Ethnicities and Culture MA

Study modes: Full time

Course description: This programme is hosted by the University's Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Culture (CSEC) located within the Department of Sociology.(read more)

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Social Anthropology and Computing MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: This programme applies computer-based methods to anthropological research at a relatively advanced and creative level; applicants develop the basics of research in social anthropology; the design, planning, implementation and analysis of anthropological research; and learn to apply specialised computing methods to anthropological research and analysis.(read more)

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Anthropology of Ethnicity, Nationalism and Identity MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The current world scene is shaped by identity politics which generate struggles between groups constituted around ethnic, religious, national and other claims; this courseexamines how anthropology and associated social sciences contribute to our understanding of issues arising from the formation, expression and enactment of collective identities.(read more)

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Social Anthropology MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: This programme is designed as an advanced course in social anthropology and is for students who have already studied anthropology either as a degree course or as a major part of a degree course at undergraduate level.(read more)

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Environmental Anthropology MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Kent has conducted pioneering research into human ecology, ethnoecology and anthropological approaches to the environment for many years; members of staff have particular expertise in ethnobiological classification, historical ecology, computing applications, the human ecology of tropical subsistence systems, wildlife conservation, biodiversity management, and agricultural change and sustainable development.(read more)

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Social Anthropology (Visual and Sensory Media) MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: This pathway draws exclusively on modules drawn from social anthropology and the granada centre for visual anthropology; in the 1st semester, students normally take 2 modules exploring the representation of visual culture in the visual arts, in cinema and in ethnographic film and related documentary genres.(read more)

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Welsh Ethnological Studies MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Semester 1: Ethnographic research skills; theoretical issues in folklore and ethnology; semester 2: 2 from: Welsh Identity in folklore and popular culture; Welsh folk narrative; folk culture; identity, language and society; popular song in Wales 1660-1860; Wales and America; plus dissertation.(read more)

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Social Anthropology (Research Methods) MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: This pathway is intended for those who wish to supplement the core modules with additional training in social research methods, be it in preparation for a doctoral degree or for a research-based career outside academic life; amongst the methods that students may choose to study are: the typically anthropological research practice of ethnography, based on participant-observation, structured and semi-structured interviews, survey methods etc.(read more)

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Social Anthropology MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The general 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.(read more)

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Death Studies MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of anthropological issues concerned with death and mourning; students explore different aspects of death rituals and of representations concerning death and mourning; examples are drawn from societies in the present and of the past; death rituals and remembrance of the dead allow survivors to deal with the loss and disruption caused by the death of a person.(read more)

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Disability, Ethnicity and Racism MA

Study modes: Full time

Course description: This course provides a unique opportunity to study the complex interplay of macro and micro forces that shape socio-cultural responses to, and therefore the experiences of, disability, ethnicity and racism.(read more)

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Social Anthropology of Development MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Provides an understanding of how anthropological approaches might inform the study of: meanings and concepts in development; its priorities; policies and practice; covers broad field of development and development-related work; core course: anthropology of development; plus 2 options; plus dissertation.(read more)

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Social Anthropology (Latin American Studies) MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: This pathway offers an interdisciplinary mix of modules on Latin America, including the following topics: black identity and culture; the indigenous peoples of Amazonia; the history of revolutions from Zapata to Che Guevara; the effect of urban planning on poverty in Latin American cities; Hispanic migration to the united states; the effect of soap operas on the development of Spanish as a pluricentric language.(read more)

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Social Anthropology (Culture, Ethnography and Development) MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: This pathway provides students with the opportunity to study the history, theory and practice of development in a broad variety of social and geographical contexts, encouraging students to think of development critically as a complex transformative process that has cultural as well as economic and political consequences.(read more)

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Social Anthropology MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Master's: the programme consists of 4 taught modules and a dissertation; 3 of the taught modules are compulsory; the remaining taught module is in a specialist area selected by the student; the dissertation should be on a theme that falls within the selected specialist area: Frontiers of anthropology; environment and culture; anthropology of Ireland; mind and culture; anthropology of music.(read more)

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Social Anthropology MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Teaches the discipline of social anthropology with special reference to the societies and cultures of Asia and Africa both past and present; the emphasis given to particular regions and approaches varies with current trends in the discipline and contemporary global developments; course covers broad knowledge of social anthropology and prepares students for research; 4 units plus dissertation.(read more)

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Social Anthropology MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: This course provides students with an advanced understanding of current theoretical debates within social anthropology; enable students to evaluate the contribution of social anthropology within the social sciences, humanities and sciences; provide students with practical knowledge and expertise in ethnography, so that they can critically evaluate anthropological methodologies and prepare and carry out their own practical work in the discipline.(read more)

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Social Anthropology (Cities and Migration) MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: This pathway allows students to draw on the broad range of expertise on cities and migration in social anthropology and across many other disciplines in the faculty of humanities; the modules offered cover such varied topics as: The linkages between migration and international capital; social aspects of inner city regeneration in the UK; urban planning in the global south and extreme social inequality.(read more)

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Research Methodology (Population Studies) MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Course addresses problems associated with population stagnation and decline and redistribution in the developed world (issues of ageing, international migration and internal distribution, amongst others) and those associated with population growth and environment in the developing world (issues of fertility decline, disease and mortality control and urbanisation, amongst others).(read more)

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Ethnomusicology MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: This course examines music from an anthropological perspective and offers an opportunity to study of music in a wide range of cultural contexts.(read more)

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