MA Anthropology and Geography
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 Geography, combining human societies with environmental perspectives. Core topics include Statistics, Research Methods, Fieldwork, and Communication & Writing. Students complete a final-year joint honours dissertation based on library research, alongside practical training through residential field trips during the second year of study.
Modules
- Academic Writing for Social Sciences
- Getting Started at the University of Aberdeen
- Introduction to Anthropology: Peoples of the World
- Creating the Anthropocene
- Introduction to Anthropology: Questions of Diversity
- The UN Sustainable Development Goals: Transforming Our World
- Key Debates in Anthropology
- Space, Economy and Society
- Reimagining Colonialism
- Skills and Techniques in Geosciences
- Physical Environments
- Environment and Society
- Mapping and Monitoring the Environment
- Anthropological Theory
- Approaches to Geography
- Research Design
- Comparative Constitutional Systems
- Emotion, Self and Society
- The Political Anthropology of Indigenous Rights
- More Than Human
- Joint Honours Dissertation in Anthropology
- Geographical Issues
- Comparative Constitutional Systems
- Emotion, Self and Society
- The Political Anthropology of Indigenous Rights
- More Than Human
- Roads, Mobility, Movement, Migration
- Anthropology of the North