Short Courses in Methods of Cultural Anthropology II

该奖项授予PI H. Russell Bernard继续支持“文化人类学研究方法短期课程”，以帮助专业人类学家提高他们收集、分析和呈现数据的技能。课程分为文本分析、行为观察方法、文化人类学调查研究方法、民族生态学方法四门，共5天。明年将增加社会网络分析课程，并考虑开设文化人类学统计与数据分析、视觉人类学方法等新课程。每年夏季提供3个为期5天的课程。参与者在全国范围内招募，并在网上申请。申请是竞争性的，每个课程接受12至14名参与者。每门课程的学员都经过导师的筛选和接受。被选中参加课程的学生可以访问一个包含每门课程阅读材料的网站。因此，参加每门课程的学员都为数据收集和数据分析方面的强化实践培训做好了准备。SCRM项目已经培训了53名人类学家，掌握一种或多种研究方法。他们中的许多人将他们的训练用于他们自己的研究，准备新的研究拨款提案，以及教授本科生和研究生的研究技能。在接下来的四年（2007年至2010年）中，预计将有100至120多名同事参加这些课程，这将产生连锁反应，因为同事们将教授处于职业研究阶段的学生。更好的研究方法可以帮助学者更好地研究重要的社会问题。除了为期5天的SCRM课程外，人类学家国家会议还提供为期一天的关于使用软件收集和分析数据的讲习班，并向学生和教师开放。

This award to PI H. Russell Bernard continues support of Short Courses on Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology to help professional anthropologists improve their skills in collecting, analyzing, and presenting data. There are four, 5-day courses in the program: Text Analysis, Methods of Behavioral Observation, Survey Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology, and Methods of Ethnoecology. Social Network Analysis will be added next year, and several new courses are being considered, including Statistics and Data Analysis in Cultural Anthropology, and Methods of Visual Anthropology. Three 5-day courses are offered each summer. Participants are recruited nationally and apply online. Applications are competitive and 12 to 14 participants are accepted into each course. Participants are screened and accepted by the instructors for each course. Those selected to attend are given access to a web site that contains the readings for each course. Participants thus come to each course prepared for intensive, hands-on training in data collection and data analysis. The SCRM program has trained 53 anthropologists in one or more methods for research. Many of them are using their training in their own research, in preparing new grant proposals for research, and in teaching students, both undergraduate and graduate, the skills of research. Over the next four years, 2007-2010, it is anticipated that between 100 to 120 more colleagues will participate in these courses and that will have a rippling effect as colleagues teach students who are moving in the research phase of their careers. Better research methods help scholars do better research on important social issues. In addition to 5-day courses in the SCRM, one-day workshops on the use of software for collecting and analyzing data are offered at national meetings of anthropologists and are open to students as well as to faculty.