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Bachelor's degree
In City of London
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
City of london
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Start date
Different dates available
Programme Code: See May Be Combined With
Start of programme: September
Mode of Attendance: Full-time
The BA Social Anthropology Combined Honours Degree (4 years when combined with a Language) focuses largely on the study of the developing world, from remote communities to more recent urban development. We are curious about the world and innovative in our approach to finding new solutions to recurring problems. Studying the programme at SOAS is unique as it draws from our expertise in a plethora of humanities subjects including sociology, philosophy, linguistics, literature, and history. If you are interested in nurturing a better understanding of what it is to be human in the complex world in which we live, then this discipline is suited to you. Additionally, the nature of the Combined Honours degree enables you to develop a specialist niche for yourself by studying a second subject.
What subjects can you combine it with?
3 year combined degrees: African Studies, Bengali, Development Studies, Economics, Geography, Georgian, History, History of Art/Archaeology, Law, Linguistics, Music, Persian, Politics, Sinhalese, South Asian Studies, South East Asian Studies, Study of Religions, Tamil, Turkis.
3 or 4 year combined degrees: Burmese, Hindi, Indonesian, Nepali, Thai, Vietnamese
4 year combined degree: Amharic, Arabic, Chinese, Hausa, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Swahili.
Why study Social Anthropology Combined Honours at SOAS?
our Anthropology Department is among the most respected in the field of social and cultural anthropology in the UK
draw on the exceptional regional expertise of our academics in Asian, African, and Middle Eastern languages and politics, many of whom joined us with a practical working knowledge of their disciplines
our alumni and academics have an impact on the world outside of academia including within law, politics, media and the arts.
we are specialists in the delivery of languages
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Subjects
- Media
- Law
- Options
- Politics
- IT Law
- Psychiatry
- Arabic
- Hebrew
- Human Rights
- IT
- Sociology
- Social Anthropology
- IT Development
- Globalisation
- Society
- Anthropology
- Social
- Social Theory
- Ethnographic Study
- Social Investigation
Course programme
Students take 120 credits per year composed of core and optional modules.
All students are expected to take the core and compulsory modules.
In years one and two, students will take 60 credits in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology and 60 credits in their second subject.
In year three, students are entitled to select up to 30 credits of open option modules. These modules are based in other departments within the School, either in another subject or a language option.
Programme DetailYEAR ONECORE MODULESAll students are expected to take the following core modules, totalled at 60 credits. The remaining 60 credits must be taken through their other subject.
- Introduction to Social Anthropology
- Social Theory
All students are expected to take the following core module, worth 30 credits.
- Theory in Anthropology
Students must select two ethnography modules worth 15 credits each, totalled at 30 credits. The remaining 60 credits must be taken through their other subject.
- Ethnography in Practice
- Ethnography of China
- Ethnography of East Africa
- Ethnography of Japan
- Ethnography of Near and Middle East
- Ethnography of South Asia
- Ethnography of South East Asia
- Ethnography of West Africa
All students must take at least 30 credits from the Year 3 Option List. Though not compulsory, the Contemporary Trends in the Study of Society module is recommended for two subject students. 60 credits can be selected from the Year 3 Options List OR from their second subject. The remaining 30 credits can be selected from Year 3 Options List OR their second subject OR the Open Options Module List OR from the Language Open Options List, 3 Option Units List
- Advanced Ethnographic Study
- African and Asian Cultures in the Diaspora
- Anthropology and Film
- Anthropology of Globalisation
- Anthropology of Human Rights
- Contemporary Trends in the Study of Society
- Independent Study Project in Social Anthropology
- Introduction to Legal Anthropology
- Mind, Culture and Psychiatry
- New Media and Society
- New Religious Movements in Africa, Asia and the Middle East
- Principles of Social Investigation
- The Anthropology of African and Asian Communities in British Society
- The Anthropology of Gender
- Programme Specification 2011/2012 (pdf; 42kb)
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BA Social Anthropology and ...