Faculty of Sustainabillity Studies

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SOC200HA(社会学 / Sociology 200)
Field Research

Shu FUJITA

Class code etc
Faculty/Graduate school Faculty of Sustainabillity Studies
Attached documents
Year 2024
Class code C2205
Previous Class code
Previous Class title
Term 春学期授業/Spring
Day/Period 金5/Fri.5
Class Type
Campus 市ヶ谷 / Ichigaya
Classroom name 市BT‐0905
Grade 1~4
Credit(s) 2
Notes 定員制
Open Program
Open Program (Notes)
Global Open Program
Interdepartmental class taking system for Academic Achievers
Interdepartmental class taking system for Academic Achievers (Notes)
Class taught by instructors with practical experience
SDGs CP
Urban Design CP
Diversity CP
Learning for the Future CP
Carbon Neutral CP
Chiyoda Campus Consortium
Category 展開科目
コース共通科目
Category 展開科目
社会・地域関連科目群
Category (~2022)

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Outline (in English)

Course outline
Contemporary cultural anthropology can study almost any phenomenon. Besides, if you do proper anthropological fieldwork, you may get a large amount of information on any research subject. If you try to write something vaguely anthropological, it tends to be a mere collection of "trivia". Of course, fieldwork is essential to anthropology as is often said, but just as important as fieldwork is to constuct the kind of thinking that is possible only from the realities touched upon in fieldwork.
In this class, you will learn how to think based on fieldwork by understanding and practicing how to produce ethnography, which is a text written by anthropologists from their fieldwork. In the first half of the class, students will edit ethnographic videos, and in the second half of the class, they will re-edit ethnographies that have already been published, thereby working on the production of ethnographies in a step-by-step manner. In the end, this class will give you the beginnings of how to feel and think about concrete things out of the way with which you are made to learn, and how to appropriately communicate the abstractions that emerge from these things to others.

Learning Objectives
(1) To learn how to make ethnographic films from the images taken during fieldwork.
2) Learn how to create a new ethnography from examples depicted in existing ethnographies.
(3)Based on the above experiences, learn how to think anthropologically.

Learning activities outside of classroom
Students will produce their own ethnographic video and ethnography. Specifically, students will edit the ethnographic video once, submit it, and then re-edit and submit it again based on the critique. The ethnography will be edited once and submitted.
In addition, students are expected to prepare for and review the text and other materials as necessary. The standard preparation and review time for this class is 2 hours each.

Grading Criteria /Policy
Assignments related to the lecture such as reaction papers (50%), initial editing and re-editing of ethnographic footage, and editing of ethnographic material (50%)

Default language used in class

日本語 / Japanese