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On successful completion of the course students should be able to:
1. Show an articulated understanding of the importance of identifying underlying economic mechanisms, social structures, ideas and values related to different groups and societies.
2. Demonstrate the relevance of specialist ethnographic knowledge and how this applies for instance to landscape, causes of natural disasters, the importance of common vs. codified law; kinship vs. citizenship; health/disease models predicated on moral notions of evil/goodness vs. allopathic medicine.
3. Have the key skills necessary for empowering beneficiaries by supporting local participation.
4. Demonstrate the skills to understand and communicate with beneficiaries, authorities and donors from different cultures and social and political levels and/or different pre-established situations.
5. Appreciate of the delicate subtleties and difficulties in working in multicultural and multidisciplinary teams.
6. Demonstrate the capacity to communicate with audiences in an ethical manner and beyond description.
7. Demonstrate a good understanding of social relationships in HA intervention situations at various levels.
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Lectures | 40 |
Small Group | 10 |
Seminar (or Webinar) | 10 |
Conversation Class | 15 |
Specified Learning Activities | 25 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 15 |
Total | 115 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Assignment: Students will write a paper to reflect upon their individual interests in and assumptions, understandings and experiences of anthropology in humanitarian action. This will be a peer assessment. |
Varies over the Trimester | n/a | Standard conversion grade scale 40% | No | 30 |
Examination: Written, timed examination is to be taken within a constrained period in a set location according to a rubric of instruction. | Varies over the Trimester | No | Standard conversion grade scale 40% | No | 50 |
Group Project: Students will work in groups to produce a podcast, or narrated power point presentation on one of the research topics relevant to humanitarian action using the critical lens of social anthropology. | Varies over the Trimester | n/a | Standard conversion grade scale 40% | No | 20 |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Summer | No |
• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
Not yet recorded.
Name | Role |
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Assoc Professor Pat Gibbons | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Dr Desire Mpanje | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Cyril Otieku-Boadu | Tutor |
Lecture | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 13 | Fri 10:00 - 12:50 |
Lecture | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 12, 13, 14 | Fri 14:00 - 16:50 |
Lecture | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 13 | Mon 10:00 - 12:50 |
Lecture | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 12, 13, 14 | Mon 14:00 - 16:50 |
Lecture | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 12 | Thurs 09:00 - 11:50 |
Lecture | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 13 | Thurs 10:00 - 12:50 |
Lecture | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 12, 13, 14 | Thurs 14:00 - 16:50 |
Lecture | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 12 | Tues 10:00 - 11:50 |
Lecture | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 12, 13, 14 | Tues 14:00 - 16:50 |
Lecture | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 12 | Wed 10:00 - 11:50 |
Lecture | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 12, 13, 14 | Wed 14:00 - 16:50 |