| INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Michael Winkelman | CREDIT HOURS: ASB 302-(3), ASB 583-(1-7) |
| INSTRUCTOR'S OFFICE: TBA | OFFICE HOURS: TBA |
| MEETING TIMES: 8-10:30 a.m. |
Students who are enrolled in this class for the second session will participate in class activities through Monday of the second week and resume the course during the fifth week.
This course is designed to meet several objectives:
1) assist you in adaptation to living in Mexico, particularly in terms of culture shock adaptation and cultural learning;
2) provide instruction in Mexican cultural patterns, particularly family and social life, and their potential conflicts with
U.S. cultural patterns; and
3) introduction to basic ethnographic research methods used to learn about other cultures (participant observation
and interviewing) and their application to learning about Mexican cultural life.
Course Requirements:
1) Pre-program exam (20%)
2) Class attendance, preparation, and participation, including presentation of findings from assigned research
activities (20%)
3) Maintain positive relations with placement family and acceptable social behavior (20%)
4) Maintain field notes (jottings and notes) of your class assignments and activities (20%);
5) Research paper (20%)
Texts:
Condon, J. Good Neighbors. Intercultural Press, Yarmouth, Me. (C)
Crane, J. and M. Angrosino. 1992. Field Projects in Anthropology. Waveland Press: Prospect Heights,
Ill. (C&A)
Notebook Assignments for Review
Quien soy; "Quienes son mis familiares?" (in Spanish)
Culture shock adaptation strategies
Proxemics and gestures observations;
Non-verbal communication interviews
Project Components: (at least 5, 6 if no life history): Spatial organization (mapping), proxemics, temporal patterns, sex roles, social roles, personal documentation, cultural history, semantic domains, formal organization, community dynamics
Note on Life History Interview: Two interviews with focal person, initial and follow-up. Focus for research topic primary. Also provide analysis of life chronology, most significant events, exemplification of cultural values, norms and themes; deviation from normative patterns.
Notebooks
- Leave pages in front for index
- Provide pertinent but protective identifying information
- You may add to your jottings information from class and other students which is relevant to your notebook
assignments; the source should be identified
- Your Notes write-up of these assignments should be located in contiguous pages as a report integrating and
summarizing all of the information available to you on the topic.
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| 1.0 |
Orientation on Saturday/Sunday |
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1.1 |
Orientation, Program Philosophy, Objectives, Requirements
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1.2 |
Intercultural relations, ethnocentrism, cultural relativism, family relations
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1.3 |
Culture Shock and Cross-cultural Adaptation Strategies
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1.4 |
Mexican History and Culture
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1.5 |
Mexican Cultural Psychology and Social Behavior;
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2.1 |
Personal Adjustment; Presentation and Discussion: Non-Verbal Communication
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2.2 |
The Process of Doing Research; Community Studies
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2.3 |
Interviews Lecture; Life history, kinship; kinship vocabulary
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2.4 |
Community Studies
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2.5 |
Present Research proposals. Components:
Spatial organization (mapping), proxemics, temporal patterns, sex roles, social roles, personal
documentation, cultural history, semantic domains, formal organization, community dynamics
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3.1 |
Selecting Research Methods
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3.2 |
Library Trip/Individual research
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3.3 |
Individual Research
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3.4 |
Individual meetings by appointment |
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3.5 |
Research Logs Due
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4.1 |
Individual meetings by appointment/ Field research |
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4.2 |
Field research |
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4.3 |
Field research |
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4.4 |
Individual meetings by appointment/ Field research |
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4.5 |
Presentations by 1st session only students |
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7.1 - |
Second Session Students in 302 have week 7 for field research |
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8.3 |
Final Presentations for 2 session students |