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This class will involve you doing field work by utilizing resources in the local or regional communities of Oregon and then writing either an oral history of a person or an ethnography about a group, institution, site, or organization from this community. If you do not live in Oregon, you may write about a subject local to the place where you currently reside. For oral histories, you could write about a family member, friend, teacher, coach, teammate, co-worker, classmate, etc.  For an ethnography, possible topics in Oregon include the Oregon Historical Society in Portland; the Kam Wah Chung Museum in John Day; the Nikkei Legacy Center in downtown Portland; the Benton Country Historical Society & Museum in Philomath; The Museum at Warm Springs; or any of the Cultural Resource Centers at Oregon State University.  You may use traditional secondary sources like books and articles in this assignment, but they should be a supplement to--not substitute for--your field work research in which you go out and either interview someone for your oral history subject or visit a site for your ethnography. The primary component of the project should thus be your own field work.