Module ANT1004 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
ANT1004: Introduction to Social Anthropology-Theorising the Everyday World
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Module Aims
This module will deepen your foundational knowledge of anthropological theory and concepts, and expand your ability to think critically and analytically about key questions and problems in studying the worlds of other people and our own. You will also begin to develop a sensibility for the practical and ethical issues arising in the context of ethnographic fieldwork (and related qualitative social research) whose methods are increasingly used in a variety of organisational and professional contexts
| On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
|---|---|
| Module-Specific Skills | 1. show a solid understanding of the extent and nature of human diversity and commonality as seen from a socio-cultural perspective; 2. demonstrate - in written and oral presentations and the exams - the relationship between specific social and cultural forms in relation to broader global and historical processes; 3. show facility in the use of the repertoire of key concepts and approaches of anthropological analysis; 4. display, in written and oral form, the ability to question cultural assumptions; |
| Discipline-Specific Skills | 5. critically evaluate contemporary anthropological and related texts; 6. display - in written and oral form - an understanding of the discipline's relation to, and difference from, from other approaches and explanations offered in the social sciences; 7. identify and assess key anthropological issues relevant to the contemporary world, and develop critical, comparative and cross-cultural insight; |
| Personal and Key Skills | 8. demonstrate transferable skills in formulating, researching and addressing focused questions; 9. prepare focused and comprehensive written and oral presentations, and in discussing ideas and interpretations with others in a clear and reasoned way; 10. plan and execute work independently and in collaboration with others; and 11. demonstrate skills in cross-cultural understanding, translation and comparison, which will be of advantage in a broad range of professional settings. |
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Lecture topics for this module include:
- Studying the ‘other’: the emergence of the anthropological perspective
- Anthropology and its colonial legacies
- People and things: houses, objects, materials
- Worlds in and out of control: order, disorder and dirt
- Power and resistance
- Embodied culture
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 27 | 123 | 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 & Teaching | 22 | Eleven 2-hour lectures, involving group discussion and film screenings |
| Scheduled Learning & Teaching | 5 | Five 1-hour tutorials |
| Guided independent study | 33 | Weekly reading for lectures and tutorials |
| Guided independent study | 18 | Preparing tutorial presentation individually or in pairs |
| Guided independent study | 27 | Research and writing of formative essay |
| Guided independent study | 40 | Exam preparation (reading, library-based research) |
| Guided independent study | 5 | Web-based activities |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
ARD - Anthropology Review Database
Internet Anthropologist
Anthrobase
SOSIG: Social Science Information Gateway
Anthropology Resources on the Internet
Other Learning Resources
ethnographic film
