During the course of the semester, you will need to complete three small projects leading up to your final ethnographic project. All projects should be publicly posted to the course blog server as podcasts, vidcasts, or slide albums. Informed consent of the public nature of the assignments should be obtained from your informants in advance.
Grading will be based on narrative and technical considerations. See course-schedule for due dates.
In the style of This American Life, ask an informant (non-Yale, but it does not have to be a person from your fieldsite) to talk about something significant in their lives. Edit it into a 3-5 minute segment and upload to the blog as a podcast.
Use the photoelicitation method described in class to interview an informant in your fieldsite. Record the interview in audio or video and create a short 3 minute podcast/vidcast.
Create a short ethnographic film (3 minutes) that introduces either the community, a group of people, a single person, or an object at your fieldsite.
Note that projects must be under 3 minutes! Edit, edit, edit! Anything over 3 minutes will be severely penalized! Check your sound levels while you're at it!