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About Study Course

ECTS:3
Course supervisor:Ieva Puzo
Study type:Full time
Course level:Master's
Target audience:Political Science; Social Anthropology; Sociology
Language:Latvian
Study course description Full description, Full time
Branch of science:Social Anthropology; Sociology and social work

Objective

To give students an insight into the most recent (over last few years) and internationally relevant debates in socio-cultural anthropology.

Prerequisites

Not required.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

1.Students are familiar with the most recent and internationally relevant debates in social and cultural anthropology; they are able to describe and compare the positions of different researchers on specific issues. They are able to identify the main theses of the field on the issues addressed and critically evaluate their arguments.

Skills

1.Can explain the implications of one or another position for the field, for participants in anthropological research and for the wider community.

Competence

1.Being able to interpret, through the prism of the debates under consideration, the processes observed in contemporary societies and contemporary trends in the discipline, as well as specific questions which wait for anthropologists' answers.