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STUDY PLANS
2024/2025

Cultural and Social Anthropology

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Code Completion Credits Range Language
NI-CAP ZK 2 2P Czech
Course guarantor:
Alena Libánská
Lecturer:
Tomáš Houdek, Alena Libánská, Jakub Šenovský
Tutor:
Supervisor:
Department of Software Engineering
Synopsis:

The one-semester course aims to acquaint students with the basics of social and cultural anthropology as a scientific discipline dealing with the diversity of the world - examples from anthropological research from our „exotic“ cultures (topics: kinship, religion, social exclusion, migration, globalization, , material culture, language, health, history, death, etc ...) will be shown.

The course is presented in Czech.

Requirements:

No special requests.

Syllabus of lectures:

Topics:

Anthropology as a scientific discipline; Research methods; Family in the perspective of anthropology; Musical anthropology; Nationalism; Culture and language; Historical Anthropology; Medical Anthropology; Anthropology of Religion; Ethics; Applied Anthropology; Interspecies anthropology; Media in the European context; Evolution and Culture ...

In each semester, the order and variation of the topics discussed vary slightly.

Syllabus of tutorials:

There are not exercises.

Study Objective:

The lectures are designed primarily to offer non-anthropologist students an expanded outlook through a field of practice of the humanities, thanks to the multicultural nature of the world today (working in international societies, traveling).

Study materials:
Note:
Further information:
https://courses.fit.cvut.cz/NI-CAP/
Time-table for winter semester 2024/2025:
06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
roomTH:A-s134
Libánská A.
Šenovský J.

16:15–17:45
(lecture parallel1)
Thákurova 7 (budova FSv)
Fri
Time-table for summer semester 2024/2025:
Time-table is not available yet
The course is a part of the following study plans:
Data valid to 2025-01-21
For updated information see http://bilakniha.cvut.cz/en/predmet6076006.html