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Degree Programme Table: Social Anthropology (MA Hons) (UTSANPY)

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

  • Notes: Before selecting your outside courses, please ensure you have sought permission from the relevant Head of Subject.


    • 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 5 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    SCAN10022 Anthropological Theory As available 20
    SCAN10031 Consumption, Exchange, Technology As available 20
    SCAN10021 Kinship: Structure and Process As available 20
    SCAN10023 Ritual and Religion As available 20
    SCAN10037 Imagining Anthropological Research As available 0




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 2 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Overarching rule collection group: A  
    Select exactly 40 credits from these collections:  


    Select a minimum of 20 credits and maximum of 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    SCAN10014    Khoisan Southern Africa   20  
    SCAN10016    The Politics of Identity in South Asia   20  
    SCAN10020    East Central Africa   20  
    SCAN10028    Southeast Asia   20  
    SCAN10029    The Arab World   20  
    SCAN10042    Contemporary Hunter-Gatherers   20  
    SCAN10045    International Indigenous Politics   20  
    SCAN10047    Indigenous Peoples of Lowland South America   20  
    SCAN10049    Himalayan Ethnography   20  
    SCAN10043    Happiness: Cross-Cultural Perspectives   20  
    SCAN10055    Human Origins and the Genesis of Symbolic Thought   20  
    SCAN10021    Kinship: Structure and Process   20  
    SCAN10008    Magic, Science and Healing   20  
    SCAN10023    Ritual and Religion   20  
    SCAN10044    Social Development   20  
    SCAN10054    South Asian Public Culture: Keywords   0  
    SCAN10034    The Anthropology of Death   20  
    SCAN11012    The Anthropology of Food   20  
    SCAN10010    The Invention of History   20  
    SCAN10048    The anthropology of landscape   20  

    Notes:As part of their honours curriculum students must take at least one and normally no more than two of these Regional Analysis courses (see Social Anthropology Honours Handbook for details)
     
    AND   

    Select a minimum of 0 credits and maximum of 20 credits from Social Anthropology Level 10 courses, as available

     




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


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


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    SCAN10032 Belief, Thought and Language As available 20
    SCAN10030 Culture and Power As available 20
    SCAN10036 Dissertation (MA Social Anthropology) As available 40
    Notes: Students are expected to use the summer vacation of their third year on research for their Dissertation.




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


    Select exactly 40 credits from Social Anthropology Level 10 courses, as available

    Notes:As part of their honours curriculum students must take at least one and normally no more than two Regional Analysis courses. See Year 3 for a list of these courses, and the Social Anthropology Honours Handbook for further details.
     


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