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Degree Programme Table: Geography and Social Anthropology (MA Hons) (UTGGPSA)

Year 1, Academic year 2016/17, Starting month: September

  • Notes: Before selecting your outside courses, please ensure you have met your
    Personal Tutor.


    • COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 4 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    GEGR08007 Human Geography Semester 1 20
    SCAN08013 Social Anthropology 1A: The Life Course Semester 1 20
    GEGR08010 Physical Geography Semester 2 20
    SCAN08012 Social Anthropology 1B: Anthropology Matters Semester 2 20




    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 0 credits and maximum of 40 credits from Level 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W, as available

     
    AND   

    Select a minimum of 0 credits and maximum of 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    ASST07003    Introductory Chinese Language   20  
    ASST07006    Introductory Chinese Language 2   20  
    IMES07001    Introductory Arabic Language   20  
    ELCF07008    Foundation French Language 2   20  
    ELCG07009    Foundation German Language 1   20  
    ELCG07008    Foundation German Language 2   20  
    ELCG07007    Foundation German Language 3   20  
    ELCH07010    Foundation Spanish Language 2   20  
    ELCH07017    Foundation Spanish Language 3   20  
    ELCI07007    Foundation Italian Language 1   20  
    ELCI07006    Foundation Italian Language 2   20  
    ELCR07004    Foundation Russian Language 1   20  
    ELCR07003    Foundation Russian Language 2   20  
    ELCS07009    Foundation Danish Language 1   20  
    ELCS07008    Foundation Danish Language 2   20  
    ELCS07007    Foundation Swedish Language 1   20  
    ELCS07006    Foundation Swedish Language 2   20  
    ELCH07013    Foundation Catalan Language 2   20  
    ELCH07012    Foundation Portuguese Language 1   20  
    ASST07008    Foundation Japanese Language 1   20  
    ASST07016    Foundation Japanese Language 2   20  
    ASST07017    Foundation Japanese Language 3   20  
    ELCF07012    Foundation French Language 1   20  
    ELCF07007    Foundation French Language 3   20  
    ELCH07018    Foundation Portuguese Language 2   20  
    ELCH07011    Foundation Spanish Language 1   20  
    IMES07003    Introductory Arabic language 2   20  

    Notes:Geography students should only take a maximum of 40 credits Level 7 language courses in 1st AND 2nd year.
     



    Year 2, Academic year 2016/17, Starting month: August


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


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    GEGR08009 Fundamental Methods in Geography Semester 1 20
    SCAN08005 Ethnography: Theory and Practice Semester 2 20
    SCAN08011 Social Anthropology 2: Key Concepts As available 20




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


    Overarching rule collection group: A  
    Select exactly 60 credits from these collections:  

    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    GEGR08003    Economic and Political Geography   20  
    GEGR08001    Environmental Sensitivity and Change   20  
    GEGR08002    Geomorphology   20  
    GEGR08004    Social and Cultural Geography   20  

     
    AND   

    Select exactly 20 credits from Level 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W, as available

     



    Year 3, Academic year 2016/17, Starting month: August


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


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    GEGR09012 The Nature of Geographical Knowledge Semester 1 20




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 6 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


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


    Select exactly 0 credits course level 10, as available
    SCAN10037     Imagining Anthropological Research     (0 credits)

    Notes:If considering taking the DISSERTATION IN SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, students are strongly recommended to take IMAGINING ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH (zero credits)
     
    AND   

    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    GEGR10023    Catchment Water Resources   20  
    GEGR10117    Cinematic Cities   20  
    GEGR10114    Development and Decolonization in Latin America   20  
    GEGR10106    Divided Cities   20  
    GEGR10094    Eroding Landscapes: Mountains, Hills and Rivers   20  
    GEGR10102    Encountering Cities   20  
    GEGR10121    Frontiers in Human Geography: Capital, Land & Power   20  
    GEGR10115    Geographies of Food   20  
    GEGR10075    Glacial Processes and Geomorphology   20  
    GEGR10119    Ice and Climate   20  
    GEGR10108    Landscape Dynamics - techniques and applications   20  
    GEGR10107    People, landscape change and settlement: the last 15,000 years   20  
    GEGR10039    Principles of Geographical Information Science   20  
    GEGR10055    Remote Sensing and Global Climate Change   20  
    GEGR10116    Space, place and sensory perception   20  
    GEGR10079    Values and the Environment   20  
    GEGR10103    Volcanoes, Environment and People   20  
    GEGR10123    Environmental Justice   20  
    GEGR10112    Frontiers in Human Geography: Geographies of Development and Socionature   20  

     

    OR   


    Select exactly 20 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    GEGR09011    Research Design in Geography   10  
    GEGR09005    Qualitative Methods in Geography   10  
    GEGR09004    Quantitative Methods in Geography   10  

    Notes:Students wishing to take the Geography Dissertation must take Research Design in Geography AND EITHER Qualitative Methods in Geography OR Quantitative Methods in Geography in their 3rd year
     
