Module LLLS0237: DISCOVERING ANTHROPOLOGY

Department: FOUNDATION YEAR [Queen's Campus, Stockton]

LLLS0237: DISCOVERING ANTHROPOLOGY

Pre-requisites

Corequisites

Excluded Combinations

Aims

• To introduce students to the discipline of anthropology.
• to introduce foundational concepts and vocabulary essential to further study.
• to encourage students to be confident in their own abilities and analytical skills.

Content

• The social human.
• Anthropology: Art or Science?.
• a short history of anthropology.
• what do anthropologists do? Fieldwork and interpretation.
• research methods in anthropology.
• conceptualising culture.
• anthropological perspectives on: religion and belief, ethnicity and identity, exchange and the informal economy, health and illness.
• the global and the local.

Learning Outcomes

• By the end of the module students will have acquired the knowledge to be able to:
• understand the key scope and content of anthropological enquiry.
• demonstrate awareness of the different theoretical perspectives that anthropologists have taken to the study of society.
• appreciate the significance of cross-cultural comparison.

• By the end of the module students will have acquired the skills to be able to:
• understand and be able to use basic anthropological concepts and vocabulary.
• be able to use some of the data collection techniques used by anthropologists

• By the end of the module students will:
• be able to communicate effectively in writing;
• have improved own learning and performance
• be able to demonstrate critical thinking skills

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• Theory, initial concepts and research techniques will be introduced during lectures and demonstrations.
• Much of the learning, understanding and consolidation will take place through the use of structured exercises, group work, discussions and library assignments during tutorials and students' own time.
• Knowledge and understanding of concepts will be assessed a written assignment.
• Knowledge and ability to use and apply concepts will be tested by an end of module test.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment

Exercises and library research