Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Course Convenor
Siobhan Irving
Contact via siobhan.irving@mq.edu.au
W6A 714
Siobhan Irving
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Credit points |
Credit points
3
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
ANTH150 or (12cp at 100 level or above) or admission to GDipArts
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
Islam is a major world religion, and the anthropology of Islam an exciting enterprise that studies the lived experience of Islam and Muslims in a variety of contexts and different places. One unifying theme of the unit is its focus on the production of knowledge about Islam in the present, asking questions about who speaks for and in the name of Islam. This includes a stress on the representation and control of Islam, not just in the West but also in Muslim majority societies as well. Students are able to research a number of vital topics, including: media coverage of Islam; the fascinating debates around the category and form of the Islamic City; the production of Islam in the Museums of Islamic Art (from Istanbul to New York); Muslim cinema; Gender and Islam; the nationalisation of Islam by secular States such as Turkey; and Islam and Music.
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Please type all essays. Major essay must be submitted on the due date or before through the gradebook system.
Extensions: any extensions must be requested in writing with valid documentation of their necessity (e.g. medical certificate). Any work that is submitted after the due date without an extension will be penalized at the standard rate of 1 percentage point per day.
Important Note: It is a requirement that all students keep a copy of their written work. In the event of work being lost, or if you have uploaded it but it is not in our records, you must be able to present a second copy. If you do not do so, no consideration can be given and all marks will be forfeited for that piece of work.
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Essay | 40% | No | Week 9 |
Take-Home Exam | 25% | No | Week 13 |
Group Project: Powerpoint Pres | 15% | No | Over semester |
Tutorial Participation | 20% | No | Ongoing |
Due: Week 9
Weighting: 40%
Students will write one essay for the course, choosing their topic from one of the major themes under discussion. Essay questions will be self-selected, but this selection will be facilitated by tutorial discussion. It is advisable (but not compulsory) that the essay be based on your tutorial group presentation. However,students will be required to write and submit their own essays. This essay should be approximately 2000 words.
The essay is due on Friday October 12th.
Due: Week 13
Weighting: 25%
A take-home exam will be distributed at the Tuesday seminar on 30th October and will be due back in one week on 6th November, at the seminar. The exam will consist of a combination of short answer questions that link together topics and themes covered in lectures and tutorials throughout the course.
Due: Over semester
Weighting: 15%
Group Project: Tutorial PowerPoint Presentation In the first week of tutorials, each student will be assigned a group and a topic (from weeks 4 to 12). Each group will need to collaborate on a tutorial presentation. All group members contribute to both the preparation of content and to the presentation itself. • A presentation accompanied by PowerPoint slides comprising a reflection on the required weekly reading highlighting and critically engaging with the issues and arguments raised in it. The presentation must be approximately 15 minutes long. • Presentations must link the reading to current or recent events, may engage respected news sources and blogs, and may include images. This will require some further research into the phenomena raised in the reading. • You are encouraged to also use SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL in your PowerPoint slides that could aid the class discussion. Eg:
• Each presentation group must raise 3 questions to initiate class discussion and must also lead these discussions. It is expected all group members will actively engage in posing questions and interacting with these discussions. • Groups must submit their PowerPoint slides (no more than 5 slides) to their tutor. The tutor will be active in helping facilitate the discussion with the presenters but the aim of the panel is to give you the opportunity to lead the discussion and engage your peers in the readings and lecture material. You will be graded based on the quality of your slides, your reflections, the questions you raise, and your ability to lead the discussion. Groups are also welcome to speak with the tutor before your allocated weeks to brainstorm ideas for your discussion points and relevant activities you might want to initiate with the class. Each group is allocated a single grade and it is thus incumbent upon all members to actively contribute.
Due: Ongoing
Weighting: 20%
Tutorial preparation involves a couple of hours of pleasurable (!) reading a week. To facilitate tutorial discussion and to support fellow students, you are required to submit a one-page typed answer to the tutorial question for that week (see lecture and tutorial programme below). Answers can only be submitted at the tutorial in which the reading is to be discussed. The tutorial mark will be awarded both on the basis of the written work (10%), as well as on tutorial participation (10%).
Anth 205 involves a two-hour seminar. Part of this weekly seminar will be used for lectures, part for films and part for discussion.
Students are also required to attend one of two weekly tutorials.
All readings for tutorial and all core articles for the seminar are found on the iLearn site. All other listed readings are on three-day loan (books) or e-reserve (journal articles).
iLecture recordings of the class are found through the University’s On-Line Units System.
Seminar Structure: Each week, the course convener will use the first half of the Tuesday seminar to sketch out and address the key issues under discussion and to situate the seminar readings. In the second half of the seminar we will often adopt a more flexible workshop format, in which students will discuss the subject or where we will view and interpret a film.
Tutorial:
Lecture and Tutorial Programme
Week | Lecture | Tutorial |
Part One: Critical Concepts: Origins, History and Experiences of Islam The first three weeks of the course will introduce students to the basics of Islam, both as a religion and as a historical tradition. |
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1 | Introduction to the Anthropology of Islam |
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Islamic History, Belief and Rituals |
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3 |
Excursion to Gallipoli Mosque, Auburn. No tutorial this week. |
No tutorial this week. |
Part Two: Central Themes and Debates The following weeks will be organized around a number of key themes or ‘problematics’, including debates around the representation of Islam (or Orientalism); on political Islam; on Islam and feminism; on gender and sexuality in Muslim communities; and on Islam and the arts (including Islamic music, fiction, cinema and aesthetics). |
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4 | Studying Muslim Communities | |
5 | Muslim Pieties Across Cultures | |
6 | Sufism Across Cultures | |
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Fiction and Film in Muslim Communities |
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8 | Art and Music in Muslim Communities | |
9 | Orientalism | |
10 | Islamophobia | |
11 | Gender and sexuality in Muslim communities | |
12 | Islamic feminism (Take-home exam distributed) | |
13 | Tying up the Loose Ends of the Anthropology of Islam |
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Date | Description |
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11/07/2018 | change of course convenor and schedule of subjects |
29/06/2018 | change in email address |