Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of the course students should be able to:
1. Show an articulated understanding of the importance of identifying underlying economic mechanisms, social structures, ideas and values related to different groups and societies.
2. Demonstrate the relevance of specialist ethnographic knowledge and how this applies for instance to landscape, causes of natural disasters, the importance of common vs. codified law; kinship vs. citizenship; health/disease models predicated on moral notions of evil/goodness vs. allopathic medicine.
3. Have the key skills necessary for empowering beneficiaries by supporting local participation.
4. Demonstrate the skills to understand and communicate with beneficiaries, authorities and donors from different cultures and social and political levels and/or different pre-established situations.
5. Appreciate of the delicate subtleties and difficulties in working in multicultural and multidisciplinary teams.
6. Demonstrate the capacity to communicate with audiences in an ethical manner and beyond description.
7. Demonstrate a good understanding of social relationships in HA intervention situations at various levels.