MA Anthropology and Philosophy
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 Philosophy. Core topics include Research Methods, Fieldwork, and Communication & Writing. The final year includes an option to complete a dissertation based on independent scholarship or anthropological fieldwork.
Modules
- Getting Started at the University of Aberdeen
- Introduction to Anthropology: Peoples of the World
- Academic Writing for Social Sciences
- Controversial Questions
- Logic and Argument
- How Should One Live?
- Experience, Knowledge and Reality
- Introduction to Anthropology: Questions of Diversity
- Key Debates in Anthropology
- Reimagining Colonialism
- Anthropological Theory
- Dissertation in Anthropology By Scholarship
- Dissertation in Anthropology By Fieldwork