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Cognitive Psych

This course will introduce students to the pillars of collaborative methodologies. More than a set of proscriptive methods we will learn and discuss critical anthropological methods of participant observation and associated informal dialogues in collaboration. We will study techniques for planning and carrying out such research, recording, checking validity and reliability, storing, coding, analyzing, and writing up of ethnographic data. Students will undertake a collaborative research project and become familiar with basic ethical issues, informed consent, writing a collaborative proposal, formulating research contracts, and sharing results with research partners and key stakeholders.

Nonetheless, this semester we put to work some of the precepts of engaged anthropology via a collaborative project with Pixan Konob' and the Champaign language access county project. You will find the details of this project in a separate document and on Moodle. This collaboration will entail that you participate in some activities outside class hours and outside university grounds. We will