Undergraduate Course: Fundamentals: Anthropological Practice (SCAN08006)
Course Outline
| School | School of Social and Political Science |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 0 |
ECTS Credits | 0 |
| Summary | This course introduces students to anthropological practice outside academia, helps students understand potential career routes after anthropology honours, and the ways in which anthropological knowledge and skills relates to careers outside academia. The course includes a variety of presentations from alumnai and applied anthropologists. It
also includes a semester long group project developing an online presentation. The course will introduce students to issues around ¿applied¿ and ¿public anthropology¿. Broadly speaking, applied anthropology takes anthropological skills and insights, and puts them to work in other fields of work. Public anthropology is often seen as using anthropological insights to make contributions to wider public debates. |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Please contact the School directly for a breakdown of Learning and Teaching Activities |
| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
100 %,
Coursework
0 %,
Practical Exam
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Assessment 1: Read any newspaper. Fill in a 300-500 word journal entry on LEARN describing at least one example of where you think anthropologists could contribute to greater public or expert understanding of a particular issue.
Assessment 2: You will read all of the following short pieces and fill in the reader response questionnaire on Learn:
Bourgois, P. 2009. Next Door But Invisible: The World of Homelessness and Drug Addiction. (Audio slide show). Available at: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/series/frontiers/next-door-invisible-world-homelessness-and-drug- addiction
Ghosh, A. 1992. In an Antique Land. (Chapter 1). London: Granta. (Available from Learn)
Graeber, D. 2011. Note Worthy: What Is the Meaning of Money?. Guardian 16 December 2011. Available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/dec/16/note-worthy-new-money- graeber?INTCMP=SRCH
Assessment 3: In allocated groups develop a 10 minute presentation that explains the significance of anthropology to an audience outside the university.This audiences might be, for example: security services, bankers, marketing executives, international development agencies, human rights campaigners, TV production companies, environmental campaigners, oil companies, public health practitioners, computer technology companies, and urban planners, or any other examples chosen by students. Students may use Powerpoint, Prezi, or any suitable presentation tool. Not everyone in a group has to be directly involved in the oral presentation, but all must be available to answer questions. Presentations will be given in teaching session 4.
Awards are made on a pass/fail basis. You MUST pass the course to proceed to the next year of study. |
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- An understanding the uses of anthropology beyond academia
- An understanding of the different career routes following completion of a degree in anthropology
- Developed key skills in communicating anthropological arguments to non-academic audiences
- Acquired advanced skills in working in teams and producing collaborative outputs
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Additional Information
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| Additional Class Delivery Information |
This course will run over ten weeks and consist of a combination of five bi-weekly two hour sessions led by the course convener.
During the weeks when there is not a scheduled Fundamentals session, there will instead be the opportunity to participate in an Peer Assisted Learning Group. Autonomous Learning Groups are a form of peer support and allow students to get together in small groups to work through a particular theme or problem collectively. These sessions are scheduled for the same time and place as the Fundamentals sessions, but on alternate weeks to those sessions. Postgraduate tutors will be there to help guide the sessions, but hopefully they will quickly become ¿autonomous¿. |
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Tobias Kelly
Tel: (0131 6)50 3986
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Course secretary | Mrs Vanessa Feldberg
Tel: (0131 6)50 3933
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