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Understanding Ethnography Online Course

NPTEL is offering online course for undergraduate or postgraduate student in Understanding Ethnography.
About the course:
  • The purpose of this course is to introduce learners from different disciplines and backgrounds to the fundamental concepts, process and practice of ethnography.
  • The course will offer an introduction to various tools and methods that form ethnographic practice.
  • This is underpinned by an introduction to the concepts, theories and debates that form the theoretical basis of ethnographic research.
  • While the course will be structured in the forms of video lectures, readings and exercises, we hope to design each of these to give the learner as much practice based learning as possible.
  • This also makes the course relevant to practicioners.

Course Layout:
  • Week 1: Introduction to Ethnography
  • Week 2: Unpacking Ethnography
  • Week 3: Designing an Ethnographic Research
  • Week 4: Access and Immersion
  • Week 5: Observation and Participation
  • Week 6: Ethnographic Interviews: Listening and Speaking
  • Week 7: Visual Ethnography
  • Week 8: Using an Ethnographic Approach: Case Studies

Duration:
08 weeks
Enrollment Ends: August 17, 2020

Exam Date: October 17, 2020

For more details, please visit: https://swayam.gov.in/nd1_noc20_de14/preview  

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