6 ECTS credits
150 u studietijd
Aanbieding 1 met studiegidsnummer 1021435CER voor alle studenten in het 1e semester met een gespecialiseerd bachelor niveau.
This is an introductory course to Political Ethnography. Through a series of lectures, practical exercises and case-studies, ethnography will be presented to the students as not only a scientific method, but also an epistemology and a way of social and political engagement.
This course introduces students to ethnography as an analytical and epistemological lens, methodological tool to investigate political processes and a political engagement. Through a series of lectures, practical exercises and case-studies, students will learn how to approach political concepts such as the state, governance, nationalism, conflict and democracy in an ethnographic way.
In a first, introductory part, a general introduction to ethnography is presented and how it has been applied in political science.
In a second part, students will be introduced to a number of practical ethnographic research tools (participatory observation, visual methods).
In a third part, a number of political concepts (such as the state, violence, democracy, development, nationalism, exile, policy-making) will be analysed in class, comparing a ‘classic’ political science approach to an ethnographic approach. These classes combine a theoretical part with a case-based illustration. Using specific ethnographic case studies, the added value of the ethnographic method for an understanding of politics will be discussed.
To familiarize students with ethnographic writing and reading, micro-teaching sessions will be organised, during which students will have to work in small groups to critically analyse ethnographic texts, step by step.
Finally, through an individual ethnographic observation exercise, students will also learn to apply the ethnographic research method themselves.
Description of expected study load:
General Competences:
In terms of the learning outcomes of the BSc in Social Sciences:
LO7: possesses the methodological knowledge and practical skills of data selection and data processing that prevail within the domains of the social sciences.
LO16: can report, independently, on his/her research in both oral and written form.
LO: has awareness of the social role and function of social scientists.
LO5: knows and can explain the multilayered and complex character of social, political and media-related facts and phenomena.
LO15: can, with limited supervision, perform the necessary methodological steps (data selection, processing and management, and analysis) to answer a research question on a social sciences research topic.
De beoordeling bestaat uit volgende opdrachtcategorieën:
Examen Schriftelijk bepaalt 50% van het eindcijfer
Examen Andere bepaalt 50% van het eindcijfer
Binnen de categorie Examen Schriftelijk dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:
Binnen de categorie Examen Andere dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:
Written Exam: 10/20
Individual Participatory Observation + Paper: 7/20
Micro-teaching: 3/20
Only the written exam and the individual observation + paper can be performed again during the second examination session.
Deze aanbieding maakt deel uit van de volgende studieplannen:
Bachelor of Social Sciences: Communication Studies (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)
Bachelor of Social Sciences: Political Sciences (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)
Bachelor of Social Sciences: Sociology (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)