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Social Anthropology
SCQF Level 08 (13 courses)
Code
Availability
Course Name
Period
Credits
SCAN08010
SV1
Empires
20
SCAN08005
SV1
Ethnography: Theory and Practice
20
SCAN08006
Fundamentals: Anthropological Practice
Not delivered this year
0
SCAN08008
Fundamentals: Ethnographic Theory
Not delivered this year
0
SCAN08009
Fundamentals: Reading and Writing Anthropology
Not delivered this year
0
SCAN08007
Fundamentals: Studying Anthropology
Not delivered this year
0
SCAN08015
SV1
Introduction to Social Anthropology
20
SCAN08013
SS1
Social Anthropology 1A: The Life Course
20
SCAN08012
SV1
Social Anthropology 1B: Anthropology Matters
20
SCAN08011
SV1
Social Anthropology 2: Key Concepts
20
SCAN08016
SV1
Social life and climate change
20
AFRI08001
SV1
International Development, Aid and Humanitarianism
20
DESI08141
SV1
Introduction to Queer Studies
20
SCQF Level 10 (52 courses)
Code
Availability
Course Name
Period
Credits
SCAN10022
SV1
Anthropological Theory
20
SCAN10091
SV1
Anthropologists Read the News
20
SCAN10088
SV1
Anthropology and Africa
20
SCAN10066
Anthropology and Environment
Not delivered this year
20
SCAN10083
SS1
Anthropology and Sociology of Medicine Dissertation
40
SCAN10064
Anthropology of Christianity
Not delivered this year
20
SCAN10077
Anthropology of Displacement and Migration
Not delivered this year
20
SCAN10087
Anthropology of East Asia
Not delivered this year
20
SCAN10062
SV1
Anthropology of Health and Healing
20
SCAN10085
Anthropology of Health and Migration
Not delivered this year
20
SCAN10068
Anthropology of Sex and Reproduction
Not delivered this year
20
SCAN10058
Anthropology of Violence
Not delivered this year
20
SCAN10073
Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa
Not delivered this year
20
SCAN10031
SV1
Consumption, Exchange, Technology
20
SCAN10070
Contagion
Not delivered this year
20
SCAN10080
Contemporary Issues in Social Anthropology
Not delivered this year
20
SCAN10030
SV1
Culture and Power
20
SCAN10081
Demystifying Money
Not delivered this year
20
SCAN10092
SV1
Digital Global Development
20
SCAN10036
SS1
Dissertation (MA Social Anthropology)
40
SCAN10020
East Central Africa
Not delivered this year
20
SCAN10086
SV1
Ethnographies of the United States
20
SCAN10061
Fakes: The Anthropology of Counterfeit, Imitation & Disguise
Not delivered this year
20
SCAN10075
Film and Anthropology
Not delivered this year
20
SCAN10043
Happiness: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Not delivered this year
20
SCAN10049
Himalayan Ethnography
Not delivered this year
20
SCAN10057
Humans and Other Species
Not delivered this year
20
SCAN10037
SS1
Imagining Anthropological Research
0
SCAN10047
Indigenous Peoples of Lowland South America
Not delivered this year
20
SCAN10021
SV1
Kinship: Structure and Process
20
SCAN10069
SV1
Latin American Anthropology
20
SCAN10008
Magic, Science and Healing
Not delivered this year
20
SCAN10060
Pictures: The Anthropology of Images and Mediation
Not delivered this year
20
SCAN10023
SV1
Ritual and Religion
20
SCAN10044
Social Development
Not delivered this year
20
SCAN10071
South Asian Public Culture: Keywords
Not delivered this year
20
SCAN10028
SV1
Southeast Asia
20
SCAN10067
The Anthropology of Africa
Not delivered this year
20
SCAN10034
The Anthropology of Death
Not delivered this year
20
SCAN10078
SV1
The Anthropology of Energy in the Global South
20
SCAN10052
The Anthropology of Food
Not delivered this year
20
SCAN10079
The Anthropology of Games and Play
Not delivered this year
20
SCAN10076
The Anthropology of Language
Not delivered this year
20
SCAN10072
The Anthropology of Monsters: Demons, witches, cyborgs and other fabulous creatures
Not delivered this year
20
SCAN10084
The Anthropology of the Body: Contemporary Issues
Not delivered this year
20
SCAN10010
The Invention of History
Not delivered this year
20
SCAN10082
SS1
Understanding Medicine: Social Science Perspectives
20
SCAN10074
Urban Anthropology
Not delivered this year
20
SCAN10050
Visual Anthropology
Not delivered this year
20
SCAN10089
SV1
War and Peace: Anthropological Perspectives
20
SCAN10090
Waste: Anthropologies of Pollution and Repair
Not delivered this year
20
BIME10063
SS1
Medical Anthropology
20
SCQF Level 11 (34 courses)
Code
Availability
Course Name
Period
Credits
SCAN11005
Dissertation MSc by Research Social Anthropology (100 credit)
Not delivered this year
100
SCAN11003
Dissertation MSc by Research Social Anthropology (60 credit)
Not delivered this year
60
SCAN11004
Dissertation MSc by Research Social Anthropology (80 credit)
Not delivered this year
80
SCAN11010
Indigenous Peoples of Lowland South America
Not delivered this year
20
SCAN11027
SV1
People First: The Anthropology of International Development
20
SCAN11017
Supervised Reading in Social Anthropology
Not delivered this year
20
SCAN11012
The Anthropology of Food
Not delivered this year
20
SCAN11026
The Anthropology of the Body
Not delivered this year
20
SCAN11008
The Invention of History
Not delivered this year
20
PGSP11049
SV1
An Introduction to Anthropological Theory
20
PGSP11172
SV1
Anthropological Theory
20
PGSP11598
Anthropology and Africa
Not delivered this year
20
PGSP11416
Anthropology and Environment
Not delivered this year
20
PGSP11379
SV1
Anthropology of Global Health
20
PGSP11423
SV1
Anthropology of Health and Illness
20
PGSP11176
SV1
Consumption, Exchange, Technology: The Anthropology of Economic Processes
20
PGSP11421
Contagion
Not delivered this year
20
ARTX11042
SV1
Contemporary Art + Anthropology (Level 11)
20
PGSP11178
SV1
Culture and Power: The Anthropology of Political Processes
20
PGSP11573
Digital Global Development
Not delivered this year
20
PGSP11565
SS1
Dissertation MSc by Research Social and Political Science (International Development)
120
PGSP11503
SS1
Dissertation MSc by Research Social and Political Science (Social Anthropology)
120
PGSP11574
SV1
Ethnographies of the United States
20
PGSP11501
Health and Migration
Not delivered this year
20
PGSP11376
Humans and Other Species
Not delivered this year
20
SAST11003
Key Debates in South Asian Development
Not delivered this year
20
PGSP11184
SV1
Kinship: Structure and Process
20
PGSP11419
Latin American Anthropology
Not delivered this year
20
SCAN11027
SV1
People First: The Anthropology of International Development
20
PGSP11191
SV1
Ritual and Religion
20
EDUA11385
SV1
The Anthropology of Education and Learning
20
PGSP11454
The Anthropology of Language
Not delivered this year
20
PGSP11042
SV1
The Ethnography Seminar
20
PGSP11601
War and Peace: Anthropological Perspectives
Not delivered this year
20
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Part-year visiting students only - VV
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