Module ANT2032 for 2018/9
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
ANT2032: Culture and Perception
This module descriptor refers to the 2018/9 academic year.
Module Aims
- To consider classic and current literature on culture and perception
- To compare different theoretical models of culture and how culture works
- To critically assess claims about value, veracity and causality in accounts about reality
- To be aware of how cultural theories of reality and perception have applications in relation to real-world problems (such as health/illness, disability and identity politics)
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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Module-Specific Skills | 1. demonstrate an awareness of classic and current literature on culture and perception; 2. identify the practices that buttress claims about the nature of reality ; |
Discipline-Specific Skills | 3. link theoretical concepts with grounded examples; 4. critically assess key perspectives on culture and perception; |
Personal and Key Skills | 5. assess claims about the nature of reality in everyday life; and 6. write competently about aspects of the social world. |
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 |
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Small individual presentation | 10 minutes | 1-5 | Verbal, written |
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 |
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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 |
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Essay | 50 | 2,000 words | 1-6 | written |
Examination | 50 | 1 hour | 1-6 | written |
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 |
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Essay | Essay (2,000 words) | 1-6 | August/September reassessment period |
Examination | Exam (1 Hour) | 1-6 | August/September reassessment 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.
Basic reading:
Butler, Judith. 1999. Gender Trouble: feminism and the subversion of identity. London: Routledge. 301.41 BUT
DeNora, Tia. 2014. Making Sense of Reality – in everyday life. London: Sage (in press now)
Douglas, Mary. 2002 (1966]. Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. London: Routledge. 301.152 DOU
Garfinkel, Harold. 1984 [1967]. Studies in Ethnomethodology. Cambridge: Polity. 301.2 GAR
Goffman, Erving. 1961. Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates. New York: Anchor. 362.2 GOF
Latour, Bruno. 2005. Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 301.1 LAT
Law, John. 2004. After Method: Mess in social science research. London: Routledge. 300 LAW
Schillmeier, Michael. 2013. Rethinking disability: bodies, senses, and things. London: Routledge. 305.908 SCH
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