RHCS272

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Communication Research: Ethnography of Communication

Rhetoric/Communication Studies School of Arts and Sciences

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Active

Subject code

RHCS

Course Number

272

Department(s)

Rhetoric and Communication Studies

Description

Explores ethnography as a communication research method. Ethnography involves participant observation of a community in a naturalistic setting combined with other forms of data collection such as interviews, artifact analysis, and textual analysis. Students will propose a specific community to study, conduct field observations and data collection, analyze data through the lens of various conceptual approaches, and author a critical ethnography of that community by the end of this course.

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