Overview
Students will be required to turn in two sets of detailed field notes each worth 5% of the course grade [Due Week 1 and Week 9 . You will be required to write about these experiences and to turn them in during the semester. These will be detailed field notes that go over specific activities you are doing for the ethnographic component. The purpose of the fieldnotes is simply to get as much data as possible. Write down specific observations, quotes (no lengthy transcriptions), and detailed insights, but most of what you should be writing is just what you notice regarding sets of assumptions, bases of authority (religious, secular, local-knowledge, data-informed, etc.), and orientations, especially if repeated, abnormal, or either more progressive or conservative, as it were. Save the analysis for memos you might write to yourself or the ethnographic observations. You should write 4-5 single-spaced typed pages per set of notes. You will be graded on whether you have turned in the 4-5 pages and the degree to which you provide a sense of place, character, and scene. For additional guidance on Fieldnotes, see Rubin, pp. 164-78.