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2023/2024

External Practicum Seminar

Code: 101254 ECTS Credits: 6
Degree Type Year Semester
2500256 Social and Cultural Anthropology OT 3 1
2500256 Social and Cultural Anthropology OT 4 2

Contact

Name:
Isidoro Ruiz Haro
Email:
isidoro.ruiz@uab.cat

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Teachers

Isidoro Ruiz Haro

Prerequisites

Course not recommended for third-year students.

Although it is an optional subject of the Degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology that can take place in the third and fourth year, it is aimed at students in the fourth year.

Compulsory subject for students who attend the Anthropological Applications Mention in Culture, Environment and Society and must be attended simultaneously, the same semester and course, with the subject of External Internships, whether or not the Mention is taken.


Objectives and Contextualisation

The External Practicals Seminar is an optional subject for students in the fourth year of the Bachelor's Degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology. It is taught in the second semester, at the same time as the 101265 External Practicals course. It is compulsory for the Anthropological Applications in Culture, Environment and Society. This subject is closely related to the Seminar on the Application of Anthropology to Social Intervention Policies.
It involves 150 hours of student work and is organised as a three-hour teaching session per week, with compulsory attendance. Plenary sessions for the whole group are combined with small group follow-ups organised according to thematic affinities.
The training objectives are oriented towards the development of professional competences:
1. Specificities of the professional practice of anthropology.
2. Reflections on the theory of practice in professional anthropology.
3. Consolidation of the key tools, techniques and ethical principles in the practice of the profession.


Competences

    Social and Cultural Anthropology
  • Act with ethical responsibility and respect for fundamental rights and duties, diversity and democratic values.
  • Assessing in theoretical, methodological and ethical terms the anthropology investigations aimed to basic objectives or oriented to intervention.
  • Assessing the effects of the implementation of expert social intervention models in the target groups.
  • Carry out effective written work or oral presentations adapted to the appropriate register in different languages.
  • Introduce changes in the methods and processes of the field of knowledge to provide innovative responses to the needs and demands of society.
  • Students must be capable of applying their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and they should have building arguments and problem resolution skills within their area of study.
  • Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  • Students must develop the necessary learning skills to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
  • Take sex- or gender-based inequalities into consideration when operating within one's own area of knowledge.
  • Use digital tools and critically interpret specific documentary sources.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Ability to maintain an appropriate conversation.
  2. Applying the knowledge of cultural variability and its genesis to avoid ethnocentric projections.
  3. Carry out ethical use of the information especially when it is of a personal nature.
  4. Carrying out an individual work that specifies the work plan and timing of activities.
  5. Carrying out oral presentations using appropriate academic vocabulary and style.
  6. Communicate using language that is not sexist or discriminatory.
  7. Consider how gender stereotypes and roles impinge on the exercise of the profession.
  8. Critically analyse the principles, values and procedures that govern the exercise of the profession.
  9. Differentiating specific methodological aspects of applied researches.
  10. Effectively expressing themselves and applying the argumentative and textual processes of formal and scientific texts.
  11. Express ideas with a specific vocabulary appropriate to the discipline.
  12. Identifying the ethical aspects of an intervention.
  13. Propose new experience-based methods or alternative solutions.
  14. Recognising the ethical implications of the ethnological relationships established during the fieldwork internship.
  15. Recognising the ethical implications of the investigations aimed at intervention.
  16. Recognising the importance of the internal inequality systems in the intervention processes.
  17. Solving problems autonomously.
  18. Submitting works in accordance with both individual and small group demands and personal styles.
  19. Weigh up the impact of any long- or short-term difficulty, harm or discrimination that could be caused to certain persons or groups by the actions or projects.

Content

The External Practicum Seminar is dedicated to closely monitoring, sharing and reflecting in an orderly and systematic way on the students' current practicum experiences and their needs for specific training and professional specialisation in the practice of anthropology, based on these experiences.
The contents of the following three areas will be dealt with:


a) The profession and professionalisation:
- The environment of professional practice
- Differences and similarities: between the discipline, the practices and the exercise of the profession.
- The theoretical, methodological and technical tools necessary for professional practice
- Singularity and interdisciplinarity perspectives at professional action
- Areas, conditions and opportunities for professional anthropology in the labour market.


b) The experience of students' external work placements:
- The fields, entities and environments.
- The programmes and projects where the internships take place
- The relational environment, individual responsibilities and team regulation.
- The prior knowledge, the identification of objectives and tasks and negotiations
- The type of approach to the tasks: surveys, diagnostics, evaluations and others.
- The plurality of actors in the professional field. Subjects, experts, professionals, entities, administrations, others.
- Implications, challenges and dilemmas of work placements.
- Representations, expectations and realities of external placements.


c) Assessment of external placements:

- Perceptions and perspectives of the student in relation to their internship experience.

- Orientations and contents of the intermediate and final reports of the student; and of final report of the institution.


Methodology

The working methodology of the sessions has four modalities:

  1. Seminar sessions on professional practice based on points of debate and reflection provided by the teaching staff to address the contents of the three axes detailed practice above.
  2. Follow-up in small groups of students who carry out the practices in environments, programs and / or related topics.
  3. Presentation sessions of professionalization environments linked to anthropology -and social sciences, in general- led by external professionals.
  4. Practical sessions, in collaboration with the Servei d'Ocupabilitat de la UAB, aimed at improving transversal skills and employability relevant to professional work opportunities in anthropology, which will include a final day with the organization of a round table and/or a labour prospection dynamic in collaboration with the Servei d'Ocupabilitat de la UAB or similar (to be confirmed)

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.


