Module ANT1005 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
ANT1005: Introduction to Social Anthropology: Exploring Cultural Diversity
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 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 |
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Reading Response Workshop | 2000 words (10 weekly 200 word responses) | 1-11 | Oral and written |
Tutorial participation | Throughout every tutorial | 1-7, 11 | Oral |
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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100 | 0 | 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 | 2000 words | 1-6, 8, 10 | Written |
Portfolio | 50 | 2000 words (six 300-word reflections plus intro) | 1-11 | 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 (2000 words) | 1-6, 8, 10 | August/September reassessment period |
Portfolio | Portfolio (2000 words) | 1-11 | 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.
Boyarin, J. (ed.) 1994. Remapping Memory - The Politics of Timespace. Minneapolis and London, University of Minnesota Press
Butler, J. Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex. London: Routledge
Carsten, J. (ed.), Cultures of Relatedness: new approaches to the study of kinship. Cambridge: CUP.
Deloria, P. 1998. ‘Literary Indians and Ethnographic Objects’. Playing Indian. London: Yale University Press
Feld, S. and K. Basso (eds). 1997. Senses of Place. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press.
Fields, K. and B. Fields. 2014. Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life. London: Verso
Gupta, A. and J. Ferguson (eds) 1997. Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Kuper, A. 1996. Anthropology and Anthropologists: The Modern British School (3rd edition). London and New York: Routledge.
Mead, M. 1928. Coming of Age in Samoa. New York: Harper
Roscoe, W. 1994. ‘How to become a Berdache: toward a unified analysis of gender diversity’. In H. Gilbert. (ed). Third sex, third gender: beyond sexual dimorphism in culture and history. New York: Zone Books
Sahlins, M 1985. Islands of History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Wagner, R. 1981. The Invention of Culture. London: University of Chicago Press
Yanagisako, S. and C. Delaney. 1995. Naturalizing Power: Essays in Feminist Cultural Analysis. New York: Routledge.