Undergraduate Module Descriptor

ANT2002: Ethnography Now

This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.

Module Aims

The module aims to help you develop skills, knowledge, and experiences that are crucial for anthropological scholarship, including:

an understanding of contemporary approaches to researching and writing ethnographies
skills in the critical reading and evaluation of ethnographic work produced by others
knowledge of, and hands-on practice with, fieldwork techniques and methods, including data gathering and fieldnote writing;
the ability to critically reflect on your own practices as producers of ethnographic research
writing ethnographic accounts of a culture that has been studied first-hand

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)
This module's assessment will evaluate your achievement of the ILOs listed here – you will see reference to these ILO numbers in the details of the assessment for this module.
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to:
Module-Specific Skills	1. Demonstrate a clear understanding of the distinctive benefits and drawbacks of ethnographic studies of social life 2. Make critical assessments of ethnographic texts. 3. Describe the ways that theoretical and methodological problems intersect within forms of ethnographic inquiry.
Discipline-Specific Skills	4. Understand how key concepts in sociology and anthropology can be illustrated and refined in relation to the analysis of detailed empirical data 5. Demonstrate an awareness of strategies for analytically linking micro- and macro- perspectives 6. Assess, challenge and develop theoretical ideas in relation to reflections on their own experiences and observations of social life.;
Personal and Key Skills	7. Build and defend an argument based on evidence 8. Think about social and personal lives in new ways 9. Communicate effectively in written and verbal form.

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:
- A brief history of ethnography
- Challenges to ethnographic authority
- The end(s) of contemporary ethnography
- Reflexivity and fieldwork
-New British ethnographies
- New forms of inquiry
- Student culture
- Ethnographic fieldwork and analysis.

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
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 activity	22	Weekly 2 hour meetings with lecture and seminar component will form a basis upon which you can build your own interpretations of module materials.
Guided independent study	50	Preparation for oral presentation and tutorial discussions
Guided independent study	50	Researching and writing written assignments
Guided independent study	28	Fieldwork and data analysis

Online Resources

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

ELE – http://vle.exeter.ac.uk/

Other Learning Resources

Contemporary ethnographic and documentary films on relevant topics