DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY...Cover photos by Yanina Hinrichsen (Seligman Library mural) and Nigel...

DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGYUndergraduate Student Handbook2017/18 Academic Year

Anthropology

Cover photos by Yanina Hinrichsen (Seligman Library mural) and Nigel Stead (others)

Welcome Week events 2017/8 All Anthropology BA/BSc students

Date Time What Where

From Monday, 18th September

Welcome Week for new studentswww.lse.ac.uk/yourFirstWeeks / lsesu.com/whatson

Across campus

Tuesday, 19th September

9:30 Registration for new BA/BSc studentswww.lse.ac.uk/programmeRegistration

Hong Kong Theatre, CLM G.02

15:00 – 16:30 School Welcome Presentation for new undergraduates Peacock Theatre

Thursday, 21nd September

10:00 – 11:30 Departmental orientation for all new BA/BSc students Seligman Library,OLD 6.05

12:00 – 13:00 Departmental orientation for all new BA Anthropology and Law students

Seligman Library,OLD 6.05

14:00 – 14:30 Departmental introduction to e‐resources surnames A‐K

15:00 – 15:30 Departmental introduction to e‐resources surnames L‐Z

17:00 – 18:30 Departmental welcome party

BA Anthropology and Law students Note that first year BA Anthropology and Law students are required to attend the following Law Department events listed below in addition to relevant sessions above. These events take place in Welcome Week & Week 1.


Monday, 18th September

9:00 – 10:00 Introduction to LSE Law and the LLB Old Theatre, OLD G

13:00 – 14:30 Core Legal Knowledge Sheikh Zayed Theatre, NAB LG.08

Wednesday, 20th September

16:00 – 17:00 Legal Skills Lecture – Part 1 Sheikh Zayed, Theatre, NAB LG.08

Thursday, 21st September

17:00 – 18:00 Legal Skills Lecture – Part 2 Old Theatre, OLD G


9:00 – 10:00 Public Law Lecture – Part 1 Hong Kong Theatre, CLM G.02

12:00 – 13:00 Public Law Lecture – Part 2 Sheikh Zayed Theatre, NAB LG.08


9:00 – 10:00 ILS Lecture – Part 1 Sheikh Zayed Theatre, NAB LG.08


Thursday, 28th September

11:00 – 13:00 Study Skills Lecture Hong Kong Theatre, CLM G.02

18:00 – 20:00 LLB Drinks Reception Inner Temple

Contents Welcome to the LSE, and to the Department of Anthropology! 3 About the Department 4

Our background 4 Our teaching priorities 4 Key academic staff 5 Academic Advisers 5 Letters of reference 5

Office hours 5 Departmental Office 6 Representation 7 Staff‐student liaison committees 7

Communication within the Department and within the School 7 Email 7 Appropriate use of email 7 “Snailmail” 8 LSE for You (www.lse.ac.uk/lseforyou) 8 Change of address 8

About your degree programme 9 BA/BSc in Social Anthropology 9 First year 9 Second year 9 Third year 9

BA in Anthropology and Law 10 First year 10 Second year 10 Third year 10

Choosing options 10 Timetables and course choice 11 Class Changes 11

LSE100 The LSE Course: Understanding the causes of things 11 Course structure 12 Lectures 12 Classes 12 Tutorials 12

Teaching resources 13 Moodle 13 Reading lists @ LSE 13

Assessment 13 Examinations 14 Take‐home exam guidance 2017‐8 14 Assessment essays 16 Mark deductions on summative coursework 16 Instructions for submission 16 Essay guidelines 16 Feedback on assessed essays 17 AN298 Research Methods in Social Anthropology 17 AN398 Special Essay Paper in Social Anthropology 17

Late submission of summative coursework 17 Formative (non‐assessed) coursework 18 Health issues 19 Fit to sit policy 19 Exceptional circumstances 19 Re‐entry procedure for failed or deferred assessments 19 Interruption / Deferral / Withdrawal 20 Assessment offences and plagiarism 20 Codes of Good Practice 20 General School and Programme Regulations 21 The Department’s BA/BSc examination grade criteria 22 Evaluating class/seminar participation 23 Degree classification 23

Central services 24 Student Services Centre (SSC) 24 Certificate of Registration 24

Advice, Communications and Operations 24 International Student Visa Advice Team (ISVAT) 24 Financial Support 25 Fees 25 LSE LIFE Academic Writing Guidance 25 Student study support 25 IT Support 25 IT Help Desk 25 Laptop Surgery 25 IT accessibility 25

Faith Centre 25 Libraries 26

The Seligman Library 26 LSE Library 26 The Shaw Library 26 University of London facilities: lectures and libraries 26 Other libraries 26

Taking notes 28 Guidance for students on UK essay writing style 29 Associations of interest to Anthropology students 33 Personal Development 34

LSE LIFE 34 Student Wellbeing Service: One to One Support 34 LSE Personal Development Aide Memoire 34 LSE Volunteer Centre 34 Volunteering with LSE’s Widening Participation (WP) team 34

Quality Assurance 35 Student Teaching Surveys 35

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at LSE 35 Students’ Union 35

2Cover photos by Yanina Hinrichsen (Seligman Library mural) and Nigel Stead (others)

Welcome Week events 2017/8 All Anthropology BA/BSc students


From Monday, 18th September

Welcome Week for new studentswww.lse.ac.uk/yourFirstWeeks / lsesu.com/whatson

Across campus

Tuesday, 19th September

9:30 Registration for new BA/BSc studentswww.lse.ac.uk/programmeRegistration

Hong Kong Theatre, CLM G.02

15:00 – 16:30 School Welcome Presentation for new undergraduates Peacock Theatre

Thursday, 21nd September

10:00 – 11:30 Departmental orientation for all new BA/BSc students Seligman Library,OLD 6.05

12:00 – 13:00 Departmental orientation for all new BA Anthropology and Law students

Seligman Library,OLD 6.05

14:00 – 14:30 Departmental introduction to e‐resources surnames A‐K

15:00 – 15:30 Departmental introduction to e‐resources surnames L‐Z

17:00 – 18:30 Departmental welcome party

BA Anthropology and Law students Note that first year BA Anthropology and Law students are required to attend the following Law Department events listed below in addition to relevant sessions above. These events take place in Welcome Week & Week 1.



9:00 – 10:00 Introduction to LSE Law and the LLB Old Theatre, OLD G

13:00 – 14:30 Core Legal Knowledge Sheikh Zayed Theatre, NAB LG.08


16:00 – 17:00 Legal Skills Lecture – Part 1 Sheikh Zayed, Theatre, NAB LG.08

Thursday, 21st September

17:00 – 18:00 Legal Skills Lecture – Part 2 Old Theatre, OLD G


9:00 – 10:00 Public Law Lecture – Part 1 Hong Kong Theatre, CLM G.02

12:00 – 13:00 Public Law Lecture – Part 2 Sheikh Zayed Theatre, NAB LG.08




Thursday, 28th September

11:00 – 13:00 Study Skills Lecture Hong Kong Theatre, CLM G.02

18:00 – 20:00 LLB Drinks Reception Inner Temple

Contents Welcome to the LSE, and to the Department of Anthropology! 3 About the Department 4

Our background 4 Our teaching priorities 4 Key academic staff 5 Academic Advisers 5 Letters of reference 5

Office hours 5 Departmental Office 6 Representation 7 Staff‐student liaison committees 7

