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  • A street market in South London. Photo credit Kim Jones.
  • Students in a Qualitative Research Methods class and members of the APO Service Learning fraternity celebrate Halloween 2009 with children at the East Burlington Community Center. Photo credit Kim Jones.
  • Apple pressing in Cowee, NC 2008 as part of research conducting through PERCS. Photo credit Kirsten Rhodes.
  • NC potter Mark Hewitt with a clay coil for a large pot in Pittsboro, NC 2005. Photo credit Tom Mould.
  • A young woman getting her lip pierced at Kingpin Tattoo in Greensboro, NC 2002. Photo credit Lauren Vilis & Samiha Khanna.

Teaching Module on Interviewing

PERCS has developed teaching modules to guide students through some of the key issues and methods involved in ethnographic fieldwork. These modules can be used by teachers or directly by students.

Interviewing: This module explores the process of in-depth interviewing, with tips about how to prepare, conduct, and interpret interviews, with a discussion of the benefits and limitations of this method of data collection. Also includes class exercises.

Check out these other modules as well!