MA Anthropology and French
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 French and Francophone Studies. Core topics include Research Methods, Fieldwork, Communication & Writing, and Language & Translation. Students complete a period of residence abroad in a French-speaking country and undertake an independent dissertation or final year project.
Modules
- Getting Started at the University of Aberdeen
- Introduction to Anthropology: Peoples of the World
- Introduction to Anthropology: Questions of Diversity
- Academic Writing for Social Sciences
- French Culture and Society: from Occupation to Decolonisation
- The Global City in Text and Film
- Beginners French Language 1
- Beginners French Language 2
- Qualified French Language 1
- Qualified French Language 2
- Key Debates in Anthropology
- Reimagining Colonialism
- (De)centering France: Social Movements and Cultural Transformation
- World - Changing Protests: History, Culture, Politics
- Advanced French Language 1
- Advanced French Language 2
- Anthropological Theory
- Level 3 French Language (Mode B)
- Work Experience: Employability Skills Development
- Junior Honours Project 1
- Roads, Mobility, Movement, Migration
- Comparative Constitutional Systems
- Level 4 French Language
- Dissertation in Anthropology By Scholarship
- Final Year Project
- Roads, Mobility, Movement, Migration
- Anthropology of the North
- Emotion, Self and Society
- The Political Anthropology of Indigenous Rights
- More Than Human
- Dissertation in Anthropology By Fieldwork