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Undergraduate Module Descriptor
ANT3014: Cultures: Food
This module descriptor refers to the 2023/4 academic year.
Module Aims
This module is intended to introduce you to the social scientific study of food production, preparation and consumption. It reviews and evaluates the major ways of understanding the relations between food, culture and society. In so doing, it also introduces you to how anthropologists, sociologists and others conceptualise and research cultural and social forces and phenomena more generally.
| On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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| Module-Specific Skills | 1. demonstrate in-depth knowledge of the subject matter of anthropology (and sociology) of food, together with an analytical understanding of the subject matter, which takes into account diverse anthropological and sociological perspectives 2. describe and apply a variety of means of conceptualising and investigating the socio-cultural aspects of food |
| Discipline-Specific Skills | 3. critically relate a body of knowledge to specific contexts within the field of anthropology; 4. think clearly and argue logically and convincingly about the socio-cultural dimensions of food; 5. express coherent anthropological (and sociological) ideas both in writing and verbally; |
| Personal and Key Skills | 6. undertake independent study concerning the subject matter of the course 7. select appropriately from a range of suggested material and present key arguments clearly and convincingly; 8. develop the capacity to reflect critically on the various analytic perspectives presented in the course |