Communication within the Department and within the School 7 Email 7 Appropriate use of email 7 “Snailmail” 8 LSE for You (www.lse.ac.uk/lseforyou) 8 Change of address 8

About your degree programme 9 BA/BSc in Social Anthropology 9 First year 9 Second year 9 Third year 9



LSE100 The LSE Course: Understanding the causes of things 11 Course structure 12 Lectures 12 Classes 12 Tutorials 12


Assessment 13 Examinations 14 Take‐home exam guidance 2017‐8 14 Assessment essays 16 Mark deductions on summative coursework 16 Instructions for submission 16 Essay guidelines 16 Feedback on assessed essays 17 AN298 Research Methods in Social Anthropology 17 AN398 Special Essay Paper in Social Anthropology 17

Late submission of summative coursework 17 Formative (non‐assessed) coursework 18 Health issues 19 Fit to sit policy 19 Exceptional circumstances 19 Re‐entry procedure for failed or deferred assessments 19 Interruption / Deferral / Withdrawal 20 Assessment offences and plagiarism 20 Codes of Good Practice 20 General School and Programme Regulations 21 The Department’s BA/BSc examination grade criteria 22 Evaluating class/seminar participation 23 Degree classification 23

Central services 24 Student Services Centre (SSC) 24 Certificate of Registration 24

Advice, Communications and Operations 24 International Student Visa Advice Team (ISVAT) 24 Financial Support 25 Fees 25 LSE LIFE Academic Writing Guidance 25 Student study support 25 IT Support 25 IT Help Desk 25 Laptop Surgery 25 IT accessibility 25

Faith Centre 25 Libraries 26

The Seligman Library 26 LSE Library 26 The Shaw Library 26 University of London facilities: lectures and libraries 26 Other libraries 26





Welcome to the LSE, and to the Department of Anthropology 3 About the Department 4

Our background 4 Our teaching priorities 4 Key academic staff 5 Academic Advisers 5

Letters of reference 5 Office hours 5 Departmental Office 6 Representation 7

Staff-student liaison committees 7 Communication within the Department and within the School 7

Email 7 Appropriate use of email 7 “Snailmail” 8 LSE for You (www.lse.ac.uk/lseforyou) 8 Change of address 8

About your degree programme 9 BA/BSc in Social Anthropology 9

First year 9 Second year 9 Third year 9



LSE100 The LSE Course: Understanding the causes of things 11 Course structure 12

Lectures 12 Classes 12 Tutorials 12


Assessment 13 Examinations 14 Take-home exam guidance 2017-8 14 Assessment essays 16 Mark deductions on summative coursework 16 Instructions for submission 16 Essay guidelines 16 Feedback on assessed essays 17 AN298 Research Methods in Social Anthropology 17 AN398 Special Essay Paper in Social Anthropology 17

Late submission of summative coursework 17 Formative (non-assessed) coursework 18 Health issues 19 Fit to sit policy 19 Exceptional circumstances 19 Re-entry procedure for failed or deferred assessments 19 Interruption / Deferral / Withdrawal 20 Assessment offences and plagiarism 20 Codes of Good Practice 20 General School and Programme Regulations 21 The Department’s BA/BSc examination grade criteria 22 Evaluating class/seminar participation 23 Degree classification 23

Central services 24 Student Services Centre (SSC) 24

Certificate of Registration 24 Advice, Communications and Operations 24 International Student Visa Advice Team (ISVAT) 24 Financial Support 25 Fees 25 LSE LIFE Academic Writing Guidance 25 Student study support 25 IT Support 25 Faith Centre 25

Libraries 26 The Seligman Library 26 LSE Library 26 The Shaw Library 26 University of London facilities: lectures and libraries 26 Other libraries 26





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Going out fishing in Betania, Madagascar (Sean Epstein)

Welcome to the LSE, and to the Department of Anthropology!

The information in this handbook is intended to provide you with some useful background information about our undergraduate programmes, but it is not exhaustive. A great deal of up‐to‐date material about LSE support services, registration, timetabling and

library facilities is also available on the general LSE web pages, so you would benefit from reading these. If you have just arrived at LSE and need some guidance, please take a look at the ‘Your First Weeks’ website www.lse.ac.uk/yourFirstWeeks The Anthropology Department web pages (www.lse.ac.uk/anthropology/home.aspx) research and publications, and special events. Also of relevance during your time as a student in the department will be the ‘AnthropologyInfo – Anthropology Department’ Moodle page (moodle.lse.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=983)

Please bear in mind that the information given here about course requirements and assessments is intended for guidance only. You should always confirm requirements by checking the definitive versions in official School publications (normally the Calendar www.lse.ac.uk/calendar) and if necessary checking with the Student Services Centre (on the Ground Floor in the Old Building or www.lse.ac.uk/ssc) and/or your academic adviser. As you will learn, ours is a relatively small department, and we try to maintain an informal, friendly, and supportive atmosphere for our students. If you do happen to encounter problems of any kind, be they academic, financial, or emotional, we very much hope that you’ll let us know at once. You can do this by informing your academic adviser (with whom you’ll have regular meetings throughout the year), by setting up an appointment with the Departmental Tutor, or by approaching any member of departmental staff, including our very capable administrators. Professor Katy Gardner Head of Department LSE Department of Anthropology

About the Department Our background Anthropology has been taught at the LSE since 1904. Following the arrival of Malinowski in 1910, the School became one of the leading centres for the development of modern social anthropology, and many of the key figures in this evolving tradition – including Firth, Evans‐Pritchard, Fei, Leach, Mair, Schapera, Freedman, La Fontaine, Bloch, Gell, the Comaroffs and others – were at the LSE as students or teachers. To this day, the Department retains a strong commitment to anthropological research of the kind championed by Malinowski and Firth. In line with this, our research output is based primarily around long‐term participant observation fieldwork. Beyond this point of similarity, however, our research is very diverse. We conduct fieldwork in many different places (including India, China, Taiwan, Caucasus, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Madagascar, Amazonia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Melanesia, Germany, the UK, the USA); and our projects address a wide range of concerns – from industrialization, through politics, human rights and economy, to cognition. There are, however, three general areas of interest around which much of our departmental research may be said to coalesce: social, economic, and political

transformations – very broadly defined to include processes of globalisation, modernisation, industrialisation and development; as well as the legal and ethical dimensions of such processes;

religion and non‐religion – very broadly defined to include the study of religion, secularism, and ‘non‐religious’ practices, beliefs, and traditions;

knowledge, learning, and cognition – very broadly defined to include cross‐cultural studies of learning, schooling and cognition, as well as more general studies of the transmission of cultural knowledge (e.g. skills) in social and historical perspective.

These research interests are shared with colleagues in a number of departments and research units across the LSE, including International Development, Law, Social Psychology, Social Policy, and the Centre for the Study of Human Rights. We also have programmes of collaboration and exchange with numerous overseas institutions.

