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
Contemporary societies are changing fast, so are the perspectives to understand, capture and analyse these processes of change. This course offers you cutting-edge theories, such as on practices, social navigation, assemblage wellbeing, resources and decolonization. These help to understand the processes of change and development. You develop the highest standard of empirical reasoning that exists in the discipline of Anthropology and Development Studies and learn to connect the theoretical debates and concepts to concrete cases in your own field of interest.
Teaching methods
The course consists of 13 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 five interactive lectures and five 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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