2024-2025 / ANTH0388-1

Political anthropology

Duration

30h Th

Number of credits

 Bachelor in human and social sciences (New programme)5 crédits 
 Extra courses intended for exchange students (Erasmus, ...) (Faculty of social sciences)5 crédits 
 Bachelor in information and communication5 crédits 

Lecturer

Sophie Andreetta

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

This course addresses key issues in political anthropology through an exploration of the Africanist literature. The first part is devoted to the classical themes of this body of scholarship. The second deals with more recent developments in this field.

 

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

The objective of the course is to give students tools to analyze political processes from an anthropological perspective. To do so, it proposes to make a detour via the African continent.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

Face-to-face course


Additional information:

 
 

Students will receive compulsory readings during the course, and will be invited to make an oral presentation in class. 

Exam(s) in session

Any session

- In-person

written exam ( open-ended questions )

- Remote

oral exam


Additional information:

 

 

 

 

Work placement(s)

Organisational remarks and main changes to the course

Contacts

The professor is available to meet students by appointment (email).
 

Association of one or more MOOCs