SPECIAL TOPICS IN ANTHROPOLOGY 7
- Module code: AN321
- Credits: 5
- Semester: 2
- Department: ANTHROPOLOGY
- International:
 | Overview |
| | Sound: This seminar introduces the anthropological study of sound and its importance to culture. We will investigate cultural and historical transformations in listening and sounding and their relations to the social history of the senses in general. We will examine the nature of music as sound and as social action, seeking music’s place in wider sociocultural soundscapes, in hopes of developing an appreciation for the social power and importance of music. To this end, we will consider the various relationships of sound to its bodily, social, linguistic, ritual, mythical, and ecological contexts, as well as the roles played by musical forms in social change, identity, the construction of gender difference, commodification, and globalisation. The course will include practical exercises in acoustic ethnography. |
 | Learning Outcomes |
| | On successful completion of the module, students should be able to: - As a result of this module, assuming that the student: 1) attends all lectures, diligently taking notes, and 2) completes all assigned readings, studying the concepts in those readings, and 3) completes all assigned work, giving full effort to that work, then it is reasonable to assume that by the end of this module the student will:
- 1) Be able to evaluate the validity of existing anthropological and other social science research on a particular special topic in Anthropology, and
- 2) will be able to orally present relevant theoretical and ethnographic data pertaining to the topic in question, and
- 3) will be able to discuss critically, in essay form, recent theoretical and ethnographic works in Anthropology on the topic in question.
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| | Teaching & Learning methods |
| | | Delivery methods | Hours | | Lectures | 24 | | Labs / Practicals | 0 | | Tutorials | 0 | | Planned learning activities | 0 | | Independent student activities | 0 | | Total | 24 | |
| | Assessment |
| | - Continuous Assessment detail(s): Continuous assessment, equivalent to 4,000 words.
| Assessment type | Weighting | Duration | | Continuous Assessment | 100% | | | University scheduled written examination | 0% | minutes | | Other | 0% | | | Total | 100% | minutes | - Pass standard: 40%
- 40%
- Penalties: Unauthorised late continuous assessments will be penalised
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| | Repeat options |
| | - The maximum mark awarded to a piece of continuous assessment submitted for the Autumn repeat examinations is 50%. This will apply except upon presentation of a medical certificate covering the relevant period or in other extremely extenuating circumstances, which must be communicated to, and accepted by, the lecturer prior to, or immediately after, the relevant deadline. Where applicable, Autumn repeat students may submit continuous assessment work by a date before the Autumn examination, which will be specified by the department. Students are responsible for familiarising themselves with this deadline. If students do not submit by the deadline, the existing continuous assessment mark will be carried forward to the Autumn. No continuous assessment work will be accepted after this date.
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