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About Study Course

ECTS:6
Course supervisor:Klāvs Sedlenieks
Study type:Full time
Course level:Master's
Target audience:Social Anthropology
Language:English
Study course description Full description, Full time
Branch of science:Social Anthropology; Sociology and social work

Objective

Students who complete this course successfully:
- have specialized and interdisciplinary general knowledge of ‘Africa’ as a region, concept and continent and know the potentials, but also the limits of regional analysis and an area-studies approach.
- can understand, explain and apply the holistic analytical approach of ethnography when dealing with specific case studies and examples.
- are able to articulate a nuanced understanding of knowledge politics and power dynamics underlying different, and contested, representations of Africa.
- can critically assess the role historical factors, socio-cultural dynamics, changing politico-economic systems and international interventions have played in shaping African life worlds today.
- display strengthened ability to critically read, analyse and discuss ethnographies based on research in Africa.

Prerequisites

General knowledge in social sciences. English language (reading, writing, speaking).

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

1.Have specialised and interdisciplinary general knowledge of ‘Africa’ as a region, concept and continent and know the potentials, but also the limits of regional analysis and an area-studies approach.

Skills

1.- Can understand, explain and apply the holistic analytical approach of ethnography when dealing with specific case studies and examples;
- Are able to articulate a nuanced understanding of knowledge politics and power dynamics underlying different, and contested, representations of Africa.

Competence

1.- Can critically assess the role historical factors, socio-cultural dynamics, changing politico-economic systems and international interventions have played in shaping African life worlds today;
- Display strengthened ability to critically read, analyse and discuss ethnographies based on research in Africa.