Learning objectives
The Master?s Degree in Anthropology and Ethnography is designed to achieve two basic objectives:
– To produce researchers specializing in anthropological research who are able to work in specialized and interdisciplinary teams. This makes the course a natural progression route for students who wish to undertake doctoral studies in Social Anthropology.
– To provide students with tools to analyse and interpret ? primarily by applying the ethnographic method ? the most significant phenomena and problems affecting contemporary society, such as unemployment, migration, consumption, ethnic conflicts, social exclusion, religion, and changes in family relationships.
Skills and competences
General competences
– Ability to use theoretical and conceptual tools to analyse and interpret complex socio-cultural phenomena.
– Ability to collect, organize, process and analyse information from various sources within the framework of anthropological research projects.
– Ability to design projects and action plans aimed at identifying or solving specific problems.
– Ability to provide an analytical framework for understanding inequality and social exclusion.
– Ability to understand ethnographic methodology and apply it in different research contexts to make original contributions.
Specific competences
– Ability to identify, based on an ethnographic approach, the patterns that underlie social discourses and practices related to cultural diversity and citizenship.
– Ability to identify and provide methodological tools for the design and conduct of ethnographic research.
– Ability to provide theoretical tools to understand current transformations affecting family and kinship relations.
– Ability to analyse and understand logical alternative economic practices in the context of contemporary society.
– Ability to provide a theoretical framework for the analysis and understanding of processes for expressing ethno-political and social demands that allow for the interplay of local and global variables.