CA610/FL530

2:30 - 3:45 PM Tuesdays and Thursdays in Vilas 3161 Professor Robert Howard rgh@rghoward.com http://rghoward.com/ 6144 Vilas Communication Hall OH: 11:00 - 12:00 Thursdays (Please email ahead if possible to ensure availability.) Final Project Dropped off on: 5/ 14 between 10:05 AM - 12:05 PM in 6170 Vilas.

 

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Schedule

Assignment One Instructions

Assignment Two Instructions

Final Project

Check List

Project Proposal Form
IRB Certification (Take the test through this link. Print a .pdf of the certification form. Email one copy to the instructor and include it in you final project folder.)
Project Accession Form (in .rtf format)
Researcher Release Form (in .pdf format)
Respondent Release Form (in .pdf format)
Informed Consent Form (in .pdf format)

UW MINDS Submission Link

 

Final Cut Pro Setup Procedures

Final Cut Pro Capturing

Final Cut Pro Exporting

Using Compressor

 

Extra Credit Announcement

10% Extra Credit (for the final assignment itself) if:

the submission includes at least one video file that you or someone else in the class videoed (event, interview, or final project (narrated slide shows do not count unless then include video you or a classmate made of the real world; has to be of your project (projects can't be the same, but you are encouraged to form teams for researching))

 

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Course Objectives:

(1) to gain a general sense of the breadth and diversity of research into vernacular communication; (2) to establish a general model of the historical progression of those studies, (3) and to place those studies in the larger context of developing technologies by recognizing their participation in and implications for contemporary American society; (4) and to engage ethnographic field methods to create digital portfolios of contemporary vernacular expression that are suitable for permanent archiving.

Grading and Assignments:

Grading Scale in Percents of Total Possible Earned Points

 

A : 100 - 93%

AB: 92 - 88%

B: 87 - 83%

BC: 82 - 78%

C: 77 - 70%

D: 69-60%

F: below 60%

Individual Assignments with Weights

Undergraduate & Graduate Students

5%: discussion participation

The section instructor will base this grade on the paper proposal, attendance, discussion participation, quizzes, and other criteria.

20%: first ethnographic assignment

The first assignment will require an ethnographic observation with hand writing notes. Those field notes will become the basis for an approximately two page write up. This project can be a component of the second and/or final project

25%: second ethnographic assignment

The second assignment will require an digitally recorded interview . That interview will become the basis for an approximately two page write up. This project can be a component of the first and/or final project

10%: final project presentation

Each student will give a short presentation to the rest of the class on their final ethnographic project during the last two weeks of the course.
This will be graded based on the clarity and thoroughness of the presentation. This will be graded based on the clarity and thoroughness of the presentation. It should show part or all of the multimedia project, video, or orally summarize the findings of the paper.

 

40%: final ethnographic project

The project must include all components as outlined in the assignment. This project must be approved by the instructor via email using the project proposal form.
It will require will require an digitally recorded interview, digital photographs and/or video of a vernacular communication. In addition, the student produce either a written paper, multimedia Web site, or video based on the documented event. The interview, photographs or video, and the final project will be collected into a digital portfolio based on the instructions. This project will be graded based on the thoroughness of the portfolio, the fulfillment of all parts, and the suitability for archiving of the portfolio.

Attendance:

Full attendance is required of all students. Because discussion sections are not interchangeable, students must attend the section for which they are registered or they will not be graded and will fail the course. Because the ideas and meanings in a course such as this emerge in the interaction between the instructors and students, students missing more than 3 discussion sections shall not have participated at an acceptable level and may fail the course. Students not attending lectures will miss material not otherwise available and are obligated to seek out that material from classmates. To avoid duplication and reserve both office hours and class time for students attending lectures, please do not ask the instructors to recapitulate material missed or not understood as a result of not attending lectures.

Required Texts:

Oring, Elliott. 1986. Folk Groups and Folklore Genres. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press.
(Available for purchase at the Underground Campus Textbook Exchange.)

Hammersley, Martyn, and Paul Atkinson. 2005. Ethnography: Principles in Practice Third Edition. New York: Routledge.
(Available for purchase at the Underground Campus Textbook Exchange.)

Individual Course Readings.
(Available online through links on the schedule page.)

 

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