Honours modules
Full details of honours level Social Anthropology modules are available in the Social Anthropology Honours Handbook 2010/11
SA3032 | SA3049 | SA3061 | SA3062 | SA3506 | SA4005 | SA4058 | SA4098 | SA4099 | SA4850 | SA4862
SA3032 Regional Ethnography I: Anthropology of Iran
30 credits
This module focuses on selected ethnographic regions of the world, and investigates the central themes in the anthropological studies of their peoples and cultures.
| Semester: | 2 |
| Credits: | 30 |
| Time: | Lecture/seminar: Thursday 11am - 1pm in School I Film: Thursday 4-6pm in School I |
| Teaching: | Film and lecture/seminar |
| Assessment: | Continuous Assessment = 50%, 3 Hour Examination = 50% |
| Reading: | Short loan supplementary reading list for SA3032
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| Coordinator: | Dr Pedram Khosronejad |
SA3049 Perception, Imagination and Communication
30 credits
| Semester: | 1 |
| Credits: | 30 |
| Time: | Thursday 2pm - 4pm School II |
| Coordinator: | Dr Huon Wardle |
SA3061 Reading Ethnography
30 credits
This module will help students develop the essential skill of reading ethnography. Its aim is to investigate the distinctiveness of anthropology as a way of knowing the world, and of ethnographic writing as an also distinctive way of constructing and conveying that knowledge. The module will lay bare some of the central, often implicit, codes and conventions of ethnographic writing, and will explore how anthropologists use these to create and transmit knowledge about diverse social worlds. Rather than aiming to impart knowledge, the aim of the module is to provide students with the skills necessary to analyse ethnographies, and to guide them through an investigation into the distinctive qualities of anthropological knowledge.
| Semester: | 1 |
| Credits: | 30 |
| Time: | Monday and Friday 1 - 2pm in the Dept Seminar Room |
| Teaching: | one lecture, one seminar. |
| Assessment: | Continuous Assessment = 50%, 3 Hour Examination = 50% |
| Coordinator: | Dr Paloma Gay y Blasco |
SA3062 Anthropology, Indigenous Peoples and Resource Management
30 credits
This module focuses on the social and cultural relations produced by resource management projects, and explores the global and local frames through a series of world-wide case studies of mining, oil, gas and forestry projects. Resource projects have long been important sites of cultural contact, environmental impact and anthropological interest: whether first contact with prospectors, disputes with multinational companies, sustainable development initiatives or civil-society monitoring, resource exploration and extration has long played an important part in the interface with non-western and indigenous peoples and the forces of globalization. The module also examines the potential for anthropological skills and knowledge to contribute to an industry that has increasingly to account for its social and environmental impacts to a global constituency.
| Semester: | 2 |
| Credits: | 30 |
| Time: | Wednesday 11am - 1pm, St Mary's College, Lecture Room 2 |
| Teaching: | Weekly two hour seminar involving elements of lecture, discussion, student presentation and film. |
| Assessment: | Continuous Assessment = 67%, 3 Hour Examination = 33% |
| Coordinator: | Dr Tony Crook |
SA3506 Methods in Social Anthropology
30 credits
Short loan reading list for SA3506
Compulsory module for students studying Single Honours, Joint Honours and Major degrees in Social Anthropology who intend to go on to take SA4099.This module provides an introduction to the various methods of enquiry and interpretation used in social anthropological research. It aims to give the student an account, in historical and contemporary perspectives, of the development of anthropological methodologies and research techniques. It also aims to equip them with a range of basic skills and procedures which they can apply at a later date to their own research-based projects. The module will provide knowledge of a wide range of research methods used by anthropologists, and encourage a critical awareness of the theoretical assumptions and potential problems associated with the use of such methods.
