Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2500256 Social and Cultural Anthropology | OT | 3 | 1 |
2500256 Social and Cultural Anthropology | OT | 4 | 1 |
There is no prior requirement but enrolling in this seminar is recommended after Anthropological Analysis of the Contemporary World.
Contextualization:
This seminar is devoted to analyse social intervention of public policies and different approaches developed by social and cultural anthropology. It focuses on policies aimed at social problems and those social groups and areas affected by them at both global and local levels.
Training goals:
Learning how to elaborate and carry out project proposals related to social problems by applying the knowledge and methods of social and cultural anthropology to the diagnosis, design, implementation and assessment of public policies in different areas.
Understanding the theoretical and methodological debates on the relationship between social and cultural anthropology and public policies based on readings, audio-visual material and case studies through a PBL methodology.
The seminar has two cross-cutting modules and three thematic modules:
1. From the study of social problems to the application of anthropology to public policies: diversity, inequality and social justice. Theories of practice.
2. Methodologies of intervention and theory of change: diagnosis, design, implementation and evaluation.
3. Migration, mobility and integration policies. Challenges for social cohesion and belonging in plural societies.
4. Inter-group conflict, mediation and conflict resolution. Challenges and experiences at global and local levels.
5. Gender regimes and equality policies. General and specific challenges to the struggle against discrimination and violence against women in contemporary societies.
Teaching and training activities:
Lectures and seminars conducted by the teacher based on academic readings, media and press analysis, reports and legislation, as well as audio-visual materials related to the module themes.
Small group work responding to fictional commissioned projects and periodical presentations to the rest of the group from weeks 3 through 12.
Real life projects analysed with the participation of professional anthropologists.
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 | |||
Master class and invited talks | 30 | 1.2 | 2, 4, 25, 26, 18, 17, 15, 16, 9, 14, 24, 23, 22, 29 |
Viewing of documentaries and other in class activities | 20 | 0.8 | 2, 4, 25, 26, 18, 17, 15, 16, 9, 14, 24, 23, 22, 5, 29 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Monitoring preparation of written test, individual and group monitoring | 2 | 0.08 | 2, 4, 25, 26, 18, 17, 15, 16, 9, 7, 10, 8, 14, 1, 28, 24, 23, 22, 27, 5, 29 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Study materials, preparation of written test | 16 | 0.64 | 2, 4, 25, 26, 18, 17, 15, 16, 9, 14, 24, 23, 22, 27, 5, 29 |
Study materials, preparation of written test | 18 | 0.72 | 2, 4, 25, 26, 18, 17, 15, 16, 9, 7, 14, 24, 23, 22, 27, 5, 29 |
The evaluation system consists of three types of activities:
1) Individual essays: three individual essays, one per each thematic module. Value: 40% of the final grade.
2) Team project focused on diagnosis, exploration and proposal of intervention in one of the subjects proposed by the professor and oral presentation of the work. Value: 40% of the final grade.
3) Five classroom exercises in couples. Reading and analysis of media texts related to thematic modules and oral presentation of the results. Value: 20% of the final grade.
Attendance is essential to fully participate in this seminar since it is based on continuous assessment.
RE-ASSESMENT
If the evaluation activities are not passed, individuals essays and team project may be submitted for re-assessment following the directions of the correction.
PLAGIARISM
In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Participation in group discussion. Debate Forum | 20% | 14 | 0.56 | 2, 4, 25, 26, 18, 17, 15, 16, 9, 11, 12, 10, 8, 14, 1, 19, 24, 23, 22, 5, 29, 3 |
Submission of essays | 40% | 25 | 1 | 2, 4, 25, 26, 18, 17, 15, 16, 9, 7, 12, 10, 8, 6, 14, 28, 20, 21, 24, 23, 22, 27, 5, 29 |
Written test and text analysis | 40% | 25 | 1 | 2, 4, 25, 26, 18, 17, 15, 16, 9, 7, 12, 10, 14, 13, 19, 28, 24, 23, 22, 27, 5, 29 |
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Canals Sala, Josep. 1999. La antropología en los estudios de trabajo social: del exótico externo a la alteridad interna, en Antropología más allá de la academia: Aplicaciones, Contribuciones, Prácticas e Intervención Social. Santiago de Compostela: FAAEE.
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Cruz, Isabel. 2002. Introducción a La Antropología para la Intervención Social. Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch.
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Shore, Cris. 2010. La antropología y el estudio de la política pública: Reflexiones sobre la “formulación” de las políticas. Antípoda, 10(Junio), 21–49.
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