Skip to main content

About Study Course

ECTS:12
Course supervisor:Klāvs Sedlenieks
Study type:Full time
Course level:Master's
Target audience:Social Anthropology
Language:English, Latvian
Study course description Full description, Full time
Branch of science:Social Anthropology; Sociology and social work

Objective

The goal of the course is to allow students to carry out a long-term ethnographic fieldwork, using the methods of social anthropology while reflecting regularly about the methodologica, ethical and analytic challenges under the guidance of their supervisors and instructors.

Prerequisites

Qualitative research methods in anthropology, anthropology theories and modern debates

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

1.identify topics and analytical directions relevant to empirical material;

Skills

1.develop and maintain research relationships with study participants;

Competence

1.independently carry out long-term ethnographic field work in a real social environment;