AANA18130U Critical theory and the social sciences

Volume 2022/2023
Education

The course is a cross-disciplinary course and aims to attract students from Sociology, Anthropology and Political Science
 

BSc in Anthropology

MSc in Anthropology

MSc in Political Science

MSc in Social Data Science

MSc in Global Development

MSc in Psychology

MSc in Sociology, course package:
 

Welfare, inequality and mobility
Knowledge, organisation and politics
Culture, lifestyle and everyday life

 

Enrolled students register the course through the Selfservice. Please contact the study administration at each programme for questions regarding registration.

Content

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.

Learning Outcome

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.

There will be a combination of lectures and discussions
  • Category
  • Hours
  • Lectures
  • 42
  • Preparation
  • 100
  • Exam
  • 64
  • Total
  • 206
Continuous feedback during the course

Through discussions in class

Credit
7,5 ECTS
Type of assessment
Written assignment, -
Type of assessment details
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.”

For groups writing together it must be clearly indicated which parts of the assignment each of the students has written.
Aid
All aids allowed
Marking scale
7-point grading scale
Censorship form
No external censorship
Exam period

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Re-exam

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

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.