Module LLLS0237: DISCOVERING ANTHROPOLOGY

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

LLLS0237: DISCOVERING ANTHROPOLOGY

Prerequisites

• None.

Corequisites

• None.

Excluded Combination of Modules

• None.

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

■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University