Undergraduate Course: South Asian Public Culture: Keywords (SCAN10054)
Course Outline
| School |
School of Social and Political Science |
College |
College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits |
0 |
| Home subject area |
Social Anthropology |
Other subject area |
South Asian Studies |
| Course website |
None |
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| Course description |
This course aims to provide students with a solid understanding of important contemporary debates in the study of South Asian public culture. Introducing key themes through critical and current ethnographic work, this course focuses on the tangible public forms that global cultural flows, political economies and social formations take. This emphasis on contemporary public culture allows a concrete consideration of abstract and changing social and cultural forces that define the region. The course will be informed by the existing concerns in the anthropology of South Asia but focuses on areas largely neglected by it. Inspired by Raymond Williams&© $łkeywords&© approach to culture and society, this course examines the subcontinent from unexpected and innovative angles by gathering key ethnographic readings under conceptual keywords to be explored empirically and theoretically. The course will approach the region as an integrated socio-cultural whole, rather than a set of self-contained nation-states. |
Entry Requirements
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites |
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| Prohibited Combinations |
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Other requirements |
None
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| Additional Costs |
None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2010/11 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: No |
Quota: 0 |
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Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| Central | Lecture | Lecture | 1-11 | | | | 16:10 - 18:00 | |
| First Class |
First class information not currently available |
| Additional information |
Not running in 2010/2011 |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| By the end of this course, students will have a thorough understanding of key debates in the anthropology of South Asia and South Asian public culture. They will have a solid grip on sophisticated theoretical approaches to South Asian ethnography. They will understand how important anthropological themes crystallize in contemporary ethnographic explorations of the region. They will learn to approach South Asia theoretically and empirically as an integrated socio-cultural and historical space, rather than as made up of radically separated nation-states. |
Assessment Information
| The course will be assessed by one piece of written course work. |
| Please see Visiting Student Prospectus website for Visiting Student Assessment information |
Special Arrangements
| Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser |
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Course secretary |
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