Admission Requirements
Only CADS students who have completed all Academic Skills and Research Lab courses of the first and second year of the CADS bachelor programme can enrol in this course.
Course Description
The course Personal and Professional Impact (PPI) is the final course of the Academic Skills and Research Lab courses. The course aims to provide a space for reflecting on the generative potential of anthropology and sociology. Throughout this course, you will be encouraged to translate and transform academic skills into professional and creative practices: What kinds of societal roles can we as anthropologists and sociologists hold? How can we employ our ethnographic sensibilities when working for an NGO, curating a programme in the cultural sector, or doing research for a documentary? And which skills can we lean into when applying for grants, graduate degrees, or jobs?
PPI is designed to support students in their future endeavours. During the course, students complete activities and workshops that assist them in exploring their competences, core values, and sensibilities. By assessing the development of personal motivations, the course provides a framework for students to start imagining what the future might hold for them. In addition, students will broaden and deepen their knowledge of applied anthropology and the practical and societal value of anthropology, partly by using their knowledge, insights and skills in learning to analyse and provide consultancy on an issue relevant for society. Reflecting on their personal and professional development will help students formulate their professional profile and goals for the future. Students are expected to use the knowledge, insights and skills they have acquired in previous courses in the bachelor’s degree, for example by using relevant literature and lecture notes.
In PPI, students train their ability to reflect on the knowledge, insights and skills acquired during their bachelor Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University and their ability to explain what they have to offer after successful completion of this bachelor. Students will also acquire basic abilities to collaborate in a team, assess their own role in the team and assess the development of their personal motivations.
In addition, students will broaden and deepen their knowledge of applied anthropology and the practical and societal value of anthropology, partly by using their knowledge, insights and skills in learning to analyse and provide consultancy on an issue relevant for society.
Course Objectives
On successful completion of the course the students have:
improved their ability to reflect on the knowledge, insights and skills acquired during the Bachelor Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University;
improved their ability to explain what knowledge, insights and skills they have to offer after successful completion of their Bachelor Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University (for example on the labour market);
acquired insight in the practical and societal value of anthropology;
acquired a basic ability to analyse and provide consultancy on an issue relevant for society by presenting a pitch;
acquired a basic ability to successfully collaborate in a team with fellow students;
acquired a basic ability to independently assess the development of their personal and team’s motivations, talents, competences, and skills;
acquired a basic ability to assess their own role in the project team.
Schedule
Dates and room numbers can be found on the website.
Mode of Instruction
This is a 5 ECTS course, which means 140 hours of study (1 ECTS is equivalent to 28 study hours or sbu's).
Seminars. Please note: Attendance is mandatory. Advance commitment is required to all scheduled times and dates. Absence will result in a lower participation grade or exclusion from the course.
Assignments (including written assignments and a team presentation)
Literature
Assessment Method
The assessment of Personal and Professional Impact will be a combination of your collective and individual assignments.
The final grade of the course is established through a weighted average of the grades given to the assignments and course participation. The weighted average should be 5.5 or higher with all final assignments not lower than a 5.5.
It is possible to redo failed final assignments.
Registration in My Studymap
Registration for the lectures in My Studymap is mandatory for all students. Registration closes 5 days before the start of the course. Carefully read all information about the procedures and deadlines for registering for courses and exams.
NB. Once the workgroup division is determined by the course coordinator (during the course), the SSC will enroll the students to the specific workgroups they are assigned to. After this, the schedules in MyTimetable will also show the dates, times, and rooms of the tutorials.
Students need not register for the examination via My Studymap, because this course does not include a single final examination.
Brightspace
All participants will be registered for this course on Brightspace. Please check if you are registered. If not, please contact OSC.
Brightspace will be used to communicate with students and to provide the necessary course documents. Turnitin will be used to submit assignments.
Study material
For this course you need to purchase the following book; either choose the Dutch or English edition:
Bakker, L., M. Cohen & W. Faaij (2020) Antropoloog Gezocht Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press.
Bakker, L., M. Cohen & W. Faaij (2021) Anthropologists Wanted: Why Organizations Need Anthropology Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press.
Information about additional readings will be made available through Brightspace.