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 |