The University of Manitoba Impact of Covid 19 Discussion
Overview:
Throughout the course, you will complete a short ethnographic assignment in three parts, each of which will be worth 5 points, for a total of 15 points towards your final grade.
Objectives:
- To experience and apply basic methods of anthropological research.
- To make and record detailed and critical observations.
- To reflect on the challenges of ethnographic research both personally and for the discipline.
- To engage with course concepts through interactive field-based activities, including observation, interviewing, transcription, “thick description” and written analysis.
Instructions:
PART 1: Observation of a specific news event, press conference, or video report on the Covid-19 crisis in the U.S. or abroad: Choose a specific aspect of the Covid-19 outbreak and response to study from anthropological perspective. You may consider, for example, the pandemic’s impact on a particular demographic, the political or economic fall out from the virus, how it is represented in the media, experience of the virus in a particular city, region, state, or nation, or how it has fed certain forms of xenophobia and racism. In lieu of in-person field work, find a relevant news event, press conference or video report on the Covid-19 crisis and write up “field notes.”
Submit 2 typed pages [12pt font, double spaced, 1-in margins] of notes via CANVAS. word count at least 550.
RUBRIC:
Pt. 1: Observation [5 points]
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Format: Date, time, live video event observed noted at the top of the page; 2 pp of typed notes; standard format |
1 pt |
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1-2 line description of live event/report/broadcast observed |
1 pt |
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Notes on what people are doing, how they are doing it, what the event looks/sounds like, how it is structured |
2 pt |
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Notes on student’s reaction/thoughts during the event |
1 pt |
