Anthropology of Corruption

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Course ID:	3102-FACR
Erasmus code / ISCED:	14.7 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0314) Sociology and cultural studies The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	Anthropology of Corruption
Name in Polish:	Anthropology of Corruption
Organizational unit:	Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology
Course groups:	(in Polish) Moduł L5: Antropologia polityczna i ekonomiczna Courses in foreign languages
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	English
Type of course:	optional courses
Short description:	During fieldwork anthropologists come across “corruption talk” very often. Yet corruption or informal economic activities rarely become their main topic of research. Why is such a prominent topic so rarely analyzed?
Full description:	Corruption is commonly defined as a usage of public office for private gain. This definition is certainly biased by Western thought and presupposes a clear cut distinction between “private” and “public”. Is there any better term to describe informal economic activities such as nepotism, bribing, buying state-paid jobs? How the “fight with corruption”, declared as one of the main objectives of modernizing states, is actually confirming the existing power relations between richer and poorer countries? The above and other issues connected with informal economic activities will be addressed during the class. We will discuss anthropological approaches towards studying corruption and think of the ways corruption could be researched by anthropologists.
Learning outcomes:	(in Polish) Po ukończeniu zajęć studenci potrafią: - analitycznie myśleć i dokonywać obserwacji i krytyki przemian społeczno-kulturowych - posługiwać się wybranym językiem obcym na poziomie B2+ Europejskiego Systemu Opisu Kształcenia Językowego - posługiwać się specjalistyczną terminologią z zakresu etnologii i antropologii kulturowej w języku obcym
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	Participants will be required to read papers and participate actively in the class. Towards the end of the semester they will have to prepare a presentation on a topic related to the issues discussed in class.

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