2019-2020 / SOCI0071-1

Building a fieldwork methodology

Duration

30h Th, 30h Pr

Number of credits

 Master in anthropology (120 ECTS)5 crédits 
 Master in sociology and anthropology (60 ECTS)6 crédits 
 Extra courses intended for exchange students (Erasmus, ...) (Faculté des Sciences sociales)6 crédits 

Lecturer

Benjamin Rubbers

Coordinator

N...

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the second semester

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

This course consists in accompanying students in a small ethnographic research in Liège. Students are first asked to write a research project. Then, they have to go into the field to carry out interviews and observations. During class meetings, they present different aspects of their research (interviews, interpretation of data, and so on) with the purpose to listen to comments and suggestions from the group. 

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

The main purpose is to place students in a situation that will help them develop their research skills. At the end of the course, students will be able to define a problematic, to write a research project, to conduct interviews and make observations, and to interpret the data produced in this way.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

To have the desire to do ethnographic fieldwork

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

The course takes the form of a seminar.

Recommended or required readings

One or several research subjects are proposed to students at the beginning of the course. Students must find readings on this subject themselves.

Assessment methods and criteria

Grading is based on the final paper.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Contacts

The professor is available to meet students by appointment (email).

Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session

Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning

The requirements for the individual essay expected from the students have been adapted to the constraints imposed by the Covid-19 crisis. The students send a first draft of their essay by email and receive comments on it from the teacher. These comments are made remotely, first by email, and then orally if the student requests it.

Assessment subjects

Students are assessed on the basis of an individual essay, consisting either in the analysis of a biographical interview, or in a review of minimum five articles on social mobility.

Assessment methods

Students are assessed on the basis of an individual written essay submitted at the start of the examination session.

Contacts

Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the Aug-Sept 2020 session

Assessment subjects

Students are assessed on the basis of an individual essay, consisting either in the analysis of a biographical interview, or in a review of minimum five articles on social mobility.

Assessment methods

Students are assessed on the basis of an individual written essay submitted at the start of the examination session.

Contacts