ASS204 - Ethnographic Method and Imagination
| Year: | 2026 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | 2026 Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Online From 2027 Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus: | 1 x 1-hour on-campus lecture per week 1 x 1-hour on-campus seminar per week |
| Scheduled learning activities - online: | 1 x 1-hour online lecture per week (recordings provided) 1 x 1-hour online seminar per week |
Content
This unit allows students to practice "doing anthropology" - using ethnographic research methods to explore anthropological questions in their own communities or contexts. They will design and carry out fieldwork projects incorporating: participant observation, fieldnotes, interview techniques, audiovisual documentation, data analysis, and ethnographic writing and communication in traditional and emerging media.
The unit applies these methods to contemporary, cosmopolitan issues at work in students' own "backyards", developing anthropological and interdisciplinary frameworks to explore the sociocultural, political, and economic dynamics that shape our everyday lives and environments. This unit will therefore explore questions such as: What social relations make a community, neighbourhood, city, nation, and so on? How do people practice identity? How is culture reflected in space? What forms of power and agency do people enact through their everyday lives? How do global flows of people and things remake local places and economies? And so on.
Unit fee information
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