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| SOCI0071-1 | Building a fieldwork methodology
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| Duration : | 30h Th, 30h Pr |
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| Holder(s) : | Benjamin Rubbers |
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| Language : | Langue française |
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| Course contents : | This course will consist in a modest cooperative research effort concerning the junk dealers of Saint-Pholien. Students will first be asked to read some articles, to discuss them as a group, and then to define a problematic related to them. Next, they will have to go into the field for the purpose of producing a case study, combining observations and interviews. At each class meeting, a student will present his or her results, interpretations and difficulties, and then listen to commentary and suggestions from the group. At the end of the research students will turn in a paper. |
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| Course objective : | The purpose is to place students in a situation that will help them develop the professional skills of a social science researcher. At the end of the course, students will be able to define a problematic, to choose a method appropriate to the subject of research, to conduct interviews and make observations in a practical and efficient manner, to interpret the data produced in this way through appropriate techniques and finally, to present their results by means of a written synthesis. |
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| Prerequisites : | Having the desire to come in contact with ethnographic reality in the field. |
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| Organization : | The course will take place during the second term. An informational meeting will be held at the end of the first term so that potential participants can meet each other, and also to allow students who wish to do so to get started early on their class projects. |
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| Written notes : | Students will be given articles about fieldwork to read, and articles about their research topics. |
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| Assessment : | Grading is based on the final paper. |
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| Contacts : | The teacher will be available to meet students by appointment (brubbers@ulg.ac.be). Office location: R.94, niveau 0, bâtiment B.31, at Sart-Tilman |
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| Remarks : | The presence of students is compulsory. |
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