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SA3075 Anthropology of Care

Academic year

2026 to 2027 Semester 1

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

The Scottish Credit Accumulation and Transfer (SCOTCAT) system allows credits gained in Scotland to be transferred between institutions. The number of credits associated with a module gives an indication of the amount of learning effort required by the learner. European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) credits are half the value of SCOTCAT credits.

SCQF level

SCQF level 9

The Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) provides an indication of the complexity of award qualifications and associated learning and operates on an ascending numeric scale from Levels 1-12 with SCQF Level 10 equating to a Scottish undergraduate Honours degree.

Availability restrictions

Spaces are allocated on a first-come-first-served basis

Planned timetable

To be arranged

This information is given as indicative. Timetable may change at short notice depending on room availability.

Module coordinator

Dr A P Gutierrez Garza

Dr A P Gutierrez Garza
This information is given as indicative. Staff involved in a module may change at short notice depending on availability and circumstances.

Module Staff

Dr Ana Gutierrez Garza

This information is given as indicative. Staff involved in a module may change at short notice depending on availability and circumstances.

Module description

We spend a huge amount of time caring for each other, for the world around and for ourselves. But what is care? What do we mean by this concept? Questions around care and what counts as care -as well as how much it is valued- will be explored cross culturally in this course. We will see how we can approach the study of care from an anthropological point of view. We will question how everyday experiences of care intersect with social, economic and cultural subjectivities, social hierarchies and social relations in complex ways. We will interrogate how care is a moral practice informed by various modes of relationality, intimacy and other forms of sociality. During this course, we will take a cross-cultural comparison and intersectional approach to explore the organisation and value of care taking into consideration the role of gender, sex, class and status among other aspects. We will think anthropologically about care and the impact that it has on our personhood and our world.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST PASS SA2002

Assessment pattern

Coursework = 100%

Re-assessment

3000-word essay

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1 lecture (x10 weeks) and 1 seminar (x9 weeks)

Scheduled learning hours

55

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

240

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.

Intended learning outcomes

  • Identify and understand anthropological debates about and approaches to care.
  • Engage critically with the literature and use analytical and research skills to reflect on care practices and cross-cultural ideas of care.
  • Research and critically assess the way that care has happened cross-culturally and in different economic sectors.
  • Be able to identify diverse subjective and intersubjective experiences of care as they are shaped by a variety of forces
  • Apply an ethnographic lens to everyday practices of care to understand these as sociocultural processes
  • Have a working knowledge of major concerns, debates, and approaches to the anthropological study of care.