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Course information

Title: Anthropology
Course number: 6320.22
Academic year: 2024-2025
ECTS: 10.00
Level: Bachelor
Faculties: History and Social Sciences
Educations: BA in History, BSSc in Social Sciences, BSSc in Political Science
Prerequisites: The students must have completed an upper secondary education or possess equivalent qualifications
Language of instruction: Faroese
Registration: Students on the third semester of Bachelor of Social Science in Social Science, and Bachelor of Arts in History are automatically enrolled. Applicants for an individual course must apply via the Student Service Center at lss@setur.fo
Beginning date: Monday, August 26, 2024
End date: Saturday, November 2, 2024

Academic content

Purpose: The purpose is to provide students with a thorough understanding of anthropology as a scientific discipline with special focus on theory, methodology and academic discourse in social anthropology today.
Learning outcomes: On completion of the course, students must be able to: • Understand basic concepts of anthropology and know how to explain important anthropologicall theories. • Know how to critically assess the explanatory power of these theories. • Are able to use the anthropological concepts and theories to provide an independent description and analysis of societal subjects. • Are able to use anthropological methods and anthropological perspectives in social science projects.
Content:  Anthropological key concepts, e.g. culture, person, value, identity and power  The historical development of anthropology as discipline  Classic and new anthropological theory  The subjects in Faroese and global contextualization  Ethnographic and anthropological methods and research practices
Learning and teaching approaches: The lessons are organised as lectures, presentations, discussions, group work and reading.

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