Course Meetings | |
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| MWF 3:30-4:20 | Herring 126 |
Instructor: Dr. Robert Englebretson | ||
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| Office: | Herring 206 | |
| Office Hours: | Mon. 2:00-3:00, Thurs. 2:00-4:00, and by appointment. | |
| Office Phone: | 713 348-4776 | |
| E-mail: | reng {at} rice.edu | |
This two-semester course sequence in field methods addresses techniques for the recording, analysis, and description of a field language. The language for A2004-2005 is Sinhala. Class meetings on Mondays and Wednesdays will consist of elicitation sessions with the Sinhala speaker. Class meetings on Friday will not include the speaker, and will consist of data analysis, planning the following week’s sessions, and general discussions of issues related to data collection, transcription, analysis, and fieldwork experiences and ethics. IN addition to in-class sessions, students will work in pairs outside of class. Each pair will be allotted one hour per week of time with the Sinhala speaker for work on individual and group projects. Students will be responsible for entering elicited data into an online class database, to which all students in the class will have access.
Three ‘provisional’ written reports will be due each semester, and will be made available to all class members. Because of the emergent nature of a course in field methods, the exact due dates for these reports are flexible and individually-negotiable by each student. During the first semester, the topics of these reports will be:
Near the end of each semester, students will give in-class presentations related to their individual projects.
On the last day of exam week for each semester, the final course paper is due. This paper will be a compilation and revision of the three ‘provisional’ reports from the semester, incorporating feedback from the instructor and other students, as well as new data and analysis as relevant. This paper will be due at 5pm on the last day of the exam week for each semester, e-mail submissions preferred. (For Fall semester, the due date is December 15 at 5pm. For Spring semester, the due date is noon on May 5 for graduating seniors, and 5pm on May 11 for everyone else.)
* Note: If you require course material in an alternative format or need special accommodations due to a disability, please contact the instructor and the Disability Support Services Office (Ley Student Center room 122).
| Actively participate in class elicitation, discussion, and data sessions | 20% |
| Three 'provisional' written reports | 45% |
| Individual in-class presentation | 15% |
| Final 'compilation' term paper | 20% |
Last updated: Sept. 3, 2004 by Robert Englebretson.