Advisor Information

Advisor Information

How can this course count towards major requirements at other universities?

This course is an ethnographic methods course and can count towards major requirements in anthropology, sociology, and other social/behavioral sciences.  The official course description reads as follows:

• Cross-cultural field training in ethnographic field methods, qualitative data analysis, and ethnographic report-writing.

After successful completion of this course, students will have::

• developed a basic understanding of Belizean culture,
• formulated an understanding of ethical and validity issues in ethnographic research,
• practiced skills in research design and ethnographic methods of data collection,
• applied basic ethnographic research methods in a non-western culture,
• engaged in a community-based research project, and
• analyzed ethnographic data resulting in an ethnographic monograph.

For more information, please see the ANT 365 and 565 Syllabus Draft and ANT 365 and 565 Schedule Draft.

How have students used this field experience to further their educational and career goals?

Students who have taken part in this field school have directly used this experience to:

• contribute as an author with other students from the field school in a report that is given to community partners in Belize and published on the Center for Applied Anthropology web site,
• orally present research findings with other students from the field school at the Anthropologists and Sociologists of Kentucky and Society for Applied Anthropology/Society for Anthropological Sciences annual spring meetings,
• present a poster with other students from the field school at the NKU's spring Celebration of Student Research and Creativity, and
  
• co-author a publication in a peer-reviewed journal with the field director (Dr. Douglas Hume).
  

Students who have taken part in this field school have indirectly used this experience to:

• bolster their application to graduate school,
• as a study abroad and service component of their resume, and
  
• as evidence of the ability to do field research abroad for other anthropological and archaeological field research opportunities.