Overview
Our joint honours course allows students to pursue their own areas of interest within Anthropology and Sociology whilst also providing them with a solid foundation in the discipline and a range of personal and professional skills which will serve as a springboard for their future career development. The programme is carefully designed to enable students to gradually develop their knowledge and skills and to become autonomous, effective and independent learners.
When you study Anthropology, you’ll explore what makes us human, what drives our diversity and how we’re connected to our environment. Sociology is a wide-ranging subject concerned with analysing social relationships and social institutions and the ways in which they shape people’s lives.
Links between research and undergraduate teaching are an important and distinctive feature of the programme, and the combined research experience and competencies of staff have shaped its design, content and delivery.
Learning and assessment
In your first year, you’ll explore what it means to be human and understand gender in different societies. You’ll learn about ancient human communities and our endangered primate cousins. You’ll explore social processes such as gender socialisation, urbanisation and education competing theoretical perspectives.
In your second year, you’ll be able to focus on areas such as human origins and archaeology, international development, environment and conservation. You’ll examine global challenges like environmental hazards and disasters. You’ll explore how gender differences are theorised from different perspectives. You’ll learn about racism through the lens of housing, policing, migration and you’ll analyse different aspects of global social change and its varying consequences.
In your final year, you’ll have the freedom to focus on what you care about most, including your dissertation subject. You might examine the illegal wildlife trade, or investigate the social impact of emergent technologies, shaping of racial identities or international labour migration.