MA Anthropology and History
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 History, combining anthropology and history. Core topics include Research Methods, Fieldwork, Communication & Writing, and Critical & Analytical Thinking. The programme requires the completion of an undergraduate dissertation in the final year based on primary and secondary material.
Modules
- Academic Writing for Social Sciences
- Getting Started at the University of Aberdeen
- Introduction to Anthropology: Peoples of the World
- Introduction to Anthropology: Questions of Diversity
- Making History
- Key Debates in Anthropology
- Reimagining Colonialism
- Anthropological Theory
- Thinking History
- History of Medicine (ME33HM)
- Roads, Mobility, Movement, Migration
- History in Practice
- Undergraduate Dissertation in History
- Dissertation in Anthropology By Scholarship
- Dissertation in Anthropology By Fieldwork