The members of the research group teach anthropology at the undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate levels, together with the other members of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Most of this teaching takes place in the four educational programs of the Department:
- The four-year Bachelor´s Degree (BA) in Social and Cultural Anthropology (awarded excellence status by the Agency for Management of University and Research Grants (AGAUR) of the Generalitat de Catalunya),
- the Official Master Degree in Anthropology: Advanced Research and Social Intervention (MA, a one-year, 60 ECTS program),
- the two-year intra-European Joint Master Degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology (the “Creole” program, MA, 120 ECTS), and
- the PhD Degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology of the UAB (which was awarded the mention of excellence of the national government in the last period that this mention was awarded).
In these programs, the members of the research group teach courses that are related to the research areas of GRAFO (as well as other couses).
In the area of relatedness:
- “Anthropology of kinship” (Anna Piella, BA);
- “New family structures and new domestic groups” (Jorge Grau, BA);
- “Kinship and ethnographic research” in the module “Comparative Research” (Jorge Grau, MO)
- “Crosscultural research and comparison” in the module “Comparative Research” (Aurora González, MO)
- “Social network analysis” in the module “Socioanthropological research and intervention perspectives” (José Luis Molina, MA).
In the area of transnationalism:
- “Transnational network analysis” in the module “Groups, Relations and Networks” (designed and given by José Luis Molina, MA).
In the area of livelihood strategies:
- “Economic anthropology” (Hugo Valenzuela, BA),
- “Emergent forms of labour and consumption” in the module “Groups, Relations and Networks“(Hugo Valenzuela, MA),
- “Ethnographies of urban poverty” in the module “Comparative Research” (Hugo Valenzuela and Miranda Lubbers, MA).
The group also teaches the foundations of anthropological research and of social intervention. With regard to methods and techniques of anthropological research, they teach courses such as:
- “Ethnographic fieldwork” (Virginia Fons, Pepi Soto, Anna Piella, BA),
- “Instrumental resources for research in anthropology” (Miranda Lubbers, BA);
- “Methodological and epistemological orientations in Anthropology” in the module “Socioanthropological research and intervention perspectives“(Aurora González, MA),
- “Audiovisual anthropology” in the module Research Epistemology, Methods and Techniques (Jorge Grau, MA),
- “Projects II” in the module Research Seminar (Miranda Lubbers, MA),
- “Methodology for the analysis of data” in the module Research Seminar (Miranda Lubbers and Beatriz Ballestin, MA), and
- “Research laboratory” in the module Research Seminar (Miranda Lubbers, MA).
With regard to intervention:
- “Applied anthropology and anthropology for public policies” in the module “Socioanthropological research and intervention perspectives” (Teresa Tapada and Maria Valdés, MA),
- “Working with professionals of other disciplines: Nobody said it would be easy” in the module “Socioanthropological research and intervention perspectives” (Pepi Soto, MA),
- “Social intervention in education” in the module “Social Intervention” (Pepi Soto, MA)
- “Applied Anthropology in Health” in the module “Social Intervention” (Lucía Sanjuán, MA)
- “External apprenticeship program of Applied Anthropology” in the BA program (External practicum) and in the in the MA program (Pepi Soto, BA; José Luis Molina, MA).
Also, several members have taught courses in other MA and postgraduate programs abroad and in Catalonia.
With regard to the doctoral program, the members currently (co-)direct the theses of 25 PhD students in the Doctoral Program in Social and Cultural Anthropology, various with doctoral grants (FPI, La Caixa, CAPES, CONACYT and SENESCYT grants) as well as 4 in other programs (geography, sociology, education, translation and interpretation).