The outstanding quality of our research outputs has been recognized in the past Research Assessment Exercises; in the most recent review, the Research Excellence Framework (published 2014), we were ranked first of UK Anthropology departments for research quality, with 73 per cent of our outputs being judged world‐leading or internationally excellent. Our teaching priorities The Department is well aware that its reputation as one of the world’s leading anthropology departments depends not only on research and publications but also on its teaching of both undergraduate and graduate students. By providing our students with a coherent approach to anthropology which depends on a ‘mainstream’ core, but which is also continually being modified by new research findings, we are able to meet our commitment to providing education of the highest quality. Students at all levels are expected to read widely in the anthropological tradition, and to have a good grasp of social anthropology as a synthetic, holistic and comparative discipline which seeks answers to questions of a very general kind, as well as engaging with the ethnographic detail of particular lives lived in unique places. The priorities of our departmental teaching at Undergraduate level are as follows: to make you aware of the range of cultural

variations existing in the world, as well as the commonalities which human individuals and groups share;

to enable you to understand the nature and variability of social forms, and to understand some of the factors involved in social and cultural change;

to enable you to reflect self‐critically on your own society and culture;

to teach you about the theories and methods of anthropology, so that you understand how these fit into the wider framework of the social sciences;

to give you an understanding of the practice of anthropological research, and of the ways in which ethnographic data are related to anthropological theories (and vice versa);

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Going out fishing in Betania, Madagascar (Sean Epstein)

Welcome to the LSE, and to the Department of Anthropology!

The information in this handbook is intended to provide you with some useful background information about our undergraduate programmes, but it is not exhaustive. A great deal of up‐to‐date material about LSE support services, registration, timetabling and

library facilities is also available on the general LSE web pages, so you would benefit from reading these. If you have just arrived at LSE and need some guidance, please take a look at the ‘Your First Weeks’ website www.lse.ac.uk/yourFirstWeeks The Anthropology Department web pages (www.lse.ac.uk/anthropology/home.aspx) research and publications, and special events. Also of relevance during your time as a student in the department will be the ‘AnthropologyInfo – Anthropology Department’ Moodle page (moodle.lse.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=983)

Please bear in mind that the information given here about course requirements and assessments is intended for guidance only. You should always confirm requirements by checking the definitive versions in official School publications (normally the Calendar www.lse.ac.uk/calendar) and if necessary checking with the Student Services Centre (on the Ground Floor in the Old Building or www.lse.ac.uk/ssc) and/or your academic adviser. As you will learn, ours is a relatively small department, and we try to maintain an informal, friendly, and supportive atmosphere for our students. If you do happen to encounter problems of any kind, be they academic, financial, or emotional, we very much hope that you’ll let us know at once. You can do this by informing your academic adviser (with whom you’ll have regular meetings throughout the year), by setting up an appointment with the Departmental Tutor, or by approaching any member of departmental staff, including our very capable administrators. Professor Katy Gardner Head of Department LSE Department of Anthropology

About the Department Our background Anthropology has been taught at the LSE since 1904. Following the arrival of Malinowski in 1910, the School became one of the leading centres for the development of modern social anthropology, and many of the key figures in this evolving tradition – including Firth, Evans‐Pritchard, Fei, Leach, Mair, Schapera, Freedman, La Fontaine, Bloch, Gell, the Comaroffs and others – were at the LSE as students or teachers. To this day, the Department retains a strong commitment to anthropological research of the kind championed by Malinowski and Firth. In line with this, our research output is based primarily around long‐term participant observation fieldwork. Beyond this point of similarity, however, our research is very diverse. We conduct fieldwork in many different places (including India, China, Taiwan, Caucasus, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Madagascar, Amazonia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Melanesia, Germany, the UK, the USA); and our projects address a wide range of concerns – from industrialization, through politics, human rights and economy, to cognition. There are, however, three general areas of interest around which much of our departmental research may be said to coalesce: social, economic, and political

transformations – very broadly defined to include processes of globalisation, modernisation, industrialisation and development; as well as the legal and ethical dimensions of such processes;

religion and non‐religion – very broadly defined to include the study of religion, secularism, and ‘non‐religious’ practices, beliefs, and traditions;

knowledge, learning, and cognition – very broadly defined to include cross‐cultural studies of learning, schooling and cognition, as well as more general studies of the transmission of cultural knowledge (e.g. skills) in social and historical perspective.

These research interests are shared with colleagues in a number of departments and research units across the LSE, including International Development, Law, Social Psychology, Social Policy, and the Centre for the Study of Human Rights. We also have programmes of collaboration and exchange with numerous overseas institutions.

The outstanding quality of our research outputs has been recognized in the past Research Assessment Exercises; in the most recent review, the Research Excellence Framework (published 2014), we were ranked first of UK Anthropology departments for research quality, with 73 per cent of our outputs being judged world‐leading or internationally excellent. Our teaching priorities The Department is well aware that its reputation as one of the world’s leading anthropology departments depends not only on research and publications but also on its teaching of both undergraduate and graduate students. By providing our students with a coherent approach to anthropology which depends on a ‘mainstream’ core, but which is also continually being modified by new research findings, we are able to meet our commitment to providing education of the highest quality. Students at all levels are expected to read widely in the anthropological tradition, and to have a good grasp of social anthropology as a synthetic, holistic and comparative discipline which seeks answers to questions of a very general kind, as well as engaging with the ethnographic detail of particular lives lived in unique places. The priorities of our departmental teaching at Undergraduate level are as follows: to make you aware of the range of cultural

variations existing in the world, as well as the commonalities which human individuals and groups share;

to enable you to understand the nature and variability of social forms, and to understand some of the factors involved in social and cultural change;

to enable you to reflect self‐critically on your own society and culture;

to teach you about the theories and methods of anthropology, so that you understand how these fit into the wider framework of the social sciences;

to give you an understanding of the practice of anthropological research, and of the ways in which ethnographic data are related to anthropological theories (and vice versa);

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to make you aware of the potential significance of anthropological insights for an understanding of policy issues, such as the impact of socio‐cultural factors on patterns of economic development, or the political significance in various historical circumstances of ethnic and cultural difference.

Key academic staff Professor Katy Gardner ([email protected]) is the Head of Department. Dr Catherine Allerton ([email protected]) is Departmental Tutor, with general responsibility for all BA/BSc programmes in our Department. After your academic adviser, he is the person you should consult about most issues, academic or otherwise. Dr Michael W. Scott ([email protected]) is the Chair of Examiners. Any problems relating to examinations, or the submission and examination of coursework, can be discussed with him. The Department is concerned to promote equality and to foster an environment in which forms of discrimination (including, but not limited to, race, gender and sexuality) are not tolerated. If you have questions or concerns about these or related issues, please contact the Department’s Equality Officer, Dr Catherine Allerton ([email protected]). All discussions will be held in the strictest confidence. Please check the departmental website for a full list of academic staff, their research interests, and contact details: www.lse.ac.uk/anthropology/ people/departmentalstaff.aspx. Academic Advisers Every student on an Anthropology programme is assigned an Academic Adviser. You will be told at the induction meeting, or as soon as possible afterwards, who your academic advisor is. A full list of all the students and their advisors will also be posted on Moodle and on the noticeboard between rooms OLD 6.02 and OLD 6.03. The academic adviser is the first point of enquiry for questions of an academic nature. Your academic adviser will also be able to offer some guidance and assistance with personal concerns. Any academic questions that the academic adviser cannot assist with should be directed to the Departmental Tutor.

Depending on their programme of study, students are required to meet with their academic adviser for tutorials an average of two/three times per term during the Michaelmas and Lent Terms (see information on tutorials below). If you have questions about the degree programme, or something else that you would like to discuss, you may also visit your academic adviser during their office hours or at another mutually convenient time. Regular contact with your academic adviser is recommended and will be beneficial for later reference writing and personal development. Letters of reference If you need to ask your academic advisor or any other of your teachers to write a reference for you, you should be aware of the following guidelines: Give referees at least three weeks’ notice

before the reference is due. Senior members of staff in particular are asked to write scores of references every term. It is in your own interest to give the referee enough time to do it justice.