| Semester: | 2 |
| Credits: | 30 |
| Time: | Fridays 12 - 2pm in the Old Union Diner |
| Teaching: | Weekly 2hr lecture-workshops & student-led seminars |
| Assessment: | Continuous Assessment = 100% |
| Coordinator: | Dr Adam Reed |
SA4005 The West Indies and the Black Atlantic
30 credits
The West Indies is an anomalous region in relation to the classic aim of anthropology to study small-scale non-Western societies. The modern Caribbean, created out of the slave plantation system and the transportation of millions of Africans and others from the old to the New world, brought into being entirely novel forms of transatlantic culture. This module asks students to rethink the distinction between Western and non-Western culture and to consider the meaning of 'modern' as opposed to 'traditional' society. The Creole cultures of the Caribbean are explored in depth as are the transmigrant experience of many West Indians in metropolitan centres in the first world.
| Semester: | 2 |
| Credits: | 30 |
| Time: | Fridays 2 - 4pm, Arts Seminar Room 9 |
| Teaching: | One lecture, one seminar |
| Assessment: | Continuous Assessment = 50%, 3 Hour Examination = 50% |
| Coordinator: | Dr Huon Wardle |
SA4058 Visual Anthropology
30 credits
This module provides an introduction to visual anthropology. This topic embraces a broad range of subjects such as photography, material culture, art and ethnographic film. The focus here is on film as a medium of ethnographic investigation and the changing nature of how it has been used as a form of enquiry. Debates about the role of the visual and vision are examined through the contribution of important film-makers. The module involves viewing and critically discussing films, as well as lectures.
| Semester: | 2 |
| Credits: | 30 |
| Time: | Lecture: Mondays 1-2pm (Arts Room 1) Film: Tuesdays 1-3pm (School V in weeks 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9 & 11 and in seminar room one in the arts building in weeks 4, 7 & 10) Tutorial: Thursdays 2-3pm OR 3-4pm (Seminar Room) |
| Teaching: | weekly lectures, tutorials and films |
| Assessment: | Continuous Assessment = 50%, 3 Hour Examination = 50% |
| Coordinator: | Dr Stan Frankland |
SA4098 Library-based Dissertation
30 credits
The module consists of a supervised exercise in social anthropological enquiry. This will include a library-based independently researched dissertation.
| Semester: | 1 |
| Credits: | 30 |
| Time: | To be arranged. |
| Teaching: | Seminar and tutorial. |
| Assessment: | 7,500 word Dissertation = 100% |
| Notes: | To students taking Single Honours, Joint Honours and Major Degrees |
SA4099 Primary Research-based Dissertation
30 credits
This module allows advanced undergraduate students to engage in a supervised research project on a topic of their choice. Student will apply theoretical and substantive knowledge from the discipline of social anthropology to a body of ethnographic data obtained from fieldwork and bibliographic sources.
| Semester: | 1 |
| Credits: | 30 |
| Time: | To be arranged. |
| Teaching: | Seminar and tutorial. |
| Assessment: | 10,000 word Dissertation = 100% |
| Notes: | Available to Students taking Single Honours, Joint Honours and Major Degrees |
SA4850 Andes
30 credits
The Andes Mountains were home to some of the most original and sophisticated pre-capitalist states, notably the Inca empire. In this module the emergence and transformation of Andean civilisation is set in its wider context before and after the European invasion. The importance of past and present agencies in the construction of Andean identities requires ethnographic examination of memory of modern Andean communities. Mythohistorical accounts will be complemented by other disciplinary approaches that presuppose absolute chronology.
| Semester: | 2 |
| Credits: | 30 |
| Time: | Tuesday 11am - 1pm in Arts Room 5 |
| Teaching: | Fortnightly lecture, two-hour seminar. |
| Assessment: | Continuous Assessment = 50%, 3 Hour Examination = 50% |
| Coordinator: | Prof Tristan Platt |
SA4862 Imagining the World: the Anthropology of Consciousness
30 credits
The anthropology of consciousness is central to contemporary anthropology. This module shows how significant ethnographic studies are for understanding certain aspects of consciousness and for the development of theory in this domain.
| Semester: | 1 |
| Credits: | 30 |
| Time: | Tuesday 10am - 12pm, Departmental Seminar Room |
| Teaching: | One lecture, one seminar. |
| Assessment: | Continuous Assessment = 50%, 3 Hour Examination = 50% |
| Coordinator: | Prof Christina Toren |