MSc Anthropology and Development

Full-year programme. Students must take two compulsory courses, a dissertation and optional courses to the value of one unit. Written papers will be taken in the summer term and the dissertation must be submitted in September.

Paper

Course number and title

1

AN404 

Anthropology: Theory and Ethnography

2

DV400

Development: History, Theory and Policy

3

One full unit from the following:

 

AN402

The Anthropology of Religion

AN405

The Anthropology of Kinship, Sex and Gender

AN419

The Anthropology of Christianity (H) 

AN420

The Anthropology of South-East Asia (H)

AN421

The Anthropology of Industrialisation and Industrial Life (H) (n/a 13/14)

AN424

The Anthropology of Melanesia (H)

AN429

The Anthropology of Southern Africa (H) (n/a 13/14)

AN436

The Anthropology of Development (H)

AN437

Anthropology of Learning and Cognition

AN439

Anthropology and Human Rights (H) (n/a 13/14)

AN444

Investigating the Philippines- New Approaches and Ethnographic Contexts (H) (n/a 13/14)

 

AN447

China in Comparative Perspective

AN451

Anthropology of Politics (H)

AN456

Anthropology of Economy (1): Production and Exchange (H)

AN457

Anthropology of Economy: Development (2): Transformation and Globalisation (H)

AN458

Children and Youth in Contemporary Ethnography (H) (n/a 13/14)

AN459

Anthropology and Media (H)

AN461

Anthropological Approaches to Questions of Being (H) (n/a 13/14)

AN462

The Anthropology of Post-Soviet Eurasia (H) (n/a 13/14)

AN463

The Anthropology of Borders and Boundaries (H) (n/a 13/14)

AN467

The Anthropology of South Asia (H) (n/a 13/14)

AN468

The Anthropology of Schooling (H) (n/a 13/14)

AN469

The Anthropology of Amazonia (H) (n/a 13/14)

DV407

Poverty (H)

DV409

Economic Development Policy

DV413

Environmental Problems and Development Interventions (H)

DV415

Global Environmental Governance (H)

DV418

African Development (H) 

DV420

Complex Emergencies (H)

DV428

Managing Humanitarianism (H)

DV429

Global Civil Society (H)

DV442

Key Issues in Development Studies (H)

GY467

Global Migration and Development (H)

 

Any other courses offered by Anthropology or Development Studies, as approved

4

AN499

Dissertation