LIBS 126: Anthropologists on Campus

Course Description

Anthropology professors have studied the lives of university students (My Freshman Year; Coming of Age in New Jersey). This course turns the tables, inviting new students to conduct field work on the ?hidden lives? of professors, university staff and other students. Through guided practice in ethnographic skills-interviewing and participant-observation-students will come to understand what culture means to anthropologists while exploring the multiple cultures of UM-Dearborn and gaining insights on meanings and functions of higher education.