Anthropology and International Development BA (Hons)

at University of Sussex

Year 1 at Sussex

Core modules
Core modules are taken by all students on the course. They give you a solid grounding in your chosen subject and prepare you to explore the topics that interest you most.

Autumn teaching

• Colonialism and After
• Global Development Paradigms, Policy and Politics
• Key Concepts in Anthropology
• The Anthropological Imagination

Spring teaching

• Global Development Challenges and Innovation
• Key Thinkers in Development
• The Anthropology of Exchange, Money and Markets
• Worlds and Selves

Year 2 at Sussex

Core modules
Core modules are taken by all students on the course. They give you a solid grounding in your chosen subject and prepare you to explore the topics that interest you most.

Autumn teaching

• Economic Perspectives on Development
• Ethnographic Research Methods
• Religion and Ritual
• Social Change, Culture and Development

Spring teaching

• Politics and Power

Study abroad or Placement

• Study abroad (optional)
  Apply to study abroad – you’ll develop an international perspective and gain an edge when it comes to your career.
• Placement (optional)
  To help you gain experience and increase your employability, you can apply for an optional placement as part of your course. You’ll be responsible for applying for and securing your placement. Our dedicated careers team can provide you with information and advice. If you’re successful in obtaining a placement, this will form part of your course.

Year 3 at Sussex

Options

You choose options to broaden your horizons and tailor your course to your interests. This list gives you a flavour of our options, which are kept under review and may change, for example in response to student feedback or the latest research.

While it’s our aim for students to take their preferred combinations of options, this can’t be guaranteed and will be subject to timetabling. Options may be grouped and if so, students will be able to choose a set number of options from the selection available in any particular group.

Autumn teaching

• Critical Perspectives on Conflict and Violence
• Cultures of Colonialism
• Current Themes in the Anthropology of Latin America
• Development Tools and Skills
• Geographies of Money, Finance, and Debt
• Geographies of Violence and Conflict
• Horizontal Development(s)
• Human Rights
• Human Rights
• Mobilities and Global Inequalities
• Palestine and the International
• Refugees, Migrants and Religion
• Religions in Global Politics
• Slavery, Emancipation and Legacies
• The Anthropology of Geopolitics
• The Anthropology of Work, Labour and Precarity
• The Global Politics of Health
• The Politics of Armed Groups: Rebels, State and Society
• Wealth, Inequality and Development

Autumn and spring teaching

• Anthropology Thesis
• International Development Thesis

Spring teaching

• Anthropology in the World: Theory, Knowledge, Action (and back again)
• Anthropology of the Body
• Colonialism and Modern Social Theory
• Decolonial Movements
• Development, Business and Corporate Social Responsibilities
• Development, Business and Corporate Social Responsibility
• Digital Development: Gender, Health and Technology
• Environmental Anthropology
• Geographies of Rising and Declining Powers
• Global Politics of Food
• Global Resistance: Subjects and Practices
• Race, Ethnicity and Identity
• Race, Ethnicity and Identity
• Understanding Contemporary India
• Urban Futures
• Whose Histories Matter? Doing Decolonial Heritage and National Identities

A-level

Typical offer    
ABB-BBB

Contextual offer    

• BBC-BCC
• Not everyone has the same support to get to higher education – we help you reach your potential. When we receive applications through UCAS, we consider all factors and will sometimes make contextual offers as part of our Access and Participation Plan

GCSEs    
You should have a broad range of GCSEs 9-4 (A*-C), including good grades in relevant subjects.

Extended Project Qualification    
We take the EPQ into account when considering your application and it can be useful in the summer when your results are released if you have narrowly missed the conditions of your offer.  We do not routinely include the EPQ in the conditions of your offer but we sometimes offer alternative conditions that include the EPQ.

International Baccalaureate

Typical offer    
30 -32 points overall from the full IB Diploma.

European Baccalaureate

Typical offer    
Overall result of at least 75% to 77%.

• Home students: £9,250 per year
• Channel Islands and Isle of Man students: £9,250 per year
• International students: £18,500 per year

Note that your fees may be subject to an increase on an annual basis as the Government reviews the fee levels.

Our Anthropology and International Development BA gives you the skills to go on to research and further study, as well as work in:

• development and environment
• charity and voluntary sector
• politics and the Civil Service.

Sussex students also have opportunities to attend specialist careers talks, drop-in sessions and workshops with industry representatives and potential employers. Recent events have included ‘Career Options in Global Studies’ and the chance to find out about placements and graduate programmes with the Department of Work and Pensions.

Graduate destinations

Recent Anthropology graduates have taken up jobs such as:

• project manager, Pepal Sustainable Change, Tanzania

• press officer, British Film Institute

• migrant rights advocate, London.