Community Engaged Ethnography

Course Description

This class integrates community service and anthropology, with the goal of co-creating solutions to stakeholder-identified challenges. Students will be paired with a community organization, such as Tuscaloosa City Schools, and will commit to a minimum of three (3) volunteer hours per week, in addition to the weekly course meeting. Course meetings will help orient students toward the needs of the community organization and to promote thoughtful reflection on their experiences in service. Through participant observation and informal interviews, students will work with the organization and the community it serves to determine a potential solution to the stakeholder-identified challenge or work on an existing community-engaged project. This process will require that students meet with their group and relevant stakeholders outside of class time. It will also require that students conduct independent research to better understand the stakeholder-identified challenge and to identify appropriate grants. By the end of the course, students will have developed their skills in applying anthropological methods, identified and analyzed potential solutions, and have written a grant application for the co-created solution.

Code

ANT 326

Credits

3

Subject

ANT

Programs That Include This Course

• Bachelor's Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology