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What |
The EOTU cross-campus initiative sponsors undergraduate research on the university and archives it in web-accessible form for the UIUC community. EOTU also functions as a learning group for students, staff, and faculty interested in what it means to conduct research on universities as institutions. EOTU is coordinated by Nancy Abelmann (Anthropology and East Asian Languages and Cultures), William Kelleher (Anthropology), and Peter Mortensen (English). |
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Why now |
EOTU heeds the call to infuse research into the undergraduate curriculum, a call issued by numerous higher education associations, postsecondary education policy centers, charitable foundations, and disciplinary interest groups. | |||
Why here |
EOTU builds on the University of Illinois' legacy of pioneering advances in humanistic inquiry at the leading edge of technological innovation. | |||
Events |
The EOTU Working Group meets biweekly to
explore narrative perspectives on the university, ethnographic research
methods, and inquiry-based pedagogy. EOTU events are open to the public.
Spring 2006 Student Conference current events | 2003-04 events | 2002-03 events |
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Pedagogy |
Using Inquiry
Page and iLabs
freeware developed by GSLIS,
EOTU has sponsored affiliated courses
and has built an archive of student research.
EOTU also offers gateways to six substantively
focused projects and links to related special projects such as the Ethnography
of the Brown v. Board of Education Jubilee Commemoration (EBC). gateways | courses | archive |
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Tools |
EOTU understands that universities and colleges—their
institutions, organizations, maps, and histories—are composites of diverse
prose, visual, network, and statistical narratives.
The ethnography of the university refers
to qualitative research on smaller-scale units, with the understanding that
such inquiry can reveal the workings of the largest scale structures and
zeitgeist. The University
Library has assembled resources essential to the ethnography of the
university. ethnography | narratives | library |
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Join |
How can you get involved? EOTU welcomes participants in the Working Group as well as new EOTU-affiliated courses. | |||
Members |
The EOTU Working Group began in Fall 2002 as an interdisciplinary seminar sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study. Since then, EOTU has welcomed many new participants with related research and teaching interests. | |||
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