BA Anthropology and Sociology

at Durham University

Year 1

In the first year, you take a selection of modules from across the two departments (i.e. Anthropology and Sociology):

Compulsory theory modules:

• People and Cultures

and/or

• Classical Sociological Theory.

Compulsory research modules:

• Doing Anthropological Research

or

• Social Research Methods.

Examples of optional modules:

• Being Human

• Critical Scholarship in the Social Sciences

• Health, Illness and Society

• Human Evolution and Diversity

• Introduction to Criminological Theory

• Societies in Transition (double module)

Year 2

Students currently select a mixture of modules from both Anthropology and Sociology, either split evenly or weighted towards one or the other disciplines, including compulsory research training in either Anthropology or Sociology as preparation for the final year dissertation module.

Compulsory research modules:

• Research Methods in Action (double module)

or

• Research Project Design.

Examples of optional modules currently available in Sociology:

• Communities and Social Justice

• Contemporary Criminological Theory

• Crime, Power and Social Inequalities

• Police and Policing

• Self, Identity and Society

• Sociology of Education and Social Inequalities

• Sociology of Health and Medicine

• Violence and Abuse in Society.

Examples of optional modules currently available in Anthropology:

• Evolution, Variation and Adaptation

• Our Place in Nature

• Biology, Culture and Society

• Kinship and Religion

• Politics and Economics

• Global Health and Disease

• Sex, Reproduction and Love.

Year 3
 

You take a 40-credit Dissertation in Anthropology or a 40-credit Dissertation in Sociology in view of previous training in social research. Additionally, students currently take up to 60 credits of modules in each Department.

Examples of optional modules in Anthropology:

• Anthropology in the Contemporary Middle East

• Anthropology, Art, and Experience

• Decolonising Anthropology

• Poison, Pollution and the Chemical Anthropocene

• Exhibiting Anthropology

• Capitalism in Ruins

• Social Anthropology of Hormones

• Anthropology of Ethics and Morality

• Anthropology of Sport

• Anthropological Skills for Climate Change Survival

• Power and Governance

• Violence and Memory

• Anthropology of Tobacco

• Anthropology of Health Inequality

• Anthropology of Physical Activity and Health

• Evolutionary Medicine: Maternal and Infant Health

• Human Reproductive Ecology

• Development, Conflict and Crisis in the Lower Omo

• Evolution of Cooperation

• Comparative Cognition and Culture

• Cultural Evolution of Music

• Technological Primates

• Primates in Peril

• Primates, Predators and the Ecology of Fear

• Homo narrans: evolutionary anthropology of fiction

• Forensic Anthropology

• Palaeoanthropology and Palaeoecology.

Examples of optional modules in Sociology:

• Anthropological Field Course

• Community Placement

• Crime, Justice and the Sex Industry

• Cyberculture and Cybercrime

• Inside Out: Issues in Criminal Justice

• Social Policy

• Sociology of Forensic Science and Criminal Investigation

• Sociology of Work and Professions

• Digital Health and Other Devices (short module)

• Feminist Anti-Violence Activism (short module)

• Justice, Violence and Abuse (short module)

• Race, Racism and Social Justice in Contemporary Britain’ (short module)

• Sociology of Mental Health (short module)

• Sociology of Reproduction and Parenthood (short module)

• Youth in Crisis (short module).

A level offer – AAB
 

BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma/OCR Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma – DDD
 

IB Diploma score – 36 with 665 in higher level subjects
 

In addition to satisfying the University’s general entry requirements, please note:

• We welcome applications from those with other qualifications equivalent to our standard entry requirements and from mature students with non-standard qualifications or who may have had a break in their study.

• If you do not satisfy our general entry requirements, the Foundation Programme offers multidisciplinary degrees to prepare you for a range of specified degree courses.

• We are pleased to consider applications for deferred entry.

Science A levels
 

Applicants taking Science A levels that include a practical component will be required to take and pass this as a condition of entry. This applies only to applicants sitting A levels with an English examination board.

The tuition fees shown for students are for one complete academic year of full time study and are set according to the academic year of entry. Fees for subsequent years of your course may rise in line with an inflationary uplift as determined by the government.

 

Of those students who graduated in 2019:

• 85% are in paid employment or further study 15 months after graduation across all our programmes

Of those in employment:

• 70% are in high skilled employment

• With an average salary of £24,000.