This is an intensive mandatory module for all students who are studying Italian in any Modern Languages and Modern Languages Plus combination, as well as for...

This is an intensive mandatory module for all students who are studying Italian in any Modern Languages and Modern Languages Plus combination, as well as for those following the single honours Italian BA. The module assumes a satisfactory performance in the first year Italian language module. The aim of the module is to develop knowledge and use of Italian and a knowledge and understanding of Italian culture sufficient for students to cope successfully with the demands of their Year Abroad programme in Italy. In view of this, the module will also aim at developing increasing autonomy in student learning, including the ability to identify and plan individual strategies for the learning of Italian and the study of literary, historical and other subjects in Italian. 

How people relate to one another around the world varies greatly. Kinship has been a core focus in anthropology because it is tightly bound up with ideas of...

Kinship, Ethnicity and Gender (IRDR0031)

How people relate to one another around the world varies greatly. Kinship has been a core focus in anthropology because it is tightly bound up with ideas of personhood and identity, and the organisation of much social life. Through the study of kinship, anthropologists can approach related themes of gender and sex, as well as race and ethnicity. In this module, students will learn how anthropologists have approached kinship and gender in order to discuss issues at the heart of much social life today, such as marriage, relations between persons, families and the state, adoption, reproductive technologies, sex change, and the roles of family relations and structures in conflict and migration. As part of the Social Anthropology pathway in the BSc Global Humanitarian Studies, this module will familiarise students with issue and debates in gender rights and politics by using diverse ethnographic case studies from around the world. It will help ultimately them develop a critical appreciation for the kinship and gender dynamics that impact and are impacted by humanitarian crises, such as during conflicts, natural disasters or mass displacements