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

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