AS 6350 - Ethnographic Media

Credits: 3

Description This seminar and production class explores ethnographic media as a tool for scientific exploration, cultural definition, and artistic expression. Through weekly readings, screenings and class discussions we will address various approaches to, as well as the broader issues of, intercultural encounters, documenting the “self” and the “other.” Course materials will offer a historical perspective and cover a range of modes and genres, from ethnography as anthropological inquiry, to artistic, experimental, self-reflexive, and participatory forms. Students will complete two critical essays as well as weekly writing assignments in response to assigned texts and in-class screenings. Students will also create a short ethnographic media project that engages with the ideas explored in course materials and through class discussions. No prior media production experience is required.