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

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

Notes:
After enrolling on your courses, please be sure to meet with your Personal Tutor.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Fundamentals: Studying Anthropology

Must be passed

SCAN08007 0 credits
Social Anthropology 1A: The Life Course

Must be passed

SCAN08013 20 credits
Social Anthropology 1B: Anthropology Matters

Must be passed

SCAN08012 20 credits
Fundamentals: Anthropological Practice

Must be passed

SCAN08006 0 credits

Course options

Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W

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

Year 2 Academic year: 2017/18, Starting in: 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 exchange.

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Fundamentals: Ethnographic Theory

Must be passed

SCAN08008 0 credits
Ethnography: Theory and Practice

Must be passed at 50%

SCAN08005 20 credits
Social Anthropology 2: Key Concepts

Must be passed at 50%

SCAN08011 20 credits
International Development, Aid and Humanitarianism

Must be passed at 50%

AFRI08001 20 credits
Fundamentals: Reading and Writing Anthropology

Must be passed

SCAN08009 0 credits

Course options

Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W

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

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

You must take these courses
Imagining Anthropological Research
SCAN10037 0 credits

Course options

3rd Year Core Courses - Social Anthropology

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Kinship: Structure and Process
SCAN10021 20 credits
Anthropological Theory
SCAN10022 20 credits
Ritual and Religion
SCAN10023 20 credits
Consumption, Exchange, Technology
SCAN10031 20 credits
AND

Group A

Select exactly 80 credits in this group.

Social Anthropology Honours Electives - Level 10

Select between 40 and 80 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Selections from this list should normally include Social Development.

In consultation with their Personal Tutor, students are required to choose SIX honours-level elective courses (totalling 120 credits) over the two Honours years. Of these, not less than 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.
The Invention of History
SCAN10010 20 credits
Kinship: Structure and Process
SCAN10021 20 credits
Anthropological Theory
SCAN10022 20 credits
Ritual and Religion
SCAN10023 20 credits
Culture and Power
SCAN10030 20 credits
Consumption, Exchange, Technology
SCAN10031 20 credits
Happiness: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
SCAN10043 20 credits
Social Development
SCAN10044 20 credits
Himalayan Ethnography
SCAN10049 20 credits
The Anthropology of Food
SCAN10052 20 credits
Pictures: The Anthropology of Images and Mediation
SCAN10060 20 credits
Anthropology of Health and Healing
SCAN10062 20 credits
The Anthropology of Africa
SCAN10067 20 credits
Contagion
SCAN10070 20 credits
The Anthropology of Monsters: Demons, witches, cyborgs and other fabulous creatures
SCAN10072 20 credits
Urban Anthropology
SCAN10074 20 credits
The Anthropology of Language
SCAN10076 20 credits
Contemporary Issues in Social Anthropology
SCAN10080 20 credits
AND

Level 10 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W

Select between 0 and 40 credits from Level 10 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W

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

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Dissertation (MA Social Anthropology)
SCAN10036 40 credits
Culture and Power
SCAN10030 20 credits

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 60 credits in this group.

Social Anthropology Honours Electives - Level 10

Select between 0 and 60 credits of the following courses
Notes:
In consultation with their Personal Tutor, students are required to choose SIX honours-level elective courses (totalling 120 credits) over the two Honours years. Of these, not less than 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.
The Invention of History
SCAN10010 20 credits
Kinship: Structure and Process
SCAN10021 20 credits
Anthropological Theory
SCAN10022 20 credits
Ritual and Religion
SCAN10023 20 credits
Culture and Power
SCAN10030 20 credits
Consumption, Exchange, Technology
SCAN10031 20 credits
Happiness: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
SCAN10043 20 credits
Social Development
SCAN10044 20 credits
Himalayan Ethnography
SCAN10049 20 credits
The Anthropology of Food
SCAN10052 20 credits
Pictures: The Anthropology of Images and Mediation
SCAN10060 20 credits
Anthropology of Health and Healing
SCAN10062 20 credits
The Anthropology of Africa
SCAN10067 20 credits
Contagion
SCAN10070 20 credits
The Anthropology of Monsters: Demons, witches, cyborgs and other fabulous creatures
SCAN10072 20 credits
Urban Anthropology
SCAN10074 20 credits
The Anthropology of Language
SCAN10076 20 credits
Contemporary Issues in Social Anthropology
SCAN10080 20 credits
AND

Level 10 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W

Select between 0 and 40 credits from Level 10 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W
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