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To introduce students to the methods employed by anthropologists when undertaking ethnographic research and to prepare students for the field research on which their dissertations will be based.

To acquire a theoretical and historical overview of the changing relationship between the critical social sciences and global development, to understand the multiple ways in which social science research can enhance our understanding of contemporary policies and practices in global development and to critically evaluate, from a social science perspective, various theoretical approaches to global development.

To bring perspectives derived from the taught modules to bear upon an issue of research interest to the student in the domain of the programme title: i.e. the dissertation should reflect a specifically ethnographic approach to research and analysis. Primary research data are to be derived primarily from participant observer study in a field site chosen by the student, supplemented by other research methods such as interviews, ethnographic tasks etc. The object of the dissertation is twofold: (i) to analyse an issue or problem that arises out of the data gathered during fieldwork; and (ii) to show how this analysis is warranted by the field data and how it relates to relevant literature in (and to other research in) this area.