Courses / Module

On successful completion of the module, students should be able to:

• Feel confident in her/his knowledge and understanding of how the relationships between personal minds and social-cultural phenomena have been approached by anthropologists over the past one hundred years or so.
• critically assess these different traditions, including common sense notions of ‘human nature’ at large in European and North American societies.
• successfully approach novel problems with the critical tools developed in this course.

Delivery methods	Hours
Lectures	24
Labs / Practicals	0
Tutorials	0
Planned learning activities	0
Independent student activities	101
Total	125

• Module Graded (numeric value) or Ungraded (Pass/Not Passed): Graded
• Continuous Assessment detail(s): Continuous assessment, equivalent to 2,500 words

Assessment type	Options	Weighting	Duration
Continuous Assessment		100%
University scheduled written examination	No	0%
Other		0%
Total		100%

• Pass standard: 40%
• Could the result of this module be capped? No
• Penalties: Unauthorised late work will be penalised.

• Are supplemental/resit registrations permitted? Yes
• Autumn resit 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.

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