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Undergraduate Module Descriptor
PHL3051: The Human Condition: Classic Readings in Anthropology
This module descriptor refers to the 2016/7 academic year.
Module Aims
This module aims:
- To help you develop a critical, nuanced, and self-confident understanding of key concepts, theories and schools within anthropology.
- To raise your awareness of the importance of cultural, socio-economic and political factors that have shaped, and continue to shape, the study of anthropology.
- To help you explore the interdisciplinary relationships between anthropology, sociology, and philosophy.
- To provide you with opportunities interrogate difficult texts for nuances and layers of meaning, styles and strategies of reasoning, as well as tensions and contradictions.
| On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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| Module-Specific Skills | 1. demonstrate systematic understanding of the canon of anthropological literature and coherent and detailed knowledge of key historic developments in the history of the discipline; 2. critically assess major historical debates in the discipline;understand major historical debates in the discipline and critically evaluate their potentials and limitations ; |
| Discipline-Specific Skills | 3. critically develop theoretical ideas by making use of primary sources in anthropological literature; 4. demonstrate an understanding of key concepts and theories in the discipline; 5. demonstrate awareness of contextual factors impacting on the study of cultural and physical diversity of humans, and ethical and political dilemmas resulting from this; |
| Personal and Key Skills | 6. access and interpret difficult texts in order to develop an original project; 7. devise and sustain an original argument based on close interpretation of texts; and 8. communicate effectively in written and verbal form |