ANY3350

Questions of Identity: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Globalisation (6 points)

(ARTS)

Leader: Penelope Graham

Offered:
Clayton First semester 2004 (Day)

Synopsis:

Objectives: On completion of this subject, students should be able to: 1. Analyse key concepts constituting anthropological and sociological approaches to ethnicity and nationalism. 2. Demonstrate a grasp of the arguments in the principle works on nationalism currently defining the topic in the social sciences. 3. Analyse the relationship of nationalism to various wide-ranging sociological phenomena such as colonialism and globalisation.

Assessment: Seminar participation: 20% + Oral class presentation (equivalent to 1000 words): 20% + Theorist comparative review exercise (1000 words): 20% + Topical Essay (2000 words): 40% + For the theorist review exercise third-year students must contrast the arguments of two authors, while students at second-year level need only write an account of one theorist's arguments.

Contact Hours: 2 hours (1 x 1 hour lecture and 1 x 1 hour tutorial) per week

Prerequisites: A first-year sequence in Anthropology or History or Politics or Sociology or a cognate discipline or by permission

Prohibitions: ANY2350, COS2350, COS3350