Methodological, epistemological, and ethical issues surrounding fieldwork will be discussed. Through a number of case studies, the course aims to cultivate professional fieldwork literacy that will be useful for future research and survey activities. More specifically, the superiority and inferiority of other research methods, what is "field," what is "other," what is "understanding," how to deal with the field, creating ethnography, critical decoding, research protocols, the politics surrounding the release of data, and the vision of fieldwork in the near future.