Writing Homework Help

Overview:

Throughout the course, you will complete a short ethnographic assignment in three parts, each of which will be worth 5 points, for a total of 15 points towards your final grade.

Objectives:

1. To experience and apply basic methods of anthropological research.
2. To make and record detailed and critical observations.
3. To reflect on the challenges of ethnographic research both personally and for the discipline.
4. To engage with course concepts through interactive field-based activities, including observation, interviewing, transcription, “thick description” and written analysis.

Instructions:

PART 1: Observation of a specific news event, press conference, or video report on the Covid-19 crisis in the U.S. or abroad: Choose a specific aspect of the Covid-19 outbreak and response to study from anthropological perspective. You may consider, for example, the pandemic’s impact on a particular demographic, the political or economic fall out from the virus, how it is represented in the media, experience of the virus in a particular city, region, state, or nation, or how it has fed certain forms of xenophobia and racism. In lieu of in-person field work, find a relevant news event, press conference or video report on the Covid-19 crisis and write up “field notes.”

Submit 2 typed pages [12pt font, double spaced, 1-in margins] of notes via CANVAS. word count at least 550.

RUBRIC:

Pt. 1: Observation [5 points]

Format: Date, time, live video event observed noted at the top of the page; 2 pp of typed notes; standard format	1 pt
1-2 line description of live event/report/broadcast observed	1 pt
Notes on what people are doing, how they are doing it, what the event looks/sounds like, how it is structured	2 pt
Notes on student’s reaction/thoughts during the event	1 pt