Undergraduate Module Descriptor

ANT2005: Current Debates in Anthropology: Practice

This module descriptor refers to the 2018/9 academic year.

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:

Civil Disobedience and Activism

The Animals in our Food

Desire, Consumption and Waste

New forms of Kinship

What place for Collective Emotions?

Non-binary Genders and Non-normative Sexualities

Who is / What is a person anyway / anymore?

Tourism and the Commodification of Culture

Conflict, Violence and Terrorism

Conservation and the Anthropocene

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
22	128	0

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

Category	Hours of study time	Description
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	11	Lectures (including film screenings where relevant) (11 x 1 hours)
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	11	Tutorials (11 x 1 hours)
Guided independent study	33	Lecture and seminar preparation: Reading of the set texts for weekly lectures and the tutorials
Guided independent study	11	Writing weekly response papers
Guided independent study	33	Additional reading with guidance from the lecturer
Guided independent study	25	Preparation and writing of essay
Guided independent study	20	Recapitulation of reading done throughout the term; preparation of essay plans; portfolio revision, etc
Guided independent study	6	Background research conducted by the student depending on need and interest

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).