Aims & Objectives

Course Aims

• Promote an understanding of history and geography as disciplines, including the nature and diversity of sources, methods and interpretations

• Encourage an understanding of Brazil`s present through critical reflection upon its past

• Encourage an understanding of the impact of historical, geographical and cultural developments in Brazil at national, regional and international levels

• Develop in the students an awareness of their own national identity through the study of historical, geographical, and cultural developments in Brazil

• Develop in students an awareness of Brazil`s links with the globalized world in order to encourage international understanding

Assessment Objectives

Knowledge and understanding

• demonstrate knowledge and understanding of key terms and ideas/concepts in anthropology

• demonstrate knowledge and understanding of a range of appropriately identified ethnographic materials

• demonstrate knowledge and understanding of specified themes in social and cultural organization

• demonstrate knowledge and understanding of patterns and processes of change in society and culture

• at HL only, demonstrate knowledge and understanding of theoretical perspectives in anthropology and theory related to these theoretical perspectives

Application and interpretation

• recognise key anthropological concepts in unfamiliar anthropological materials

• recognise and analyse the viewpoint of the anthropologist/position of the observer in anthropological materials - use ethnographic examples and anthropological concepts to formulate an argument

• analyse anthropological materials in terms of methodological, reflexive and ethical issues involved in anthropological research

• at HL only, use anthropological theory or theoretical perspectives to formulate an argument

Synthesis and evaluation

• compare and contrast characteristics of specific societies and cultures

• demonstrate anthropological insight and imagination

• at HL only, recognise theoretical perspectives or theories in anthropological materials and use these to evaluate the materials

Selection and use of a variety of skills appropriate to social and cultural anthropology

• identify an appropriate context, anthropological issue or question for investigation

• select and use techniques and skills, appropriate to a specific anthropological research question or issue, to gather, present, analyse and interpret ethnographic data