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Exam papers: Dear friends, This is to let you know that the final grades and comments concering exam papers will be available at SUM's reception on Tuesday 5 April. Best wishes Nina W.

PROGRAM

LECTURES: TUESDAYS 2-4pm (18/1, 25/1, 1/2, 8/2, 15/2, 1/3)

SEMINARS: THURSDAYS 10-12am (20/1, 27/1, 3/2, 10/2, 17/2, 3/3). Seminar leader: Jemima Garc¨¬a Godos

1. Lecture January 18: "How to construct an argument for your thesis I" Jennifer Schirmer

Read: Blok, The Mafia of a Sicilian Village 1860-1960

2. Lecture January 25: "How to construct an argument for your thesis II" Jennifer Schirmer

Read: Blok, The Mafia of a Sicilian Village 1860-1960

3. Lecture February 1: "The World as a Book of Signs: From Thick Description to Semiotics" Nina Witoszek

Read: Barthes, Mythologies Geertz, "Thick Description" Bell, " Technology, Nature and Society" Bell, "The Disjunction of Realms"< /p>

4. Lecture February 8: "Methodology in Religious Studies" Tarjei R?nnow

Read: Castels, "The greening of the self"

5. Lecture February 15: "Fieldwork and case study...

Research Methods II: Analytical Methods and Thesis Writing (4011)

Module coordinator: Peder Anker

LITERATURE

Books to buy:

Roland Barthes, Mythologies, (London: Vintage, 1993), or any edition.

Anton Blok, The Mafia of a Sicilian Village 1860-1960: A Study of Violent Peasant Entrepreneurs, (New York: Waveland Press, 1988).

William Strunk and E. B. White, The Elements of Style, (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1979), latest edition.

Kate L. Turbian, A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), latest edition.

Optional reading:

Robert E. Stake, The Art of Case Study Research, (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1995).

Material available on internet: Garret Hardin, "The Tragedy of the Commons," Science, 162 (1968), 1243-1248. http://dieoff.org/page95.htm

Tom Burke and...