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ANTH44015: Thinking Anthropologically

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Type Open
Level 4
Credits 15
Availability Not available in 2024/2025
Module Cap
Location Durham
Department Anthropology

Prerequisites

  • None

Corequisites

  • None

Excluded Combinations of Modules

  • None

Aims

  • To explore the history and some of the recent developments in the theory of socio-cultural anthropology
  • To enable students to assay critically theoretical debates in socio-cultural anthropology and to engage with them in their research
  • To enable students to understand how anthropological fieldwork is influenced by the researcher's theoretical orientation

Content

  • Selected issues in the theory of socio-cultural anthropology

Learning Outcomes

Subject-specific Knowledge:

  • Broad knowledge of selected issues in the theory of socio-cultural anthropology
  • Broad knowledge of the history of socio-cultural anthropology
  • An understanding of how anthropological fieldwork is influenced by the researcher's theoretical orientation

Subject-specific Skills:

  • To develop ability to formulate theoretically informed research aims
  • To develop ability to present an effective argument (both orally and in writing) that demonstrates an awareness of the complexity of selected theoretical issues

Key Skills:

  • Communication: students will be taught how to communicate clearly (both orally and in writing) their understanding of the material they have read
  • Improving their own learning and performance: students will learn to use a variety of web tools for searching the primary and secondary literature

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

  • Different types of taught sessions

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

ActivityNumberFrequencyDurationTotalMonitored
Classes15As specified in the module handbook1 hour15 
Preparation and Reading135 
Total150 

Summative Assessment

Component: EssayComponent Weighting: 100%
ElementLength / DurationElement WeightingResit Opportunity
Essay3000 words100 

Formative Assessment

500 word essay plan

More information

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