Old Aberdeen Campus
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.
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
September
Degree
MA Hons
Full time
L600
4 years
Arts and Social Sciences
Divinity, History, Philosophy and Art History
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