Course objectives
1. You can recognize and evaluate the principal concepts and theoretical debates in anthropology and development studies.
2. You can identify and discuss theoretical debates, dilemmas and questions related to a wide variety of issues in anthropology and development studies.
3. You can identify and formulate your own theoretical position in debates in anthropology and development studies, both in orally and written form.
4. You can draw on these debates in designing a theoretical framework for your own research project.
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Contents
This theoretical course introduces you to a number of key concepts and debates in anthropology and development studies, such as identity, intersectionality, power, inequality, agency, social capital and resources. Attention will be paid to the way these concepts and debates are connected to the overall research theme of the master programme, which is focused on the interaction between diversity and inequality. It provides you with the theoretical building blocks needed to develop your own research project. It also challenges you to connect theoretical debates and concepts with concrete cases in your own field of interest. This course will lay the foundation for the different specialisations you can choose from in our master programme. Regardless of which specialisation you choose, the concepts and debates presented in this course will help you understand not only your research field, but also the world around you.
Teaching methods
The course consists of 12 meetings in which key concepts and debates in anthropology and development studies are explored and presented. After two introductory lectures in which we will sketch the main developments in anthropology and development studies theory, we offer four interactive lectures and four seminars (one lecture and one seminar each week), in which we further explore the different key concepts and debates in anthropology and development studies. For the seminars, students will prepare a discussion of a theoretical quandary or dilemma connected to the concepts and debates presented that week, related to a concrete case (emanating from the literature or media). A group discussion based on this input will wrap up the meetings. The final meeting of the course is a Q&A session on the assigned literature. We will also present and discuss example exam questions during that meeting.
The course will be concluded by a take-home exam. During the entire course you will be required to thoroughly prepare all meetings by reading the literature, and to do one presentation in the seminar.
Exam information
Students are expected to attend all sessions (lectures and seminars). When they have fulfilled these requirements, they can take the final take home exam.
Level
Master Anthropology and Development Studies
Enrolment
Through KISS/TIS 7 days before start
Exam enrolment
Through KISS/TIS 7 days before start
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| This course is open to Master students from other programs, pending approval by the course coordinator. Please email the course coordinator for more information. |
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