Course Information


Course Information
Course Title Code Semester L+U Hour Credits ECTS
FIELDWORK METHODS AND TECHNIQUES HLK209 3. Semester 4 + 0 4.0 6.0

Prerequisites None

Language of Instruction Turkish
Course Level Bachelor's Degree
Course Type Compulsory
Mode of delivery Lecture, discussion, research.
Course Coordinator
Instructors İskender YILDIRIM
Assistants
Goals Discussion of the problems faced in fieldwork process and recommendations to overcome them.
Course Content Introduction to and discussion of methods and techniques used by folklorists and ethnologists in fieldwork.
Learning Outcomes 1) Students learn about folkloric research history.
2) Students will learn about examples of early ethnography period.
3) Students learn planning, compilation and reporting techniques.
4) Students learn about ethical issues in folkloric researches.
5) They learn about tecniques of the folkloric researches.
6) They learn about emic and ethical approaches.
7) They learn about compilation and fieldwork.

Weekly Topics (Content)
Week Topics Teaching and Learning Methods and Techniques Study Materials
1. Week Preparation for Research: Research proposal, problems, difficulties. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

 Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
2. Week “Being Native”: Studying the culture lived in, pros and cons Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

 Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
3. Week “Being Alien”: Studying a different culture, pros and cons Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

 Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
4. Week Ethical problems: How should a researcher introduce him/herself to the people he/she participates and observes their life Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

 Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
5. Week The presenter of knowledge : The practices of the folklorist/ethnologist question of representation Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

 Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
6. Week The production of knowledge: How should the ethnographic material be collected? Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

 Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
7. Week The acqusition of knowledge: The technique of participant observation; problems and solutions Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

 Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
8. Week The experience of aquiring knowledge: “The observation of participation” Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

 Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
9. Week Dialogical Ethnography, Self-Reflexivity, Intersubjectivity Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

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10. Week Recording the knowledge: The Field Notes Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

 Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
11. Week Emic and Etic Perspectives: In whose terms should the community be written? Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

 Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
12. Week Tecniques of Interviews and Questionnaires Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

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13. Week Case Studies: Discussion and assessments of some ethnographic texts Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

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14. Week Case Studies: Discussion and assessments of some ethnographic texts Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

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Sources Used in This Course
Recommended Sources
Belkıs Kümbetoğlu. Sosyolojide ve Antropolojide Niteliksel Yöntem ve Araştırma, Bağlam Yayınları, İstanbul, 2005.
Bozkurt Güvenç. İnsan ve Kültür (içinde "Alan Çalışması: Yöntem ve Teknikleri”), Remzi Kitabevi, İstanbul, 1996.
Condrad Phillip Kottak. Antropoloji- İnsan Çeşitliliğine Bir Bakış (içinde "Alan Yöntemleri”), Ütopya Yay., Ankara, 2008.
Sedat Veyis Örnek. Türk Halkbilimi (içindeki “Araştırma Teknikleri ve Araçları”), Kültür Bak. Yay., Ankara, 2000.
Serpil Altuntek. Yerli’nin Bakışı- Etnografya: Kuram ve Yöntem, Ütopya Yayınevi, Ankara, 2009.

Assessment
Measurement and Evaluation Methods and Techniques
Midterm (%40), Final Examination (%60)
Relations with Education Attainment Program Course Competencies
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*DK = Course's Contrubution.
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Level of contribution None Very Low Low Fair High Very High
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ECTS credits and course workload
Event Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
. 14 4
Course Duration (Total weeks*Hours per week) 14 4
Work Hour outside Classroom (Preparation, strengthening) 10 5
Midterm Exam 1 1
Time to prepare for Midterm Exam 1 5
Final Exam 1 1
Time to prepare for Final Exam 1 10
Total Workload
Total Workload / 30 (s)
ECTS Credit of the Course
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  • Relations with Education Attainment Program Course Competencies
  • ECTS credits and course workload