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Degree Programme Table: Social Anthropology with Social History (MA Hons) (UTSANSH)

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Year 2 Academic year: 2019/20, 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

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

ECSH08042 20 credits
Introduction to Historiography

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

HIST08044 20 credits

Course options

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

Year 3 Academic year: 2019/20, 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.

Students considering the Social Anthropology Dissertation must take Imagining Anthropological Research in Year 3.

Students considering the Economic and Social History Dissertation are highly recommended to take History in Practice in Year 3.

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 intending to take the Social Anthropology Dissertation in Year 4 are required to take this zero-credit course as preparation.
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
Notes:
Students wishing to take Culture and Power (SCAN10030) are encouraged to do so in Year 4.
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
Social Development
SCAN10044 20 credits
Indigenous Peoples of Lowland South America
SCAN10047 20 credits
Humans and Other Species
SCAN10057 20 credits
Anthropology of Health and Healing
SCAN10062 20 credits
Anthropology and Environment
SCAN10066 20 credits
The Anthropology of Africa
SCAN10067 20 credits
Anthropology of Sex and Reproduction
SCAN10068 20 credits
Contagion
SCAN10070 20 credits
South Asian Public Culture: Keywords
SCAN10071 20 credits
The Anthropology of Language
SCAN10076 20 credits
Contemporary Issues in Social Anthropology
SCAN10080 20 credits
Demystifying Money
SCAN10081 20 credits
Anthropology of Health and Migration
SCAN10085 20 credits
AND

Social History Honours Electives

Select between 40 and 80 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Historical Skills & Methods II is strongly recommended if intending to take a Dissertation in Social History.

Please note that the topic for tutorial groups and essays for HIST10426 Historical Skills and Methods I and HIST10247 Historical Skills and Methods II must be in Social History
Leisure and the Rise of Industrial Society in Britain C.1780-1880
ECSH10004 20 credits
Society in an Age of 'Mass' Leisure C.1880-1939
ECSH10005 20 credits
Community and Society in Britain, 1560-1640
ECSH10016 20 credits
Heritage in Britain since c.1750
ECSH10031 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
Gender and Society: Men and Women in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500
HIST10072 20 credits
The American South since the Civil War
HIST10117 20 credits
Early Modern English Witchcraft
HIST10261 20 credits
War and Memory in the Twentieth Century
HIST10341 20 credits
Print Culture and the Enlightenment: Edinburgh and London, 1710-1814
HIST10389 20 credits
Historical Skills and Methods II
HIST10425 20 credits
Historical Skills and Methods I
HIST10426 20 credits
The Swinging Sixties? Exploring Culture and Society in Britain, c. 1956-1974
SCHI10074 20 credits

Year 4 Academic year: 2019/20, Starting in: August

Notes:
Students taking the Social Anthropology Dissertation must have taken Imagining Anthropological Research (SCAN10037) in Year 3.

Students taking the History Dissertation are strongly recommended to have taken History in Practice.

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

Course options

SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY HONS CORE OPTIONS

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Notes:
There are no compulsory courses however students must choose 2 courses from the list of Social Anthropology core options below.
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:
Students taking the Social Anthropology Dissertation are expected to use the summer vacation of their third year on research.

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 Special Subjects and Electives

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Leisure and the Rise of Industrial Society in Britain C.1780-1880
ECSH10004 20 credits
Society in an Age of 'Mass' Leisure C.1880-1939
ECSH10005 20 credits
Community and Society in Britain, 1560-1640
ECSH10016 20 credits
Heritage in Britain since c.1750
ECSH10031 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
Cheap Print and Popular Culture in Britain, 1500-1800
ECSH10103 40 credits
Gender and Society: Men and Women in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500
HIST10072 20 credits
The American South since the Civil War
HIST10117 20 credits
Early Modern English Witchcraft
HIST10261 20 credits
War and Memory in the Twentieth Century
HIST10341 20 credits
Becoming Modern: Society and Culture in Ireland since 1780
HIST10360 40 credits
Print Culture and the Enlightenment: Edinburgh and London, 1710-1814
HIST10389 20 credits
The European Witch-Hunt
SCHI10021 40 credits
The Swinging Sixties? Exploring Culture and Society in Britain, c. 1956-1974
SCHI10074 20 credits
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