    AND   

    Select exactly 20 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    GEGR10023    Catchment Water Resources   20  
    GEGR10117    Cinematic Cities   20  
    GEGR10114    Development and Decolonization in Latin America   20  
    GEGR10106    Divided Cities   20  
    GEGR10094    Eroding Landscapes: Mountains, Hills and Rivers   20  
    GEGR10102    Encountering Cities   20  
    GEGR10121    Frontiers in Human Geography: Capital, Land & Power   20  
    GEGR10115    Geographies of Food   20  
    GEGR10075    Glacial Processes and Geomorphology   20  
    GEGR10119    Ice and Climate   20  
    GEGR10108    Landscape Dynamics - techniques and applications   20  
    GEGR10107    People, landscape change and settlement: the last 15,000 years   20  
    GEGR10039    Principles of Geographical Information Science   20  
    GEGR10055    Remote Sensing and Global Climate Change   20  
    GEGR10116    Space, place and sensory perception   20  
    GEGR10079    Values and the Environment   20  
    GEGR10103    Volcanoes, Environment and People   20  
    GEGR10123    Environmental Justice   20  
    GEGR10112    Frontiers in Human Geography: Geographies of Development and Socionature   20  

     



    AND   

    Overarching rule collection group: B  
    Select exactly 60 credits from these collections:  

    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  
    SCAN10030    Culture and Power   20  

    Notes:Kinship: Structure and Process; Anthropological Theory; Ritual and Religion; and Consumption, Exchange, Technology are usually done in third year; Culture and Power is usually done in fourth year.
     
    AND   

    Select exactly 20 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    SCAN10021    Kinship: Structure and Process   20  
    SCAN10023    Ritual and Religion   20  
    SCAN10044    Social Development   20  
    SCAN10030    Culture and Power   20  
    SCAN10022    Anthropological Theory   20  
    SCAN10037    Imagining Anthropological Research   0  
    SCAN10062    Anthropology of Health and Healing   20  
    SCAN10031    Consumption, Exchange, Technology   20  
    SCAN10043    Happiness: Cross-Cultural Perspectives   20  
    SCAN10069    Latin American Anthropology   20  
    SCAN10077    Anthropology of Displacement and Migration   20  
    SCAN10073    Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa   20  
    SCAN10075    Film and Anthropology   20  
    SCAN10078    The Anthropology of Energy in the Global South   20  
    SCAN10079    The Anthropology of Games and Play   20  
    SCAN10076    The Anthropology of Language   20  
    SCAN10072    The Anthropology of Monsters: Demons, witches, cyborgs and other fabulous creatures   20  
    SCAN10074    Urban Anthropology   20  
    SCAN10057    Humans and Other Species   20  

     



    Year 4, Academic year 2016/17, Starting month: August


    COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 0 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 




    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
    GEGR10053    Geography Dissertation   40  
    SCAN10036    Dissertation (MA Social Anthropology)   40  

     
    AND   

    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    GEGR10023    Catchment Water Resources   20  
    GEGR10117    Cinematic Cities   20  
    GEGR10114    Development and Decolonization in Latin America   20  
    GEGR10106    Divided Cities   20  
    GEGR10094    Eroding Landscapes: Mountains, Hills and Rivers   20  
    GEGR10102    Encountering Cities   20  
    GEGR10121    Frontiers in Human Geography: Capital, Land & Power   20  
    GEGR10115    Geographies of Food   20  
    GEGR10075    Glacial Processes and Geomorphology   20  
    GEGR10119    Ice and Climate   20  
    GEGR10108    Landscape Dynamics - techniques and applications   20  
    GEGR10107    People, landscape change and settlement: the last 15,000 years   20  
    GEGR10039    Principles of Geographical Information Science   20  
    GEGR10055    Remote Sensing and Global Climate Change   20  
    GEGR10116    Space, place and sensory perception   20  
    GEGR10079    Values and the Environment   20  
    GEGR10103    Volcanoes, Environment and People   20  
    GEGR10123    Environmental Justice   20  
    GEGR10112    Frontiers in Human Geography: Geographies of Development and Socionature   20  

     
    AND   

    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    SCAN10021    Kinship: Structure and Process   20  
    SCAN10023    Ritual and Religion   20  
    SCAN10044    Social Development   20  
    SCAN10030    Culture and Power   20  
    SCAN10022    Anthropological Theory   20  
    SCAN10037    Imagining Anthropological Research   0  
    SCAN10062    Anthropology of Health and Healing   20  
    SCAN10031    Consumption, Exchange, Technology   20  
    SCAN10043    Happiness: Cross-Cultural Perspectives   20  
    SCAN10069    Latin American Anthropology   20  
    SCAN10077    Anthropology of Displacement and Migration   20  
    SCAN10073    Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa   20  
    SCAN10075    Film and Anthropology   20  
    SCAN10078    The Anthropology of Energy in the Global South   20  
    SCAN10079    The Anthropology of Games and Play   20  
    SCAN10076    The Anthropology of Language   20  
    SCAN10072    The Anthropology of Monsters: Demons, witches, cyborgs and other fabulous creatures   20  
    SCAN10074    Urban Anthropology   20  
    SCAN10057    Humans and Other Species   20  

     


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