Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: INTERSCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION: A RESEARCH PRACTICUM

Department: Anthropology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In anticipation of the 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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ANTH 352. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ANTH 552 if student has credit for ANTH 352.