Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2500256 Social and Cultural Anthropology | OB | 3 | 1 |
There are no pre- requisites
Third year course of the Degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology, it is taught during the first semester and is part of the subject "General areas of Anthropology."
This subject:
Develops anthropological theory and the analysis of cultural diversity in sex / gender systems.
Criticizes scientific androcentrism and reviews assumptions, concepts and theories, incorporating the gender perspective and feminist research into the social sciences.
It applies the disciplinary knowledge to the identification and the study of the socio-cultural reality linked to the current debates on gender.
This is done by approaching:
Feminist criticism and anthropology: presentation of empirical revisions, theoretical and methodological innovations that gender studies have contributed to classical Social and Cultural Anthropology: ethno-androcentrisms, sexisms and / or masclisms.
Changes in perspective and related key concepts: from studies on universal women to culturally diverse gender relations.
Debates on gender and status. The knowledge and analysis of the dichotomies, nature / culture, public / private and production / reproduction, and their relation to differences and inequalities.
Relationship and analysis of gender, class, "race" and ethnicity categories.
OBJECTIVES
At the end of the course the student will be able to:
Identify the transcultural variability of sex / gender systems and know the anthropological theory linked to this question.
Understand sociocultural constructions linked to sex, gender and sexual identity. Apply anthropological knowledge to current socio-cultural problems.
1. Anthropology and feminism. Basic concepts and main perspectives.
2. The binary oppositions of domination: nature/culture; productive/reproductive work; public/private spaces.
3. Violence against women. Anthropological perspectives.
4. Gender as an ethnic border. Sex/race, gender/ethnicity, age, disabled: intersectionality.
5. Gender, public policies and social intervention.
This Teaching Guide contains all the information related to the subject. Each group has a detailed programme that will be delivered at the beginning of the course, with compulsory bibliography, and the detailed instructions of the evaluation activities, described in this Teaching Guide.
The protagonist of the teaching-learning process is the student and under this premise a methodology based on the continuous work has been planned.
The teaching methodology and the evaluation proposed in the guide may undergo some modification subject to the onsite teaching restrictions imposed by health authorities.
About the sessions:
The subject will be developed through face-to-face sessions, supervised and self-employed.
The face-to-face sessions will always be carried out with the entire class group and will be devoted to the presentation of the contents of the subject by faculty and professionals invited, according to the calendar included in the present Teaching Guide, with the active participation of the student group In their analysis and discussion, sometimes in small groups so these sessions always involve a prior or later autonomous work.
Autonomous work includes activities such as reading and the comprehensive and analytical study of texts, the comprehensive and analytical vision of audio-visual materials, the search of bibliographic references, the recession of information, observation and writing, among others.
Supervised sessions will be on-site or virtual (with an appointment) specially aimed at contributing to the follow-up of the subject and carrying out the assessment activities
About the communication:
The communication will be done through Moodle.
About the writing assignments:
- Through Moodle
- Identified with the NIU
- In Word format
- With the page number
- Indicating the total number of words In Catalan, Spanish or English
- Without spelling and / or grammatical errors
- With citations, notes, references and bibliography in APA format
- Quality of the presentation, format, writing and bibliographical references in APA
- Comprehension, amplitude and depth of the analysis of the bibliography, presentations and viewings and their relation with the concepts of the course.
- Presentation of an articulated text through a coherent and academic-based argumentation.
- Linkage of presentations, bibliographies and / or views with ethnographic examples from the press, own experience or ethnographic observation.
To what extent have the objectives indicated in the qualification criteria been achieved?
- 0: Out of deadline or Moodle without accredited justification
- 1-4.9: delivery not based on the required analysis materials in each case or based only on a description or summary of the proposed materials
- 5-6.9: delivery based only on the articulation of the required material analysis
- 7-8.9: delivery based on the proposed materials incorporating additional materials or ethnographic examples -experience, press, observation-
- 9-10: delivery based on the proposed materials incorporating additional materials and ethnographic examples -experience, press, observation-
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Preparation in the classroom of evaluation activities | 2 | 0.08 | |
Theoretical and practical sessions in large group | 16 | 0.64 | |
Visionaries and conferences in large group | 12 | 0.48 | |
Type: Supervised | |||
Classroom evaluation activities | 1.5 | 0.06 | |
Individual and / or group tutorials (face to face and / or virtual) | 2 | 0.08 | |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Observations, in groups and individuals | 10 | 0.4 | |
Reading, analysis, preparation and writing of individual and group works and study | 45 | 1.8 |
The evaluation of the subject is understood as a continuous process that extends during the lecture period and is developed through 3 (three) activities.
Delivery of a critic essay linking 3 texts proposed in the course programme.
