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DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2017/2018
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Degree Programme Table: Social Anthropology with Social History (MA Hons) (UTSANSH)

Jump to: Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4

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
Social Anthropology 1A: The Life Course

Must be passed

SCAN08013 20 credits
British Society, 1650 - c.1880 (Social History 1.1)
ECSH08029 20 credits
Fundamentals: Studying Anthropology

Must be passed

SCAN08007 0 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 60 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
Social Anthropology 2: Key Concepts

Must be passed at 50%

SCAN08011 20 credits
Fundamentals: Ethnographic Theory

Must be passed

SCAN08008 0 credits
Ethnography: Theory and Practice

Must be passed at 50%

SCAN08005 20 credits
Fundamentals: Reading and Writing Anthropology

Must be passed

SCAN08009 0 credits
The Making of the Modern Body
ECSH08042 20 credits

Course options

Social History options

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
Modern United States History
HIST08038 20 credits
Making and Breaking Medieval Britain: England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales c.1100 - c1500
HIST08039 20 credits
Britain, Ireland and Empire c. 1800-2000
HIST08040 20 credits
Themes in Scottish History since 1560
HIST08042 20 credits
Themes in Modern European History
HIST08043 20 credits
Introduction to Historiography
HIST08044 20 credits
AND

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

Select exactly 40 credits from Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W
AND

Social History options

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
Modern United States History
HIST08038 20 credits
Making and Breaking Medieval Britain: England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales c.1100 - c1500
HIST08039 20 credits
Britain, Ireland and Empire c. 1800-2000
HIST08040 20 credits
Themes in Scottish History since 1560
HIST08042 20 credits
Themes in Modern European History
HIST08043 20 credits
Introduction to Historiography
HIST08044 20 credits

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.

If considering taking the DISSERTATION IN SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, students must also take Imagining Anthropological Research (zero credits).

If considering taking the DISSERTATION IN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY, students are highly recommended to take History in Practice (20 credits).

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

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

Imagining Anthropological Research

Select exactly 0 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Students planning on taking the dissertation in Social Anthropology should enroll for this 0-credit preparatory course.
Imagining Anthropological Research
SCAN10037 0 credits
AND

Group A

Select exactly 80 credits in this group.

Social Anthropology Honours Electives - Level 10

Select between 0 and 40 credits of the following courses
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

Social History 3/4 Honours Options

Select between 40 and 80 credits of the following courses
Notes:

Students MUST take 40 credits from this list of Social History year 3/4 Honours Options. If you intend taking a dissertation in Economic and Social History you are strongly recommended to take 'History in Practice' during your third year.
History in Practice
CHCA10001 20 credits
Society in an Age of 'Mass' Leisure C.1880-1939
ECSH10005 20 credits
Youth and Modernity, c.1880-1970
ECSH10070 20 credits
Sex and Society in Britain since c.1830
ECSH10082 20 credits
Madness and Society in Britain since c.1830
ECSH10083 20 credits
London Life in the Eighteenth Century: Society and Culture
ECSH10091 20 credits
Earning a Living in the Scottish Town, 1400 to 1800: Occupational History and the Urban Environment
ECSH10093 20 credits
'Revolutions' in Economic and Social History
ECSH10101 20 credits
Gender and Society: Men and Women in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500
HIST10072 20 credits
Early Modern English Witchcraft
HIST10261 20 credits
Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe
HIST10279 20 credits
War and Memory in the Twentieth Century
HIST10341 20 credits
Gender Identities in Britain during the Two World Wars
HIST10342 20 credits
Print Culture and the Enlightenment: Edinburgh and London, 1710-1814
HIST10389 20 credits
History in Theory
HIST10407 20 credits
Bitter Weed: A Global History of Tea
HIST10409 20 credits
A Cultural History of the Environment: From Natural Hazards to Natural Disasters, ca 1500-1750
HIST10411 20 credits
Culture and Society in Early Modern China
HIST10412 20 credits
The Cult of Saints in Medieval Christendom, 1200-1500: A Global History?
HIST10421 20 credits
Scotland and the Great War
SCHI10073 20 credits
The Swinging Sixties? Exploring Culture and Society in Britain, c. 1956-1974
SCHI10074 20 credits

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

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

Course options

SOC ANTH HONS COMPULSORY COURSES Courses from School of Social and Political Science- Multiple programmes-Level 10

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
Culture and Power
SCAN10030 20 credits
Consumption, Exchange, Technology
SCAN10031 20 credits
AND

4TH YEAR DISSERTATIONS - Social Anthropology with Social History (MA)-Level 10

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
If taking the Dissertation in Social Anthropology students are expected to use the summer vacation of their third year on research for their Dissertation.

If taking the dissertation in History, the topic of the dissertation must be in Social History.
History Dissertation
HIST10309 40 credits
Dissertation (MA Social Anthropology)
SCAN10036 40 credits
AND

Social History 4th Year Honours Options

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Society in an Age of 'Mass' Leisure C.1880-1939
ECSH10005 20 credits
Youth and Modernity, c.1880-1970
ECSH10070 20 credits
Sex and Society in Britain since c.1830
ECSH10082 20 credits
Madness and Society in Britain since c.1830
ECSH10083 20 credits
London Life in the Eighteenth Century: Society and Culture
ECSH10091 20 credits
Earning a Living in the Scottish Town, 1400 to 1800: Occupational History and the Urban Environment
ECSH10093 20 credits
'Revolutions' in Economic and Social History
ECSH10101 20 credits
Gender and Society: Men and Women in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500
HIST10072 20 credits
Early Modern English Witchcraft
HIST10261 20 credits
Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe
HIST10279 20 credits
War and Memory in the Twentieth Century
HIST10341 20 credits
Gender Identities in Britain during the Two World Wars
HIST10342 20 credits
Becoming Modern: Society and Culture in Ireland since 1780
HIST10360 40 credits
In Search of Modern Selves: Psychiatry and Psychotherapies in India and Japan, 1880 - the Present
HIST10372 40 credits
Print Culture and the Enlightenment: Edinburgh and London, 1710-1814
HIST10389 20 credits
Bitter Weed: A Global History of Tea
HIST10409 20 credits
A Cultural History of the Environment: From Natural Hazards to Natural Disasters, ca 1500-1750
HIST10411 20 credits
Culture and Society in Early Modern China
HIST10412 20 credits
The Cult of Saints in Medieval Christendom, 1200-1500: A Global History?
HIST10421 20 credits
The European Witch-Hunt
SCHI10021 40 credits
Scotland and the Great War
SCHI10073 20 credits
The Swinging Sixties? Exploring Culture and Society in Britain, c. 1956-1974
SCHI10074 20 credits
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