AANA18130U Critical theory and the social sciences
The teaching in spring 2022 will be online until the 1. of April due to the Covid19 situation.
As soon as it is permitted and justifiable, it is up to the individual lecturer whether to transition to a blended format or wish to continue with full online teaching for the rest of the semester. The individual lecturer will inform you of the above choice in the Absalon room for each course.
Courses with oral exams will be held online if the relevant restrictions have not been lifted at least four weeks before the individual exam. This will be notified in Absalon. Courses with written take home exams will not experience any changes in relation to the normal exam form.
Elective course
Course package (MSc 2015):
Welfare, inequality and mobility
Knowledge, organisation and politics
Culture, lifestyle and everyday life
Creditstudents can be at either bachelor or master level
The course is a cross-disciplinary course and aims to attract students from Sociology, Anthropology and Political Science
This course has its base in the cross-disciplinary research
centre Centre for Anthropological, Political and Social
Theory (CAPS) at the faculty of the social sciences,
University of Copenhagen.
The general topic of the course is the meaning and role of critique
in the social sciences. The course will focus on different
theoretical conceptions of critique and the application of critique
in different fields of research across the social
sciences.
KNOWLEDGE
The student must in a first step be able to understand what
distinguishes different conceptions of critique and the role
critique plays in different conceptions of social science. In the
next step the student must be able to relate these conceptions to
different ways of conducting critique in different
interdisciplinary research fields and compare and critically
discuss these ways.
SKILLS
The course provides students with the practical skill of
criticizing social problems or pathologies and to use this skill in
research across disciplines in investigations of the social
world.
COMPETENCES
To plan an perform research and investigations of different aspects
of the social world in which critique plays a crucial role. The
student will be able to choose and apply the right way of
criticizing in different kinds of interdisciplinary
research.
A combination of articles, chapters in edited volumes and 2-3 books.
- Category
- Hours
- Lectures
- 42
- Preparation
- 100
- Exam
- 64
- Total
- 206
Through discussions in class
Registration deadline for courses is June 1st for
Autumn semester and December 1st for Spring semester.
When registered you will be signed up for exam.
International exchange students must sign up by filling in an
application form. You can read more
here
Credit students: click here
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Written assignment, -Individual/group.
Free written take-home essays are assignments for which students define and formulate a problem within the parameters of the course and based on an individual exam syllabus. The free written take-home essay must be no longer than 10 pages. For group assignments, an extra 5 pages is added per additional student. Further details for this exam form can be found in the Curriculum and in the General Guide to Examinations at KUnet. - Exam registration requirements
Sociology students must be enrolled under either BSc Curriculum 2016 or MSc Curriculum 2015 to take this exam.
Antropology stundents - to be updated
Political Science students - to be updated
Creditstudents can be at either bachelor or master level.
- Aid
- All aids allowed
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
- Exam period
Find more information on your study page at KUnet.
- Re-exam
1st re-exam: An essay must be submitted. The new assignment must be submitted by the deadline for the re-exam.
2nd re-exam: A new essay must be submitted. The new assignment must be submitted by the deadline for the re-exam.
Essay length: 21,600–26,400 keystrokes for an individual submission. 6,750–8,250 keystrokes per extra member for group submissions. The maximum number of students who can write an essay in a group is four.
For groups writing together it must be clearly indicated which parts of the assignment each of the students has written.
Criteria for exam assesment
Please see the learning outcome.
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- AANA18130U
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Level
- BachelorBachelor choice,Full Degree Master,Full Degree Master choice
- Duration
- 1 semester
- Placement
- Spring
- Schedule
- See timetable
- Course capacity
- Vejl. 46 personer
- Study board
- Department of Anthropology, Study Council
Contracting departments
- Department of Anthropology
- Department of Political Science
- Department of Sociology
Contracting faculty
- Faculty of Social Sciences
Course Coordinators
- Mikael Carleheden (2-53494679756934717b346a71)
Sociology - Lars Tønder (2-727a466f6c7934717b346a71)
Political Science - Heiko Henkel
(12-6b686c6e72316b68716e686f436471776b7572316e7831676e)
Anthropology