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Old Aberdeen Campus

Content

Anthropology at Aberdeen is the study of the diversity of human communities and cultures around the world. It brings together theories about ‘being human’ from a wide range of Western and non-Western thinkers to understand human action, culture and thought, as studied through long-term international research with the communities themselves.

Year 1:
Introduction to Anthropology: Peoples of the World; Introduction to Anthropology: Questions of Diversity.

Year 2:
Key Debates in Anthropology; Reimagining Colonialism.

Year 3:
Anthropological Theory; Doing Anthropological Research; Research Project Part 1; Optional courses of your choice including: Medical Anthropology; Religion, Power and Belief; Emotion, Self and Society; Nature and Society.

Year 4:
Research Project; Optional courses of your choice including: More Than Human; Anthropology, Museums and Society; The Political Anthropology of Indigenous Rights; The Constitutional Imagination; Roads: Mobility, Movement and Migration; Anthropology and Art; Anthropology of the North.

Entry Requirements

2026 entry requirements:

Standard entry:
4 Highers at BBBB plus English at National 5.

For second year entry you would require the above plus 2 Advanced Highers at AB including a relevant subject.

Widening access entry:
3 Highers at BBC plus English at National 5.

1 Foundation Apprenticeship is accepted in place of a Higher.