BSc Anthropology
Entry requirements
A level: AAB IB: 35 with 665 in higher level subjects.
About this course
BSc (Hons) Anthropology is an undergraduate degree centred on biological anthropology, examining human evolution, behaviour and culture alongside the anthropological study of society and health. Core topics include research methods and fieldwork. Entry to the course does not require prior study of science subjects, and the final year pairs a compulsory dissertation with an anthropological field course. The first year covers the foundations through Human Evolution and Diversity, People and Cultures, Being Human: An Introduction to the History and Practice of Anthropology, Doing Anthropological Research, and Health, Illness and Society. Optional modules in that year have included Global Challenges, Decolonising Knowledge and Power, and a language module offered by the Centre for Foreign Language Study. The second year applies research skills in Research Skills and Project Design, with skeletal analysis and human evolution in Humans Past and Present, primate societies and cognition in Primate Societies and Human Minds, and links to professional contexts in Applying Anthropology; optional choices have included Global Health & Inequality, Sex, Reproduction and Love, Ritual, Religion and Belonging, and Power & Inequality. In the third year students complete a Dissertation based on their own research design and take the Anthropology Field Course, run as a residential or virtual field school. Optional modules in the final year have included Evolution of Cooperation, Comparative Cognition and Culture, Forensic Anthropology, and Palaeoanthropology and Palaeoecology.
Modules
- Human Evolution and Diversity
- People and Cultures
- Being Human: An Introduction to the History and Practice of Anthropology
- Doing Anthropological Research
- Health, Illness and Society
- Example optional modules
- Research Skills and Project Design
- Humans Past and Present
- Primate Societies and Human Minds
- Applying Anthropology
- Example optional modules
- Dissertation
- Anthropology Field Course
- Example optional modules