BSc Anthropology with a Year Abroad
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Programme
Our teaching comprises lectures, tutorials, seminars and
laboratory classes. Small-group tutorials, normally meeting weekly, are
an important part of many courses. Ongoing feedback is given to help you
improve your written work.
Your courses may be assessed by written coursework, by examination or a mixture of both. Examinations are normally unseen and their formats vary according to the course. Some combine short answers with essay questions, others rely solely on longer essay answers.
Degree summary
• UCL's Anthropology Department is one of the few in
the country that combines Social Anthropology, Biological Anthropology
and Material Culture to give you a truly broad-based anthropology
degree.
• Spend your third year abroad at one of our partner
institutions, for example in Istanbul, Athens, Barcelona, Malta, Arizona
or Paris.
• Access to excellent resources including extensive
literature in the UCL Library and other nearby libraries, such as that
of the Centre for Anthropology at the British Museum.
• We have an
outstanding collection of ethnographic items and the Napier Primate
Collection, and work closely with the ethnographic department of the
British Museum and with the Horniman Museum.
In the first year, you take compulsory courses covering the three branches of the programme; Biological Anthropology, Social Anthropology and Material Culture.
Biological Anthropology focuses on contemporary
human-environment interactions and human evolution. Social Anthropology
explores social and cultural differences and their determinants, from
indigenous groups to modern Western economies. Material Culture studies
human, social and environmental relationships through the evidence of
people's construction of their material world. Your second year includes
both compulsory courses and options.
Your third year will be spent abroad, where you will develop or consolidate your language skills and carry out original research for your dissertation. Some of our partner departments are in Paris, Athens, Bern, Oslo, Leiden, Lesvos, Barcelona, Arizona, and Istanbul. We plan to increase our partnernships in the coming years.
