Course content

This course is designed for master students, who want to learn how to write an ethnographic text. It is expected that the students enrolled have collected their own data material through either fieldwork or other methodological approaches, and want to explore ethnography as a writing skill and practice. Students will learn how ethnography differs from other forms of academic writing, and will in this course explore the relationships between theory and writing in ethnography, as well as issues of representation, literary style, and ethics in ethnographic writing. During the course students will produce texts, participate in writing groups and give feedback to each other’s texts.

Learning outcome

Knowledge

• Have first-hand and in-depth knowledge regarding ethnographic texts and writing as a practice.
• Have knowledge of different genres and forms of ethnographic writing.
• Have theoretical and practical experiences of how to develop an ethnographic text.

Skills

• Develop skills necessary to produce their own ethnographic writing.
• Be able to use peer-response in developing their own writing.
• Be able to give productive feedback that is useful for their peers in their writing.

Learning methods and activities

Seminars and workshops as well as participation in writing groups.

Compulsory assignments

• Attendance and active participation in seminars and writing groups

Further on evaluation

A disposition and progress plan for your MA-thesis that will be assessed as approved or not-approved.

Required previous knowledge

Admission to a masters program within the social and educational sciences

Course materials

The reading list will be available at the beginning of the semester.