COURSE DESCRIPTION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION
| Course Name | Code | Semester | T+A+L (hour/week) | Type (C / O) | Local Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ethnographic and Qualitative Analysis of Culture | CS 574 | Fall-Spring | 03+00+00 | Elective | 3 | 7.5 |
| Academic Unit: | Graduate School of Social Sciences / MA in Communication Studies |
| Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
| Prerequisites: | None |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Course Unit: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Levent SOYSAL |
| Course Objectives: | The aims of this course are 1)to teach the students necessary concepts, terminology, approaches, theories of ethnography of communication 2) to enrich students with knowledge of analysis of culture. |
| Course Contents: | In this course the students will learn the general concepts and approaches of ethnographic research. Also, they will conduct a small ethnographic research in order to analyse the cultural phenomenon of their choices. Therefore, they will be more acknowledge in making sense of a social structures with an ethnographic perspective and will be able to collect qualitative data and interpret them within the acknowledge of complex social relations. |
| Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit (LO): |
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| Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods: | Readings and theoretical discussions on certain cases. Conducting a small version of ethnographic field research |
WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATIONS
| Week | Subjects | Related Preperation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction | None |
| 2 | Relation between communication and ethnography. Introduction to the basic concepts. | Relation between communication and ethnography. Introduction to the basic concepts. |
| 3 | Reading Discussion | Practical Philosophy by Melanie Birks. Anthropological Ancestors and Interpretation Theory: Boas, Malinowski, and Evans-Pritchard. |
| 4 | Reading Discussion | Critical Etnography by Urmitapa Dutta. Peter Winch and Ordinary Language Philohophy. |
| 5 | Reading Discussion | Grounded Theory by Jane Mills, Melanie Birks and Karen Hoare. The Neo-Popperiands and the Logic of One Science: I. C. Javie and Robin Horton. |
| 6 | Reading Discussion | Narrative Research by Patrick John Lewis and Robin Adeney. |
| 7 | Reading Discussion | A New Generation of Qualitative Research by Jane Mills Beyond Explanation and Understanding: The Hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur. |
| 8 | Preparation to Research Reports. | None |
| 9 | Preparation to Research Reports. | None |
| 10 | Preparation to Research Reports. | None |
| 11 | Preparation to Research Reports. | None |
| 12 | Preparation to Research Reports. | None |
| 13 | Preparation to Research Reports | None |
| 14 | Preparation to Research Reports. | None |
At Kadir Has University, a Semester is 14 weeks; The weeks 15 and 16 are reserved for final exams.
REQUIRED AND RECOMMENDED READING
| Books: Robert J. Ulin. Understanding Culture. University of Texas Press, Austin 1984. Jim Thomas. Doing Critical Ethnography. Sage Publications, London 1993 Muriel Saville-Troike. Ethnography of Communication. Basil Blackwell, Oxford 1982. Articles: Zsuzsa Gille. Critical Ethnography in the Time of Globalization: Toward a New Concept of Site. Cultural Studies Critical Methodologies (2001), v.1, no: 3, p.319 – 334. Johannes Fabian. Rule and Process: Thoughts on Ethnography as Communication. Phil. Soc. Sct (1979), no: 9, p. 1 – 26. Richard E. Flatman. Wittgenstein and the social sciences: Critical reflections concerning Peter Winch’s interpretations and appropriations of Wittgenstein’s thought. History of the Human Sciences (2000), v. 13, no: 2, p. 1– 15. Maha El-Shinnawy ve Ajay S. Vinze. Int. J. Human. Technology, Culture and Persuasiveness: A study of choice-shifts in group settings. Computer Studies (1997), no: 47, p. 473 – 496. Lawrence Wieder. Ethnometodology, Conversation Analysis, Microanalysis and the Ethnography of Speaking. Research on Language and Social Interaction (1999), no: 32, p. 163 – 171. Catherine Palmer. Ethnography: A Research Method in Practice. Int. J. Turism Research (2001), no: 3, p.301 – 312. Stuard Hannabuss. Research Interviews. New Library World (1996), v. 97, no: 1129, p. 22 – 30. Colin Day. Methodological Issues: The Use of Critical Ethnography as an Active Research Methodology. http: // www.emeraldinsight.com/0951-3574.htm |
OTHER COURSE RESOURCES
| None |
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
| Semester Requirements | Number | Percentage of Grade (%) |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance / Participation | 14 | 10 |
| Presentation / Jury | 1 | 30 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 60 |
| Total: | 16 | 100 |
WORKLOAD
| Events | Count | Duration (Hours) | Total Workload (hour) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Preparation for Presentation / Jury | 1 | 47 | 47 |
| Extra-Class Activities (reading,individiual work, etc.) | 13 | 3 | 39 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 60 | 60 |
| Total Workload (hour): | 188 | ||
1 ECTS = 25 Hours Workload
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (LO) AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS (PQ)
| # | PQ1 | PQ2 | PQ3 | PQ4 | PQ5 | PQ6 | PQ7 | PQ8 | PQ9 |
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| LO4 |
Contribution: 1 Low, 2 Average, 3 High