Course: Introduction to Anthropology II

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Course title Introduction to Anthropology II
Course code KSKA/BUAN2
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Ponocná Petra, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Synková Hana, PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
- how can we "use" anthropology? Current challenges to an applied anthropology - the birth of applied anthropology and definition of areas of its interest - from application to activism - methodology of applied researches - ethics in applied researches - anthropology of development - engaged anthropology - environmental anthropology - anthropology of medicine - anthropology in/of politics and public administration and anthropological approaches towards social work - anthropology in education - anthropology in commercial sector - finishing the course, evaluation

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Work with text (with textbook, with book), Projection
  • Contact teaching - 26 hours per semester
  • Home preparation for classes - 45 hours per semester
  • Preparation for a final test - 28 hours per semester
  • Independent critical reading - 50 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
This course will introduce students with possibilities of applied anthropology, with the use of anthropology in practical situations, in organizations of public service, non-profit and commercial sector. The absolvents of the coutse should get the idea about the possibilities of using cultural and social anthropology.

Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Written examination

Recommended literature
  • četba bude vyvěšena ve stagu.
  • Monotematické číslo časopisu Cargo 2018.
  • Blavascunas, E. Recenze: E. C. Dunn 2004. Privatizing Poland: Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor. Sociologický časopis 1. 2007.
  • Hirt, T. a kol. Vybrané kapitoly z aplikované sociální antropologie. Plzeň: Západočeská univerzita v Plzni., 2012.
  • Hrešanová, E., J. Hasmanová Marhánková. Nové trendy v českém porodnictví a sociální nerovnosti mezi rodičkami. Sociologický Časopis 1. 2008.
  • Jarkovská, L. Ideologie přirozenosti ve vzdělávání jako překážka překonávání sociálních nerovností. Orbis scholae 1: 21-34. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze. 2009.
  • Murray, G. F. The domestication of Wood in Haiti: A Case Study in Applied Evolution. in R. Wulff, S. Fiske (eds.), Anthropological praxis, 223-240. Boulder, CO. 1987.


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