The following listing represents regularly offered undergraduate courses available to students interested in pursuing a Certificate in Ethnography. At least two of the six courses, including at least one at the 300-level or above, must be selected from among the subset of these courses—indicated with an asterisk in the list below—that include explicit methods training and/or a practical ethnographic assignment, such as a research paper based on student-conducted ethnographic interviews.
*ANTH 110 Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology
ANTH 119 Law as Culture
*ERM TBD New Media Ethnography
*ANTH 140 The Corporation
*ANTH 303 Field Methods in Cultural Anthropology
WGSS 312 Gender, Race, Technology
ANTH 318 Peril and Possibility in the South Asian City
ANTH 321 Middle East Gender Studies
ANTH 322 Environmental Justice in Modern South Asia
ANTH 339 Urban Ethnography of Asia
*ERM 341 Qualitative Research in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration
*AMST 343 Muslim Diasporas in the Americas
ANTH 356 Goods & Goodness
*ANTH 364 Ethnography and Capitalism
*ANTH 367 Technology and Culture
HIST 374 African Systems of Thought
ANTH 378 Postwar Vietnam
ANTH 383 In Ordinary Fashion
*SOCY 390 Politics of Reproduction
*WGSS 398 Junior Research Methods Seminar
*WGSS 407 Feminist & Queer Ethnographies
*ERM 409 Latinx Ethnography
ANTH 418 Emotional Technologies of Affect, Artificial Intelligence, and Social Robotics in East Asia
EVST 422 Climate and Society
*WGSS 430 Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East
*ERM 434 Anthro-History
PLSC 434 Political Ethnography
AMST 435 Inequality in America
ANTH 438 Culture, Power, Oil
ANTH 439 Africa, Politics, Anthropology
ANTH 447 Culture and Politics in the Contemporary Middle East
ANTH 451 Intersectionality and Women’s Health
*AMST 454 Narrating the Lives of Refugees
ANTH 455 Masculinity and Men’s Health
ANTH 465 Multispecies Worlds
Graduate Course Options
The following is a listing of graduate courses that occasionally enroll qualified undergraduates, with the permission of the instructor:
PLSC 505 Qualitative Field Research
ANTH 581 Power, Knowledge, and the Environment
ANTH 597 Power in Conservation
ANTH 615 Anthropological Perspectives on Science and Technology
ENV 618 Anthropology of Smallholder Agriculture in Developing Countries
SOCY 630 Workshop in Urban Ethnography
WGSS 690 Theories of Care and Cure: Illness Narratives and Medical Justice
AMST 719 Interrogating the Crisis of Islam
AMST 730 Readings in Critical Muslim Studies
HSHM 780 History Beyond the Archive
AMST 804 Religion and US Empire
ERM 852 Reading the Americas, Reading Ethnography