Schedule:

Please complete the reading by the day the assignment appears on the schedule.

Day Date Lecture Topic Due Reading – This schedule will change after we
discuss background and experience
Tuesday 27 August Short ethnography
Thursday 29
Tuesday 3 Field Methods Introduced Nathan: My Freshman Year
September
Thursday 5 Birth Narrative Assignment Nathan: My Freshman Year
Introduced
How to write a response paper
Tuesday 10 Interview (Sunday) Wendland: A Heart for the Work
Response Paper #1
Thursday 12
Tuesday 17 Participant observation and (Sunday) Wendland: A Heart for the Work
Access Response Paper #2
Thursday 19
Tuesday 24 Transcription (Sunday) Maternowska: Reproducing Inequities
Response Paper #3
Thursday 26
Tuesday 1 October Thematic Analysis (Sunday) Maternowska: Reproducing Inequities
Response Paper #4
Thursday 3
Tuesday 8 Workshoping the ethnographies
Thursday 10 Class cancelled: Professor will attend the Society for
the Social Studies of Science meeting in San Diego
Tuesday 15 Van Maanen: Tales of the Field
Thursday 17
Tuesday 22 Fall Break
Thursday 24 Writing Ethnography Van Maanen: Tales of the Field
Tuesday 29 (Sunday) Wolf: A Thrice Told Tale
Response Paper #5
Thursday 31
Tuesday 5 (Sunday) Nguyen: The Republic of Therapy
November Response Paper #6
Thursday 7
Tuesday 12 (Sunday) Nguyen: The Republic of Therapy
Response Paper #7
Thursday 14
Tuesday 19 Reading: TBA
Thursday 21 AAA Class cancelled: Professor will attend the American
Anthropological Association meeting in Chicago
Tuesday 26 Reading: TBA
Thursday 28 Thanksgiving Break
Tuesday 3 December Birth Narrative Presentations (Sunday)
Response Paper #8

Thursday 5 Birth Narrative Presentations