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We are dedicated to providing you with the best master’s-level training in visual ethnography possible in one year. We take this task very seriously and expect you to as well, however, we are limited in our time and must strategize how to make the most of it.

In the span of a few months, you will have written a defensible proposal and prepared to enter the field with a well-honed methodological practice using professional audiovisual equipment. To do that requires that you master a varied set of skills — conceptual, methodological, technical, and aesthetical. In essence, multimodal ethnography.

We have built this online material to fully compliment our face-to-face time. Rather than spending our quality time together by lecturing and providing instruction, we have provided these to you as recordings that allow you to consume and review them at your own pace. We have also carefully paired these online lectures with companion literature, films, sound recordings, etc. that will help you secure your understanding of these applications.

Please note that this web course-book is in a beta form, so there may be some hiccups. Please report any wrinkles you encounter, but hopefully you won’t hit any serious troubles. And give us your patience.

Below are some images that highlight the intensive planning that has gone into producing this content. You are the beneficiaries of several years of development and testing. But we are always open for feedback and ways to improve our materials and instructional execution.