MSc in Anthropology and Development

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Programme Code: TMANDV

Department: Anthropology

For students starting this programme of study in 2025/26

Guidelines for interpreting programme regulations

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

Full-year programme. Students must take two compulsory half-unit courses, a dissertation and optional courses to the value of two units. 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.

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	AN436 The Anthropology of Development (0.5)

	and either: AN456 Economic Anthropology (0.5)
	AN476 Anthropology and the Anthropocene (0.5)

Paper 2	DV468 Development: History, Theory and Policy (0.5)

	and 0.5 units from the following: Paper 3 DV courses options list
Paper 3	Courses to the value of 1.0 unit(s) from the following: A B
	AN404 Anthropology: Theory and Ethnography (1.0)
	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)
	AN447 China in Comparative Perspective (1.0)
	AN451 Politics and Power: Debates in Anthropology (0.5)
	AN456 Economic Anthropology (0.5)
	AN458 Children and Youth in Contemporary Ethnography (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)
	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)
	AN476 Anthropology and the Anthropocene (0.5)
	AN477 Topics in the Anthropology of sub-Saharan Africa (0.5) # (suspended 2025/26)
	AN479 Anthropology of Law and Human Rights (0.5)
	AN480 Public Anthropology (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)
	AN483 Anthropology, Art, and Poetics (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)
	AN484 Anthropological Approaches to Race, Racism, and Decolonisation (0.5) (suspended 2025/26)
	AN485 Mind and Society (0.5)
	AN486 Research Methods in Anthropology (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)
	AN492 Anthropological Entanglements in the Middle East (0.5)
	AN493 Language, Signs, World, Action! Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology (0.5)
	AN495 Digital Anthropology (0.5)
	AN4A1 Understanding Religion in the Contemporary World (0.5)

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	Or any other courses offered by Anthropology or International Development, as approved.
Paper 4	AN499 Dissertation (1.0)

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DV407 Poverty (0.5)
DV413 Environmental Problems and Development Interventions (0.5)
DV415 Global Environmental Governance (0.5)
DV418 African Development (0.5)
DV420 Complex Emergencies (0.5)
DV421 Critical Perspectives on Global Health and Development (0.5)
DV428 Managing Humanitarianism (0.5)
DV458 Key issues in Global Health and Development (0.5)
DV464 Democracy and Development (0.5)
DV480 Development Transformations: The Political Economy of Colonialism, Revolution and Reform (0.5) #
DV490 Economic Development Policy I: Applied Policy Analysis for Macroeconomic Development (0.5) #
DV491 Economic Development Policy II: Microeconomic Analysis (0.5) #
DV492 Economic Development Policy III: Government Policy Analysis (0.5) #
DV494 Foundations of Applied Econometrics for Economic Development Policy (0.5)

Footnotes

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

A: Paper 3, AN456: Can only be taken under Paper 3 if it was not taken under Paper 1.

B: Paper 3, AN476: Can only be taken under Paper 3 if it was not taken under Paper 1.

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