General information

Course name	Lecture: Lecture: Advanced Course: Theories of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Course number	MA: AC
Semester	WS 2015/16
Current number of participants	1
Home institute	Ethnologie/Kulturvergleichende Soziologie
Courses type	Lecture in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date	Wednesday, 14.10.2015 10:15 - 11:45
Performance record	Course Requirement: Active course participation. More will be announced at the first meeting. For students in the MA 120 study programme there will be additional readings due to increased independent study workload (150 hours). Module Requirement: Written examination Particularity: The lecture will be held in English and can only be taken together with the corresponding seminar. The whole module must be completed within one semester. All course and module requirements are conducted in English.
Studiengänge (für)	MA Ethnologie (45/75/120)
SWS	2

Lehrende

Prof. Dr. Richard Rottenburg

Rooms and times

No room preference: Wednesday: 10:15 - 11:45, weekly(13x)

Fields of study

Lectures and Courses in English (International Studies)
Philosophische Fakultät I - Sozialwissenschaften und historische Kulturwissenschaften > Institut für Ethnologie und Philosophie
Philosophische Fakultät I - Sozialwissenschaften und historische Kulturwissenschaften > Institut für Ethnologie und Philosophie > Ethnologie
Philosophische Fakultät I - Sozialwissenschaften und historische Kulturwissenschaften

Comment/Description

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.

Recommended Reading: Rabinow, Paul & Anthony Stavrianakis 2013. Demands of the day on the logic of anthropological inquiry. Chicago, Ill. [u.a.]: Univ. of Chicago Press.