Undergraduate Course: Fundamentals: Studying Anthropology (SCAN08007)

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 1 Undergraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	0	ECTS Credits	0
Summary	A course to help familiarise students with university study and to introduce students to anthropology at Edinburgh. It focuses on generic academic study skills, but using anthropological texts as key exemplars.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2017/18, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Semester 1
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 0 ( Seminar/Tutorial Hours 10, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 5 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Please contact the School directly for a breakdown of Assessment Methods
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: Have acquired basic skills in literature searches and creating a bibliography. Read and understand the basic argument of anthropological articles. Write and structure an anthropological essay; how to plan for revision and basic revision techniques. Develop core presentation skills including public speaking, the creation of summaries for presentation, and visual literacy.