Courses

• Students must successfully complete six courses. At least four of the six courses must be at the 3000-level or above. At least two of the six courses, including at least one at the 3000-level or above, must include substantial methods training and/or a practical ethnographic component. The minimum grade for all courses must be a C. 
• Courses that fulfill these requirements are available here and are searchable in Yale Course Search (YCS) using the following attributes: YC Ethnography: Elective and YC Ethnography: Methods. Other courses may be approved by permission of the certificate director. 

Lectures

• Students must also attend two public talks or other events that feature ethnography and submit to the certificate director one-page critical reflections on each of these talks. Links to the Ethnography Hub, Ethnography and Social Theory Colloquium series, Workshop in Urban Ethnography, Qualitative Social Science Initiative, and other campus series that regularly feature ethnography-informed events are available here.

FAQs

• Overlapping credits and requirements: No more than two course credits may overlap in the fulfillment of the requirements of the Ethnography certificate and of a major, a simultaneous degree, or another certificate; and no course credit may be applied toward the requirements of more than two curricular programs. For example, the same course credit may not be used to fulfill the requirements of two certificates and a major. Approved graduate and professional school courses may count toward the certificate. Non-Yale courses may not count toward the certificate. 
• Non-Yale courses may not count toward the Certificate
• The minimum grade for a course must be a C
• Credit/D/Fail: No courses taken Credit/D/Fail may be counted toward the Certificate
• The Ethnography Certificate director must approve any exceptions to the certificate and the inclusion of any new courses