Bachelor Degree Programme in Social and Cultural Anthroplogy

1. Introductory Phase

1.1 Basic Concepts of the Social Sciences

• 240001 VO Basics of social theory
• 240002 VO Basics of methodology in social sciences
• 240003 VO Social sciences and social change: contemporary debates

1.2 Introduction to Social Scientific Work

• 240004 VO Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology
• 240005 VO STEOP: VO Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology: Fields of research and Case Studies
• 240006 VO Introductory Course: Anthropological Studies in Colonialism, Racism and Ethnicity
• 240007 VO Introduction into the Social Anthropological Methods

2. Basics

2.1 Core Issues

2.2 Central Fields of Research

• 240009 VO Anthropology of Law: An Introduction

2.3 History of Theory in Anthropology

• 240010 PS Reading Anthropological Texts
• 240011 PS Reading Anthropological Texts
• 240012 PS Reading Anthropological Texts
• 240013 PS Reading Anthropological Texts
• 240014 PS Reading Anthropological Texts
• 240015 PS Reading Anthropological Texts

3. Advanced Phase

3.1 Methods of Social and Cultural Anthropology

• 240017 PS Scientific Writing for Social and Cultural Anthropologists
• 240018 PS Scientific Writing for Social and Cultural Anthropologists
• 240019 PS Scientific Writing for Social and Cultural Anthropologists
• 240020 PS Scientific Writing for Social and Cultural Anthropologists
• 240022 PS Qualitative Research Methods
• 240024 PS Qualitative Research Methods
• 240025 PS Qualitative Research Methods
• 240026 PS Introduction to Quantitative Research Methods
• 240027 PS Introduction to Quantitative Research Methods
• 240029 PS Introduction to Quantitative Research Methods
• 240119 PS Qualitative Research Methods

3.2 Application-Oriented Fields of Research

• 240040 VS [ en ] Health, Poverty and Development
• 240046 VS Sicherheit und Friedenssicherung im Kontext internationaler Missionen
• 240047 VS Investigating human rights organisations and institutions
• 240048 VS Insights into legal anthropological project work

3.2.1 Organisational and Business Anthropology

3.2.2 Migration - Integration - Asylum

• 240035 VS The Austrian Asylum Regime
• 240036 VS Migrants and Travellers: "Strangers" in the Austrian discourse
• 240037 VS The "migrationprocess" and its relevance for psychosocial work with migrants

3.2.3 Anthropology and Development Cooperation

• 240038 VS Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluation in Development Assistance - An Introduction
• 240039 VO Development co-operation in the context of cultural and social anthropology
• 240045 VO Indigenous Movements in Latin America

3.2.4 Museum and Educational Work

3.2.5 Medical Anthropology - Body Awareness - Transculturality

• 240041 VS [ en ] Health, illness and politics in disadvantaged countries
• 240042 VO Introduction Ethnomedicine / Medical Anthropology
• 240043 VS Applied Medical Anthropology

3.2.6 Intercultural Communication

3.2.7 Visual Anthropology

3.2.8 NGOs, Project Law and International Legal Development

• 240044 VS Anthropology of Human Rights
• 240045 VO Indigenous Movements in Latin America

3.3 Current Issues in Social and Cultural Anthropology

• 240052 VS Body ¿ Soul ¿ Spirit: Conceptions of the World and of Personhood
• 240054 VO Historic and recent processes of transformation of Afro-American religions - using the example of the Orisha-Religion in Trinidad

3.3.1 Globalisation - Postcolonialism - Transnationalism

3.3.2 Law - Peace - Conflict

3.3.3 Urban Anthropology

3.3.4 Political Anthropology

3.3.5 Economy - Tourism

• 240050 VO VO Economy - Tourism
• 240051 VS Social Security as an aspect of informal economy
• 240125 VO The way we feast and celebrate - reflections on consumption as cultural and social phenomenon

3.3.6 Religion - World View - Ritual

• 240049 VS The economies of masters and slaves
• 240053 VS Migration and Religion
• 240055 VS Contested sacred grounds - the perspectives of Anthropology of law and religion

3.3.7 Art - Visual Culture - Material Culture

3.3.8 Media, New Media, Film

3.4 Regional Specialisations

• 240030 VO Ethnology of Central Asia: An Introduction
• 240031 VO Introduction: Ethnology of Mesoamerica
• 240032 VO Einführung in das sub-saharische Afrika
• 240033 VO Introduction to the Ethnology of North America
• 240034 VO Ethnology of India: An Introduction

4. In-Depth Study Phase

4.1 Theoretical Discourses

• 240057 SE Theoretical Discourses

4.2 Fieldwork and Analysis of Data

• 240058 SE Fieldwork and Analysis of Data