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AT5060: MORE THAN HUMAN (2024-2025)

Last modified: 23 Jul 2024 11:07


Course Overview

This course explores new directions in how we think about humans and other species.  Recent years have seen an upsurge in interest in how the social sciences and humanities deal with animals, plants and other organisms and we scrutinise these cutting edge ideas in depth.  A lot of emphasis is placed on trying to think through real life encounters and issues, from a walk in the park to new revelations about life from the bottom of the ocean.  Although the focus is on anthropological work, the course should appeal to students from a wide range of backgrounds.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Term First Term Credit Points 30 credits (15 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Andrew J. Whitehouse

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

The course is focussed on relations between humans and non-humans, particularly animals and plants. A range of disciplinary approaches will be explored, including history, cultural geography, natural science and science and technology studies, as well as anthropology. The course involves advanced themes in environmental anthropology and will examine research that has emerged during the recent 'more-than-human' trend in the social sciences and humanities. Topics covered include theoretical approaches for bringing non-humans into the social sciences, the Anthropocene and multispecies ethnography, hunting and domestication, ethics and economics, technology, naming, engagement and detachment and the wider implications of a more-than-human anthropology.


Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Field Reports x 3

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 60
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3 x Field Report (20% each)

1,500 words each

Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ProceduralUnderstandAn in-depth understanding of the field of more-than-human anthropology.
ReflectionAnalyseThe ability to think through problems and questions in the field of more-than-human anthropology in relation to field visits and activities

Design Project: Individual

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 40
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Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ProceduralUnderstandAn in-depth understanding of the field of more-than-human anthropology.
ReflectionApplyApply the concepts and approaches they learn about on the course to real-world case studies as part of the project on the course.

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Resit Assessments

Resubmission of Failed Elements

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Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ReflectionAnalyseThe ability to think through problems and questions in the field of more-than-human anthropology in relation to field visits and activities
ReflectionApplyApply the concepts and approaches they learn about on the course to real-world case studies as part of the project on the course.
ProceduralUnderstandAn in-depth understanding of the field of more-than-human anthropology.

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