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Social Anthropology with Development (MA)
Degree Type: Combined Honours
POS Code: C0372
UCAS Code: LL69
NYT Course S L CT
1 Social Anthropology 1Ah: An Introduction J 8 20
Social Anthropology 1Bh: The Practice of Social Anthropology J 8 20
Further courses A-Q 7/8 80
2 Social Anthropology 2: Into the Field J 8 20
Social and Political Enquiry 2 J 8 20
Social and Political Theory 2 J 8 20
Further courses A-Q 7/8 60
3 TWO Core Courses in Social Anthropology† J 10 40
FOUR optional courses or their equivalent (normally including Social Development and one Regional Analysis course)* A-Q 10 80
Imagining Anthropological Research J 10 0
4 TWO Core Courses in Social Anthropology† J 10 40
TWO optional courses or their equivalent* A-Q 10 40
Dissertation in Social Anthropology‡ J 10 40
* Honours Options: Students are required to choose, in consultation with their Director of Studies, six optional courses from the following list: not less that TWO and not more than FOUR further Social Anthropology courses; African Politics, Africa in World Politics, Economic Development in India since 1947, Economics of Developing Countries I or II, Gender and Development, Latin America and the World Economy since 1914, Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Political Sociology of Development in India, Technology and Society, or any other approved, Development-oriented course.
† Social Anthropology Core Courses include Kinship: Structure and Process; Anthropological Theory; Ritual and Religion; and Consumption, Exchange, Technology (these four usually done in third year); and Belief, Thought, and Language; and Culture and Power (these two usually done in fourth year).
‡ Students are expected to use the vacation between their Junior and Senior Honours years for the Dissertation.
Students who achieve marks of 50% or more at the first attempt, for all required second-year courses for their registered degree, are entitled to progress to honours.
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