This course has been proposed in the Undergraduate Degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the UNED within the field “Anthropological Training and Professional Practices” (Formación para la práctica profesional de la antropología) aiming to train students in cultural diversity in social migratory contexts focusing on theoretical and methodological frameworks as well as professional skills in migratory issues. Articulated with the other courses of this field, Migration (I) assists students to achieve skills established in the Dregree of Social and Cultural Anthropology focusing on:
Theoretical frameworks in migration studies, allowing students to know and understand theoretical problems developed in social and cultural anthropology.
Ethnographical methodologies aiming to help students learn how they can produce, register, classified, and verified data drawn from ethnographic techniques.
Professional skills allowing students to learn how to apply theory and ethnographic techniques in order to define and solve social problems in the field of migration.
This course will also help students to achieve the general skills established in the Degree of Anthropology: Personal work, communication, information, scientific communication/ expression using correct technical language in academic fields, team work, and following ethical values established for professional practices in anthropology.
Students will achieve the aforementioned skills by learning how to contextualize migratory dynamics as well as theoretical and methodological approaches developed in social and cultural anthropology. In addition, students will be familiar with roles developed by anthropologists working as researchers, consultants, or cultural brokers in areas such as public policy, health, education, development, civic and human rights.
