You are going to try to be an ethnographer, with a focus on being either an observer or a participant observer. Your research question is: What are the values and priorities of college students? Go to a specific location on campus (for example, the library, the student center where people are eating, a computer lab), and observe/participate in whatever activities are going on for two blocks of at least one hour each. Take extensive notes during your observation/participation. You may also want to conduct informal interviews with people and collect documents. Using your observations and notes, write up your findings:
(a) What are the values and priorities of college students?
(b) How do you know? For this part of the question, provide narrative that answers the following questions: What did you observe? Did you see outcroppings? Did you collect documents? Did you interview people? Did you observe relationships, symbols, and/or rituals? Note to instructors: This exercise can be cast in any setting that permits people to remain in place for at least an hour. Typical examples not necessarily connected to a college campus environment include a shopping mall, coffee shops, museums, parks, and gyms.