BA/BSc in Social Anthropology

Programme Codes: UBANA2 (BA)
                                 UBANS2 (BSc)

Department: Anthropology

For all first, second and third year students in 2017/18.

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations

Classification scheme for the BA/BSc degrees (other than four-year BA/BSc degrees)

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

Anthropology, 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)

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 and Globalisation (H) and

 

AN398

Special Essay Paper in Social Anthropology (H)

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)

AN221     

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

AN223

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

AN237

The Anthropology of Development (H)

AN238

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

AN240

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

AN243

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

AN244

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

AN245

Borders and Boundaries: Ethnographic Approaches (H)

AN247

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

AN250

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

AN251

Cognition and Anthropology: Learning and Thinking in Relation to Social Institutions (H)

AN252

Anthropological Approaches to Value (H)

AN269

The Anthropology of Amazonia (H)

AN274

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

AN275

The Anthropology of Revolution (H)

AN276

Anthropology and the Anthropocene (H)

An approved paper taught outside the Department

Note for prospective students:
For changes to undergraduate course and programme information for the next academic session, please see the undergraduate summary page for prospective students. Changes to course and programme information for future academic sessions can be found on the undergraduate summary page for future students.