Thesis Project in Social and Cultural Anthropology

Recommended Prerequisites

A sound methodological knowledge, ethnographic practices.

Teaching Methods

The Phd student will draw, with tutorial orientation, the plan and the schedule and will present publicly the results of her research, preferentially in a seminar session with her peers. This presentation will be evaluated in accordance by a scale of 20 points.

Learning Outcomes

This course unit is dedicated mainly to the construction and formalization of a research project, which implies to present a bibliographic grid and a well suited state of the art. It aims also to promote a public discussion with specialists in the chosen research field, to select and tune the appropriate methodologies, to reflect critically on the feasibility of the proposed project and on the ethical and social implications associated with it.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Organized as an annual course unit, the work of this unit is dedicated to the construction and formalization of a research project. This project is, in the present context, accompanied, supervised and discussed between peers.

Head Lecturer(s)

Fernando José Pereira Florêncio

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Some criteria in consideration are: the articulation between the problem, the hypothesis and the conceptual and theoretical context; the quality of articulation and argumentation; the feasability; the quality of the writing and presentation; the previous empirical research done.: 100.0%

Bibliography

Variável e em acordo com a investigação em curso | Variable and in accordance with the research in progress.