SANT3500
Corporate Anthropology
Last taught 2009
Autumn
English
About this course
Content
The course aims to make anthropological concepts and analytical tools applicable to the study of organizations and businesses. Organizations and economic life are constantly changing. By taking into account how meaning and reality are formed and renegotiated in social contexts, changes can be planned and implemented with a basis in local structures of experience. The course investigates such processes of negotiation, planning and implementation.
Learning outcomes
To develop specialized skills for work and research in corporate business.
Teaching methods
Lectures/seminars (approx. 18 hours).
Evaluation: Term paper and oral examination. The term paper recieves a grade that can be adjusted on basis on the oral examination.
The course may be offered in English if necessary.