MA Anthropology and Theology & Religion
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 Theology and Religion, exploring human societies alongside the meaning and history of religion. Core topics include Research Methods, Fieldwork, and Communication & Writing. Students complete a joint honours dissertation or a 10,000-word independent research project supervised by a member of staff.
Modules
- Academic Writing for Divinity, History & Philosophy
- Getting Started at the University of Aberdeen
- Introduction to Anthropology: Peoples of the World
- Introduction to Anthropology: Questions of Diversity
- Latin 1
- Latin 2
- Key Debates in Anthropology
- Reimagining Colonialism
- Anthropological Theory
- Society and Nature
- Emotion, Self and Society
- Religion, Power and Belief
- Joint Honours Dissertation in Anthropology
- Dissertation
- Roads, Mobility, Movement, Migration
- Anthropology of the North
- The Constitutional Imagination
- More Than Human
- The Political Anthropology of Indigenous Rights
- Anthropology and Art: on Place, Landscape and Materials