Undergraduate Course: Fundamentals: Anthropological Practice (SCAN08006)
Course Outline
| School | School of Social and Political Science |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 0 |
| Home subject area | Social Anthropology |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course introduces students to anthropological practice outside academia, helps students understand potential career routes after anthropology honours, and the ways in which anthropological knowledge and skills relates to careers outside academia. The course includes a variety of presentations from alumnai and applied anthropologists. It
also includes a semester long group project developing an online presentation. The course will introduce students to issues around ¿applied¿ and ¿public anthropology¿. Broadly speaking, applied anthropology takes anthropological skills and insights, and puts them to work in other fields of work. Public anthropology is often seen as using anthropological insights to make contributions to wider public debates. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2014/15 Semester 2, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
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Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Class Delivery Information |
This course will run over ten weeks and consist of a combination of five bi-weekly two hour sessions led by the course convener.
During the weeks when there is not a scheduled Fundamentals session, there will instead be the opportunity to participate in an Peer Assisted Learning Group. Autonomous Learning Groups are a form of peer support and allow students to get together in small groups to work through a particular theme or problem collectively. These sessions are scheduled for the same time and place as the Fundamentals sessions, but on alternate weeks to those sessions. Postgraduate tutors will be there to help guide the sessions, but hopefully they will quickly become ¿autonomous¿. |
| Course Start Date |
12/01/2015 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
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Written Exam
100 %,
Coursework
0 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, students will have a clear sense of the different career routes following completion of a degree in anthropology. They will understand the uses of
anthropology beyond academia. Students will have learnt key skills in communicating anthropological arguments to non-academic audiences and will be able to use online media to present anthropological ideas for wider publics. They will have acquired advanced skills in working in teams and producing collaborative outputs. |
Assessment Information
Assessment 1: Read any newspaper. Fill in a 300-500 word journal entry on LEARN describing at least one example of where you think anthropologists could contribute to greater public or expert understanding of a particular issue.
Assessment 2: You will read all of the following short pieces and fill in the reader response questionnaire on Learn:
Bourgois, P. 2009. Next Door But Invisible: The World of Homelessness and Drug Addiction. (Audio slide show). Available at: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/series/frontiers/next-door-invisible-world-homelessness-and-drug- addiction
Ghosh, A. 1992. In an Antique Land. (Chapter 1). London: Granta. (Available from Learn)
Graeber, D. 2011. Note Worthy: What Is the Meaning of Money?. Guardian 16 December 2011. Available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/dec/16/note-worthy-new-money- graeber?INTCMP=SRCH
Assessment 3: In allocated groups develop a 10 minute presentation that explains the significance of anthropology to an audience outside the university.This audiences might be, for example: security services, bankers, marketing executives, international development agencies, human rights campaigners, TV production companies, environmental campaigners, oil companies, public health practitioners, computer technology companies, and urban planners, or any other examples chosen by students. Students may use Powerpoint, Prezi, or any suitable presentation tool. Not everyone in a group has to be directly involved in the oral presentation, but all must be available to answer questions. Presentations will be given in teaching session 4. |
Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Tobias Kelly
Tel: (0131 6)50 3986
Email: toby.kelly@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Vanessa Feldberg
Tel: (0131 6)50 3933
Email: vanessa.feldberg@ed.ac.uk |
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