Anthropology with a Year Abroad BSc

University College London

Bachelor's degree

In London

£ 9,250 VAT inc.

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    4 Years

In each year of your degree you will take a number of individual modules, normally valued at 15 or 30 credits, adding up to a total of 120 credits for the year. Modules are assessed in the academic year in which they are taken. The balance of compulsory and optional modules varies from programme to programme and year to year. A 30-credit module is considered equivalent to 15 credits in the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS).
In the first year, you take compulsory modules covering the three branches of the programme: biological anthropology, social anthropology and material culture. Biological anthropology focuses on contemporary human-environment interactions and human evolution. Social anthropology explores social and cultural differences and their determinants, from indigenous groups to modern western economies. Material culture studies human, social and environmental relationships through the evidence of people's construction of their material world.
Your first year also includes a three-day field trip to discover ethnographic research and participant observation in ritual, landscape, and techniques.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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Gower Street, WC1E 6BT

Start date

On request

About this course

UCL Anthropology is one of the few departments in the country that combines social anthropology, biological anthropology, material culture and medical anthropology to give you a truly broad-based anthropology degree.
Spend your third year abroad at one of our partner institutions, for example in Istanbul, Athens, Barcelona, Malta, Leiden, Oslo, Finland, Arizona, Paris or Tokyo.
Access to excellent resources including extensive literature in the UCL Main Library and other nearby libraries, such as in the Centre for Anthropology at the British Museum.
We have an outstanding collection of ethnographic items and the Napier Primate Collection, and work closely with the ethnographic department of the British Museum and with the Horniman Museum.

The broad range of methodological skills and analytical perspectives offered by the UCL Anthropology programme gives our graduates an unusually wide range of career possibilities, many of them directly related to the discipline's cross-cultural focus and to our blending of the social and biological sciences.

Former graduates work in diverse fields, such as journalism, film-making, TV, museums, social work, international development, NGOs and voluntary sector, police, probation, refugee work, wine tasting, market research, advertising, design, PR, marketing, music industry, accountancy, local government, HR, ESL teaching, and as cultural advisors for multinationals.

English Language and Mathematics at grade C or 5, plus Science or Biology at grade B or 6. For UK-based students, a grade C or 5 or equivalent in a foreign language (other than Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew or Latin) is required.

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Subjects

  • Social Anthropology
  • Construction
  • Construction Training
  • Biological
  • Anthropology Researching
  • Anthropology
  • Social Anthropology Methods
  • Ecology Social
  • Ecology
  • Studies in Anthropology

Course programme

YEAR 1

Core or compulsory module(s)
  • Introduction to Biological Anthropology
  • Introduction to Material and Visual Culture
  • Introductory Social Anthropology
  • Methods and Techniques in Biological Anthropology
  • Researching the Social World
Optional modules
  • All first year modules are compulsory.

YEAR 2

Core or compulsory module(s)

Theoretical Perspectives in Social Anthropology and Material Culture
Being Human

Optional modules

You will select a minimum of 2.5 and a maximum of 3.0 credits from Anthropology optional modules which must include choices in biological, social, material culture and medical anthropology.

  • Anthropologies of Science, Society and Biomedicine
  • Ethnography of Forest People
  • Human Brain, Cognition and Language
  • Mass Consumption and Design
  • Medical Anthropology
  • Political and Economic Anthropology
  • Primate Behaviour and Ecology
  • Social Construction of Landscapes

You may take up to a maximum of 0.5 credits from other undergraduate elective modules outside the department.

YEAR 3

  • Year abroad

YEAR 4

Core or compulsory module(s)
  • Individual Studies in Anthropology
Optional modules

You will select a minimum of 2.0 and a maximum of 2.5 credits from all final-year Anthropology options. These may include:

  • Advanced Topics in Digital Culture
  • Anthropology of Crime
  • Anthropology of Ethics and Morality
  • Ethnographic and Documentary Film Making - a practice-based introduction
  • Evolution and Human Behaviour
  • Evolution of Human Cumulative Culture
  • Ritual Healing and Therapeutic Emplotment
  • Temporality, Consciousness and Everyday Life

You may take up to a maximum of 0.5 credits from other undergraduate elective modules outside the department.

Your learning

Our teaching comprises lectures, tutorials, seminars and laboratory classes. Small-group tutorials, normally meeting weekly, are an important element of many modules. Ongoing feedback is given to help you improve your written work.

Assessment

Your modules may be assessed by written coursework, by examination or a mixture of both. Examinations are normally unseen and their formats vary according to the module. Some combine short answers with essay questions, others rely solely on longer essay answers.

Additional information

Overseas students  Fee - £25,960 (2018/19)

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