BA/BSc in Social Anthropology

Programme Codes: UBANA2 (BA)
                                 UBANS2 (BSc)

For all first and second year students in 2015-16

Paper

Course number and title

See note

LSE100

The LSE Course: Understanding the causes of things

Year 1

1

AN100

Introduction to Social Anthropology

2

AN101

Ethnography and Theory: Selected Texts

3

AN102

Reading Other Cultures: Anthropological Interpretation of Text and Film

4

An approved paper taught outside the Department

Year 2

5

AN200

The Anthropology of Kinship, Sex and Gender

6

AN226

Political and Legal Anthropology

7

AN256

Economic Anthropology (1): Production and Exchange (H) and

 

AN298

Research Methods in Social Anthropology (H)

 

AN227

The Anthropology of Economic Institutions and their Social Transformations (withdrawn 15/16)

8

Papers to the value of one unit from Selection List A below*

Year 3

9

AN300

Advanced Theory of Social Anthropology

10

AN301

The Anthropology of Religion

11

Papers to the value of one unit from Selection List A below*

12

AN357

Economic Anthropology (2): Transformation, Development, and Globalisation (H) (n/a 15/16) and

 

AN398

Special Essay Paper in Social Anthropology (H) (n/a 15/16)

 

AN399

Ethnography as Research Method and Text (withdrawn 15/16)

Notes

* Students must take ethnographic options to the value of at least half a unit under papers 8 and 11.

 

LSE100 is taken by all students in the Lent Term of Year 1 and the Michaelmas Term of Year 2. The course is compulsory but does not affect the final degree classification.

Anthropology Selection List A

AN205

The Anthropology of Melanesia (H)

AN216

Cognition and Anthropology: Human Development in Cultural Environments (H) (n/a 15/16)

AN221     

The Anthropology of Christianity (H)

AN223

The Anthropology of South East Asia (H)

AN230

The Anthropology of Industrialisation and Industrial Life (H) (n/a 15/16)

AN231

The Anthropology of China (H) (n/a 15/16)

AN237

The Anthropology of Development (H)

AN238

Anthropology and Human Rights (H) (n/a 15/16)

AN240

Investigating the Philippines - New Approaches and Ethnographic Contexts (H) (n/a 15/16)

AN243

Children and Youth in Contemporary Ethnography (H) (n/a 15/16)

AN244

Anthropology and Media (H) 

AN245

The Anthropology of Borders and Boundaries (H) (withdrawn 15/16)

AN246

The Anthropology of Post-Soviet Eurasia (H) (withdrawn 15/16)

AN250

The Anthropology of South Asia (H)  (n/a 15/16)

AN251

Cognition and Anthropology: Learning and Thinking in Relation to Social Institutions (H) (n/a 15/16)

AN252

Anthropological Approaches to Value (H) (n/a 15/16)

AN268

Anthropology of Schooling (H) (withdrawn 15/16)

AN269

The Anthropology of Amazonia (H) (n/a 15/16)

AN274

Subjectivity and Anthropology (H)

AN275

The Anthropology of Revolution (H)

An approved paper taught outside the Department