Never put down someone’s name as a referee without asking them in advance.

Provide all the information needed to write the reference (e.g., the programme or job you are applying for; the research project you have presented as part of your application). Make sure that you have filled out your part of any form you submit.

It is helpful if you include all the information your academic adviser will need in a single email, with a clear subject line. You might, for example, wish to remind your academic adviser of scholarships awarded or internships undertaken.

Once someone agrees to be a referee, he or she has the obligation to do the job on time. Inevitably, busy people writing scores of references sometimes forget, so gentle reminders are worthwhile.

Office hours All members of LSE teaching staff hold weekly term‐time office hours. During these times, your teachers will be available to meet with you to answer particular questions you might have about the courses they teach, or to discuss more general issues relating to your course of study. Please use office hours to get additional guidance and support, and to receive more in‐depth feedback on your assessed coursework.

Taxi stand in Tanant, Azilal Province, Morocco (Dr Mary Montgomery)

Tea time with a family near Fes, Morocco

Local produce for sale in Tanant Market, Azilal Province, Morocco

Details of each member of staff’s office hours are posted on their office door, as soon as possible after the term begins, and on LSE for You.

Departmental Office The department’s administrative team are normally in the office between 9:30 and 5:30, Monday to Friday. As far as possible, the administrators operate an "open door" policy: if one of is not available, the others will try to help. Ms Yan Hinrichsen Departmental Manager OLD 6.03, 020 7955 7202, [email protected] Ms Camilla Kennedy Harper Administrative Officer (Quality Assurance and Year Abroad) OLD 6.04A, 020 7107 5867, C.Kennedy‐[email protected] Mr Tom Hinrichsen Administrator (Thursdays and Fridays only) OLD 6.04A, 020 7955 6775, [email protected] Ms Renata Todd Communications and Administration Officer OLD 6.04A, 020 7852 3709, [email protected] Recruiting Administrative Officer (Exams and Assessments) OLD 6.04A, 020 7852 5037

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to make you aware of the potential significance of anthropological insights for an understanding of policy issues, such as the impact of socio‐cultural factors on patterns of economic development, or the political significance in various historical circumstances of ethnic and cultural difference.

Key academic staff Professor Katy Gardner ([email protected]) is the Head of Department. Dr Catherine Allerton ([email protected]) is Departmental Tutor, with general responsibility for all BA/BSc programmes in our Department. After your academic adviser, he is the person you should consult about most issues, academic or otherwise. Dr Michael W. Scott ([email protected]) is the Chair of Examiners. Any problems relating to examinations, or the submission and examination of coursework, can be discussed with him. The Department is concerned to promote equality and to foster an environment in which forms of discrimination (including, but not limited to, race, gender and sexuality) are not tolerated. If you have questions or concerns about these or related issues, please contact the Department’s Equality Officer, Dr Catherine Allerton ([email protected]). All discussions will be held in the strictest confidence. Please check the departmental website for a full list of academic staff, their research interests, and contact details: www.lse.ac.uk/anthropology/ people/departmentalstaff.aspx. Academic Advisers Every student on an Anthropology programme is assigned an Academic Adviser. You will be told at the induction meeting, or as soon as possible afterwards, who your academic advisor is. A full list of all the students and their advisors will also be posted on Moodle and on the noticeboard between rooms OLD 6.02 and OLD 6.03. The academic adviser is the first point of enquiry for questions of an academic nature. Your academic adviser will also be able to offer some guidance and assistance with personal concerns. Any academic questions that the academic adviser cannot assist with should be directed to the Departmental Tutor.

Depending on their programme of study, students are required to meet with their academic adviser for tutorials an average of two/three times per term during the Michaelmas and Lent Terms (see information on tutorials below). If you have questions about the degree programme, or something else that you would like to discuss, you may also visit your academic adviser during their office hours or at another mutually convenient time. Regular contact with your academic adviser is recommended and will be beneficial for later reference writing and personal development. Letters of reference If you need to ask your academic advisor or any other of your teachers to write a reference for you, you should be aware of the following guidelines: Give referees at least three weeks’ notice

before the reference is due. Senior members of staff in particular are asked to write scores of references every term. It is in your own interest to give the referee enough time to do it justice.

Never put down someone’s name as a referee without asking them in advance.

Provide all the information needed to write the reference (e.g., the programme or job you are applying for; the research project you have presented as part of your application). Make sure that you have filled out your part of any form you submit.

It is helpful if you include all the information your academic adviser will need in a single email, with a clear subject line. You might, for example, wish to remind your academic adviser of scholarships awarded or internships undertaken.

Once someone agrees to be a referee, he or she has the obligation to do the job on time. Inevitably, busy people writing scores of references sometimes forget, so gentle reminders are worthwhile.

Office hours All members of LSE teaching staff hold weekly term‐time office hours. During these times, your teachers will be available to meet with you to answer particular questions you might have about the courses they teach, or to discuss more general issues relating to your course of study. Please use office hours to get additional guidance and support, and to receive more in‐depth feedback on your assessed coursework.

Taxi stand in Tanant, Azilal Province, Morocco (Dr Mary Montgomery)

Tea time with a family near Fes, Morocco

Local produce for sale in Tanant Market, Azilal Province, Morocco

Details of each member of staff’s office hours are posted on their office door, as soon as possible after the term begins, and on LSE for You.

Departmental Office The department’s administrative team are normally in the office between 9:30 and 5:30, Monday to Friday. As far as possible, the administrators operate an "open door" policy: if one of is not available, the others will try to help. Ms Yan Hinrichsen Departmental Manager OLD 6.03, 020 7955 7202, [email protected] Ms Camilla Kennedy Harper Administrative Officer (Quality Assurance and Year Abroad) OLD 6.04A, 020 7107 5867, C.Kennedy‐[email protected] Mr Tom Hinrichsen Administrator (Thursdays and Fridays only) OLD 6.04A, 020 7955 6775, [email protected] Ms Renata Todd Communications and Administration Officer OLD 6.04A, 020 7852 3709, [email protected] Recruiting Administrative Officer (Exams and Assessments) OLD 6.04A, 020 7852 5037

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Representation Staff-student liaison committees At the start of the year you will be asked if you would like to represent your programme on the Staff Student Liaison Committee (SSLC). These are important Committees as they provide a forum for feedback from students on their programme and for discussion of issues which affect the student community as a whole. The role of an SSLC representative is therefore central to effective quality assurance of courses and programmes in the School and those elected or chosen as a representative will be given training. The Undergraduate SSLC includes student representatives from each programme of study and appropriate academic staff. There is normally one representative for each year of each programme, although this can vary. The SSLC also elects one representative to attend the relevant School level Undergraduate Students' Consultative Forum. More information on the Consultative Forum can be found by following this link: www.lse.ac.uk/intranet/LSEServices/governance AndCommittees/committeesAndWorkingGroups/ consultativeForumForUndergraduateStudents/ Home.aspx. Communication within the Department and within the School Email Please bear in mind that email is used in the Department and throughout the School as the standard form of communication. It is therefore essential, once you have set up your LSE email address, that you check it regularly. Please note that the Department will not send email to LSE students at non‐LSE email addresses. If you wish to use a non‐LSE address, you will therefore need to set up your account to have your LSE emails automatically forwarded to your non‐LSE address. The IT Help Desk provides useful information on such procedures. See the IT Services web page for more details at www.lse.ac.uk/imt.

