DPT: Archaeology and Social Anthropology (MA Hons) (UTARCSA)

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Year 1 Academic year: 2017/18, Starting in: September

All first year students should make an appointment with their Personal Tutor during Induction Week. Please consider the following courses, and take a draft plan to your meeting.

The credits for your courses should total 120 in each year.

Compulsory courses

Archaeology 1A

Archaeology 1B

Archaeological Fieldwork - 3 week field project

Social Anthropology 1A: The Life Course

Social Anthropology 1B: Anthropology Matters

Course options

Year 2 Academic year: 2017/18, Starting in: August

During Induction Week, please ensure you have met your Personal Tutor to confirm your course choices and attendance.

The credits for your courses should total 120 in each year.

Compulsory courses

Archaeology 2A: Scotland before History

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Archaeology 2B: Archaeology in Action

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Ethnography: Theory and Practice

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Social Anthropology 2: Key Concepts

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Course options

Year 3 Academic year: 2017/18, Starting in: August

Entry into Honours normally requires:
(i) passes in 240 credits of courses taken in the first two years;
(ii) passes at 50% or above, at first attempt, in Archaeology 2A and Archaeology 2B; and
(iii) passes at 50% or above, at first attempt, in Social Anthropology 2 and in Ethnography.

During Induction Week, please contact a Student Support Officer to confirm your attendance.

The credits for your courses should total 120 in each year.

Compulsory courses

Archaeology in Practice

Theoretical Archaeology

Course options

Kinship: Structure and Process

Anthropological Theory

Ritual and Religion

Culture and Power

Consumption, Exchange, Technology

AND

Only one History (HIST or ECSH) course may be taken from this collection.

Human Origins

Archaeological Illustration

Conceptualising the Neolithic

Etruscan Italy 1000-300 BC

The Iron Age of Western Temperate Europe until the 3rd Century BC

Byzantine Archaeology: The archaeology of the Byzantine empire and its neighbours AD 500-850.

The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation

Late Hunter-Gatherers in Europe

Scientific Methods in Bio-Archaeology

Archaeology of Architecture

Here comes the war: conflict archaeology and the human past

The archaeology of animal remains

The Archaeology and History of Egypt: the Second Intermediate Period until the end of the Late Period (1650-332 BC)

GIS for Archaeologists

Visualizing the past - data, narratives and visual explanations

The Archaeology and History of Egypt: the Early Dynastic until the end of the Middle Kingdom (c. 3100-1650 BC)

Villains, Victims and Forensic Evidence: An introduction to Forensic Anthropology theory and practice

Classical Archaeology in the Field (B)

Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to S�leyman the Magnificent

The peoples of Britain in the first millennium CE

AND

Students proposing to take the Social Anthropology dissertation should take Imagining Anthropological Research in 3rd year. This preparation course is not assessed and the credit weighting is subsumed within the 40 credits of the dissertation in 4th year.

The Invention of History

Kinship: Structure and Process

Anthropological Theory

Ritual and Religion

Culture and Power

Consumption, Exchange, Technology

Happiness: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

Social Development

Himalayan Ethnography

The Anthropology of Food

Pictures: The Anthropology of Images and Mediation

Anthropology of Health and Healing

The Anthropology of Africa

Contagion

The Anthropology of Monsters: Demons, witches, cyborgs and other fabulous creatures

Urban Anthropology

The Anthropology of Language

Contemporary Issues in Social Anthropology

Year 4 Academic year: 2017/18, Starting in: August

During Induction Week, please contact a Student Support Officer to confirm your attendance.

The credits for your courses should total 120 in each year.

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.

Course options

Archaeology Dissertation

Dissertation (MA Social Anthropology)

AND

Students intending to take the fourth year option Archaeological Fieldwork are required to undertake 10 weeks approved practical archaeological work in the vacations between the end of their second year of study and the beginning of their fourth year of study. Students who wish to combine the Archaeological Fieldwork option with a dissertation in Social Anthropology, will be required to complete their 10 weeks Archaeological practical work during the summer vacation of second year and the easter vacation of third year in order to leave the summer vacation of third year free for their dissertation fieldwork in Anthropology.

Human Origins

Archaeological Fieldwork

Archaeological Illustration

Conceptualising the Neolithic

Etruscan Italy 1000-300 BC

The Iron Age of Western Temperate Europe until the 3rd Century BC

Byzantine Archaeology: The archaeology of the Byzantine empire and its neighbours AD 500-850.

The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation

Constantinople and the Cities of Asia Minor, 330-565

Late Hunter-Gatherers in Europe

Scientific Methods in Bio-Archaeology

Archaeology of Architecture