading.