Module ANT2005 for 2016/7
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
ANT2005: Current Debates in Anthropology: Practice
This module descriptor refers to the 2016/7 academic year.
How this Module is Assessed
In the tables below, you will see reference to 'ILO's. An ILO is an Intended Learning Outcome - see Aims and Learning Outcomes for details of the ILOs for this module.
Formative Assessment
A formative assessment is designed to give you feedback on your understanding of the module content but it will not count towards your mark for the module.
| Form of assessment | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
|---|---|---|---|
| Presentation | 10 mins in the context of the seminars | 2,3,8,9 | Oral, including peer observation and assessment |
| a portfolio of ten response papers of 150 words each | a portfolio of ten response papers of 150 words each | 2, 3, 8, 9 | Oral, in class |
Summative Assessment
A summative assessment counts towards your mark for the module. The table below tells you what percentage of your mark will come from which type of assessment.
| Coursework | Written exams | Practical exams |
|---|---|---|
| 50 | 50 | 0 |
...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.
| Form of assessment | % of credit | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| One unseen examination | 50 | 2 hours | 1-4,7 | Written and oral |
| One Essay | 50 | 2,000 words | 1-7 | Written and oral |
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Re-assessment
Re-assessment takes place when the summative assessment has not been completed by the original deadline, and the student has been allowed to refer or defer it to a later date (this only happens following certain criteria and is always subject to exam board approval). For obvious reasons, re-assessments cannot be the same as the original assessment and so these alternatives are set. In cases where the form of assessment is the same, the content will nevertheless be different.
| Original form of assessment | Form of re-assessment | ILOs re-assessed | Timescale for re-assessment |
|---|---|---|---|
| One unseen examination | One two-hour unseen exam | 1-4,7 | August/September examination period |
| One essay | One essay of 2,000 words | 1-7 | August/September examination period |
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Crate, Susan A. and Mark Nuttall (2016) “Introduction: Anthropology and Climate Change,” in S. A. Crate and M. Nuttall, eds., Anthropology and Climate Change: From Encounters to Actions, Routledge.
Bharadwaj, Aditya (2012) “Enculturating cells: the anthropology, substance, and science of stem cells,” Annual review of anthropology 41 : 303-317.
Abramowitz, Sharon (2014) “Ten Things that Anthropologists Can Do to Fight the West African Ebola Epidemic,” Somatosphere: Science, Medicine, and Anthropology September [http://somatosphere.net/2014/09/ten-things-that-anthropologists-can-do-to-fight-the-west-african-ebola-epidemic.html].
Holmes, Seth M and Castañeda, Heide (2016) “Representing the ‘European refugee crisis’ in Germany and beyond: Deservingness and difference, life and death,” American Ethnologist 43 (1): 12-24 [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/amet.12259/full].
Shore, Cris and Susan Wright (2015) “Governing by numbers: audit culture, rankings and the new world order,” Social Anthropology 23 (1): 22–28.
Hylland Eriksen, Thomas (2016) |”Waste,” in Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change, Pluto Press, chapter 6.
Juris, Jeffrey and Razsa, Maple (2012) "Occupy, Anthropology, and the 2011 Global Uprisings," Hot Spots, Cultural Anthropology website, July 27, 2012 [https://culanth.org/fieldsights/63-occupy-anthropology-and-the-2011-global-uprisings].
Bunten, Alexis Celeste (2008) “Sharing culture or selling out? Developing the commodified persona in the heritage industry,” American Ethnologist 35 (3): 380-395.
Checker, Melissa, et al (2011) “‘Year That Trembled and Reel’d’: Reflections on Public Anthropology a Decade after 9/11,” American Anthropologist 113 (3): 491-497.
Green, Sara, et al (2016) “Brexit Referendum: ?rst reactions from
Anthropology,” Social Anthropology 0 (0) 1–25 [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1469-8676.12331/epdf].