Appropriate use of email The department, and all its staff, receive a high volume of email and ask that you bear the following guidelines in mind when using email: Please make use of the subject field, and give a

clear and concise description of the content of your message e.g. “Request for tutorial meeting on Thursday 5 May”.

Do not mark your email as urgent unless it really is!

Email should be used to arrange meetings with your academic adviser, and for requests for information that only require a brief response (a few lines). We expect you to attend office hours if you would like to discuss academic material; emails asking staff to summarise entire classes/lectures will not receive a reply.

We try to reply to individual emails within 5 working days. Please do not expect an immediate reply. If your enquiry is urgent, please attend office hours, call the department or come to the departmental office.

Members of the department can always be contacted during their office hours. If you want to set up a different time for a meeting, contact the staff member via email. Contact details can be found on the Departmental Staff web page (www.lse.ac.uk/anthropology/people/ departmentalstaff.aspx). Reading lists and other information related to our courses are normally available on a Moodle page called AnthropologyInfo – Anthropology Department: General Information for Students. moodle.lse.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=983 The notice boards in the Seligman Library (OLD 6.05) as well as those outside rooms OLD 6.02 – OLD 6.03 are used to display information relevant to Anthropology students.

Reog barongan performers entertain the crowd at a Central Javanese circumcision celebration (Dr Nick Long)

A boy rides a dragon round his village following his brother’s circumcision ceremony, Bangsri, Central Java, Indonesia

A hypnotist tests the depth of LSE anthropologist Nick Long’s trance following his exposure to ‘radical mesmerism’

Kelet, Central Java, Indonesia

A reog barongan troupe from Bangsri, Indonesia,plus visiting anthropologist

“Snailmail” We ask you please not to use the Departmental address for paper letters / correspondence. “Snailmail” sent to you via the School is likely to be seriously delayed, and may be lost in the system. If we do receive letters for you, we will place them in the post‐boxes (called ‘pigeon‐holes’) in the Seligman Library, room OLD 6.05. LSE for You (www.lse.ac.uk/lseforyou) LSE for You is a personalised web portal which gives you access to a range of services. For example, you can: View or change your personal details. Make course selections.

Reset your library and network passwords. Monitor and pay your tuition fees online.

Check your exam results.

You can also access online tutorials on how to navigate and personalise LSE for You via its login page, using your LSE network username and password to login. Please keep your personal details up to date so that we can contact you if necessary.

Change of address If you change your term‐time or permanent address, or your phone number, you must inform the School. This change can be done by you, using LSE for You. Your address is protected information and will not be disclosed to a third party without your permission unless it is for reasons of official School business. It is important that you keep us informed of your private address and telephone number.

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Representation Staff-student liaison committees At the start of the year you will be asked if you would like to represent your programme on the Staff Student Liaison Committee (SSLC). These are important Committees as they provide a forum for feedback from students on their programme and for discussion of issues which affect the student community as a whole. The role of an SSLC representative is therefore central to effective quality assurance of courses and programmes in the School and those elected or chosen as a representative will be given training. The Undergraduate SSLC includes student representatives from each programme of study and appropriate academic staff. There is normally one representative for each year of each programme, although this can vary. The SSLC also elects one representative to attend the relevant School level Undergraduate Students' Consultative Forum. More information on the Consultative Forum can be found by following this link: www.lse.ac.uk/intranet/LSEServices/governance AndCommittees/committeesAndWorkingGroups/ consultativeForumForUndergraduateStudents/ Home.aspx. Communication within the Department and within the School Email Please bear in mind that email is used in the Department and throughout the School as the standard form of communication. It is therefore essential, once you have set up your LSE email address, that you check it regularly. Please note that the Department will not send email to LSE students at non‐LSE email addresses. If you wish to use a non‐LSE address, you will therefore need to set up your account to have your LSE emails automatically forwarded to your non‐LSE address. The IT Help Desk provides useful information on such procedures. See the IT Services web page for more details at www.lse.ac.uk/imt.

Appropriate use of email The department, and all its staff, receive a high volume of email and ask that you bear the following guidelines in mind when using email: Please make use of the subject field, and give a

clear and concise description of the content of your message e.g. “Request for tutorial meeting on Thursday 5 May”.

Do not mark your email as urgent unless it really is!

Email should be used to arrange meetings with your academic adviser, and for requests for information that only require a brief response (a few lines). We expect you to attend office hours if you would like to discuss academic material; emails asking staff to summarise entire classes/lectures will not receive a reply.

We try to reply to individual emails within 5 working days. Please do not expect an immediate reply. If your enquiry is urgent, please attend office hours, call the department or come to the departmental office.

Members of the department can always be contacted during their office hours. If you want to set up a different time for a meeting, contact the staff member via email. Contact details can be found on the Departmental Staff web page (www.lse.ac.uk/anthropology/people/ departmentalstaff.aspx). Reading lists and other information related to our courses are normally available on a Moodle page called AnthropologyInfo – Anthropology Department: General Information for Students. moodle.lse.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=983 The notice boards in the Seligman Library (OLD 6.05) as well as those outside rooms OLD 6.02 – OLD 6.03 are used to display information relevant to Anthropology students.

Reog barongan performers entertain the crowd at a Central Javanese circumcision celebration (Dr Nick Long)

A boy rides a dragon round his village following his brother’s circumcision ceremony, Bangsri, Central Java, Indonesia

A hypnotist tests the depth of LSE anthropologist Nick Long’s trance following his exposure to ‘radical mesmerism’

Kelet, Central Java, Indonesia

A reog barongan troupe from Bangsri, Indonesia,plus visiting anthropologist

“Snailmail” We ask you please not to use the Departmental address for paper letters / correspondence. “Snailmail” sent to you via the School is likely to be seriously delayed, and may be lost in the system. If we do receive letters for you, we will place them in the post‐boxes (called ‘pigeon‐holes’) in the Seligman Library, room OLD 6.05. LSE for You (www.lse.ac.uk/lseforyou) LSE for You is a personalised web portal which gives you access to a range of services. For example, you can: View or change your personal details. Make course selections.

Reset your library and network passwords. Monitor and pay your tuition fees online.

Check your exam results.

You can also access online tutorials on how to navigate and personalise LSE for You via its login page, using your LSE network username and password to login. Please keep your personal details up to date so that we can contact you if necessary.

Change of address If you change your term‐time or permanent address, or your phone number, you must inform the School. This change can be done by you, using LSE for You. Your address is protected information and will not be disclosed to a third party without your permission unless it is for reasons of official School business. It is important that you keep us informed of your private address and telephone number.

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Students on the BA/BSc Social Anthropology

must take ethnographic options (e.g. ‘Anthropology of Melanesia,

Anthropology of Amazonia) to the value of at least half a unit ( indicated by ‘H’) among their second and third

year options.

The ful l programme regulations and detai ls of course options can be found

on the fol lowing page: www.lse.ac.uk/resources/calendar/

programmeRegulations/ undergraduate/BABScSocial

Anthropology.htm

About your degree programme Our department runs two undergraduate degree programmes: the BA/BSc in Social Anthropology and the BA in Anthropology and Law. Both involve the study of twelve units over three years. In addition, LSE100 is taken by all students in the Lent Term of Year 1 and the Michaelmas Term of Year 2. The course is compulsory but does not affect the final degree classification. More information on LSE100 is given below. A general overview of each year of the degree programmes follows, but please note that you will need to consult the School Calendar www.lse.ac.uk/resources/calendar/ undergraduate.htm for updated and official information on regulations and requirements. The following are intended as guidelines only. Students registering on the BA/BSc in Social Anthropology will not be allowed to transfer onto the BA Anthropology in Law at any stage.

