Courses:

Course Info

• Course Number / Code:
• STS.360 (Spring 2003) 
• Course Title:
• Ethnography 
• Course Level:
• Graduate 
• Offered by :
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Massachusetts, United States  
• Department:
• Science, Technology, and Society 
• Course Instructor(s):
• Prof. Joseph Dumit
  Prof. Michael M. Fischer 
• Course Introduction:
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  STS.360 Ethnography
  
  
  
  

  Spring 2003

  
  
  

  
  
  

  Course Highlights

  
  
  

  A bibliography of readings and an extensive reference list on ethnography are available for this course. In addition, all assignments and warm-up exercises are included.

  
  
  

  Course Description

  
  
  

  This course is a practicum-style seminar in anthropological methods of ethnographic fieldwork and writing. Depending on student experience in ethnographic reading and practice, the course is a mix of reading anthropological and science studies ethnographies; and formulating and pursuing ethnographic work in local labs, companies, or other sites.