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Anthropology

University of Aberdeen

Venues

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

2025 entry requirements:

Standard entry:
4 Highers at BBBB (by end of S5) plus English at National 5. Those with Highers at BBB by end of S5 are encouraged to apply.

Entry to year 2 may be possible with 3 Advanced Highers at ABB including a relevant subject at A.

Widening access entry:
2 Highers at BB (by end of S5). Additional Highers/Advanced Highers in S6.

1 Foundation Apprenticeship is accepted in place of a Higher

Start Date

September

Qualification

Degree

Award

MA Hons

Study Method

Full time

UCAS Code

L600

Course Length

4 years

Faculty

Arts and Social Sciences

Department

Divinity, History, Philosophy and Art History

SCQF Level

10

Website

www.abdn.ac.uk