FF:KSCB803 Fieldwork research - Course Information
KSCB803 Fieldwork and interview-based research in cultural studies
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2020
The course is not taught in Spring 2020
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- Adina Zemanek, Ph.D. (lecturer), Mgr. et Mgr. Dušan Vávra, Ph.D. (deputy)
- Guaranteed by
- Mgr. et Mgr. Dušan Vávra, Ph.D.
Department of Chinese Studies – Asia Studies Centre – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. et Mgr. Dušan Vávra, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Chinese Studies – Asia Studies Centre – Faculty of Arts - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- TYP_STUDIA ( N )
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Culture Studies of China (programme FF, N-MS)
- Course objectives
- This course will start from mapping cultural studies as a discipline by presenting its key concepts, the main spheres it takes into account and major theoretical frameworks and approaches. Its second part is intended as a practical guide to qualitative fieldwork-based research methods, with special emphasis on conducting research in China and Taiwan.
- Learning outcomes
- After completing this course, students will be able to:
• choose their own research topics and formulate them according to the main postulates and theoretical frameworks of cultural studies as a discipline
• formulate research questions and claims, design research projects
• choose the appropriate research method from among the presented qualitative approaches
• conduct the various stages of research as described during the course
• code and analyze data, prepare research results for presentation
• appropriately handle fieldwork-related ethical issues
• take into account the characteristics of China and Taiwan as research environments when searching for topics, formulating projects and conducting fieldwork - Syllabus
- 1. Introduction to cultural studies as a discipline. Key concepts and central sites: • Culture, ideology, power • Meaning, language, discourse • Postmodernism and popular culture 2. Central sites of cultural studies - 2: • Gender, sex and the body • Economy, globalization and urban spaces • The state, politics and social movements 3. Central sites of cultural studies - 3: • Identity, ethnicity and nation • Subculture, youth, style and resistance • Media texts, producers and audiences 4. Qualitative research methods; practical issues 5. Working with texts; discourse analysis – texts and contexts; observing and collecting texts 6. Doing ethnographic research – introduction 7. Before fieldwork: designing research; problems, cases, samples; initial preparations 8. Gaining access to data; approaching the field 9. Doing fieldwork: qualitative interviewing - introduction 10. Doing fieldwork: interview techniques 11. Doing fieldwork: participant observation 12. After fieldwork: analysis. Transcripts, coding data, presentation of research results 13. Ethical issues
- Literature
- BARKER, Chris. Cultural studies : theory and practice. Edited by Paul E. Willis. 3rd ed. Los Angeles: Sage. xxiv, 525. ISBN 9781412924160. 2008. info
- The Routledge critical and cultural theory reader. Edited by Neil Badmington - Julia Thomas. London: Routledge. xii, 452. ISBN 9780415433082. 2008. info
- HAMMERSLEY, Martyn and Paul ATKINSON. Ethnography : principles in practice. 3rd ed. London: Routledge. xi, 275. ISBN 9780415396042. 2007. info
- Teaching methods
- Lectures will be combined with class discussions based on reading assignments, case studies involving fieldwork and exercises regarding the expounded research methods.
- Assessment methods
- Course attendance is compulsory – no more than 2 absences are allowed. Final grades will consist of two parts: 40% assignments and class activity during the course, 60% written research project to be handed out one week after completion of the course. The research project should contain the following items: research topic; state of existing research; assessment of feasibility and approximate budget; research method; research plan; list of academic works on similar topics available to the student at present.
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further Comments
- The course is taught: every week.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2020, recent)
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