ANTHRO 252AEthnography of Communication
Anthropology · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Designed for graduate students. Seminar devoted to examining representative scholarship from fields of sociolinguistics and ethnography of communication. Particular attention to theoretical developments including relationship of ethnography of communication to such disciplines as anthropology, linguistics, and sociology. Topical foci include style and strategy, speech variation, varieties of noncasual speech genres, languages and ethnicity, and nonverbal communication behavior.
S/U or letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
ANTHRO 252A
- ANTHRO 233TNarrative and Times of Trouble
- ANTHRO 252BEthnographic Methods in Language, Interaction, and Culture
2 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 2 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.