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Degree Programme Table: Social Anthropology with Development (MA Hons) (UTSANDE)

Year 1, Academic year 2011/12, Starting month: September

  • Notes: Before selecting your outside courses, please ensure you have met your
    Director of Studies.


  • COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 2 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    SCAN08003 Social Anthropology 1A: An Introduction As available 20
    SCAN08002 Social Anthropology 1B: The Practice of Social Anthropology As available 20




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 1 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Select exactly 80 credits from Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W, as available

     


    Year 2, Academic year 2011/12, Starting month: August


    COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 3 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    SCAN08004 Social Anthropology 2: Into the Field As available 20
    SSPS08004 Social and Political Enquiry 2 As available 20
    SSPS08002 Social and Political Theory 2 As available 20




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 1 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Select exactly 60 credits from Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W, as available

     


    Year 3, Academic year 2011/12, Starting month: August

  • Notes: Students who have passed courses to the required value of 240 credits, and achieved marks of 50% or more at the first attempt in all required second-year courses for their registered degree, are automatically entitled to progress to honours. Students who are planning on spending their Junior Year Abroad must successfully progress to honours before they can proceed on their JYA.


  • COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 1 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    SCAN10037 Imagining Anthropological Research As available 0




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 3 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    SCAN10021    Kinship: Structure and Process   20  
    SCAN10022    Anthropological Theory   20  
    SCAN10023    Ritual and Religion   20  
    SCAN10031    Consumption, Exchange, Technology   20  
    SCAN10032    Belief, Thought and Language   20  
    SCAN10030    Culture and Power   20  

    Notes:From this list--Kinship: Structure and Process; Anthropological Theory; Ritual and Religion; and Consumption, Exchange, Technology--are usually done in third year.
     
    AND   

    Select a minimum of 40 credits and maximum of 80 credits from Social Anthropology Level 10 courses, as available

    Notes:(1) Selections from this list should normally include Social Development and one Regional Analysis course (see Social Anthropology Honours handbook for a list of Regional Analysis courses). (2) Students are required to choose, in consultation with their Director of Studies, six 'optional' courses totalling 120 credits over the two Honours years. Of these, not less that TWO and not more than FOUR must be Social Anthropology courses, and the remainder must be development-related courses either in the School of Social and Political Science or in other parts of the University if there is substantial social science and development content.
     
    AND   

    Select a minimum of 0 credits and maximum of 40 credits from Level 10 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W, as available

    Notes:Students should only use this list to select option courses if these have been approved as development-oriented courses by their Director of Studies.
     


    Year 4, Academic year 2011/12, Starting month: August


    COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 1 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    SCAN10036 Dissertation (MA Social Anthropology) As available 40
    Notes: Students are expected to use the vacation between their Junior and Senior Honours years for the Dissertation.




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 3 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    SCAN10021    Kinship: Structure and Process   20  
    SCAN10022    Anthropological Theory   20  
    SCAN10023    Ritual and Religion   20  
    SCAN10031    Consumption, Exchange, Technology   20  
    SCAN10032    Belief, Thought and Language   20  
    SCAN10030    Culture and Power   20  

    Notes:From this list--Belief, Thought and Language, and Culture and Power--are usually done in fourth year.
     
    AND   

    Select a minimum of 0 credits and maximum of 40 credits from Social Anthropology Level 10 courses, as available

    Notes:Students are required to choose, in consultation with their Director of Studies, six 'optional' courses totalling 120 credits over the two Honours years. Of these, not less that TWO and not more than FOUR must be Social Anthropology courses, and the remainder must be development-related courses either in the School of Social and Political Science or in other parts of the University if there is substantial social science and development content.
     
    AND   

    Select a minimum of 0 credits and maximum of 40 credits from Level 10 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W, as available

    Notes:Students should only use this list to select option courses if these have been approved as development-oriented courses by their Director of Studies.
     


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