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FOUN 098: Spies Like Us

Undergraduate Writing Seminar Last Taught Fall, 2013

This course invites students question how we understand the world around us, what constitutes social science knowledge, and how and to what extent researchers are like spies. It will focus on ethnography as an in-depth and hands-on and qualitative approach to understanding the social, political, and cultural world. Students will explore the ways that ethnographers have interpreted and understood local manifestations of global change and international politics. They will also conduct their own ethnographic research on some aspect of their daily lives and the world around them. Additionally, the course will provide grounding in the transition to college, focusing especially on writing and the writing process. 

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