Module ANT3037 for 2016/7
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
ANT3037: Actor-Network-Theory
This module descriptor refers to the 2016/7 academic year.
Module Aims
The aims of this module are to introduce to ANT, and to explore the development of ANT, its central topics and issues, different research agendas and theoretical orientations. With the use of specific examples, the module will examine key issues of current social life and how the view of ANT offers a novel understanding of the social and society.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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Module-Specific Skills | 1. Demonstrate knowledge of different approaches to the study of Actor-Networks 2. Demonstrate an ability to analyse and evaluate key issues in the field of ANT in relation specific themes, studies and findings |
Discipline-Specific Skills | 3. Demonstrate the capacity to select relevant material and structure it in order to present coherent arguments 4. Demonstrate some ability to acquire detailed and comprehensive knowledge of debates in the field 5. Demonstrate knowledge and critical understanding of the well-established principles of ANT, and of the way in which those principles have developed 6. Demonstrate a systematic understanding of key aspects of ANT, including acquisition of coherent and detailed knowledge, at least some of which is at or informed by, the forefront of defined aspects of ANT. |
Personal and Key Skills | 7. Demonstrate the ability to undertake independent study and group work 8. Prepare focused and comprehensive written and oral presentations |
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:
• Origins of ANT
• Experience and Social Facts
• Strong programme, Edinburgh School
• Laboratory Studies
• Sociology of Objects and Technology
• Illness
• Disability
• Human/Animals
• A new Sociology?
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
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22 | 128 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
Category | Hours of study time | Description |
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Scheduled Learning & Teaching | 22 | Eleven 2-hour lectures, involving presentations, group discussion, film presentations and media analysis |
Guided independent study | 18 | Preparing seminar-presentation individually and as a group |
Guided independent study | 80 | Reading for assignments |
Guided independent study | 30 | Essay preparation: conducting research, analysing data, and writing the finished product |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
Course materials (including lecture slides and tutorial topics/questions) will be provided on ELE prior to each lecture/tutorial.