DPT: Social Anthropology and Social Policy (MA Hons) (UTSANSP)

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

Year 1 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: September

Compulsory courses

Social Policy and Society

Must be passed

Politics of the Welfare State

Must be passed

Social Anthropology 1A: The Life Course

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.

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Challenge Courses are designed to bring together students from different degree programmes to explore the complex issues facing the world today through interdisciplinary collaboration and creative thinking.

Working with each other and expert academics, students will gain new perspectives and develop important life skills highly valued by employers, such as teamwork, problem-solving and adaptability.

Our Changing World

Sustainability and Social Responsibility (UG)

Sustainable Development Goals: History, Progress and Beyond 2030

Living in the Anthropocene

Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World

Healthy Eating for People and Planet

Year 2 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: August

Students who are planning on spending their Junior Year Abroad must successfully progress to honours before they can proceed on their JYA. It is compulsory to have passed 240 credits by June before the JYA in September.

Compulsory courses

Ethnography: Theory and Practice

Must be passed

Social Anthropology 2: Key Concepts

Must be passed

Comparative Social Policy: Global Perspectives

Must be passed

Evidence, Economy, and Social Policy

Must be passed

Course options

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Our Changing World

Sustainability and Social Responsibility (UG)

Sustainable Development Goals: History, Progress and Beyond 2030

Living in the Anthropocene

Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World

Healthy Eating for People and Planet

Year 3 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: August

Students who are planning on spending their Junior Year Abroad must successfully progress to honours before they can proceed on their JYA.

Imagining Anthropological Research (SCAN10037) must be taken in Year 3 (even if on a year abroad) by students planning to undertake the Social Anthropology Dissertation.

Qualitative Research: Principles and Practicalities for Social Policy (SCPL10040) must be taken in Year 3 or Year 4 by students planning to undertake a qualitative dissertation in Social Policy.

Year 3 students on a Junior Year Abroad planning to undertake a qualitative dissertation in Social Policy must find an approved equivalent to SCPL10040 (Qualitative Research: Principles and Practicalities for Social Policy), confirmed on their Learning Agreement by the Social Policy International Exchange Coordinator. Where no equivalent is available, they will be required to take the course in Year 4 upon their return.

Compulsory courses

Analysing and communicating Social Policy

Course options

Imagining Anthropological Research (SCAN10037) must be taken in Year 3 (even if on a year abroad) by students planning to undertake the Social Anthropology Dissertation.

Students intending to take the Social Policy Dissertation DO NOT need to take this course.

Imagining Anthropological Research

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Designing and Doing Social Research

Doing Survey Research

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Kinship: Structure and Process

Anthropological Theory

Ritual and Religion

Consumption, Exchange, Technology

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

Advanced Issues in the Making of Contemporary Africa

Contemporary Issues in International 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

Anthropology of Health and Healing

Anthropology and Environment

Anthropology of Sex and Reproduction

Latin American Anthropology

Contagion

Ethnographies of the United States

Anthropology of East Asia

Anthropology and Africa

War and Peace: Anthropological Perspectives

Waste: Anthropologies of Pollution and Repair

Digital Global Development

Anthropology in Practice

Ethnography of the Supernatural

Anthropology of the Far-Right

Health, Environment and Society

Collaborative Ethnography of Edinburgh

The Internet and Society

Energy Policy and Sustainability

Controversies in Medicine, Technology and the Environment

Sociology of Medicine

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Children's Rights: Policy and Practice

Social Determinants of Health and Public Policy

Global Politics of Public Health

Europe and International Migration

Gender, Power and Representation

The Politics of the UK Constitution

Democracy and contemporary capitalism

Politics and communication of environmental risks

The Politics of Economic Expertise

Doing Survey Research

Social Demography

Population Health and Health Policy

Health Systems: Strengthening and Reform

Health Systems Analysis

Qualitative Research: Principles and Practicalities for Social Policy

Screening Social Policy

Race, Power, and Social Policy

Understanding sustainable welfare and eco-social policy

Domestic Violence: Concepts, Research and Policy

Advocacy, Lobbying and the Politics of Planetary Health

Drug Policy and the Public Good

Contemporary Feminist Debates

Year 4 Academic year: 2025/26, Starting in: August

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

Qualitative Research: Principles and Practicalities for Social Policy (SCPL10040) must be taken in Year 3 or Year 4 by students planning to undertake a qualitative dissertation in Social Policy.

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