Social and Cultural Anthropology · How the course works

COURSE — Nature, aims and structure

Social and Cultural Anthropology · SL / HL · syllabus-mapped notes

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   Nature of the subject

   The comparative study of culture and human societies; moving from what makes humans different to what makes us human; why ethnography is not anthropology.

2. AN_AB_2

   Aims and assessment objectives

   The five course aims and the four assessment objectives (knowledge/understanding, application/analysis, synthesis/evaluation, and selection/use of skills).

3. AN_AB_3

   The three parts and how they connect

   Part 1 (engaging with anthropology, the toolkit), Part 2 (engaging with ethnography, applying it) and Part 3 (engaging in practice, the IA), and how Part 1 threads through Part 2.