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

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

Year 1 Academic year: 2021/22, 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

Must be passed

Archaeology 1B

Must be passed

Archaeological Fieldwork - 3 week field project

Must be passed

Social Anthropology 1A: The Life Course

Must be passed

Social Anthropology 1B: Anthropology Matters

Must be passed

Course options

Year 2 Academic year: 2021/22, 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: 2021/22, 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.

Entry to honours in Archaeology remains at the discretion of the Head of Archaeology in the light of performance across all courses.

Students intending to take the Social Anthropology Dissertation in Year 4 must be enrolled on Imagining Anthropological Research (SCAN10037) in Year 3

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

Consumption, Exchange, Technology

AND

Human Origins

Archaeological Illustration

Conceptualising the Neolithic

Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece

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

The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation

Scientific Methods in Bio-Archaeology

Archaeology of Architecture

Here comes the war: conflict archaeology and the human past

The archaeology of animal remains

GIS for Archaeologists

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

Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: The Basics and Beyond

Social Bioarchaeology: Living Conditions, Lifestyles and the Impact of Disease in the Past

The Archaeology of Technology: from prehistory to the present

On the move: Human migrations from the beginnings to the 21st century

Constantinople: The History of a Medieval Megalopolis from Constantine the Great to Süleyman the Magnificent

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.

Students wishing to take Culture and Power (SCAN10030) are encouraged to do so in Year 4.

South Asia: Culture, Politics and the Economy

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

Indigenous Peoples of Lowland South America

Humans and Other Species

Anthropology of Health and Healing

Anthropology of Christianity

Contagion

South Asian Public Culture: Keywords

The Anthropology of Energy in the Global South

Contemporary Issues in Social Anthropology

Anthropology of Health and Migration

Anthropology of East Asia

Anthropology and Africa

Cases in Sustainable Development

The Internet and Society

Energy Policy and Sustainability

Sociology of Medicine

AND

Students taking the Dissertation in Social Anthropology should enrol for this 0 credit preparatory course, others should not.

Imagining Anthropological Research

Year 4 Academic year: 2021/22, 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

Students taking the Social Anthropology Dissertation must have been enrolled on Imagining Anthropological Research in Year 3

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

Bronze Age Civilisations of the Near East and Greece

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

The Hittites: The Archaeology of an Ancient Near Eastern Civilisation

Theoretical Archaeology

Archaeology in Practice

Scientific Methods in Bio-Archaeology

Archaeology of Architecture

Here comes the war: conflict archaeology and the human past