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Undergraduate Modules

Core courses that are run each year and are compulsory according to degree programme and year of study

Module (full unit)	Compulsory for:
AN100 Introduction to Social Anthropology	Compulsory for all first year undergraduates (BA/BSc Social Anthropology and BA Anthropology and Law)
AN101 Ethnography and Theory	Compulsory for all first year undergraduates (BA/BSc Social Anthropology and BA Anthropology and Law)
AN102 Reading Other Cultures: Anthropological Interpretation of Text and Film	Compulsory for first year BA/BSc Social Anthropology undergraduates
AN200 Kinship, Sex and Gender	Compulsory for second year BA/BSc Social Anthropology undergraduates
AN226 Political and Legal Anthropology	Compulsory for all second year undergraduates (BA/BSc Social Anthropology and BA Anthropology and Law)
AN227 The Anthropology of Economic Institutions and their Social Transformations	Compulsory for second year BA/BSc Social Anthropology undergraduates
AN300 Advanced Theory of Social Anthropology	Compulsory for third year BA/BSc Social Anthropology undergraduates
AN301 The Anthropology of Religion	Compulsory for third year BA/BSc Social Anthropology undergraduates
AN399 Special Essay Paper in Social Anthropology	Compulsory for third year BA/BSc Social Anthropology undergraduates starting their BA/BSc in or after 2006

Note: some of the courses courses listed as compulsory for the BA/BSc Social Anthropology are also available as options for the BA Anthropology and Law. The BA Anthropology and Law also includes compulsory and optional courses from the Law Department. Please see the Programme Regulations for further information.

BA Anthropology and Law Programme Regulations (for students registered in 2006 and 2007)
BA Anthropology and Law Programme Regulations (for students registered in 2008)
BA/BSc Social Anthropology Programme Regulations (for students registered in 2006)
BA/BSc Social Anthropology Programme Regulations (for students registered in 2007 and 2008)

Optional courses for undergraduates

This table shows the option courses that have been available over the last few years as well as what we are currently intending to teach next session in order to give you an idea of the number and range of courses available in any one year.

Module (half unit) * - Ethnographic option	Available 2004/05	Available 2005/06	Available 2006/07	Available 2007/08	Available 2008/09
AN203 The Anthropology of Lowland Latin America *			Yes
AN205 The Anthropology of Melanesia *				Yes
AN216 Cognition and Anthropology	Yes		Yes		Yes
AN221 The Anthropology of Christianity	Yes			Yes
AN223 The Anthropology of South-East Asia *			Yes
AN230 The Anthropology of Industrialisation and Industrial Life	Yes				Yes
AN231 The Anthropology of China *		Yes
AN235 The Anthropology of Southern Africa *			Yes
AN237 The Anthropology of Development	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
AN238 Anthropology and Human Rights		Yes		Yes
AN240 Investigating the Philippines *		Yes			Yes
AN241 The Anthropology of India (full unit until 2007/08) *	Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes
AN242 Social Anthropology and Darwinian Theories				Yes
AN244 Anthropology and Media					Yes
AN246 The Anthropology of Post-Soviet Eurasia *					Yes
AN247 Anthropological Approaches to Questions of Being					Yes

Taught Masters Modules

Core courses that are run each year by the Anthropology Department

Module (full unit unless otherwise stated)	Compulsory for MSc Social Anthropology	Compulsory for MSc Anthropology and Development	Compulsory for MSc Anthropology of Learning and Cognition	Compulsory for MSc Law, Anthropology and Society	Compulsory for MSc China in Comparative Perspective
AN402 The Anthropology of Religion	*		**
AN404 Anthropology: Theory and Ethnography	Yes	Yes	Yes
AN405 Kinship, Sex and Gender	*		**
AN437 Anthropology of Learning and Cognition			Yes
AN438 Law in Society: A Joint Course in Anthropology and Law				Yes
AN447 China in Comparative Perspective					Yes
AN451 Anthropology of Politics (half unit)	*
AN456 Anthropology of Economy: production and exchange (half unit)	*
AN457 Anthropology of Economy: transformation and globalisation (half unit)	*
AN498 Dissertation - MSc China in Comparative Perspective					Yes
AN499 Dissertation	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

* It is compulsory for MSc Social Anthropology students to take one full unit from: AN402 or AN405 or AN450 or AN451 or AN452

** It is compulsory for MSc Anthropology of Learning and Cognition students to take either AN402 or AN405

Optional courses run by the Anthropology Department for MSc students

This table shows the option courses that have been available over the last few years in order to give you an idea of the number and range of courses available in any one year.

Module (half unit)	Available 2004/05	Available 2005/06	Available 2006/07	Available 2007/8	Available 2008/9
AN419 The Anthropology of Christianity	Yes			Yes
AN420 The Anthropology of South-East Asia			Yes
AN421 The Anthropology of Industrialisation and Industrial Life	Yes				Yes
AN424 The Anthropology of Melanesia				Yes
AN425 The Anthropology of China		Yes
AN429 The Anthropology of Southern Africa			Yes
AN436 The Anthropology of Development	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
AN439 Anthropology and Human Rights		Yes		Yes
AN444 Investigating the Philippines		Yes			Yes
AN448 Indigenous Politics in Highland Latin America		Yes	Yes	Yes
AN453 Anthropology of India				Yes	Yes
AN454 Social Anthropology and Darwinian Theories				Yes
AN459 Anthropology and Media					Yes
AN460 Taiwan in Comparative Perspective *					Yes
AN461 Anthropological Approaches to Questions of Being					Yes
AN462 The Anthropology of Post-Soviet Eurasia					Yes

* AN460 Taiwan in Comparative Perspective is optional for students on the MSc China in Comparative Perspective. Students on other programmes must seek special permission from their Tutor and Programme Director in order to take the course.

For further details about our MSc programmes see also the following links.
About the MSc Social Anthropology
About the MSc Anthropology and Development
About the MSc Anthropology of Learning and Cognition
About the MSc Law, Anthropology and Society
About the MSc China in Comparative Perspective

Courses from other departments are also available to or compulsory for some of our MSc programmes. For full information, please see the regulations for each programme:
MSc Social Anthropology Programme Regulations
MSc Anthropology and Development Programme Regulations
MSc Anthropology of Learning and Cognition Programme Regulations
MSc Law, Anthropology and Society Programme Regulations
MSc China in Comparative Perspective Programme Regulations