Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description
Social Anthropological Expedition
Course Code
KSK_215
Branch of Science
Social Anthropology; Sociology and social work
ECTS
3.00
Target Audience
Information and Communication Science
LQF
Level 7
Study Type And Form
Full-Time
Study Course Implementer
Course Supervisor
Guntra Anda Aistara
Structure Unit Manager
Ieva Puzo
Structural Unit
Faculty of Social Sciences
Contacts
Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf@rsu.lv
About Study Course
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.
Preliminary Knowledge
A General Introduction to Anthropology.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
1.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
1.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.
Competences
1.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.
Assessment
Individual work
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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.
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Participation in the ethnographic expedition – 75%.
Fieldwork report – 25%.
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Study Course Theme Plan
FULL-TIME
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
3.00
Contact hours:
40 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Exam (Written)
Bibliography
Required Reading
1.
Visa literatūra ir angļu valodā un piemērota gan latviešu, gan angļu plūsmas studentiem
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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.