Activities

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Seminars for discussion of texts and discussion of practical experiences. Work set on everything related to the design and realization of the activity of reflection. Discussions in working groups and preparation of presentations. 50 2 2, 9, 4, 10, 5, 12, 1, 18, 16, 15, 14, 17
Type: Supervised      
Preparation of the discussions of seminars, based on common guidelines for the analysis and preparation of the presentation of the process itself. Work in groups to prepare the proposals to discuss. 20 0.8 2, 9, 4, 12, 18, 16, 15, 14, 17
Type: Autonomous      
Reading and analysis of texts, preparation of own contributions to the joint work of seminar and analysis of the own process of internships. 30 1.2 2, 9, 10, 12, 16, 15, 14, 17

Assessment

The assessment is carried out by means of two modules.

Module of participation in seminar and dynamization of days: 

a) Attendance and participation in plenary sessions with delivery of exercises and signature control (25%)

b) Attendance and participation in the reduced sessions with delivery of exercises and signature control (25%)

c) Participation in the final day (round table and occupational dynamics) (10%)

 Work preparation module: 

d) Delivery of exercises related to the plenary and reduced sessions of the seminar (10%)

e) Delivery of the final assessment report of the seminar (30%)

 

Non-assessable: Students who do not achieve 80% attendance and participation in the two workshop formats of module 1 and/or students who do not submit their individual reports on the established dates.

Final grade:The final grade will be the sum of weighted notes of the two modules.

Reassessment: Students who obtain a final average mark of failing, having completed all the exercises and the work and report, will have the right to a make-up. The recovery will consist of the repetition of the exercises and/or memory that has been failed.

PLAGIARISM.

In the event that the student commits any irregularity that could lead to a significant variation in the grade of an assessment, this assessment will be graded with 0, regardless of the disciplinary process that may be initiated. If there are several irregularities in the assessment acts of the same subject, the final mark for this subject will be 0.

THIS SUBJECT DOES NOT HAVE A SINGLE ASSESSMENT


Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Elaboration of intermediate and final reports 50% 30 1.2 6, 4, 11, 10, 5, 3, 1, 18, 17, 7
Preparing and writing indiidual exercises in plenary class 50% 20 0.8 8, 2, 9, 4, 10, 12, 18, 13, 16, 15, 14, 17, 19

Bibliography

Augé, Marc. (2007 [2006]) El oficio de antropólogo. Sentido y libertad. Barcelona: Editorial Gedisa.

 

Baba, Marietta & Hill, Carol (2006). What’s in the Name ‘Applied Anthropology’? An Encounter with Global Practice1, Carole E. Hill and Marietta L. Baba, Eds., The Globalization of Anthropology. NAPA Bulletin #25. Washington, DC: American Anthropological Association, 176-207.

Bacchi, Carol. (2012). Introducing ‘What’s the Problem Represented to Be’ approach, Bletsas, A. & Beasley, C. (eds.) Engaging with Carol Bacchi: Strategic Interventions & Exchanges. Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press [Engaging with Carol Bacchi. Strategic Interventions and Exchanges (reglab.se)]

Bourdieu, Pierre. (1994). Per a una sociología reflexiva. Barcelona: Herder.

Browner, Carole. (1983). Women Practicing Anthropology: Perspectives Across the Discipline, Practicing Anthropology (1983) 6 (1): 4–7. https://doi.org/10.17730/praa.6.1.n24636687632p22k

Giménez Romero, Carlos. (1999) “El Antropólogo como asesor. Dos experiencias de consultoría en migraciones e interculturalidad” a Antropología más allá de la Academia. VIII Congreso de Antropología. Santiago de Compostela.

Guber, Rosana. et al. (2018) ¿Condenados a la reflexividad? Apuntes para repensar el proceso de investigación social. Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales - CLACSO. ISBN 978-987-722-318-7.

Jabardo, Mercedes; Monreal, Pilar; Palenzuela, Pablo. (eds) (2008). Antropología de Orientación Pública: visibilización y compromiso de la antropología. Actas del XI Congreso de Antropología. San Sebastián: Ankulegi. 

Nolan, Riall W. (2013). Anthropology in Practice. Building a career outside Academia. Lynne Rienner Publishers

Nolan, Riall W. (2017). Using Anthropology in the World: A Guide to Becoming an Anthropologist Practitioner. New York: Routledge.

Sociedad Española de Antropología Aplicada (2002). Actas del VI Congreso de Antropología Aplicada y del Simposio El Sentido Práctico de la Antropología (14-16 de noviembre de 2002). Granada: Universidad de Granada.

VV.AA. (2014). Periferias, fronteras y diálogos. Actas del XIII Congreso de Antropología de la Federación de Asociaciones de Antropología del Estado Español. Tarragona: Publicacions de la Universitat Rovira i Virgili.

VV.AA. (2012). Revista de Antropología Experimental, 12. Monográfico Antropología en España: nuevos caminos profesionales. Universidad de Jaén. http://revista.ujaen.es/rae

Algunes webs d’interès:

Unit 9 - Professional Anthropology - SAPIENS (Recursos i guies per antropologia professional)

Careers in Anthropology - Advance Your Career (americananthro.org)

Anthropology Outside of Academia: How To "Ethnographize" Yourself A Job | Anthropology (uky.edu)


Software

It is necessary to ensure access to the Teams platform which is the one established by the UAB for carrying out online activity.