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Social Anthropological Expedition
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:4.00
Study Course Accepted:21.03.2024 15:03:50
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | KSK_215 | LQF level: | Level 7 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Sociology; Social Anthropology | Target Audience: | Information and Communication Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Guntra Anda Aistara | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 0 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 0 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 0 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 20 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 40 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 40 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | A General Introduction to Anthropology. | ||||||||
| Objective: | The objective of the course is to give students the opportunity, under the guidance of a lecturer, to gain experience in practical fieldwork in the form of an expedition, as well as in the collection and analysis of the data obtained. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Fieldwork | Classes | 15.00 | research location | |||||
| 2 | Analysis of Experience and Theoretical Literature | Classes | 5.00 | E-Studies platform | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Students take part in the fieldwork (expedition), helping to organise it, making observations and conducting interviews; Students compile fieldwork material; Students analyse the fieldwork material and summarise the results in a final report, which serves as an exam. To assess the overall quality of the study course, the student must complete the course evaluation questionnaire on the Student Portal. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Participation in the ethnographic expedition – 75%. Fieldwork report – 25%. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam (Written) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Students are able to demonstrate an in-depth or extended knowledge and understanding of the current state of the latest trends in the field of anthropology in the following areas: Observation, participant observation, data recording and collection; data analysis and collection, which form the basis for creative thinking and research, including working in the point of intersection of different fields. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Students are able to perform practical tasks in anthropological fieldwork based on an analytical approach, demonstrate skills that allow finding creative solutions to research problems, discuss with colleagues (also with arguments) practical questions and solutions in fieldwork, able to perform or supervise such fieldwork activities where unpredictable changes are possible. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Students are able to formulate, describe and analyse practical problems in the context of anthropological fieldwork, select the necessary information and use it to solve clearly defined problems. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Visa literatūra ir angļu valodā un piemērota gan latviešu, gan angļu plūsmas studentiem | ||||||||
| 2 | Bernard, H. Russell. 2018. Research methods in anthropology: qualitative and quantitative approaches. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press. | ||||||||
| 3 | Robben, Antonius C. G. M. un Jeffrey A. Sulka. 2007. Ethnographic fieldwork: an anthropological reader. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub. | ||||||||
| 4 | Emerson, Robert R., Rachel I. Fretz and Linda L. Shaw. 1995. Writing ethnographic fieldnotes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. | ||||||||
| 5 | O’Reilly, Karen. 2012. Ethnographic methods. 2nd Ed. New York: Routledge. | ||||||||
| 6 | Downey, Greg, Mmonica Dalidowicz and Paul H. Mason. 2014. "Apprenticeship as method: embodied learning in ethnographic practice". Qualitative Research 15 (2): 183–200. doi:10.1177/1468794114543400. | ||||||||
