Year 1 (credit level 4)
You'll learn about some of the main theories within social anthropology – political anthropology, economic anthropology, and kinship. You'll also consider the role of ethnography, and will be given a foundation in anthropological methodological practice. For the media element, you'll study verbal and visual language; changes in the media over the last two centuries; debates surrounding the term 'culture'; and the examination of media texts through an understanding of systems of narrative, realism and genre.
You take the following compulsory modules:
Module title
- Approaches to Contemporary Anthropology
- Anthropological Methods
- Film and the Audiovisual: Theory and Analysis
- Media History and Politics
- Culture and Cultural Studies
- Key Debates in Media Studies
- Ethnography of a Selected Region 1
Year 2 (credit level 5)
You'll consider the anthropology of religion, morals and symbolism, and explore interactions between changing economic and political structures in the world today. You'll take media theory modules that cover the internationalisation of cultural and media studies, the psychology of communications or theories of political economy in the cultural industries. You'll also take a media practice module in which you develop production skills by creating small-scale projects.
You take the following compulsory modules:
Module title
- Politics, Economics and Social Change
- Anthropology and the Visual
- Anthropology of Religion
- Cross-Platform Media Practice 1
- Anthropology and Political Economy
- Working with Images
You also take 30 credits worth of modules from the following list:
Module title
Psychology, Subjectivity and Power
Money, Society, and Culture
Media, Memory and Conflict
Television and After
Culture, Society and the Individual
Moving Image and Spectatorship
Media, Modernity and Social Thought
Year 3 (credit level 6)
In your final year you have the opportunity to design your own learning experience. You'll choose from module options in Anthropology and Media, and will take your second cross-platform media practice module, which will enable you to develop your skills and build on what you learned in your second year.
You select four Anthropology option modules. Those recently available have included:
Module title
- Anthropological Approaches to History
- Anthropology of Health 1
- Anthropology and Gender Theory
- Anthropology and the Visual 2
- Material Cultures
- Anthropology in Public Practice
- Borders and Migration
- Learning from Social Movements
- Psychological Perspectives in Anthropology
- Anthropology of Art
- Anthropology of Rights
- Anthropology and the Visual: Production Module
- Digital Anthropology
- Anthropology of Violence
- Anthropology of Development
- Gender Theory in Practice
- Staff/Student Research Project
