BSc Anthropology
Entry requirements
A level: AAB IB: 36 points (A total of 17 points in three higher level subjects, with no higher level score below 5.)
About this course
BSc in Anthropology, an anthropology degree examining the evolutionary, environmental, social, cultural, and material dimensions of human existence. Core topics include Research Methods and Human Behaviour. The curriculum incorporates an individual studies project in the final year. The first year covers the foundations through Introduction to Social Anthropology, Introduction to Biological Anthropology, and Introduction to Material and Visual Culture. The second year builds competence via Being Human and Anthropological Research Methods, alongside options spanning palaeoanthropology, kinship and gender, religion, and human behavioural ecology. The third year centres on the compulsory Individual Studies in Anthropology module, supported by optional study in areas such as human evolution, digital media, crime, and nationalism.
Modules
- Introduction to Material and Visual Culture
- Introduction to Social Anthropology
- Researching the Social World
- Methods and Techniques in Biological Anthropology
- Introduction to Biological Anthropology
- Being Human
- Anthropological Research Methods
- Palaeoanthropology
- Theoretical Perspectives in Social Anthropology and Material Culture
- The Anthropology of Kinship and Gender
- Human Behavioural Ecology
- Anthropology of Religion
- Primate Behaviour and Ecology
- Museums and the Cultural Politics of Return
- Anthropology of the Built Environment
- People and Conservation
- Developments in Global Cinema
- Individual Studies in Anthropology
- Palaeoanthropology
- Theoretical Perspectives in Social Anthropology and Material Culture
- Anthropology of Crime
- The Anthropology of Social Media
- The Anthropology of Nationalism, Ethnicity and Race
- Atapuerca and Human Evolution in Europe
- Evolution and Human Behaviour
- Anthropology of Technics and Technology
- Human Behavioural Ecology
- Ritual Healing and Therapeutic Emplotment