MA Social Anthropology of Development

Master

In City of London

£ 9,225 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    City of london

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Start of programme: September intake only
Mode of Attendance: Full-time or Part-time
This Anthropology MA provides an understanding of the ways in which anthropological approaches and debates inform the study of meanings and concepts in development, its priorities, policies and practice. It attracts students with diverse backgrounds and study/work experiences which makes for a lively and challenging atmosphere.
The degree is designed to provide students with a fairly detailed knowledge of anthropology, development issues, research methods and either an ethnographic region (and/or language) and/or thematic interest in health/gender/food/ media. Advice will be given to match the choice of optional components to the requirements, interests, and qualifications of individual students whose background may be in general social science, regional, language or other studies. While the focus of the degree is on development issues and practice, its disciplinary orientation remains anthropological.
Students explore the contribution of anthropology to contemporary development debates, for example, on donors/aid agencies and NGOs, poverty, migration and development, dominating discourses, human rights, violence and complex emergencies, refugees, gender, social capital and community action, health, climate change, the ‘market’ (as a core metaphor of globalised development), whether there are alternatives to the market, the role of business in development (corporate social responsibility and markets for the poor) and the importance of ethical, professional conduct by anthropologists. Anthropological studies provide the basis for understanding issues of state and governance in development, as well as the meaning of community development, and of popular ‘participation’ and ‘empowerment’. Throughout the programme, the role of, and opportunities for anthropologists as professionals in development is discussed, in part through a dedicated series of seminars in term 2.

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Subjects

  • Media
  • Sociology
  • Options
  • Human Rights
  • Market
  • IT
  • Social Anthropology
  • IT Development
  • Culture
  • Anthropology
  • Analytical skills
  • Social
  • Intercultural awareness
  • Development
  • Ethnographic
  • Transferable skills

Course programme

Learn a language as part of this programme

Degree programmes at SOAS - including this one - can include language courses in more than forty African and Asian languages. It is SOAS students’ command of an African or Asian language which sets SOAS apart from other universities.

Programme Overview

The programme consists of 180 credits in total: 120 credits of modules and a dissertation of 10,000 words at 60 credits.

All students are expected to take the core and compulsory modules listed below, except for students with a previous Anthropology degree, who are not required to take the Theoretical Approaches to Social Anthropology module but may wish to select this as part of their 120 credits from the options lists.

All students must audit the compulsory module, Ethnographic Research Methods during term 1. This will not count towards the 180 credits. Students will be expected to attend only lectures and do not attend seminars or submit any assessments. Students may choose to take this module (worth 15 credits) as part of their 120 credits from the option lists.

Students with a previous Anthropology degree are required to take 30 credits from the Anthropology and Sociology options.

All students can select the remaining credits from the Department of Anthropology and Sociology or relevant options from other departments or a language module. See below for a detailed programme structure.

Language Entitlement Programme:

Many students choose to pursue a language through the SOAS Language Entitlement Programme (LEP). Languages normally available include Arabic, Chinese, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Turkish and Urdu. Others may also be offered.

Programme DetailCOMPULSORY MODULES

Students without a previous Anthropology degree are required to take all the compulsory modules, totalled at 90 credits. Students with a previous Anthropology degree are not required to take the Theoretical Approaches to Social Anthropology module, totalled at 60 credits. All students are required to audit the Ethnographic Research Methods module. This will not count towards your 180 credits.

  • Dissertation in Anthropology and Sociology
  • Ethnographic Research Methods
  • Theoretical Approaches to Social Anthropology
CORE MODULE

All students must take the core module worth 30 credits.

  • Anthropology of Development
OPTIONAL MODULES

Students with a previous Anthropology degree: 30 credits of your programme must be selected from the Anthropology and Sociology options list. All students can select the remaining 60 credits can be selected from Anthropology and Sociology or other departments or a language module.

Anthropology and Sociology
  • African and Asian Cultures in Britain
  • African and Asian Diasporas in the Modern World
  • Anthropological approaches to agriculture, food and nutrition
  • Anthropology of Globalisation (PG)
  • Anthropology of Human Rights (PG)
  • Anthropology of Law
  • Comparative Media Theory
  • Culture and Society of China
  • Culture and Society of Japan
  • Culture and Society of East Africa
  • Culture and Society of South Asia
  • Culture and Society of South East Asia
  • Culture and Society of Near and Middle East
  • Culture and Society of West Africa
  • Ethnographic Research Methods
  • Issues in Mind, Culture and Psychiatry
  • Issues in Anthropology and Film
  • Issues in the Anthropology of Gender
  • Media Production Skills
  • Religions on the move: New Currents and Emerging Trends in Global Religion
  • Theoretical Approaches to Social Anthropology
  • Therapy and Culture
  • Tourism and Travel: A Global Perspective
OTHER DEPARTMENTSDevelopment Studies
  • Development Practice
  • Gender and Development
  • Issues in Forced Migration
  • Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) as Development Agencies
History
  • Environmental History of Asia
South Asia
  • Political economy of violence, conflict and development
LANGUAGE MODULES

For a list of language modules, please go to the Faculty of Languages and Cultures webpages - - and view the options under the postgraduate modules section for each department.

This is the structure for 2018/19 applicants

If you are a current student you can find structure information on Moodle or through your Department.

Programme Specification
  • Programme Specification (pdf; 135kb)
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MA Social Anthropology of Development

£ 9,225 + VAT