ANTH1001 - Cultural Difference: An Introduction

Undergraduate

UoS Description:

Anthropology explores and explains cultural difference while affirming the unity of humankind. It provides accounts of cultural specificity that illuminate the world today. Lectures will address some examples of cultural difference from the present and the past. These examples will introduce modern Anthropology, the method of ethnography, and its related forms of social and cultural analysis.

UoS Learning Situations:

two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week, occasional hour-long optional film-screenings and workshops

UoS Assessment:

2500 words of written work (50%) and one 2 hour exam (50%)

UoS Readings/References:

readings will be available at the University Copy Centre

Prohibition:

ANTH1003