2018-2019 / ANTH0058-1

Anthropology of nature and animals - Part 2: exercises

Duration

15h Th, 45h Pr

Number of credits

 Master in anthropology (120 ECTS)6 crédits 

Lecturer

Véronique Servais

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the second semester

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

The course is the part two of the Anthropology of human-animal relationships course. Students realise a supervised ethnographic fieldwork in the anthropology of human-animal relationships. They choose and precise their subject and fieldwork with the supervision of the teacher. The fieldwork is 60 hours long.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

Practical knowledge with fieldwork methodologies.Ability to develop a research, from the first idea to the fieldwork choice, elaboration of the subject, methodological choices, writing of a report. the whole process is under the supervision of the teacher.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

The course Anthropology of human-animal relationships, partim 1 (theory).

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Individual supervision. Meetings with the teacher are organized along the development of the project and ethnographic work. There is no class teaching but some collective seminars might be settled if appropriate.

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

Tutorial

Recommended or required readings

Readings related to the chosen subject of study are needed.

Assessment methods and criteria

At the end of his (her) ethnographic fieldwork the student must write a report that is the main object of the evaluation. The evaluation will take the following items into account :
- the understanding of the field and the definition of the subject - the quality, originality and relevance of the research questions - the ability to develop appropriate methods - the quality of observations and fieldwork - the quality of the ethnographic data - the formal properties of the report - the autonomy in work

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Contacts

see Anthropology of Human-Animal Relationships partim 1.