MACA Methodologies for Cultural Analysis

The course is an advanced graduate level course focusing upon strategies for preparing, conducting, and presenting applied cultural analytical research. The class builds upon a mixture of instructor based presentations and workshops in which the students cooperate in groups to solve specific tasks focusing upon the crafting of research questions, adequate methodologies, and forms/media of presentation. Emphasis is placed upon the use of different strategies for applied cultural analysis, different modes of ethnographic inquiry, and diversity in the use of genre and media to convey research findings.