Students write a 1-page description of a common human practice as if they have never seen or heard of it before. Students are told to pretend they are an alien […]
In this fieldwork assignment, students locate a recent topic related to health and use the frameworks of medical anthropology to “read like an anthropologist”. The paper requires students to cite […]
Students conduct an ethnographic interview with someone they know who has experienced “illness” in their life. The illness narratives are used to support student learning about the methods of ethnography. […]
Students select a documentary, television episode, or audiovisual resource that was covered in class and write a response paper connecting the multimedia resource to three of concepts/topics discussed in class. […]
Students are asked to keep an ethnographic journal throughout the semester to observe and analyze an aspect of society or culture. Each journal will be written in response to a […]