The Material World (P02503)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : SPS-P-P02503

To allow students an opportunity to explore: the physicality, cultural specificity and temporality of objects; the role of material culture in the construction of human groups; the importance of objects in the maintenance of personal, social and cultural identity and to understand that objects are also an outcome of this process. To understand that artefacts not only express social relations but also that they act to establish such relationships.

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Postgraduate (School of Social and Political Studies), (School of Social and Political Studies, Schedule J)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Wednesday	11:10	13:00	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

To provide each student, regardless of his or her discipline within the School, with a useful tool for data collection and analysis and a potential focus for advanced study in which material culture acts as both evidence and exegesis in social science discourse.