Undergraduate Ethnography Certificate
In our globalized world, cross-cultural understanding has become increasingly important – making ethnographic skills useful for undergraduate students interested in industry and government as well as those planning to pursue academic careers. Ethnographic proficiency promotes critical thinking by requiring students to critically analyze and interpret qualitative and quantitative information and data from a variety of sources. During a time of newly intensifying misinformation, this has become an essential skill. Ethnography often involves fieldwork and interacting with people in their communities, providing students with valuable real-world experience that can be applied in many different settings.
Course Offerings
Yale’s ethnography courses provide rigorous training in qualitative research methods and cultural analysis. Students engage with diverse communities through systematic fieldwork, developing critical skills in observation, interviewing, and interpretive analysis essential for understanding human societies.
Graduate Student Fellowship
The Ethnography Hub Graduate Student Fellowship brings in several graduate students a year to actively participate in the activities of the Hub and provides modest support for ethnographic fieldwork that graduate student fellows undertake at the end of their fellowship year. As a strong faculty-graduate student mentoring agenda is a cornerstone of our ethnographic collaborative, we co-organize workshops and brown bags to provide guidance in all stages of ethnographic research.