Advanced Anthropological Methods and Project Development

Knowledge

• Advanced level overview of key methodological approaches in contemporary anthropology and their relevance for students’ own research.
• Appreciation of the ethical challenges raised by different methodological and theoretical approaches.
• Understanding of how ethnographic research can address the pressing questions of our age.

Skills

• Ability to design a qualitative research project based on the state of the art of a research field, with a relevant research question and an ethically feasible methodological design.
• Ability to use creative methods and forms of expression for communicating research designs.
• Ability to assess the methodological merit and ethical soundness of qualitative research projects.

General competence

• Capacity for critically engaging with the methodological and ethical challenges of ethnographic research within contemporary social science.
• Capacity for intellectual cooperation and teamwork through group discussions and group presentations.
• Ability to cultivate ethics, responsibility, and respect in the production of knowledge.

Students must be enrolled in the master’s programme in Social Anthropology.

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Teaching blocks with a combination of lectures and seminars.

Compulsory activities:

• 2-page draft research proposal.
• 6-page draft research proposal with oral presentation.
• Creative project that students will build throughout the course, and which will be part of a collective exhibit at the end of the semester.

Draft proposals and oral presentations will be assessed as Approved/Not approved. All compulsory activities must be approved in order to take the ANTH4125 exam.

In the event of illness or other valid reasons, you can apply for a valid absence or postponement of compulsory activity. Apply for valid absence from or need for postponement of compulsory activity

• A final submission in Inspera of a 3500 words research proposal.
• Short description (up to 300 words) in which students explain what inspired and guided their final creative project, including a picture of it, a file with it or a link to it. The creative project must be accepted by the lecturer beforehand.

All compulsory activities must be approved, and the exam passed in the same semester.

Previous exams and assessment guidelines

Grades are awarded on a pass/fail scale. Read more about the grading system.

Also see Grading guidelines in social anthropology

7,5 credits overlap with ANTH4020.

7,5 credits overlap with ANTH4030.

7,5 credits overlap with SANTH4020.

7,5 credits overlap with SANTH4030.