It is an e-learning course given in Spanish belonging to AECS intercultural studies branch, that is geared toward those who value dialogue between cultures, and the fundamental role that education plays in breaking down the barriers that are created as a result of ignorance, lack of understanding, insecurity and lack of communication and solidarity.

AECS provides you with your very own e-learning training space that comprises new information and communication technology to enhance the teaching-learning process, and which gives you complete flexibility with regard to the hours you choose to study.

With just a computer and Internet connection, you will be able to follow the training from the comfort of your own home or workplace, whilst maintaining regular contact with your course tutor. As soon as you are enrolled on one of our courses, you will be sent a user name and password.

All participants will receive by mail a personalized diploma.

For those whose mothertongue is not Spanish, the minimum level required to follow the course is B1-B2.

Tutor: Prof. María del Pilar Fernández Angulo She graduated in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Seville. She teaches Social Anthropology in UCAM (Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia) and she was a visiting professor in the Universidad Iberoamericana of Mexico city in 2000/01. Her works and publications deal with the social construction of a male gender identity. She has also participated in several congresses on Ethnology.

Objectives:

The fundamental purposes of this first contact with Anthropology are to achieve the understanding of the specificity of this science and to familiarize students with the basic conceptual baggage so that it can be applied, operationally and critically, to the analysis of social reality. To offer coherent, theoretical and methodological analytic instruments, of those that anthropology uses to observe and to interpret the contexts of modernity and to approach the different questions and challenges that strongly impact in our reality from a socio-cultural point of view.

Subjects:

The program of the course is made of eight topics. The first part is centred in the definition of Anthropology through its study object, its methods and its techniques. The analysis of the main existent ideas, from a diachronical and current perspective, will allow students to know the main trends and the different concepts that have being developed in time in order to understand the socio-cultural variety.

The second part of the program is organised thematically with the purpose of offering a wide vision of those aspects of the social reality approached by Anthropology, linking them with contemporary questions. The aim therefore is to avoid "exotism" that is usually attributed to Anthropology and to show its usefulness in the knowledge not only of "the others" but also of ourselves and to show its applicability  to many subjects.

Enrolments open: from 2nd June to 30th September 2008

Start date: 8th October 2008

Duration: 60 hours/3 months

Price: 250€