Workshop assignment (one week): 400-500 words of fieldnotes on an hour or so of observations of a social scene, with a partner from the class.
Workshop assignment (two weeks): 700-800 words of fieldnotes on an hour or so of participation in a social scene, with a partner from the class.
No new workshop assignment.
Workshop assignment: 800-1000 words based on the following: conduct an hour of participation in a social scene while a partner from the class observes you; reverse roles; write up 400-500 words on your observations of yourself and 400-500 words on your observations of your partner; compare observations.
No new workshop assignment.
Workshop assignment: Audio and video recorded in-class exercise on the presentation of self; no write-up
Research proposal topic statement due.
Workshop assignment: 800-1000 word analysis of the previous week’s exercise, based on in-class discussion of the audio and video of the previous week’s exercise
Workshop assignment (two weeks): 800-1000 words on something social you found out, based on investigations conducted with a partner from the class
Workshop assignment: Audio and video recorded in-class exercise on interviewing; no write-up
Research proposal epistemological statement due.
Workshop assignment: transcribe 250 words from the previous week’s exercise, and provide a short interview summary and short interview notes
Workshop assignment: rewrite the 250 words from the previous exercise in two voicings, one positivist and one novelistic
Research poem due. No workshop assignment.
An ungraded, in-class, collective exercise.