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Course Details

Course Name

MA Social Anthropology

Level of study

Postgraduate Taught

Study Mode

Fulltime

Duration

1 Years

Start Term

Sept

Country

United Kingdom

City

Manchester

Course Subject

Social Sciences

Course Fees

Inside EU: 9500

Outside EU: 18500

Universities

University of Manchester

Description

Course description

Claire Moran

I loved Science, Magic and Expertise. We had a great lecturer, Penny Harvey

who had a great way of delivering complicated ideas, with a sort of raconteur-meets-mad-scientist-style, but all wrapped up in a warm and approachable manner.

Claire Moran / MA Social Anthropology student

The objective of this programme is to communicate an anthropologically-informed understanding of social life in both Western and non-Western societies. By confronting students with the remarkable diversity of human social and cultural experience, its aim is to encourage them to question taken-for-granted assumptions and to view the world from a new perspective.

Through a set of core course units, comprising about a third of coursework credits, students are provided with a comprehensive grounding in classical as well as contemporary debates in social anthropology and are introduced to the distinctive research methods and ethical positions associated with the discipline. Students then complete their coursework credits by choosing from a broad range of units offered around the Faculty of Humanities.

Through these options, students apply the social anthropological theories and methods learnt on the core units to particular substantive themes and topics. Diploma students complete their coursework in May and formally graduate in July. Over the summer vacation, MA students carry out research for a 15,000 word dissertation that is submitted in September; normally expecting to graduate formally in December.

Teaching and learning

In each semester, you take two 15-credit core course units, and a selection of optional units that you select shortly after arrival. Many optional units are worth 15 credits, though some are worth 30 credits. In total, you are required to achieve 120 coursework credits. Over the summer vacation, you are required to write a dissertation which is worth a further 60 credits.

In total, some 50 optional units are available, not only in social anthropology but in a broad range of other disciplines across the Faculty of Humanities, including:

visual anthropology;

archaeology;

museum studies;

Latin American studies;

development studies;

history;

sociology; and

Drama.

Drawing on this broad range of disciplines, a number of pathways have been devised in order to maximize the academic and timetabling coherence of the options chosen by you. However, you are not obliged to select one of these pathways and, provided the course director and tutor are in agreement, may follow your own 'customised' selection of modules.

Part-time students complete the full-time course over two years. There are no evening or weekend course units available on the part-time course.

You must first check the schedule of the compulsory units and then select your optional units to suit your requirements.

Updated timetable information will be available from mid-August and you will have the opportunity to discuss your module choices during induction week with your course director.

Coursework and assessment

Most units are assessed by means of an extended assessment essay. Typically, for 15 credit units, these will be 4000 words, whilst for 30 credit courses, they are normally 6000 words.

Certain options involving practical instruction in research methods, audio-visual media or museum display may also be assessed by means of presentations and/or portfolios of practical work. In addition, all MA students are required to write a 15,000 word dissertation.

Course unit details

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