BA/BSc in Social Anthropology First year In the first year you will take courses to the value of four units of which three are compulsory (or core) courses. 1. AN100 Introduction to Social Anthropology 2. AN101 Ethnography and Theory: Selected

Texts 3. AN102 Anthropology, Text and Film

4. You choose your fourth unit from a variety of one‐unit (over two terms) or half‐unit (over one term) ‘outside options’ offered by other departments. See www.lse.ac.uk/resources/calendar/ programmeRegulations/undergraduate/ 2017_outsideOptions.htm.

Second year In the second year you will take courses to the value of four units of which three are compulsory: 5. AN200 The Anthropology of Kinship, Sex and

Gender

6. AN226 Political and Legal Anthropology 7. AN256 Economic Anthropology (1): Production

and Exchange (H) and AN298 Research Methods in Social Anthropology (H)

8. You choose courses within the department to the value of one unit.

Third year In the third year you will again take courses to the value of four units, of which three are compulsory 9. AN300 Advanced Theory of Social

Anthropology

10. AN301 Anthropology of Religion 11. For your third unit you choose courses within

the department to the value of one unit 12. AN357 Economic Anthropology (2):

Transformation and Globalisation (H) and AN398 Special Essay Paper in Social Anthropology (H).

BA in Anthropology and Law The Anthropology department runs a joint degree in Anthropology and Law with the Law department. All students taking this degree have their ‘home’ and academic adviser in the Department of Anthropology. First year In the first year you will take courses to the value of four units, of which two are compulsory courses in Anthropology, and two are compulsory courses in Law. 1. AN100 Introduction to Social Anthropology

2. AN101 Ethnography and Theory: Selected Texts

3. LL106 Public Law

4. LL105 Property I (H) and LL109 Introduction to the Legal System (H)

Second year In the second year you will take courses to the value of four units of which three are compulsory. 5. AN226 Political and Legal Anthropology 6. LL108 Criminal Law

7. LL104 Law of Obligations 8. You choose your fourth unit from a variety of

one‐unit (over two terms) or half‐unit (over one term) courses in Anthropology

Third year In the third year you will take courses to the value of four units, of which two are compulsory courses in Law. 9. LL232 Law and Institutions of the European

Union

10. LL275 Property II 11. You choose your third unit from a variety of

courses in Law 12. You choose your fourth unit from a variety of


The full programme regulations and details of optional courses can be found on the following page: www.lse.ac.uk/resources/calendar/ programmeRegulations/undergraduate/ BAAnthropologyAndLaw.htm.

Choosing options As stated above, you need to take certain compulsory courses, complemented by chosen options, for each of your three years of a BA/BSc degree. Examples of Anthropology options taught in recent years include ‘ethnographic options’ (e.g. The Anthropology of Melanesia, Investigating the Philippines) and others with a general theme (e.g. Cognition and Anthropology, The Anthropology of Christianity, Anthropology of Ontology). In 2017 the LSE have introduced a new Course Finder tool that enables you to filter and search for courses. The following are intended as guidelines, which you should keep in mind when choosing courses. Please do also consult the School Calendar. i) Course choices are made through LSE for You

www.lse.ac.uk/lseforyou/.

ii) Choices must conform to the degree regulations as set out in the School Calendar and always need to comply with the pre‐requisites set out in the course guide. Particular care needs to be taken in the case of joint degrees, where the regulations are more complicated.

iii) In some cases suspensions of regulations can be obtained to allow you to take courses not listed in the programme regulations, provided that the request is made early (before the course starts).

iv) Always refer to the Departmental Tutor in case of difficulties or doubts.

v) Choices need to be approved by your Academic Adviser. In some cases changes will need to be approved by both the Academic Adviser and the Departmental Tutor.

vi) It is important to remember that there might be constraints regarding the choices available due to both timetabling limitations and to the fact that most option courses are only taught every few years. In order to avoid disappointment and wasting time, students should check the current timetable to see if there are potential timetable clashes and to make sure that the course they are choosing is available in the current academic year.

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Students on the BA/BSc Social Anthropology

must take ethnographic options (e.g. ‘Anthropology of Melanesia,

Anthropology of Amazonia) to the value of at least half a unit ( indicated by ‘H’) among their second and third

year options.

The ful l programme regulations and detai ls of course options can be found

on the fol lowing page: www.lse.ac.uk/resources/calendar/

programmeRegulations/ undergraduate/BABScSocial

Anthropology.htm

About your degree programme Our department runs two undergraduate degree programmes: the BA/BSc in Social Anthropology and the BA in Anthropology and Law. Both involve the study of twelve units over three years. In addition, LSE100 is taken by all students in the Lent Term of Year 1 and the Michaelmas Term of Year 2. The course is compulsory but does not affect the final degree classification. More information on LSE100 is given below. A general overview of each year of the degree programmes follows, but please note that you will need to consult the School Calendar www.lse.ac.uk/resources/calendar/ undergraduate.htm for updated and official information on regulations and requirements. The following are intended as guidelines only. Students registering on the BA/BSc in Social Anthropology will not be allowed to transfer onto the BA Anthropology in Law at any stage.

BA/BSc in Social Anthropology First year In the first year you will take courses to the value of four units of which three are compulsory (or core) courses. 1. AN100 Introduction to Social Anthropology 2. AN101 Ethnography and Theory: Selected

Texts 3. AN102 Anthropology, Text and Film

4. You choose your fourth unit from a variety of one‐unit (over two terms) or half‐unit (over one term) ‘outside options’ offered by other departments. See www.lse.ac.uk/resources/calendar/ programmeRegulations/undergraduate/ 2017_outsideOptions.htm.

Second year In the second year you will take courses to the value of four units of which three are compulsory: 5. AN200 The Anthropology of Kinship, Sex and

Gender

6. AN226 Political and Legal Anthropology 7. AN256 Economic Anthropology (1): Production

and Exchange (H) and AN298 Research Methods in Social Anthropology (H)

8. You choose courses within the department to the value of one unit.

Third year In the third year you will again take courses to the value of four units, of which three are compulsory 9. AN300 Advanced Theory of Social

Anthropology

10. AN301 Anthropology of Religion 11. For your third unit you choose courses within

the department to the value of one unit 12. AN357 Economic Anthropology (2):

Transformation and Globalisation (H) and AN398 Special Essay Paper in Social Anthropology (H).

BA in Anthropology and Law The Anthropology department runs a joint degree in Anthropology and Law with the Law department. All students taking this degree have their ‘home’ and academic adviser in the Department of Anthropology. First year In the first year you will take courses to the value of four units, of which two are compulsory courses in Anthropology, and two are compulsory courses in Law. 1. AN100 Introduction to Social Anthropology

2. AN101 Ethnography and Theory: Selected Texts

3. LL106 Public Law

4. LL105 Property I (H) and LL109 Introduction to the Legal System (H)

Second year In the second year you will take courses to the value of four units of which three are compulsory. 5. AN226 Political and Legal Anthropology 6. LL108 Criminal Law

7. LL104 Law of Obligations 8. You choose your fourth unit from a variety of


Third year In the third year you will take courses to the value of four units, of which two are compulsory courses in Law. 9. LL232 Law and Institutions of the European

Union

10. LL275 Property II 11. You choose your third unit from a variety of

courses in Law 12. You choose your fourth unit from a variety of


The full programme regulations and details of optional courses can be found on the following page: www.lse.ac.uk/resources/calendar/ programmeRegulations/undergraduate/ BAAnthropologyAndLaw.htm.

