Seminar for fieldwork

This seminar has its foundation in the academic field of cultural anthropology, which studies how humans live. Students practice “fieldwork,” the core of cultural anthropology, in various forms. Fieldwork is the act of directing your attention to the occurrences that happen within relationships between yourself, others, and the community and expressing to others what you learned through these experiences. In this seminar, students develop communication skills, the capacity for cooperation, and expressive abilities through presentations about the fieldwork and its outcomes, group work, and other activities.

issue discovery, issue solving, fieldwork, group work, communication

1. Orientation
2. Self-introduction
3. On topics (1)
4. On topics (2)
5. On fieldwork
6. Fieldwork planning (1)
7. Fieldwork planning (2)
8. Fieldwork planning (3)
9. Progress report (1)
10. Progress report (2)
11. Progress report (3)
12. On presenting (1)
13. On presenting (2)
14. Outcome report (1)
15. Outcome report (2); class questionnaire

Syllabus (Japanese site only)