736A27 · 7.5 credits · Advanced level (A1N) · Barn
Anthropological Perspectives on Children and Childhood
Active · next start HT 2026
86%
passed the latest ordinary exam
EXA1 · 6 Nov 2025 · 35 students
77%
passed the ordinary exams, all sittings over the last 5 years
EXA1 · 149 students
67%
Harder than 67% of courses at advanced level
Compared with 285 courses at the same level, ordinary exams over the last three academic years. 67 students.
Part of 1 programme
Exam
EXA1 Examination
- G
- U
Ordinary exams
77% passed · 149 students
- 86%35
- 75%32
- 67%27
- 85%26
- 69%29
Re-exams
71% passed · 28 students
- 80%5
- 100%8
- 71%7
- 38%8
- Pass the re-exam: 71% (28 students), compared with 77% (149 students) on the ordinary exam
Show small sittings (8)
Sittings with fewer than 5 students, often credit transfers or special sittings. They are not part of any figure on this page.
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- 100%1
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- 100%1
- 75%4
- 100%1
Other modules
Partial exams, hand-ins and labs. They are not part of the figures at the top.
Exam
EXA2 Examination
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- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
Ordinary exams
89% passed · 139 students
- 88%33
- 97%30
- 84%25
- 92%26
- 84%25
Re-exams
69% passed · 13 students
- 83%6
- 57%7
- Pass the re-exam: 69% (13 students), compared with 89% (139 students) on the ordinary exam
- Get B or A: 34% (152 students)
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Sittings with fewer than 5 students, often credit transfers or special sittings. They are not part of any figure on this page.
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About the course
Aim
After completion of the course, the student should on an advanced level be able to:
- account for fundamental anthropological concepts and research methods with a focus on children and childhood
- describe and analyse the ways in which concepts of children and childhood have different implications in different societies
- apply an anthropological perspective on children’s living conditions and everyday life in the study of one’s own society, as well as others
- identify and account for methodological and ethical dilemmas in relation to anthropological and ethnographic research.
Content
The course deals with fundamental anthropological concepts of significance for the study of children’s living conditions and daily life. The course also treats anthropological cross-cultural understanding of what it means to be a child and to grow up, for example in relation to welfare and educational institutions and how understandings of personhood, family, kinship, peer groups, body and gender vary and permeate children’s experiences. Methodological and ethical questions relevant to anthropological and ethnographic studies of children’s living conditions and daily life are treated throughout the course.
- Examiner
- Anette Wickström
- Main field of study
- Barn