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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 : | French language |
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| Course contents : | This course will consist in a modest cooperative research effort concerning junk dealers. 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 commentaries 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 first term. |
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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 and course participation. |
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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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