SOCI223-18S2 (C) Semester Two 2018

Ethnicity and History

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 16 July 2018
End Date: Sunday, 18 November 2018
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 27 July 2018
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 12 October 2018

Description

This course provides a critical introduction to the historical and anthropological study of ethnicity, race and migration, with a particular emphasis on New Zealand.

ANTH223/HIST283/MAOR230/PACS204/SOCI223 provides a critical introduction to the historical and anthropological study of ethnicity, race, nationalism, genocide, indigeneity, migration, assimilation, identity and the nation-state. The first part of the course draws on material from North America, Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, Australia and New Zealand to find ways in which we might analyse these ideas or themes in different times and places. We examine some of the main theoretical approaches to ethnicity and carry out a structured controversy exercise that allows us to apply these frameworks to a particular problem. After the mid-term break, we extend the course themes in a 'hands-on' way through local case studies that bring together 'the field and the archive'.

Our focus in both sections of ANTH223/HIST283/MAOR230/PACS204/SOCI223 is on:

(a) ways we might investigate concrete issues such as racism, ethnic violence, cultural survival, ethnic incorporation, nationalism, identity, migration, assimilation, diaspora and transnationalism

(b) the kinds of questions that confront those of us engaged in the historical, anthropological and sociological study of ethnicity. Does ethnicity matter? If so, when does it become important? How does it work in everyday life? What is the relationship between ethnicity and other kinds of social identification such as class, religion, gender and locality? How can we account for the complex layering of ethnic identities? What is the connection between ethnicity and culture? Why ethnicity?

COURSE GOAL
This course aims to challenge taken-for-granted assumptions about ethnicity and to explore ways that we might understand, explain and compare ethnic phenomena in the past and in the contemporary world.

Learning Outcomes

This course will enable each participant to:

-   consider the value of ethnicity as a conceptual tool for the study of everyday life
-   critically evaluate different anthropological approaches to ethnicity and nationalism
-   complete a research essay that applies frameworks developed in the course to
    the study of ethnicity in a specific historical context
-   reflect on course texts and learning experiences in a personal journal
-   contribute effectively in group and cooperative work
-   develop an appreciation for anthropology’s historical imagination

NOTE: The correct pre-requisites for this course are as follows - please ignore the ones below.

15 points of 100 level SOCI or ANTH or HIST or MAOR with B grade or better; or 30 points of 100 level SOCI or ANTH or HIST or MAOR; or students without 100 level SOCI or ANTH or HIST or MAOR but with a B average or better in 60 points in related subjects may enter the course with the approval of the Head of Department.

University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

Prerequisites

15 points of SOCI or ANTH at 100 level; OR 45 points in related subjects with the approval of the Head of Department.

Restrictions

ANTH223, HIST283, MAOR230, PACS204

Equivalent Courses

ANTH223, HIST283, MAOR230, PACS204

Course Coordinator

Lyndon Fraser

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Structured Controversy Exercise 20%
Learning Journal 40%
Museum Concept Description 40%

Textbooks / Resources

The required readings for the course will be available on LEARN.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $746.00

International fee $3,038.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

All SOCI223 Occurrences

  • SOCI223-18S2 (C) Semester Two 2018