Undergraduate Course: Fundamentals: Ethnographic Theory (SCAN08008)
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 supplements the work students will be doing in the core course Social Anthropology 2: Key Concepts. It will mainly focus on writing and presentation skills, with a view to helping students develop their work for key concepts, and providing transferable skills for the future. We will focus on developing ethnographic and conceptual arguments, as well as on fundamental writing and presentation skills. This will help students to develop their own critical arguments and to better understand and parse the theoretical and ethnographic arguments of others. |
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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 2017/18, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 80 |
Course Start |
Semester 1 |
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Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 10,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
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Assessment (Further Info) |
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1. In 500 words or less, write an introduction to a piece of writing that makes an
argument. (The piece itself can be imaginary or to be written in the future ¿ it¿s just an exercise in setting up an argument and explaining why your reader should care).
2. EITHER make a short presentation on a topic of your choice, with up to five slides
OR Write a 500 word description of an everyday object that allows us to see it in a
new light.
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:
- Students will have a clear understanding of the relationship between ethnography and theory in anthropology and the ways in which anthropologists structure this relationship in their texts.
- Students will be able to research and develop definitions for key anthropological terms
- Students will be able to develop positive as well as negative critiques of anthropological texts
- Students will have a clear grasp of the wide variety of methods, including quantitative methods and photography, which anthropologists use to support ethnographic arguments.
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Additional Information
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Contacts
Course organiser | Dr Tom Boylston
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Course secretary | Miss Lauren Ayre
Tel: (0131 6)50 4001
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