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Degree Programme Table: Geography and Social Anthropology (MA Hons) (UTGGPSA)

Jump to: Year 4

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

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

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

Course options

Courses from Schools of Geoscience & Social and Political Studies- Geography and Social Anthropology (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 for their dissertation.
Geography Dissertation
GEGR10053 40 credits
Dissertation (MA Social Anthropology)
SCAN10036 40 credits
AND

Geography Joint Honours Options

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Topics in Global Change
ENVI10001 20 credits
Catchment Water Resources
GEGR10023 20 credits
Remote Sensing and Global Climate Change
GEGR10055 20 credits
Glacial Processes and Geomorphology
GEGR10075 20 credits
People, landscape change and settlement: the last 15,000 years
GEGR10107 20 credits
Development and Decolonization in Latin America
GEGR10114 20 credits
Space, place and sensory perception
GEGR10116 20 credits
Writing Landscape
GEGR10118 20 credits
Ice and Climate
GEGR10119 20 credits
Environmental Justice
GEGR10123 20 credits
Land and Landscape: Explorations in Society and Nature
GEGR10125 20 credits
Geographies of the Border
GEGR10126 20 credits
Capital, Land and Power
GEGR10127 20 credits
The Blue Humanities: Studying the Sea
GEGR10128 20 credits
Geographies of Mobility
GEGR10129 20 credits
Eroding Landscapes: Mountains, Hills and Rivers
GEGR10136 20 credits
Volcanoes, Environment and People
GEGR10139 20 credits
Geographies of Food
GEGR10140 20 credits
Queer Geographies: Spatialising Sexuality and Gender
GEGR10141 20 credits
Problematising Environment and Society
GEGR10142 20 credits
Global Hydrology
GEGR10146 20 credits
Black Geographies
GEGR10147 20 credits
Principles and Practice of Remote Sensing
PGGE11233 20 credits
GIS and Spatial Analytics for Health
PGGE11272 20 credits
Remote Sensing for Disaster Management and Risk Mitigation
PGGE11307 20 credits
AND

Social Anthropology Honours Electives - Level 10

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Advanced Issues in the Making of Contemporary Africa
AFRI10003 20 credits
Contemporary Issues in International Development
AFRI10004 20 credits
South Asia: Culture, Politics and the Economy
SAST10001 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
Anthropology of Health and Healing
SCAN10062 20 credits
Anthropology and Environment
SCAN10066 20 credits
Anthropology of Sex and Reproduction
SCAN10068 20 credits
Latin American Anthropology
SCAN10069 20 credits
Contagion
SCAN10070 20 credits
Ethnographies of the United States
SCAN10086 20 credits
Anthropology of East Asia
SCAN10087 20 credits
Anthropology and Africa
SCAN10088 20 credits
War and Peace: Anthropological Perspectives
SCAN10089 20 credits
Waste: Anthropologies of Pollution and Repair
SCAN10090 20 credits
Digital Global Development
SCAN10092 20 credits
Anthropology in Practice
SCAN10093 20 credits
Ethnography of the Supernatural
SCAN10096 20 credits
Anthropology of the Far-Right
SCAN10100 20 credits
Health, Environment and Society
SCAN10101 20 credits
Collaborative Ethnography of Edinburgh
SCAN10102 20 credits
The Internet and Society
STIS10001 20 credits
Energy Policy and Sustainability
STIS10008 20 credits
Controversies in Medicine, Technology and the Environment
STIS10009 20 credits
Sociology of Medicine
STIS10013 20 credits
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