MSc in Social Anthropology

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Programme Code: TMAN

Department: Anthropology

For students starting this programme of study in 2021/22

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations

Classification scheme for the award of a taught master's degree (four units)
Exam sub-board local rules

Full-year programme. Students must take courses to the value of three full units and a dissertation as shown. Attendance at seminars and at non-assessed tutorials is compulsory.

Please note that places are limited on some optional courses. Admission onto any particular course is not guaranteed and may be subject to timetabling constraints and/or students meeting specific prerequisite requirements.
Paper	Course number, title (unit value)

Paper 1	AN404 Anthropology: Theory and Ethnography (1.0)

Paper 2
	Courses to the value of 1 unit(s) from the following: AN402 The Anthropology of Religion (1.0) (withdrawn 2025/26)
	AN405 The Anthropology of Kinship, Sex and Gender (1.0) (withdrawn 2025/26)
	AN451 Politics and Power: Debates in Anthropology (0.5)
	AN456 Economic Anthropology (0.5)
	AN457 Anthropology of Economy (2): Transformation and Globalisation (0.5) (withdrawn 2025/26)
	AN479 Anthropology of Law and Human Rights (0.5)

Paper 3
	Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from a paper under paper 2 above not already taken or from the following:
	AN419 The Anthropology of Christianity (0.5)
	AN420 The Anthropology of Southeast Asia (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)
	AN424 The Anthropology of Melanesia (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)
	AN436 The Anthropology of Development (0.5)
	AN444 Investigating the Philippines - New Approaches and Ethnographic Contexts (0.5) # (withdrawn 2024/25)
	AN447 China in Comparative Perspective (1.0)
	AN458 Children and Youth in Contemporary Ethnography (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)
	AN461 Anthropological Approaches to Questions of Being (0.5) (withdrawn 2023/24)
	AN463 Borders and Boundaries: Ethnographic Approaches (0.5)
	AN467 The Anthropology of South Asia (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26)
	AN469 The Anthropology of Amazonia (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)
	AN475 The Anthropology of Revolution (0.5) (withdrawn 2025/26)
	AN476 Anthropology and the Anthropocene (0.5)
	AN477 Topics in the Anthropology of sub-Saharan Africa (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26)
	AN480 Public Anthropology (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)
	AN481 Health and Welfare: Anthropological Perspectives (0.5) (withdrawn 2025/26)

	Paper 2 options list
Paper 4	AN499 Dissertation (1.0)

Paper 2 options list



AN451 Politics and Power: Debates in Anthropology (0.5)
AN456 Economic Anthropology (0.5)
AN479 Anthropology of Law and Human Rights (0.5)
AN485 Mind and Society (0.5)
AN487 Environmental Anthropology (0.5)
AN488 Gender, Sexuality and Kinship (0.5)
AN489 Anthropology of the Body (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)
AN490 Anthropology and Religion (0.5)
AN495 Digital Anthropology (0.5)
AN4A1 Understanding Religion in the Contemporary World (0.5)

Footnotes

# means there may be prerequisites for this course. Please view the course guide for more information.

Note for prospective students:
For changes to graduate course and programme information for the next academic session, please see the graduate summary page for prospective students. Changes to course and programme information for future academic sessions can be found on the graduate summary page for future students.