Code: | AU302 | Acronym: | AU |
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Classification | Keyword |
OFICIAL | Art Sciences |
Active? | Yes |
Responsible unit: | Ciências da Arte e do Design |
Course/CS Responsible: | Communication Design |
Acronym | No. of Students | Study Plan | Curricular Years | Credits UCN | Credits ECTS | Contact hours | Total Time |
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AP | 35 | Official Study Plan 2011 | 3 | - | 3 | 30 | 81 |
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DC | 54 | Licenciatura em Design de Comunicação | 3 | - | 3 | 30 | 81 |
Generally speaking, the main aim is to provide the students with a diverse set of theoretical and conceptual tools that enable them to investigate and understand contemporary urban phenomena from an anthropological point of view. In concrete terms, the idea is to sensitize the students to the specific nature of anthropology to study otherness, and to show that anthropology is particularly suitable to demonstrate that a very broad range of human phenomena results from complex historical, social and cultural processes, which cannot be thoroughly comprehended by simplistic and highly reductive biological explanations.
Based on the general objectives of the course, the syllabus was organized from a set of fundamental concepts and theories in order to understand the contemporary world. Firstly, to provide students a solid foundation that will enable them to understand the place of anthropology in the context of the social sciences. Secondly, to explore historically some key contributions of anthropologists, or schools of anthropology, to the understanding of cities and to the preparation and complicating matters of urban theory. Finally, to draw attention to some contemporary problems in the city, stressing the processes of change, as well as the relevance of the conceptual and methodological tools of anthropology to the study of these processes.
Table of contents:
1. The specificity of anthropology in the context of the social sciences: the study of otherness
2. The central role of field work in the study of otherness
3. Some key contributions in the anthropological study of urban phenomena.
4. Post-colonialism and the city
5. Some contemporary metropolitan problems: globalization and localization, city growth and migration, multiculturalism and segregation.
Generally speaking, throughout the semester various methods of teaching will be used- expository, interrogative, demonstrative, and active - in order to enable better acquisition of the diverse content. In concrete terms, we will use a combination of different pedagogical strategies, in accordance with the material:
- theoretical lectures followed by debates;
- analysis of anthropological texts and ethnographic case-studies;
- documentary film screening;
- occasionally, debates with experts (anthropologists, artists, designers, and other professionals).
Designation | Weight (%) |
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Participação presencial | 10,00 |
Prova oral | 20,00 |
Trabalho de campo | 20,00 |
Trabalho escrito | 50,00 |
Total: | 100,00 |
The final examination is replaced by a practical work (video, poster, or photography) and a written essay, as agreed by the students at the beginning of the semester. The practical work will be presented in class and the written work may not exceed 2000 words. On the day of the examination (regular season or other) students should submit the written essay by email to the teacher. The presentation of the practical work will be done in the classroom at a date to be arranged.
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