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CENTER FOR

EXPERIMENTAL

ETHNOGRAPHY


AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

2025-2026: Year of Curating Presence

GRADUATE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM

ABOUT
The Graduate Certificate in Experimental Ethnography is aimed at students who want to merge creative and interdisciplinary practice through multi-modal methods with their scholarly production. The certificate is open to Penn students admitted and already enrolled in a terminal degree graduate program in SAS, GSE, Annenberg, SP2, Law, MPH/PennMed, Wharton and Design. Application for the certificate should be made in first or second year (contact us for other situations). 

The purpose of the program is to prepare students to use multi-modal methods in independent social scientific research and professional and creative practice, to interrogate how  scholars might expand the ways we learn and create; to explore how to communicate scholarship more diversely; and to use what is learned to transform communities.
REQUIREMENTS

Students are required to take four courses, participate in three CAMRA workshops, and conduct a multimodal project under the guidance of a CEE advisor. Students are responsible for fulfilling the following requirements, in consultation with advisors.


COURSEWORK


Students are required to take a total of four courses from the CEE COURSE LISTINGS. Award of certificate is dependent on a final audit of the student’s fulfillment of requirements, including a satisfactory grade of B or better in all 4 courses. The required courses include:
  • 1 core CEE course
  • 1-2 methods courses
  • 1-2 topical seminars*

*Students may also petition to include courses not listed here, but decisions are at the discretion of the CEE Faculty Steering Committee.

CAMRA GRADUATE STUDENT WORKSHOPS

Participation in three CAMRA-affiliated workshops or CEE Events (Third Thursdays)

MULTIMODAL RESEARCH PROJECT

Students must develop a research project with a multi-modal component, in consultation with a CEE advisor.

INTERESTED? 
We encourage interested students to get in touch with us using our Grad Certificate Interest form.

​NOTE: All fields do not need to be filled out, and the form can be updated as you think through your project, potential advisors,  and courses. 
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