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Course:
MARY AFST 508: Field Research Principles and Practice: Advanced
(Students in their fourth to sixth courses)
Dates: Taught in all programs as an integral part of each course. The
course is designed for students in their fourth to sixth course.
Research overview:
This dimension of the program is designed to further develop the
research skills of students who have participated in the previous years.
Like the foundational dimension, this training is intertwined with
courses being taught each session and is under the direction of the
professors teaching the courses.
Research elements for advanced level:
1) Three workshops on how to intensify one's field research, work more
efficiently with a field assistant, and do in-depth analysis of
collected data.
2) Three sessions each week for three weeks in the Immersion programs,
and one session each week for twelve weeks in the Semester programs doing field research in and
about Nairobi under the guidance of the professors on situations and
issues relevant to the materials being taught in the classroom.
3) A weekly written research report.
4) Integration of the data collected from research into the final
papers required for the courses.
5) A written skill evaluation advanced test measuring one's
comprehension of research techniques and methods.
Outline:
Part I: Classroom Lectures
Comprehensive study of ideologies and techniques of field research
1) Foundations of Social Research
2) Sampling
3) Questionnaires and Survey Research
4) Statistics
5) Multivariate Analysis
Part II: Field Research
Nine field trips in the Immersion programs and ten field trips in the
Semester programs researching various dimensions of Kenyan society.
1) Interviews
2) Case histories
3) Questionnaires
Part III: Required Writings
A more developed manner of integrating the material researched into the
course papers than required of those doing the foundational research
course.
1) Case studies
2) Analysis of primary data
3) Correlation with literature and lectures on the topic.
Written skill evaluation text measuring mastery of Bernard, Russell H.
Research Methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and Quantitative
Approaches.
TEXT BOOKS:
Bernard, Russell H. (1994). Research Methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and
Quantitative Approaches. Second Edition. Sage Publications Inc.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Spradley, James P. (1980).Participant Observation. New York: Holt, Rinehart and
Winston.
Crane, G. and Michael V. Angrosino.
(1974).Field Projects in
Anthropology, (A Student Handbook) Illinois/London: Scott, Forsman and
Company, Glenview.
Leach, Edmund.(1976). Culture and Communication: The Logic by
Which Symbols Are Connected: An introduction to the Use of Structuralist
Analysis in Social Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
"Theology of Luo Sacrifice." Ed. Michael
Kirwen. Unpublished paper, 1978. Available through the MIAS program,
c/o M. Kirwen, Box 15199 Lang'ata, 00509, Kenya.
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