Choosing options As stated above, you need to take certain compulsory courses, complemented by chosen options, for each of your three years of a BA/BSc degree. Examples of Anthropology options taught in recent years include ‘ethnographic options’ (e.g. The Anthropology of Melanesia, Investigating the Philippines) and others with a general theme (e.g. Cognition and Anthropology, The Anthropology of Christianity, Anthropology of Ontology). In 2017 the LSE have introduced a new Course Finder tool that enables you to filter and search for courses. The following are intended as guidelines, which you should keep in mind when choosing courses. Please do also consult the School Calendar. i) Course choices are made through LSE for You

www.lse.ac.uk/lseforyou/.

ii) Choices must conform to the degree regulations as set out in the School Calendar and always need to comply with the pre‐requisites set out in the course guide. Particular care needs to be taken in the case of joint degrees, where the regulations are more complicated.

iii) In some cases suspensions of regulations can be obtained to allow you to take courses not listed in the programme regulations, provided that the request is made early (before the course starts).

iv) Always refer to the Departmental Tutor in case of difficulties or doubts.

v) Choices need to be approved by your Academic Adviser. In some cases changes will need to be approved by both the Academic Adviser and the Departmental Tutor.

vi) It is important to remember that there might be constraints regarding the choices available due to both timetabling limitations and to the fact that most option courses are only taught every few years. In order to avoid disappointment and wasting time, students should check the current timetable to see if there are potential timetable clashes and to make sure that the course they are choosing is available in the current academic year.

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Timetables and course choice The Timetables Office is responsible for scheduling and allocating rooms to all of the School’s taught courses. Teaching begins on Monday, 25th September 2017, and this is referred to as week 1 of Michaelmas Term. The timetable of all taught courses can be viewed on the Timetables web page: www.lse.ac.uk/timetables. The timetables web page refreshes overnight and any changes made to teaching will appear the following day. You must choose your courses using LSE for You by 9th October 2017; you will then be placed into class groups by the Timetables Office. Personal Timetables will be published in LSE for You before week 1 of Michaelmas Term, unless you have failed to make your course selection by then, or if your selection has timetabling clashes. If you make a change to your course choices after the publication date, please allow three working days for the changes to appear on your timetable. LSECourseFinder (apps.lse.ac.uk/coursefinder) will help you to choose which courses to take within your programme regulations. Course Finder allows you to browse available courses by unit value, keyword, department, and assessment type. You can build a shortlist of courses and compare the Lecture Timetable for that shortlist. Course Finder will be open from 10:00 on Monday 18th September 2017 to 12:00 on Monday 9th October 2017, and is available to registered students. You must choose all of your courses, including any compulsory ones, in LSE for You. You can seek advice from your Academic Adviser or Departmental Tutor before making your selection. All course choices need to be approved by your Academic Adviser. The deadline for course choice for undergraduate students is Monday 9th October 2017. If required, you will be able to make changes to Lent Term courses in January. Full information on how to select course can be found at lse.ac.uk/coursechoice. Some departments have capped courses, which mean that places on these courses will be limited. On the LSE for You course choice system these courses are labelled as 'capped'. These courses are offered on a first come first served basis and as

soon as the number of students registered reaches the capped number, the status of these courses will change to "full" and no one else will be able to select them. For more information about capped courses please contact the department teaching the course. If you have made your course choices in LSE for You by the specified publication date but cannot view a personal timetable this may be because you either have a timetable clash or you have not registered for this academic year. If it is a timetable clash, you should see a message on LSE for You telling you the codes of the courses that are clashing. For further information on timetable clashes please see the timetables web page: www.lse.ac.uk/intranet/diaryAndEvents/ timetables/timetableClash.aspx Class Changes The Timetables Office uses an automated process to allocate undergraduate students to classes. In order to request a change to a scheduled class, you should apply using the LSE for You ‘class change request’ function. Online change requests are not available for LSE100, for more information, email [email protected]. If there are circumstances that prevent you from attending your scheduled class, you should include full details of the dates and times that you are unavailable. The relevant academic department will then consider your request. You may be asked to provide documentary evidence in support of your application. Once the department has made its decision you will be notified via your LSE email account. If your request is approved, your LSE for Your personal timetable will be updated within three working days of the date of approval.

LSE100 The LSE Course: Understanding the causes of things All first and second year undergraduate students are required to take the course LSE100 The LSE Course: Understanding the causes of things. Your lectures and classes for LSE100 begin in January. This is an interdisciplinary course which is taught over two terms: the Lent Term of your first year and the Michaelmas Term of your second year. In both of these terms, you will be required to attend a 2‐hour lecture and a 1‐hour class each week. LSE100 does not follow the standard LSE approach of unseen examinations. Instead you will complete

Both classes and tutorials are compulsory.

different forms of coursework that are designed to build critical methodological, research and communication skills. Building on a variety of formative work that you will complete in the classroom, summative assessments will include written academic arguments, group projects, and short weekly exercises designed to develop your analytical skills. LSE100 introduces you to the fundamental elements of thinking as a social scientist by exploring real problems and real questions, drawing on a range of disciplines across the social sciences. This distinctive course actively challenges you to analyse questions of current public concern and of intellectual debate from a rigorous social science perspective. Focusing on ‘big questions’ – such as ‘How should we manage climate change?, or ‘Who should own ideas?’ – as an LSE100 student you will explore the different approaches to evidence, explanation and theory that are used in the different social sciences. In this way, the course not only broadens your intellectual experience, but also deepens your understanding of your own degree discipline. More information on the course can be found in the LSE100 mini course guide which you will receive during Orientation week, on the website www.lse.ac.uk/LSE100 or by visiting the LSE100 Moodle site. Course structure Throughout the first two terms courses are taught through lectures, classes and tutorials. Most courses involve weekly lectures of one hour each, and associated classes where you will discuss reading assignments in a small group with a teacher. In the first two terms you will have up to eight contact hours a week. You will have additional contact hours through tutorial meetings, often linked to essay assignments, which vary in number depending on your degree programme. Lectures These are normally 50 minutes long – starting 5 minutes past the hour and finishing 5 minutes to the hour. Lectures will introduce you to the particular topic of the week, as detailed on the reading list for the course, and they will provide you with a critical framework through which to tackle your own reading. Reading lists are available through Moodle.

Classes Classes, also 50 minutes long, are an integral part of each lecture course; they consist of small groups, normally of a maximum of 15 students. In the Department of Anthropology classes for both core and optional courses take place weekly. Classes enable you to engage critically with the material and the ideas presented in the lectures. They provide an opportunity for you to express your own ideas and to ask the teacher for clarifications on issues introduced in lectures. Classes can take various forms, but in all cases they are not meant to develop into a lecture given by the class teacher, whose main role is to facilitate the discussion among students. Sometimes, you might be asked to give short oral presentations, or to represent a particular motion in a class debate. Students gain most from classes if they prepare by reading key texts, and by participating actively in the discussion. Tutorials The department of Anthropology attaches great importance to its tutorial system. At the beginning of the academic year you will be allocated an academic adviser whom you will meet for hour‐long tutorials (Michaelmas and Lent terms only). Tutorials consist of very small‐group teaching (usually 3 students), for which you are required to write and submit an essay before the meeting. You will discuss these essays among yourselves and with your academic adviser. The number of tutorials varies depending on your programme of studies: BA/BSc Social Anthropology Students will have three one‐hour tutorial meetings in both Michaelmas and Lent Terms. BA Anthropology and Law First and second year students will have two one‐hour tutorial meetings in both Michaelmas and Lent Terms. In addition, first year students will have additional ‘bridging’ sessions, aimed at linking the two strands of their degree. Third year BA Anthropology and Law students will have one one‐hour tutorial in both Michaelmas and Lent Terms.

