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CSS132:Ethnography and social structure of Nigeria
Ethnography of Nigeria is a one semester 1 credit unit course. The number of units of writing is eleven (11). The course is designed for 100 level students of National Open University (NOU), studying Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Criminology and Security Studies. It is also available as an elective course for students pursuing other programmes in other related schools.
What Will You Learn?
The central objective is to cover as much as possible the social and cultural patterns of the peoples of Nigeria, in such a way that students are encouraged to appreciate and understand the cultural, social and political circumstances of Nigeria and problems of her ethnic diversity. In this course, you will be exposed to the highly diversified field of anthropology, more especially in the use of ethnography in the study of culture, patterns of social relations and social life of communities in Nigeria.
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In the course, we are going to do the following things:
(a) Learn and understand the nature of Nigeria's diverse peoples and cultures, and linguistic distributions.
(b) Examine the types of interrelationships among and between peoples, their social, economic and political organisations and;
(c) Identify the similarities and differences in their cultural settings
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