B.Sc. Anthropology with a Year in Japan (Hons)

The course structure below gives a flavour of the modules that will be available to you and provides details of the content of this programme. This listing is based on the current curriculum and may change year to year in response to new curriculum developments and innovation. Most programmes will require you to study a combination of compulsory and optional modules, you may also have the option to take ‘wild’ modules from other programmes offered by the University in order that you may customise your programme and explore other subject areas of interest to you or that may further enhance your employability.

Possible modules may include:

• Social Anthropology
• Foundations of Biological Anthropology
• Thinkers and Theories: An Introduction to theHistory and Development of
• Skills for Anthropology and Conservation

You have the opportunity to select wild modules in this stage

Possible modules may include:

• Biology and Human Identity
• Methodology in Anthropological Science
• Comparative Perspectives in Primate Biology
• Learning Japanese 1A: An Introduction to Elementary Japanese
• Learning Japanese 1B: An Introduction to Upper Elementary Japanese
• Advanced Social Anthropology 1: Power and Economy
• Advanced Social Anthropology II: Religion & Cosmological Imagination

You spend a year between Stages 2 and 3 taking courses in anthropology at a university in Japan. Students are required to have obtained a Stage 2 average of 60% or above, before commencing their year abroad.

Possible modules may include:

• Anthroplogy Year Abroad Mark One
• Anthropology Year Abroad Mark Two

Possible modules may include:

• Project in Anthropological Science
• Palaeoanthropology
• Current Issues in Evolutionary Anthropology
• Primate Behaviour and Ecology
• Sex Evolution and Human Nature
• Human Osteology
• Evolution of Human Diversity
• Anthropology and Development
• Social Computing
• European Societies
• Human Behavioural Ecology
• Hormones and Behaviour
• Anthropology of Creativity
• Evolutionary Genetics and Conservation
• Ethnicity and Nationalism
• Medicinal Plants: Home Remedy, Pharmaceutical, Illicit Drug
• The Anthropology of Amazonia
• Palaeopathology
• The Ethnography of Central Asian Societies
• From the Raw to the Cooked: The Anthropology of Eating
• Human Ecology
• South East Asian Societies
• The Anthropology of Health, Illness and Medicine
• The Anthropology of Gender
• Anthropology and Language
• Culture and Cognition
• Visual Anthropology Theory
• Project in Visual Anthropology
• Social Sciences in the Classroom
• Primate Communication