MSc in Social Anthropology

Programme Code: TMAN

Department: Anthropology

This information is for the 2017/18 session.

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations
Classification scheme for the award of a taught master's degree (four units)
Exam sub-board local rules

Full-year programme. Students must take courses to the value of three full units and a dissertation as shown. Attendance at seminars and at non-assessed tutorials is compulsory.

Paper

Course number and title

1

AN404 

Anthropology: Theory and Ethnography

2

One or two of the following to the value of one full unit:

 

AN402

The Anthropology of Religion

AN405

The Anthropology of Kinship, Sex and Gender

AN451

Anthropology of Politics (H)

AN456

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

AN457

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

3

One or two of the following to the value of one full unit:
A paper from Paper 2 above not already taken

 

AN419

The Anthropology of Christianity (H) (not available 2017/18)

AN420

The Anthropology of South-East Asia (H) (not available 2017/18)

AN424

The Anthropology of Melanesia (H)

AN436

The Anthropology of Development (H) 

AN437

Anthropology of Learning and Cognition

AN439

Anthropology and Human Rights (H) (not available 2017/18)

AN444

Investigating the Philippines- New Approaches and Ethnographic Contexts (H) (not available 2017/18)

 

AN447

China in Comparative Perspective

AN458

Children and Youth in Contemporary Ethnography (H) (not available 2017/18)

AN459

Anthropology and Media (H) (not available 2017/18)

AN461

The Anthropology of Ontology (H) (not available 2017/18)

AN463

Borders and Boundaries: Ethnographic Approaches (H)

AN467

The Anthropology of South Asia (H) (not available 2017/18)

AN469

The Anthropology of Amazonia (H)

AN473

Anthropological Approaches to Value (H)

AN474

Subjectivity and Anthropology (H) (not available 2017/18)

AN475

The Anthropology of Revolution (H)

AN476

Anthropology and the Anthropocene (H)

4

AN499

Dissertation

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