Bachelor Social and Cultural Anthroplogy (610 [2] - Version 2011)

Introductory Phase (15 ECTS)

1.1 Basics of Sociological Methods (6 ECTS)

• EXAM Basics of Methodology in Social Sciences
• 230001 VO ( STEOP ) STEOP: VO Basics of Methodology in Social Sciences

1.2 Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology (9 ECTS)

• EXAM STEOP: Subject-Specific Introduction
• 240001 VO ( STEOP ) STEOP: Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology
• 240002 VO ( OV STEOP ) STEOP: Propaedeuticum - Social and Cultural Anthropology

Basics (52 ECTS)

2.1. Basics of Social Sciences: Social and Cultural Anthropology (15 ECTS)

• 210003 VO BAK2.2: Social sciences and social change - Sozialwissenschaften und Gesellschaft
• 230005 VO Social Sciences and Social Change
• 240003 VO Basics of Social Theory
• 240004 PS Introduction to scientific working in socio-scientific contexts

2.2. Core Issues (12 ECTS)

• 240005 VO Introduction into the Gender Anthropology
• 240006 VO Introductory course: anthropological studies in colonialism, racism and ethnicity
• 240007 VO Introduction in forms of social organization

2.3 Central Fields of Research (12 ECTS)

• 240008 VO Introduction to Kinship Studies
• 240009 VO Introduction to Transcultural Communication
• 240016 VO Introduction to the Anthropology of Development Cooperation (3.2.3)
• 240021 VO Introduction to Medical Anthropology (3.2.5)
• 240027 VO Basics of Urban Anthropology (3.3.3)
• 240032 VO [ en ] Introduction to Anthropology of Religion (3.3.5)

2.4 History of Theory in Anthropology (13 ECTS)

• 240010 VO Introduction to the History of Theory in Cultural and Social Anthropology
• 240011 VO Introduction to Ethnohistory and Historical Anthropology
• 240012 PS [ de en ] Reading Anthropological Texts

Advanced Phase (53 ECTS)

3.1 Methods of Social and Cultural Anthropology (24 ECTS)

• 240013 PS Scientific Writing for Social and Cultural Anthropologists
• 240014 PS [ en de ] Qualitative Research Methods
• 240015 PS Introduction to quantitative research methods

3.2 Application-Oriented Fields of Research (10 ECTS)

3.2.1 Intercultural applied Fields in Organisations and Projects (10 ECTS)

• 240009 VO Introduction to Transcultural Communication

3.2.2 Migration - Integration - Asylum (10 ECTS)

• 240024 VS Migration and mental health: Trauma, postmigration stress and idioms of distress (3.2.2., 3.2.5) - Traumatisierung, Postmigrationsstress und idioms of distress

3.2.3 Anthropology and Development Cooperation (10 ECTS)

• 240016 VO Introduction to the Anthropology of Development Cooperation (3.2.3)
• 240017 VO Development Cooperation in the Context of Anthropological Approaches (3.2.3)
• 240018 VS [ en ] Development and Anthropology (3.2.3)
• 240019 VS Tourism and Development (3.2.3)
• 240020 VS Indigenous Peoples & Development/Cooperation (3.2.3)

3.2.4 Museum and Educational Work (10 ECTS)

• 240060 VS Current Trends in European Educational Anthropology (3.2.4) - Research in the context of the EU project TRANSCA (Translating Socio-Cultural Anthropology into Education)

3.2.5 Medical Anthropology - Body Awareness - Transculturality (10 ECTS)

• 240021 VO Introduction to Medical Anthropology (3.2.5)
• 240022 VO Beautifully Normal: Discourses and Perceptions of Beauty, Normality and the Body (3.2.5)
• 240023 VS Normed Life - Perceptions of Life through History (3.2.5)
• 240024 VS Migration and mental health: Trauma, postmigration stress and idioms of distress (3.2.2., 3.2.5) - Traumatisierung, Postmigrationsstress und idioms of distress
• 240025 VS For ever young? How concepts of health and body mold our cultural identity (3.2.5)

3.2.6 Visual Anthropology (10 ECTS)

3.3 Current Issues in Social and Cultural Anthropology (10 ECTS)

3.3.1 Politics - Globalisation (10 ECTS)

3.3.2 Law - Peace - Conflict (10 ECTS)

3.3.3 Town - Space - Environment (10 ECTS)

• 240026 VO Hunter-Gatherer Societies (3.3.3)
• 240027 VO Basics of Urban Anthropology (3.3.3)
• 240028 VS Cultural and social anthropological approaches to the research of architecture (3.3.3)
• 240029 VS [ en ] Neoliberal Urbanism (3.3.3)
• 240030 VS Unity in Diversity in Indonesia 2: Urbanity and environmental challenges (3.3.3)

3.3.4 Economy - Tourism (10 ECTS)

3.3.5 Religion - World View - Ritual (10 ECTS)

• 010048 VO [ en ] Social Anthropology of Religion
• 240032 VO [ en ] Introduction to Anthropology of Religion (3.3.5)
• 240033 VO Ritual and Religion in Social and Cultural Anthropology (3.3.5)
• 240034 VS 'Vanished realms'? (3.3.5) - Religion, ritual and worldviews in context of globalization, traditional visions and inherited knowledge
• 240035 VS Cult and Ritual in Oceania (3.3.5)
• 240036 VS Discourses and conflicts on indigenous sacred sites (3.3.5)

3.3.6 Art - Media - Narration (10 ECTS)

3.4 Regional Specialisations (9 ECTS)

• 240037 VO Introduction to the Anthropology of Oceania
• 240038 VO Introduction to the Ethnology of India

In-Depth Study Phase (30 ECTS)

4.1 Theoretical Discourses (15 ECTS)

• 240039 SE Theoretical discourses

4.2 Fieldwork and Analysis of Data (15 ECTS)

• 240040 SE Bachelor Seminar: Empiric Data Collecting and Analysis