Honours Seminar in Social Anthropology

3 credits · Undergraduate

This seminar provides an opportunity for students to engage in sustained investigative scholarship through independent research. The first term concentrates on locating the student’s work within a broader set of theoretical and methodological debates in the discipline, while the second term is devoted to students’ research and writing activities in preparing the thesis required for honours graduation. In the second term, class time is used for students to make “in progress” reports and presentations about their chosen topics. The course caries two separate grades, one for the course and the other for the thesis, appearing on the transcript as “honours qualifying examination” (a University requirement for all honours students). CALENDAR NOTES: Credit can only be given for this course if both it and SOSA 4101.03 are completed in consecutive terms. PREREQUISITES: Honours registration in Social Anthropology and Any 1000 level SOSA or FYP and SOSA 2007.03: Thinking Sociologically AND SOSA 2008.03: Doing Sociology; or SOSA 2012.03: Thinking through Anthropology AND SOSA 2013.03: Anthropology in Practice or SOSA 2001.06: Ethnography in a Global Context or SOSA 2002.06: The Sociological Perspective: Thinking and Doing Sociology, and two of SOSA 3400.03, SOSA 3402.03 and 3403.03 or permission of the instructor. EXCLUSIONS: SOSA 4000XY FORMATS: Seminar