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King’s College London
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
Examiner’s Report, 2014-15
Module Code:
Module Title:
Credit Value:
5AAT2014
Religion in Different Social and Geopolitical Contexts – Anthropological
Perspectives
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Overall Module Results
No. of Registered Candidates:
No. of Firsts:
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No. of Thirds:
No. of Fails, condonable (33–39):
No. of Fails, outright (0–32):
26
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8
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4
1
0
GENERAL FEEDBACK ON EXAMINATION PERFORMANCE
The exam results for this year were generally very pleasing. A number of the students
improved on the results they received from their coursework, which was really nice to see.
Some good effort was put into doing a ‘close read’ of the readings for those who did
particularly well – and these same students also offered up probing analytical reflections
while bringing the various authors they had studied ‘into dialogue’ with each other. I would
encourage all the students in future to follow this expansive way of approaching
anthropology, which is a fun but also rigorous discipline that values new analytical insights
that can be supported with ethnographic ‘thick descriptions’ (i.e. the anthropologist’s
‘evidence’, so to speak).
I enjoyed working with all the students, many of whom showed close engagement with the
module, and wish them all well in their upcoming studies for next year.
Examiner’s Initials:
Date:
K. S.
5 June 2015
Version 5, May 2015