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

Jump to: Year 4

Year 4 Academic year: 2026/27, Starting in: August

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

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Dissertation (MA Social Anthropology)
SCAN10036 40 credits

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 80 credits in this group.

Geography Joint Honours Options

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Catchment Water Resources
GEGR10023 20 credits
Remote Sensing and Global Climate Change
GEGR10055 20 credits
Glacial Processes and Geomorphology
GEGR10075 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
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
Global Hydrology
GEGR10146 20 credits
Black Geographies
GEGR10147 20 credits
AND

Social Anthropology Honours Electives - Level 10

Select exactly 40 credits of the following courses
Contemporary Issues in International Development
AFRI10004 20 credits
A World of Borders
AFRI10006 20 credits
African Studies: Topics & Themes
AFRI10007 20 credits
Artificial Intelligence and Global Development
AFRI10008 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
The Anthropology of Language
SCAN10076 20 credits
Anthropology of Displacement and Migration
SCAN10077 20 credits
Anthropology of East Asia
SCAN10087 20 credits
Anthropologists Read the News
SCAN10091 20 credits
Digital Global Development
SCAN10092 20 credits
Anthropology of Race and Racism
SCAN10097 20 credits
Anthropology of the Far-Right
SCAN10100 20 credits
Health, Environment and Society
SCAN10101 20 credits
Anthropological encounters with clothing, textiles, and fashion
SCAN10103 20 credits
Energy Policy and Sustainability
STIS10008 20 credits
Sociology of Medicine
STIS10013 20 credits
Introduction to Internet, AI and Society
STIS10020 20 credits
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