DPT: Social Anthropology with Development (MA Hons) (UTSANDE)

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

Year 1 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: September

Compulsory courses

Must be passed

Social Anthropology 1B: Anthropology Matters

Must be passed

Course options

If you struggle with choosing level 8 electives, you can choose the SUGGESTED courses: Empires SCAN08010, Social Life & Climate Change SCAN08016, Introduction to Queer Studies DESI08141 and/ or South Asia in the World SAST08003.

Year 2 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: August

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. It is compulsory to have passed 240 credits by June before the JYA in September.

Compulsory courses

Ethnography: Theory and Practice

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Social Anthropology 2: Key Concepts

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

International Development, Aid and Humanitarianism

Must be passed 1st time at 50%

Course options

Year 3 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: August

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 taking the Year 4 Social Anthropology dissertation must take Imagining Anthropological Research in Year 3 (even if on a year abroad).

Compulsory courses

Imagining Anthropological Research

Course options

Kinship: Structure and Process

Anthropological Theory

Ritual and Religion

Consumption, Exchange, Technology

AND

In consultation with their Personal Tutor, students are required to choose SIX honours-level elective courses (totaling 120 credits) over the two Honours years, using the following guidance:

-- At least 40 credits of Social Anthropology honours options, one of which must be Social Development.

-- Where possible, students are highly encouraged to take development-related courses in the School of Social and Political Science - OR - in other parts of the University, if there is substantial social science and development content.

Advanced Issues in the Making of Contemporary Africa

Contemporary Issues in International Development

Advanced Issues in the Political Economy of Development

South Asia: Culture, Politics and the Economy

Kinship: Structure and Process

Anthropological Theory

Ritual and Religion

Culture and Power

Consumption, Exchange, Technology

Social Development

Himalayan Ethnography

Anthropology of Health and Healing