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lse.ac.uk/anthropology
UCAS code: ML16
Usual standard offer: A level: grades A A B
International Baccalaureate: Diploma with 37 points including 6 6 6 at Higher level
Other qualifications are considered
For further details see lse.ac.uk/ug/apply/ant
Applications 2014: 135
First year students 2014: 20
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This programme combines all the benefits of a qualifying law degree with the intellectual challenge of anthropology.
First year:
(* half unit)
Second year:
Third year:
Please note that not every course is available each year and that some courses may only be available with the permission of the course convenor and/or may be subject to space.
You can find the most up-to-date list of optional courses in the Programme Regulations section of the current School Calendar.
You must note however that while care has been taken to ensure that this information is up to date and correct, some circumstances may cause the School to subsequently change, suspend or withdraw a course or programme of study, or change the fees that apply to it. The School will neither be liable for information that after publication becomes inaccurate or irrelevant, nor for changing, suspending or withdrawing a course or programme of study due to circumstances outside of its control. You must also note that places are limited on some courses and/or subject to specific entry requirements. The School cannot therefore guarantee places on its courses. You should visit the School’s Calendar, or contact the relevant academic department, for information on the availability and/or content of courses and programmes of study. Certain substantive changes will be listed on the updated undergraduate course and programme information page.
Programme details
First year
You will take courses to the value of four units in the first year, equally divided between anthropology and law, to give you a balanced grounding in both subjects. Introduction to Social Anthropology provides a general overview of the discipline, introducing a range of questions that anthropologists have focused on via their research in societies around the world. Among other things, it explores what is variable and what is universal (or at least commonly found) in human culture and society by examining a range of political, economic, family, and religious systems found among different peoples.
Ethnography and Theory: Selected Texts introduces the works of classic social science theorists and how they have been applied to ethnographic analyses of particular societies.
Public Law covers the conceptual framework of public law. Property I introduces the role of property concepts in legal and social thought. Introduction to the Legal System familiarises law students with the basic characteristics and functioning of legal systems.
Second year
In the second year you must take the following core courses: Political and Legal Anthropology, which explores how a wide range of societies handle conflict, dispute, violence and the establishment and maintenance of political and legal systems; Criminal Law, which examines the 'general part' of criminal law and selected areas of the special part of criminal law in the context of theories of the aims and functions of criminalisation; and Law of Obligations, an introduction to the law of contract. For the remaining unit you can choose anthropology courses from a list of approved options.
Third year
In the third year you must take Law and Institutions of the European Union, which provides an introduction to European Union law; and Property II, which examines principles of land law and the law of trusts. For the remaining two course units you may again choose from the list of approved options, one course unit each from law and anthropology.