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BA Anthropology and English

Queen's University Belfast

Institution
Queen's University Belfast
Level
undergraduate
Subject
Anthropology and English
Duration
3-6 years
UCAS code
QL36
Typical offer
A-level ABB, IB 33

Entry requirements

A level: ABB including A-level English Note: for applicants who have not studied A-level English then AS-level English (grade A) would be acceptable in lieu of A-level English. IB: 33 points overall, including 6(English),5,5 at Higher Level.

About this course

BA in Anthropology and English, combining anthropology with English. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, Fieldwork, Policy Analysis, Historical Research, and Human Behaviour. Students explore the richness of human experience alongside literatures in English spanning historical, cultural, and material contexts.

Modules

  • English in Transition
  • Issues in Contemporary Fiction: Gender, Race, Ecology
  • Introduction to English Language
  • Being Human: Culture and Society
  • 'Understanding Northern Ireland: History, Politics and Anthropology'
  • Being Creative: Music Media and the Arts
  • Us And them: Why do we have ingroups and outgroups?
  • Key Debates in Anthropology
  • Mapping the Anglo-Saxon World
  • Foundations for Speech Analysis: The Phonetics of English
  • Language and Power
  • History of English: Studying Language Change
  • Shakespeare and Co
  • Irish Literature
  • Sex and Gender Anthropological Dimensions
  • Skills in the Field: Ethnographic methods
  • Apocalypse: Cultures, communities, and the end of the world
  • Hanging out on Street Corners: Creative, Public and applied Anthropology
  • Human Morality
  • Havoc and Rebellion: Writing and Reading Later Medieval England
  • Modern American Fiction: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality
  • Modernism and Modernity
  • Fiction and the Novel (1660-1820)
  • Utopia / Dystopia: The Future in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature
  • Romantic Poetry, 1789-1832
  • Enlightenment and its Discontents
  • Northern Ireland: Past, Present and Future
  • America's Aftermaths
  • Anthropology of Media
  • Writing Contemporary Ireland: Elegy, Epistle, Ekphrasis
  • Cities and Edgelands
  • The Bible and Modern Fiction
  • Women's Writing 1680-1830
  • Shakespeare on Screen
  • Speech Worlds: Phonological Acquisition, Variation and Disorder
  • Televising the Victorians
  • Language in the Media
  • Double Dissertation English Literature
  • Double Dissertation English Language
  • Human-Animal Relations: An Anthropological Perspective
  • Marvels, Monsters and Miracles in Anglo-Saxon England
  • Contemporary Indian Literature in English
  • Special Topic in Creative Writing
  • Special Topic in Irish Writing
  • Renaissance Performance, Gender, Space
  • Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction Devolutionary Identities
  • The Structure of English
  • Representing the Working Class
  • Writing New York, 1880-1940
  • Contemporary Poetry
  • Irish Gothic
  • In Gods We Trust: The New Anthropology of Religion
  • Writing Africa: The Colonial Past to Colonial Present
  • Work-based Learning
  • Anthropology Dissertation
  • Love Across the Divide: Northern Irish Literature and Culture 1968-Present
  • Anthropology and Roma
  • Music, Power and Conflict
  • Cognition and Culture
  • Shakespeare's History Plays: Then and Now