Course: Field Research

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Course title Field Research
Course code KSA/TEV
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 6
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Lozoviuk Petr, doc. Ph.D.
  • Baumanová Monika, doc. M.A., Ph.D.
Course content
Contents: Specifics of field research 1. History of field research 2. Possibilities and limitations of field research 3. Role of the researcher in the field 4. Ethical dimension of field research 5. Safety 6. Choice of topic and research questions 7. Custom research 8. The question of financing - projects, etc. 9. Publications and other types of publication of results 10. Project preparation 11. Evaluation of student projects 12. Evaluation of student projects 2 13. Questions and practical problems

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture supplemented with a discussion, Multimedia supported teaching, One-to-One tutorial, Seminar classes, Self-study of literature
  • Contact hours - 65 hours per semester
  • Graduate study programme term essay (40-50) - 40 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 51 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
to understand of a professionally situated lecture
to independently devise and design a topic of (field) research
Skills
to read and understand of a professional text in the English language
to read and understand of a professional text
to transform the content of a professional text into one's own research, research work
Competences
N/A
N/A
N/A
learning outcomes
Knowledge
to characterize and explain the most important methodological approaches (structuralist, structural-functionalist, cognitive, interpretativist, feminist approaches)
to characterize and describe various topics related to ethnographic research (choice of topic, approach to the field, relationship to informants, etc.)
to discuss the ethical dimension of research
Skills
to create and design ethnographic research - from fieldwork to writing an ethnographic text
to apply basic methods and techniques of ethnographic research (participatory observation, ethnographic interview, questionnaires, spatial maps, kinship diagrams, work with biographies, analysis of the social scene, community study, case study, study of institutions, etc.)
Competences
N/A
N/A
N/A
teaching methods
Knowledge
Self-study of literature
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
One-to-One tutorial
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
Multimedia supported teaching
One-to-One tutorial
Seminar classes
Skills
Multimedia supported teaching
Seminar classes
One-to-One tutorial
Individual study
Students' portfolio
Skills demonstration
Competences
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
Seminar
Multimedia supported teaching
Skills demonstration
Individual study
One-to-One tutorial
assessment methods
Knowledge
Oral exam
Seminar work
Skills
Seminar work
Skills demonstration during practicum
Group presentation at a seminar
Competences
Oral exam
Seminar work
Group presentation at a seminar
Skills demonstration during practicum
Recommended literature
  • AbuLughod, Lila. Can There Be A Feminist Ethnography?. Women and Performance, 1990.
  • Agar, Michael H. The professional stranger : an informal introduction to ethnography. San Diego: Academic Press, 1996. ISBN 0-12-044470-4.
  • Briggs, Jane, L. Never in Anger: Portrait of An Eskimo Family. , CambridgeMassachusetts, London, England: Harvard University Press, 1970.
  • Crone, Julia G. and Michael Angrosino. Field Projects in Anthropology. A Student Handbook. Prospect Heights, Ill, Waveland Press, 1992.
  • Emerson, Robert M.; Fretz, Rachel I. Writing ethnographic fieldnotes. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995. ISBN 0-226-20681-5.
  • Ginsburg, Faye, D. Contested Lives. The Abortion Debate in an American Community. Berkeley, Los Angeles, University of Clifornia Press, 1989.
  • Lofland, John; Lofland, Lyn H. Analyzing social settings : a guide to qualitative observation and analysis. Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1995. ISBN 0-534-24780-6.
  • Myerhoff, Barbara. Number Our Days. Culture and Community Among Elderly Jews in an American Ghetto. New York: Dutton, 1979.
  • Rabinow, Paul. Reflections on fieldwork in Morocco. [1st ed.]. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. ISBN 0-520-03529-1.


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