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MSc - Master of Science
UCL East East Marshgate Campus
Full Time
Sep 2027
1 Year
Studying Anthropology and Professional Practice will give you hands-on, research-led anthropological training. This flexible degree will develop your professional outlook and teach you to apply anthropological perspectives and insights in diverse professional fields. You will design, pitch and execute your own projects and learn how to use anthropology to make a difference to the organisations you go onto work in. Designed to drastically enhance your skill set and professional profile, this degree is unique in the UK in training students to use anthropological concepts and methods in an array of professional settings. You will explore and demonstrate the relevance of anthropological perspectives and insights to real-world problems and professional challenges. The Anthropology and Professional Practice MSc will give you comprehensive training in social and cultural anthropology with a specific focus on its relevance to professional practice in contemporary society. You will develop your professional outlook and skill set through hands-on research-led anthropological training, enabling you to apply anthropological perspectives and insights in fields including social research, user experience research, ethnographic consultancy and design research, as well as the creative industries, policy making, think-tanks and social enterprise. You will join a world-leading research community and benefit from research-embedded teaching, in addition to mentorship from industry experts. You will specialise in the elements of anthropology that interest you most, choosing from a range of optional modules to enhance your learning experience, and graduate equipped with the latest knowledge and insights in the field. The Anthropology and Professional Practice MSc is suited to both those in employment seeking continuing professional development by adding anthropological perspectives and skills to their toolkit, and students who wish to specialise in applying anthropological concepts and skills in professional practice. The degree is well suited to working professionals who wish to study part-time over two years.
This module presents different ethical frameworks (from moral philosophy and moral psychology to social anthropology, and others) in order to equip students to consider the ethics of creative businesses and enterprises in a contemporary setting. It aims to assist students to better understand a changing society and it shows the advantage of an anthropological perspective on ethics to navigate times of crises. Above all, the module encourages and prepares students to take a reflexive leadership role and develop an ethical attitude towards partners, employees and customers.
In this module, I invite students to join me in exploring key dimensions of ethnography as the methodological foundation of anthropological research and knowledge production. Together, we will examine three major areas of methodology by (i) scrutinizing some of the major concepts that underpin ethnography's intellectual contribution to the study of contemporary society; (ii) exploring how to perform ethnographic methods and other relevant qualitative research skills in practice; and (iii) cultivating an understanding of anthropological research as an ethically engaged and critically reflexive practice. The learning on this module revolves around a mixture of lecture content, pre-seminar activities (such as reading), and participation in seminars via discussion and group activities. A major component of this module is ?learning by doing? via formative peer research projects which test different facets of ethnographic research in practice.
A fee deposit will be charged at 2.5 percent of the first year fee.
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