The Catalogue Description

The Internet computer network contains many "virtual communities" which represent many different kinds of international, transnational and multicultural interest groups. This course applies anthropological fieldwork techniques to study issues of transnational identity, communications, expressions, representation and the concerns of such geographically dispersed communities. 

So what's this course REALY all about?
 

The course will utilize the potential of the Internet and the WWW to do certain kinds of research on the Internet. All assignments can be turned in via the Internet. However, it is not (as many Internet courses are) simply a course taken from the classroom and put on the Internet, made into a sort of "correspondence course". 

The course will be offered through one of the campus's Internet Course delivery packages (Blackboard) which will provide a number of services to us as a class: a group/individual email server, threaded discussions, a chatroom, a "white board," calendar of course events, individual webpages, and so forth. There will also be scheduled weekly classroom meeting in one of the university's computer labs. Attendance and participation in these classroom sessions is not mandatory, but will allow any student who feels uncertain about any aspect of the course to get direct advice and hands-on demonstrations.