This is an initial syllabus. It is subject to change, depending on the exigencies of projects, travel, guest speakers, and other unpredictable events.

Week 1 Introduction; Ethnography and Design; Projects Anderson (both articles); Dourish; Geertz ("Thick Description")
Week 2 Research questions and sites; shaping ethnographic projects; projects. Geertz ("Deep Play"); Traweek; Marcus; Davis
Week 3 Interviewing and textual materials. Emerson et al.; Weiss; DeWalt and Dewalt
Week 4 Coding and grounded theory. Strauss and Corbin; Snow and Anderson; Cahill; Fine
Week 5 Data sessions Materials distributed in class; Becker
Week 6 Data sessions Materials distributed in class; Becker
Week 7 Data sessions Materials distributed in class; Becker
Week 8 Data sessions Materials distributed in class; Becker
Week 9 Individual meetings
Week 10 Ethnography in practice and context Geertz; Clifford; Bell and Dourish; Jordan and Dalal