ACN6337 - Cognitive Ethnography

ACN 6337 Cognitive Ethnography (3 semester credit hours) Students in this course will learn to observe, document, and analyze cognitive processes in real-world settings using the methods of cognitive ethnography. The course provides students with an understanding of the embodied, situated, and distributed cognition and the interaction of cognition and culture that forms the foundation of cognitive ethnography methodology. The course may emphasize the uses of cognitive ethnography in human-computer interaction, system design, laboratory studies, cultural psychology, or media effects. Department consent required. (3-0) R