Certificate director: Jane Lynch; ethnography.yale.edu/undergraduate-certificate-in-ethnography/

Ethnography is both a set of qualitative research methods employed in the humanities and social sciences and a mode of presenting that research—in books and articles, in film and video, in embodied performance, and, increasingly, in digital formats and multiple media. 

requirements

See Links to attributes indicating courses approved for the certificate requirements.

Students must successfully complete six courses. At least four of the six courses must be at the 3000-level or above. At least two of the six courses, including at least one at the 3000-level or above, must include substantial methods training and/or a practical ethnographic component. The minimum grade for all courses is a C. 

Courses that fulfill these requirements are listed on the Ethnography Certificate website and are searchable in Yale Course Search (YCS) using the following attributes: YC Ethnography Elective and YC Ethnography Methods. Other courses may be approved by permission of the certificate director. 

Students must also attend two public talks or other events that feature ethnography and submit to the certificate director one page critical reflections on each of these talks. The Ethnography Certificate website will maintain updated links to the Ethnography Hub, Ethnography and Social Theory Colloquium series, Workshop in Urban Ethnography, Qualitative Social Science Initiative, and other campus series that regularly feature ethnography-informed events.

Additionally, no more than two course credits may overlap in the fulfillment of the requirements of the Ethnography certificate and of a major, a simultaneous degree, or another certificate; and no course credit may be applied toward the requirements of more than two curricular programs. For example, the same course credit may not be used to fulfill the requirements of two certificates and a major. Approved graduate and professional school courses may count toward the certificate. Non-Yale courses may not count toward the certificate.

Credit/D/Fail No course taken Credit/D/Fail may be applied toward the requirements of the certificate.
 

Declaration of Candidacy

Students must declare their intention to earn a Certificate on the Declare Major, Concentration within the Major, Certificate page on Yale Hub, as early as possible, but at the very latest, by the 15th of January or September in their last semester at Yale. Once declared, Degree Audit tracks students' progress toward completion of the certificate.

Summary of requirements

Number of courses 6 course credits

Distribution of courses 4 courses at 3000-level or above; 2 courses indicated as methods course with 1 at 3000-level or above

Additional requirements attendance at 2 public talks and submission of 1-page critical reflections for each