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Seminar: Seminar: Advanced Course: Theories of Social and Cultural Anthropology - Details
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Course name Seminar: Seminar: Advanced Course: Theories of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Course number MA: AC
Semester WS 2017/18
Current number of participants 6
expected number of participants 30
Home institute Ethnologie/Kulturvergleichende Soziologie
Courses type Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date Wednesday, 18.10.2017 12:15 - 13:45
Participants The Advanced Course offers an overview of important theoretical orientations and thematic domains of the discipline. It conveys state-of-the-art international theoretical work and disciplinary differentiation. The three main intended learning outcomes of the course are:
(1) Advanced knowledge of central theoretical positions in anthropology.
(2) Competence to read and discuss sophisticated anthropological texts in English.
(3) Advanced competences in scholarly argumentation and substantiated deployment of theoretical positions.
Pre-requisites Recommended Reading: Kuper, Adam. 2003. "Anthropology." In The Cambridge History of Science Volume 7: The Modern Social Sciences, edited by Theodore M. Porter and Dorothy Ross, 355-378. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press.
Learning organisation Particularity: The seminar will be held in English and can only be taken together with the corresponding lecture. The whole module must be completed within one semester. All course and module requirements are conducted in English.
Performance record Course Requirement: Active course participation. More will be announced at the first meeting.
Module Requirement: Written examination
Studiengänge (für) Master 120, 45/75
SWS 2

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Wednesday: 12:15 - 13:45, weekly(14x)

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The Advanced Course offers an overview of important theoretical orientations and thematic domains of the discipline. It conveys state-of-the-art international theoretical work and disciplinary differentiation. The three main intended learning outcomes of the course are:
(1) Advanced knowledge of central theoretical positions in anthropology.
(2) Competence to read and discuss sophisticated anthropological texts in English.
(3) Advanced competences in scholarly argumentation and substantiated deployment of theoretical positions.