ANTHRO 252BEthnographic Methods in Language, Interaction, and Culture

Anthropology · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

Ethnographic approaches to recording and analyzing communicative events and practices in their sociocultural context, involving student-initiated fieldwork in community setting. Emphasis on hands-on activities within theoretical frameworks that consider language as social and cultural practice. Devoted to skills related to collecting socially and culturally meaningful data.

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

Official UCLA wording

Requisite: course 252A or Sociology 244A.

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  • · "SOCIOL 244A" is not in this catalog version

Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

ANTHRO 252B

1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.

Unlocks

What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.