← All courses at University of Aberdeen

MA Anthropology and English

University of Aberdeen

Institution
University of Aberdeen
Level
undergraduate
Subject
Anthropology and English
Duration
4 years
UCAS code
LQ63
Typical offer
A-level BBC, IB 32

Entry requirements

A level: BBC IB: 32 points including 5, 5, 5 at HL. SL in English is also required. SQA Highers: BBBB. BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma: DMM in related subjects. Note: BTEC Level 3 Extended Certificate (Subsidiary Diploma) achieved at Distinction level, is normally acceptable in lieu of one A Level at grade B.) GCSE English (or equivalent) is required at Grade C/4 or above. GCSE Mathematics at Grade C/4 is also required for Accountancy, Economics and Finance programmes. Irish Leaving Certificate: Five subjects at Higher at H3.

About this course

MA in Anthropology and English, combining anthropology and english. Core topics include research methods, fieldwork, communication and writing.

Modules

  • Getting Started at the University of Aberdeen
  • Introduction to Anthropology: Peoples of the World
  • Acts of Reading
  • Introduction to Anthropology: Questions of Diversity
  • Academic Writing for Social Sciences
  • Controversial Classics
  • Rethinking Reading
  • Key Debates in Anthropology
  • Encounters with Shakespeare
  • Reimagining Colonialism
  • The Tragedy of Knowledge
  • Power, Empire and Equality
  • Anthropological Theory
  • Page and Stage: Renaissance Writings 1500 - 1640 (EL30CP)
  • Knights, Virgins and Viragos: Chaucer and Medieval Writing (EL35DQ)
  • Sympathy for the Devil: Scottish Short Stories (EL30QA)
  • Romanticism (EL35XR)
  • Fallen Women and Self - Made Men (EL30VC)
  • Modernism: Make IT New (EL30FF)
  • Haunted Texts (EL35KN)
  • Art and Atrocity: Representations of Violence and Trauma (EL30UT)
  • Queer Times (EL35WC)
  • Landscapes of Film and Literature (FS35ZB)
  • Dissertation in Anthropology By Scholarship
  • English Dissertation
  • Dissertation in Anthropology By Fieldwork