Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

Students who complete this module can:

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• explain selected anthropological and cultural theories as a basis for empirical studies of technology and culture.
• present exemplary cases of techno-anthropological field studies
• explain ethnographic fieldwork as a mode of knowledge production

Skills

• compare methodological approaches within anthropology and ethnography
• conduct qualitative interviews and use different coding schemes
• plan and carry out participant observation
• apply anthropological and cultural theories to reflect on and analyze cases and empirical material

Competences

• choose and justify the relevance of qualitative data collection methods in relation to a study of technology
• discuss and account for analytical opportunities and challenges in relation to social and cultural analysis of cases of scientific or technological development processes.

Exam

Exams