Anthropology

Cycle

Primeiro ciclo

Degree

Bachelor

Coordinator

Ana Isabel Afonso

Opening date

September 2015

Vacancies

48

Fees

1 063,47€/year 3 000,00€/year (international student)

Schedule

(see timetable at http://www.fcsh.unl.pt/ensino-en/licenciaturas?set_language=en)

Education objectives

1) To develop the ability to analyze and synthesize information and to develop critical thinking skills;
2) To develop the ability to apply acquired knowledge to practical situations;
3) To stimulate an understanding of human diversity and of the interconnections between different aspects of social and cultural life, belief systems, global dynamics, individual behaviors and physical environment;
4) To develop the ability to recognize and critically reflect on the important problems of the contemporary world;
5) To provide a theoretical grounding in anthropology in its multiple social, cultural and biological dimensions;
6) To become aware of the importance of ethnographic method to understand cultures and human groups, and to acquire the necessary techniques to employ it;
7) To develop knowledge of the cultural values of societies from different areas of the world through the study of a variety of rural and urban ethnographic contexts (Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe, with a particular emphasis on Portugal) as well as to raise awareness of the ethical issues involved in the study and representation of other social worlds;
8) To learn about methodological and research instruments which allow for different professional frameworks;
9) To develop the ability to participate professionally and for civic purposes with arguments supported by ethical and scientific principles in different areas of social intervention;
10) To acquire know-how applicable to the fields of material culture, patrimony and museology, and ethnographic films.

Access conditions

Students may be admitted to Higher Education through the National Competition for Access to Higher Education, special competitions/regimes and entry systems, re-enrolment systems, course changes and transfers. To apply for access to higher education through the National Competition, students must fulfill the requirements described in DGES/Access to Higher Education. More info at http://www.dges.mctes.pt/DGES/pt/Estudantes/Acesso/ For more information about International Students please visit http://fcsh.unl.pt/aluno-internacional-en?set_language=en

Degree pre-requisites

Duration: 3 years/6 semesters.
Students must perform 180 credits: 120 credits based in the compulsory curricular units, 30 credits to be chosen in a set of elective optionals and 30 credits undertaken in free-elective optionals or in a minor of another scientific area. Every semester, the student may not sign up in more than 30 credits, respecting the precedence when these have been set. At the beginning of each semester, students will be advised of the curricular units to carry out in order to appropriate them to their academic career.
The undergraduate students can still benefit from the different mobility programmes in which FCSH/NOVA participates as Erasmus +, Almeida Garrett exchange programmes, among others, and participate in research within the research units of the Faculty.

Access to other courses

Completion of the licenciatura degree allows the holder to apply for Masters programmes or other post-graduate courses including those which do not confer a degree.

Evaluation rules

Students at FCSH are evaluated based on the work developed over a semester, based on class participation, presentation of written and oral tests and examinations. The result obtained either by continuous assessment or evaluation of the tests is expressed on a scale of 0 to 20. To be approved, students must have at least 10 points to pass, however, who fail have a second chance to repeat the exams. SPECIAL PROCEDURES FOR EVALUATION: - Worker-Student - Students with the status of top athletes - Mothers and fathers students - Associative leaders - Military - Other special arrangements provided legally. Students with special needs can benefit from teaching and learning conditions to meet their needs.

Structure

Mandatory
Code	Name	ECTS
711001047	Biological Anthropology	6
711001058	Kinship Anthropology	6
711001005	Symbolic Anthropology	6
711001049	Anthropology and Heritage	6
711001009	Economic Anthropology	6
711001013	Political Anthropology	6
711001014	Contemporary Portuguese Anthropology	6
711001016	Urban Anthropology	6
711001017	Visual Anthropology	6
711001018	Biology and Culture	6
711001030	History of Anthropology	6
711001031	History of Portuguese Anthropology	6
711001033	Reading Ethnographic Texts I	6
711001034	Reading Ethnographic Texts II	6
711001048	Ethnographic Methods	6
711001036	Research Methodology	6
711001050	Research Methods for Social Sciences	6
711001046	Quantitative Methods for the Social Sciences	6
711001043	Themes of Anthropological Thought	6
711001044	Socio-Anthropological Theories	6

Elective option 1
Code	Name	ECTS
Options
711001019	Ethnographic Contexts (Africa)	6
711001020	Ethnographic Contexts (Arabic and Islamic)	6
711001021	Ethnographic Contexts (Asia)	6
711001022	Ethnographic Contexts (Europe)	6
711001051	Ethnographic Contexts (Latin America)	6

Elective option 2
Code	Name	ECTS
Options
711001059	Anthropology of Religion	6
711001062	Antropologia do Ciberespaço (not translated)	6
711001003	Anthropology of Space	6
711001052	Anthropology of Human Rights	6
711001008	Anthropology and Colonialism	6
711001012	Linguistic Anthropology	6
711001015	Psychological Anthropology	6
711001053	Material Culture	6
711001024	Ethics and Anthropological Practices	6
711001054	Ethnicity and Nationalism	6
711001063	Ethnoecology	6
711001025	Ethology	6
711001027	Ethnographic Film	6
711001055	Gender and Family	6
711001056	Computing for Anthropology	6
711001060	Museology	6
711001040	Power and Society	6
711001057	Primatology	6