MA Anthropology of Media and Intensive Language (not running 2018/19)

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.

The programme consists of 315 credits in total: 255 credits of modules and a dissertation of 10,000 words at 60 credits. 180 credits will be taken in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology; 135 credits, in the Intensive Language specific discipline.

The programme can be taken as a full-time study over 2 years or part-time over 4 years.

All students are expected to take all the core and compulsory modules.

For students who are undertaking study of this programme without a prior degree within the discipline of Anthropology, it is compulsory to take the Theoretical Approaches in Social Anthropology module. This will be worth 30 credits and count towards the 315 credits needed for the programme overall.

All students must audit the compulsory module, Ethnographic Research Methods module. This will not count towards the 315 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 255 credits from the option lists.

The remaining credits can be selected from the relevant lists in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology or other departments. See below for a detailed programme structure.

• Comparative Media Studies
• Dissertation in Anthropology and Sociology

• Theoretical Approaches to Social Anthropology

• African and Asian Cultures in Britain
• African and Asian Diasporas in the Modern World
• Anthropology of Human Rights (PG)
• Anthropology of Globalisation (PG)
• Anthropology of Law
• Anthropological approaches to agriculture, food and nutrition
• 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
• Therapy and Culture
• Tourism and Travel: A Global Perspective
• Asia and Africa On Display: Objects, Exhibitions and Transculturism
• Aspects of African film and video 2
• Diaspora Contexts and Visual Culture
• Digital traditional broadcasting communication
• Gender and Development
• Genders and Sexualities in South East Asian Film
• Indian Cinema: Its History and Social Context
• Indian Cinema: Key Issues
• International Political Communication
• Japanese Post-War Film Genres and the Avant-Garde
• Japanese Transnational Cinema: From Kurosawa to Asia Extreme and Studio Ghibli
• Mediated Culture in the Middle East: Politics and Communications
• Modern Chinese Film and Theatre (MA)
• Modern Film from Taiwan and the Chinese Diaspora
• Post-crisis Thai Cinema (1997-2007)
• (Post) Colonialism and Otherness in South East Asia on Screen
• Sound Recording and Production
• Theoretical Approaches to International Journalisms
• Transnational Communities and Diasporic Media:Networking, Connectivity, Identity

May include a language unit taught in the Faculty of Languages & Cultures.

• Culture and Society of China
• Culture and Society of East Africa
• Culture and Society of Japan
• 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
• Film and Society in the Middle East
• Japanese Television since 1953

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

• Programme Specification (pdf; 142kb)

Important notice regarding changes to programmes and modules