MSc in Anthropology and Development

Programme Code: TMANDV

Department: Anthropology

This information is for the 2017/18 session.

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Full-year programme. Students must take two compulsory courses, a dissertation and optional courses to the value of one unit. Written papers will be taken in the summer term and the dissertation must be submitted in September. Attendance at seminars and at non-assessed tutorials is compulsory.

Paper

Course number and title

1

AN436

The Anthropology of Development (H) and either

 

AN456

Anthropology of Economy (1): Production and Exchange (H) or

 

AN457

Anthropology of Economy (2): Transformation and Globalisation (H)

2

DV400

Development: History, Theory and Policy or

 

DV442

Key Issues in Development Studies (H) and

 

One half unit in Development (DV4**) from Paper 3.

3

One full unit from the following:

 

A paper from Paper 1 or 2 above not already taken

AN402

The Anthropology of Religion

AN404 

Anthropology: Theory and Ethnography

AN405

The Anthropology of Kinship, Sex and Gender

AN419

The Anthropology of Christianity (H) (not available 2017/18)

AN420

The Anthropology of South-East Asia (H) (not available 2017/18)

AN424

The Anthropology of Melanesia (H)

AN437

Anthropology of Learning and Cognition

AN439

Anthropology and Human Rights (H) (not available 2017/18)

AN444

Investigating the Philippines- New Approaches and Ethnographic Contexts (H) (not available 2017/18)

AN447

China in Comparative Perspective

AN451

Anthropology of Politics (H)

AN458

Children and Youth in Contemporary Ethnography (H) (not available 2017/18)

AN459

Anthropology and Media (H) (not available 2017/18)

AN461

The Anthropology of Ontology (H) (not available 2017/18)

AN463

Borders and Boundaries: Ethnographic Approaches (H)

AN467

The Anthropology of South Asia (H) (not available 2017/18)

AN469

The Anthropology of Amazonia (H)

AN473

Anthropological Approaches to Value (H)

AN474

Subjectivity and Anthropology (H) (not available 2017/18)

AN475

The Anthropology of Revolution (H)

AN476

Anthropology and the Anthropocene (H)

DV407

Poverty (H)

DV413

Environmental Problems and Development Interventions (H)

DV415

Global Environmental Governance (H)

DV418

African Development (H) 

DV420

Complex Emergencies (H)

DV428

Managing Humanitarianism (H)

DV429

Global Civil Society (H) (not available 2017/18)

DV490

Economic Development Policy I: Applied Policy Analysis for Macroeconomic Development (H)

DV491

Economic Development Policy II: Microeconomic Analysis (H)

DV492

Economic Development Policy III: Government Policy Analysis (H)

GY467

Global Migration and Development (H) (not available 2017/18)

 

Any other courses offered by Anthropology or Development Studies, as approved

4

AN499

Dissertation

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