FUDAN UNIVERSITY
SHANGHAI
PROGRAMME/Courses
Fieldwork
Doing Fieldwork in China
Lecturer:Dr. PAN Tianshu
Credits:3 Fudan University credits, 5 ECTS equivalent
This seminar aims to situate students’ field work experiences within a framework of the Chinese and North American contexts to provide students with methodological tools for approaching their field placements; to evaluate their own experiences and observations through critical reflection; and to integrate their understanding of Chinese and North American medical systems through written exercises.
In addition, this course establishes a forum for students to direct their work and creative energies towards social and cultural issues in the medical field. This approach allows the students to discover “communities,” to create a channel of communication, to find ways of continual engagement and project development, and to perhaps carry knowledge and expression beyond the immediate workings of the community and into the realm of culture. Ethnographic narratives will be woven into the in-class discussion of these themes.
TEACHING SCHEDULE
Week 2 Getting to know the “field”
Week 3 Why Culture Matters
Week 4 Ethnography and Field Work: the Validity of “Soft Data”
Week 5 Place Matters
Week 6 Participant Observation
Week 7 Field Encounters
Week 8 Reflections on Medical School Education
Week 9 The Challenge of a Graying China
Week 10 Stigma and “Shame of Illness”
Week 11 Fieldwork in a “Risk Society”
Week 12-13 In-class presentations