Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Anthropology

Meeting: 2:30PM - 3:50PM TR (7-JAN-2008 - 23-APR-2008) 

Part of Term: Full Term

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Method of Instruction: Face to Face

Credit Hours: 3

 

Section Max Enrollment: 20

Section Enrolled: 1

Enrollment data as of: 14-MAY-2024 6:54AM

 

 

 

Description: In anticipation of th opening of the Rice Collaborative Research Center (CRC) in 2009, this course explores the conditions that facilitate and those that inhibit collaborative research across the disciplines. Readings will address the production of scientific knowledge, disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity, styles of scientific reasoning and investigation, the social organization of scientific research and the interaction of sciences with their publics as well as qualitative field methods. Upon qualification, students will also engage in supervised on-site investigations of the agencies and the human subjects at Rice and at the Texas Medical Center, which the CRC is most likely to engage. Undergraduates will demonstrate their understanding of the themes of the investigative project and produce regular field reports. Graduate students will additionally serve as investigative team supervisors and acquire competency in contemporary methodologies of the qualitative assessment of longitudinal trends. Investigators will receive explicit credit for the data they contribute to any future publications that the project generates.