Oral presentation in class of a maximum of 10 minutes in groups of three people of an analysis work of a minimum of 10 hours of participant observation or/and audiovisual material chosen by the students, 2 readings to choose between the options proposed in this teaching guide, composed of a compulsory reading and an additional reading, and one extra reading freely chosen. Each reading option can be chosen by only 1 group of students.
This activity is divided in three deliveries:
- A script of the presentation showing the readings and the audiovisual material or participant observation chosen and the reasons why you chose them (20% of the qualification)
- Power point or prezzi of the oral presentation (10% of the qualification)
- Oral presentation (60% of the qualification divided in 40% grade assigned by the teaching staff and 20% grade assigned by the students through the co-evaluation)
Individual written test in class on the content of lectures, including compulsory readings, presentations and related viewings
Evaluation normativity:
- On carrying out each evaluation activity, lecturers will inform students (on Moodle) of the procedures to be followed for reviewing all grades awarded, and the date on which such a review will take place.
- To be considered as having passed the subject, you will need to obtain a minimum grade of 5.0 as an average grade resulting from the marks obtained in each of the activities, considering the percentage of each of them in the final grade."
- Once the subject has been passed, it cannot be subject to a new evaluation.
- Students will obtain a “Not assessed/Not submitted” course grade unless they have submitted more than 30% of the assessment items.
- Those who for "attendance at meetings of the collegiate bodies of university representation or other reasons provided for in their respective regulations" [...] "cannot attend programmed evaluation activities at any time, they have the right to be programmes a different day and time for its realization ".
- Those who participate in the different assessment activities and they need it, they will receive a justification document for this participation.
- The ones who carry out any irregularity that can lead to a significant variation of the qualification of an evaluation activity, this and the whole subject will be qualified with 0, regardless of the disciplinary process that can be instructed.
- The copy or plagiarism, both in the case of the works and in the case of examinations, constitutes a crime that will be sanctioned with 0 (zero) to the activity, loss of the right to re-evaluate and the entire subject will be failed. Remember that a work that reproduces all or a part of the work of a partner is considered a "copy". "Plagiarism" is to present all or part of an author's text as its own, without mentioning the sources, either on paper or in digital format. See UAB documentation on "plagiarism" at:
http://wuster.uab.es/web_argumenta_obert/unit_20/sot_2_01.html.
- The delivery of evaluation activities 2 days outside the deadline will have a maximun grade of 8. Between 2 and 7days, the maximum grade will be 5.
About the re-revaluation
They can re-evaluate those who:
- Have obtained an average grade of the 3 (three) activities of at least 3.5
- The re-evaluation will consist of a single test and will take place between on the day, time and place programmed by the Faculty.
- The mark obtained in the re-evaluation will constitute the final grade of the subject.
Evaluation in case of virtual teaching
In the event that tests or exams cannot be taken onsite, they will be adapted to an online format made available through the UAB’s virtual tools (original weighting will be maintained). Homework, activities and class participation will be carried out through forums, wikis and/or discussion on Teams, etc. Lecturers will ensure that students are able to access these virtual tools or will offer them feasible alternatives.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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10 min. grupal presentation on 10 hours audiovisual material or participant observation and 2 articles | 30% | 27 | 1.08 | 11, 2, 4, 10, 9 |
Critic essay linking three compulsory texts | 30% | 28 | 1.12 | 1, 3, 5, 6, 8 |
Written test on the compulsory bibliography, invited conferences and the lectures | 40% | 6.5 | 0.26 | 11, 5, 6, 4, 7 |
General Readings
Aixelà Cabré, Y. (2005). Género y antropología social. Sevilla: Editorial Doble J.
Essed. Ph., Goldberg, T. & Kobayashi, A. (2009). A companion to Gender Studies. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Fausto-Sterling, A. [2000] (2006). Cuerpos sexuados. La política de género y la construcción de la sexualidad. Barcelona: Editorial Melusina.
Harris, O. y Young, K. (1979). Antropología y feminismo. Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama.
Héritier, F. (1996). Masculino/Femenino. El pensamiento de la diferencia. Barcelona: Ariel.
Lewin, E. (2006). Feminist Anthropology. A Reader. Oxford: Blackwell.
Lancaster, R. & di Leonardo, M. (eds.) (1997). The Gender/Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy. London: Routledge.
Laqueur, T. (1994). La construcción del sexo. Cuerpo y género desde los griegos hasta Freud. Madrid: Cátedra/Universidad de Valencia (Serie Feminismos).
Martín Casares, A. (2006). Antropología del Género. Culturas, mitos y estereotipos sexuales. Madrid: Cátedra.
Moncó, Beatriz. (2011). Antropología del género. Madrid: Síntesis.
Moore, H. [1988] (1991). Antropología y feminismo. Madrid: Cátedra.
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