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Timetables and course choice The Timetables Office is responsible for scheduling and allocating rooms to all of the School’s taught courses. Teaching begins on Monday, 25th September 2017, and this is referred to as week 1 of Michaelmas Term. The timetable of all taught courses can be viewed on the Timetables web page: www.lse.ac.uk/timetables. The timetables web page refreshes overnight and any changes made to teaching will appear the following day. You must choose your courses using LSE for You by 9th October 2017; you will then be placed into class groups by the Timetables Office. Personal Timetables will be published in LSE for You before week 1 of Michaelmas Term, unless you have failed to make your course selection by then, or if your selection has timetabling clashes. If you make a change to your course choices after the publication date, please allow three working days for the changes to appear on your timetable. LSECourseFinder (apps.lse.ac.uk/coursefinder) will help you to choose which courses to take within your programme regulations. Course Finder allows you to browse available courses by unit value, keyword, department, and assessment type. You can build a shortlist of courses and compare the Lecture Timetable for that shortlist. Course Finder will be open from 10:00 on Monday 18th September 2017 to 12:00 on Monday 9th October 2017, and is available to registered students. You must choose all of your courses, including any compulsory ones, in LSE for You. You can seek advice from your Academic Adviser or Departmental Tutor before making your selection. All course choices need to be approved by your Academic Adviser. The deadline for course choice for undergraduate students is Monday 9th October 2017. If required, you will be able to make changes to Lent Term courses in January. Full information on how to select course can be found at lse.ac.uk/coursechoice. Some departments have capped courses, which mean that places on these courses will be limited. On the LSE for You course choice system these courses are labelled as 'capped'. These courses are offered on a first come first served basis and as

soon as the number of students registered reaches the capped number, the status of these courses will change to "full" and no one else will be able to select them. For more information about capped courses please contact the department teaching the course. If you have made your course choices in LSE for You by the specified publication date but cannot view a personal timetable this may be because you either have a timetable clash or you have not registered for this academic year. If it is a timetable clash, you should see a message on LSE for You telling you the codes of the courses that are clashing. For further information on timetable clashes please see the timetables web page: www.lse.ac.uk/intranet/diaryAndEvents/ timetables/timetableClash.aspx Class Changes The Timetables Office uses an automated process to allocate undergraduate students to classes. In order to request a change to a scheduled class, you should apply using the LSE for You ‘class change request’ function. Online change requests are not available for LSE100, for more information, email [email protected]. If there are circumstances that prevent you from attending your scheduled class, you should include full details of the dates and times that you are unavailable. The relevant academic department will then consider your request. You may be asked to provide documentary evidence in support of your application. Once the department has made its decision you will be notified via your LSE email account. If your request is approved, your LSE for Your personal timetable will be updated within three working days of the date of approval.

LSE100 The LSE Course: Understanding the causes of things All first and second year undergraduate students are required to take the course LSE100 The LSE Course: Understanding the causes of things. Your lectures and classes for LSE100 begin in January. This is an interdisciplinary course which is taught over two terms: the Lent Term of your first year and the Michaelmas Term of your second year. In both of these terms, you will be required to attend a 2‐hour lecture and a 1‐hour class each week. LSE100 does not follow the standard LSE approach of unseen examinations. Instead you will complete

Both classes and tutorials are compulsory.

different forms of coursework that are designed to build critical methodological, research and communication skills. Building on a variety of formative work that you will complete in the classroom, summative assessments will include written academic arguments, group projects, and short weekly exercises designed to develop your analytical skills. LSE100 introduces you to the fundamental elements of thinking as a social scientist by exploring real problems and real questions, drawing on a range of disciplines across the social sciences. This distinctive course actively challenges you to analyse questions of current public concern and of intellectual debate from a rigorous social science perspective. Focusing on ‘big questions’ – such as ‘How should we manage climate change?, or ‘Who should own ideas?’ – as an LSE100 student you will explore the different approaches to evidence, explanation and theory that are used in the different social sciences. In this way, the course not only broadens your intellectual experience, but also deepens your understanding of your own degree discipline. More information on the course can be found in the LSE100 mini course guide which you will receive during Orientation week, on the website www.lse.ac.uk/LSE100 or by visiting the LSE100 Moodle site. Course structure Throughout the first two terms courses are taught through lectures, classes and tutorials. Most courses involve weekly lectures of one hour each, and associated classes where you will discuss reading assignments in a small group with a teacher. In the first two terms you will have up to eight contact hours a week. You will have additional contact hours through tutorial meetings, often linked to essay assignments, which vary in number depending on your degree programme. Lectures These are normally 50 minutes long – starting 5 minutes past the hour and finishing 5 minutes to the hour. Lectures will introduce you to the particular topic of the week, as detailed on the reading list for the course, and they will provide you with a critical framework through which to tackle your own reading. Reading lists are available through Moodle.

Classes Classes, also 50 minutes long, are an integral part of each lecture course; they consist of small groups, normally of a maximum of 15 students. In the Department of Anthropology classes for both core and optional courses take place weekly. Classes enable you to engage critically with the material and the ideas presented in the lectures. They provide an opportunity for you to express your own ideas and to ask the teacher for clarifications on issues introduced in lectures. Classes can take various forms, but in all cases they are not meant to develop into a lecture given by the class teacher, whose main role is to facilitate the discussion among students. Sometimes, you might be asked to give short oral presentations, or to represent a particular motion in a class debate. Students gain most from classes if they prepare by reading key texts, and by participating actively in the discussion. Tutorials The department of Anthropology attaches great importance to its tutorial system. At the beginning of the academic year you will be allocated an academic adviser whom you will meet for hour‐long tutorials (Michaelmas and Lent terms only). Tutorials consist of very small‐group teaching (usually 3 students), for which you are required to write and submit an essay before the meeting. You will discuss these essays among yourselves and with your academic adviser. The number of tutorials varies depending on your programme of studies: BA/BSc Social Anthropology Students will have three one‐hour tutorial meetings in both Michaelmas and Lent Terms. BA Anthropology and Law First and second year students will have two one‐hour tutorial meetings in both Michaelmas and Lent Terms. In addition, first year students will have additional ‘bridging’ sessions, aimed at linking the two strands of their degree. Third year BA Anthropology and Law students will have one one‐hour tutorial in both Michaelmas and Lent Terms.

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It is very important that you attend and participate actively in classes and tutorials. This will enable you to cover in depth parts of the syllabus, and give you an opportunity to acquire and develop invaluable skills, which will enhance your academic performance and which you will be able to use beyond your undergraduate career. Classes and tutorials help you develop oral and written presentations skills and they encourage leadership and co‐operation, independent reading and research. Classes and tutorials are also means of monitoring your progress. Student attendance and performance is regularly recorded and failure to attend classes or to complete written work may result in refusal to grant permission to enter for the written examinat

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