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Enrolment in the course is open to students of the study program Migration Studies and New Societies only.
Ethnography is a research process based on the data produced in the field through the active participation of the researcher in the field. The course introduces students to the different forms of this research participation, the various forms of fieldwork and the variety of data that can become the subject of research interest. Students are introduced to multiple ethnographic approaches through a twofold process. In the first part of the course, students are introduced to different ethnographic approaches through lectures. The presentation draws on both the literature introducing the epistemological embeddedness of the ethnographic approach in question and the research experience of the lecturer. In the second part of the course, students practice one of the ethnographic approaches introduced. In collaboration with the course assistants, students become acquainted with the field and the research topic of the assistants and develop the preferred research method under their supervision. Alternatively, students can use the chosen research method to generate data for their own research project or thesis. Last update: Grygar Jakub, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (17.09.2025)
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The aim of this course is to enhance the students’ capability of identifying, describing, and interpreting current social issues through an integrated and well-elaborated ethnographic methodology. The course will focus on empirical case studies, issues of ethnographic experimentation, and theory, but will also apply the theory in practice through a variety of exercises in the field. Several key concepts and theories of ethnography will be presented and discussed, in order to practice them in the field. Attention will be devoted to current or recent debates about ethnographic experimental writing, and about ethnographic methods in new media (netnography, for example). The pressing issues of privacy, data gathering and protection, anonymity, and overt/covert techniques will also be addressed throughout the course. Two written exercises aimed at enhancing the student’s capability at practicing the acquired theories will take place during the course. The entire course will focus on the interaction between method and theory, theory and practice, but especially on the practical aspect. Students will be encouraged to develop their own skills and enhance them in the exercises and directly in the field.
Last update: Vojanová Jana (17.09.2025)
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ATTENDANCE Attendance is mandatory and participation in the classroom and in the field will also be taken into consideration in the evaluation process. Only one not justified absence will be tolerated.
ASSESSMENT Assessment will be undertaken through the evaluation of the student’s participation and involvement in the learning process and of the student’s ethnographic exercise. A final 2000-word research paper will also be produced and assessed for the final grading. No plagiarism will be tolerated.
EVALUATION - Attendance and participation in the classroom and in the field: 20% - Exercise (mid-term test): 30% - Research paper: 50%
100 - 91: A 81 - 90: B 71 - 80: C 61 - 70: D 51 - 60: E 50 - 0: F Last update: Vojanová Jana (17.09.2025)
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Compulsory readings (all students willing to take the exam will have to read the Additional readings (instructions about additional readings will be delivered during
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- Lesson 1: Introduction to the course; main topic: ethnography: theory of practice, practice of theory - Lesson 2: The most important themes, theories, and methods of ethnography and how to apply them - Lesson 3: Out of the study and into the field 1: ethnographic techniques (observing, participating, writing, recording); the issue of ethnographic anonymity and related ethical issues; first exercise - Lesson 4: Out of the study and into the field 2: ethnographic techniques (interviews, informants, conversations); experimental ethnography - Lesson 5: Ethnography online, netnography, new media; focus on data gathering and protection; ethical issues, second exercise - Lesson 6: Field practice: methodological excursion (location to be chosen at a later stage); final discussion Last update: Vojanová Jana (17.09.2025)
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