About the Schedule (updated 4/27/15)
All readings are to be completed before class. The schedule is subject to change; please make sure you are checking it regularly. Some assignments are due between class meetings to allow time for students to read drafts and to facilitate assessment.
January
Week 1: 1/20
Assignment for the first meeting
Introductions, syllabus, on creative research, set up research blogs
Hand out Research Blog and Twitter Live-Tweeting and #c2mondays assignments
Assignment for 1/27
Week 2: 1/27
Junod; Nutt; Ross; Branch; and Wallace, “Shipping Out”; Nelson (emailed)
On Twitter: Atwood, Johnson, and Silver. Learning Record links
Hand out Semester-long Research Project and Research Proposal Assignments
February
Week 3: 2/3 — Guests: Angela Speakman and Diana Stopyra
pages 2-33, 40-61, 67-75, 88-107, 132-147, 163-175 from 2015 Writer’s Market; TBA from Query Letter book; Ann Patchett excerpt from her new book, This is the Story of a Happy Marriage
Junod; Nutt; Ross; Branch; and Wallace, “Shipping Out”; Nelson (emailed)
On Twitter: Atwood, Johnson, and Silver. Learning Record links
Friday 2/6: Research Proposals due on research blog by 11:00pm
Friday 2/6: Order free business cards no later than this day so they can arrive in time for field research.
Week 4: 2/10
Class Canceled
Learning Record Parts A1 and A2, 4 Observations due by 11:00pm
Week 5: 2/17
Brinkmann & Kvale, InterViews, Intro, all of Part 1; “Ethical decision-making and Internet research 2.0: Recommendations from the AOIR ethics working committee“; IRB and CITI Certification discussion; IRB Sample (.pdf); Discuss Research Topics
Hand out Leveraging Twitter for Research
Week 6: 2/24
Brinkmann & Kvale, InterViews, chapters 6, 7, 8, 9, 15
Library databases and Zotero
Hand out Drilling Down Through the Sources assignment
March
Week 7: 3/3 — Meet in Student Center Classroom 129 for fieldnotes practice
Bring required fieldnotes notebook with you to class.
Emerson, Fretz, and Shaw, Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes: Chapters 1 and 2; Horowitz pages 1 – 138 (it’s a quick read)
Hand Out Midterm Learning Record assignment
CITI Ethics course completed by class time
Week 8: 3/10
Emerson, Fretz, and Shaw, Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes: Chapters 3, 4, and 5; Pink, “Photography in Ethnographic Research”; Horowitz, pages 185 – 210, 241 – 265
Debrief fieldnotes experience; discuss source types
Bring student center fieldnotes to class
Hand out Fieldnotes, Interviews, Lookings, and Reflections assignment
Sunday, 3/15: Midterm Learning Record Due
Week 9: Spring Break March 16 – 20
Week 10: 3/24 — Guests: Angela Speakman and Diana Stopyra
pages 2-33, 40-61, 67-75, 88-107, 132-147, 163-175 from 2015 Writer’s Market; pages 1 – 54 from Query Letter book; Ann Patchett excerpt from her new book, This is the Story of a Happy Marriage
Discuss project status as a group
Interview Areas, Interviewees, and Lookings Schedule due on Research Blog
April
Week 11: 3/31 — Guests: authors Joe McGee and Sam Starnes
pages 148 – 162 from 2015 Writer’s Market
Joe McGee’s debut picture book, Peanut Butter and Brains, is forthcoming from Abrams Publishing (Fall 2015). Sam Starnes is the author of Calling (2005), Fall Line (2011), and Red Dirt: A Tennis Novel (2015).
Week 12: 4/7 — Class Canceled for Research Conferences
Drilling Down the Sources Blog Post due
Week 13: 4/14
Discuss project status; revisit initial feature readings
Monday, 4 /20: Rough Drafts of final project and query letter due via Dropbox by 3:00pm
Week 14: 4/21 — Class meets in the classroom
Workshop drafts in class
Hand out Final Learning Record guidelines
Hand out research analysis and final submission guidelines
Fieldnotes, Interviews, Lookings, and Reflections posts must be completed no later than today
Week 15: 4/28
Last day of class; evaluations
Reflecting on creative research and composing
4/29: Final Project Due on Dropbox by 11:00pm
Week 16: 5/5
Final Learning Record due via Dropbox by 11:00pm
Evidence of project submission to publication due