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Programme Requirements for 2026/27 Session


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B.A. Social Anthropology with Year Abroad Full-time

Year: 4
2026/27 Session

The following must be taken:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Dissertation 09 23603 40 Full Term

Students choose 80 credits of optional DASA modules.

Students cannot take at LH any modules they have taken at LI. Students must take a minimum of 40 credits of optional modules in Social Anthropology.

Students may take up to 40 credits of modules outside of Social Anthropology. They may replace 20 credits with ONE 20-credit LH Professional Skills module if not undertaken at LI.

An indicative list of modules is provided below.

Credits must be evenly balanced across semesters.

Year: 4
2024/25 Session

Module Title Code Credits Semester
Atlantic Slavery: West Africa and the Caribbean 09 22696 20 Semester 2
LH African Popular Culture 09 20437 20 Semester 1
LH Africans in the Global Diaspora 09 30663 20 Semester 1 or 2
LH Anthropology and/of Activism 20 Semester 1
Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Anthropology of Islam 09 31885 20 Semester 2
LH Anthropology of Migration 09 33702 20 Semester 1

Students choose 80 credits of optional DASA modules.

Students cannot take at LH any modules they have taken at LI. Students must take a minimum of 40 credits of optional modules in Social Anthropology.

Students may take up to 40 credits of modules outside of Social Anthropology. They may replace 20 credits with ONE 20-credit LH Professional Skills module if not undertaken at LI.

An indicative list of modules is provided below.

Credits must be evenly balanced across semesters.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Anticolonial, Postcolonial, Decolonial 09 37917 20 Semester 1
LH Development in Africa 09 24291 20 Semester 2

Students choose 80 credits of optional DASA modules.

Students cannot take at LH any modules they have taken at LI. Students must take a minimum of 40 credits of optional modules in Social Anthropology.

Students may take up to 40 credits of modules outside of Social Anthropology. They may replace 20 credits with ONE 20-credit LH Professional Skills module if not undertaken at LI.

An indicative list of modules is provided below.

Credits must be evenly balanced across semesters.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Ethnographies of the Marginalised 09 20436 20 Semester 2

Students choose 80 credits of optional DASA modules.

Students cannot take at LH any modules they have taken at LI. Students must take a minimum of 40 credits of optional modules in Social Anthropology.

Students may take up to 40 credits of modules outside of Social Anthropology. They may replace 20 credits with ONE 20-credit LH Professional Skills module if not undertaken at LI.

An indicative list of modules is provided below.

Credits must be evenly balanced across semesters.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Gender and Colonialism in African History 09 37921 20 Semester 1
LH Kinship, Gender and Sexuality 09 29604 20 Semester 1
LH New African Writing 09 23567 20 Semester 1
LH Political Anthropology 09 35014 20 Semester 2
LH Recovering Africa's Past: oralities in the digital age 09 39829 20 Semester 1
LH Religion and Ritual 09 28072 20 Semester 2
LH The African Canon 09 23564 20 Semester 1
LH The Struggle for Zimbabwe: Nationalism, Liberation and the International Community Since the Cold War 09 30662 20 Semester 2

DASA optional modules

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Urban Anthropology 09 31886 20 Semester 2

Students choose 80 credits of optional DASA modules.

Students cannot take at LH any modules they have taken at LI. Students must take a minimum of 40 credits of optional modules in Social Anthropology.

Students may take up to 40 credits of modules outside of Social Anthropology. They may replace 20 credits with ONE 20-credit LH Professional Skills module if not undertaken at LI.

An indicative list of modules is provided below.

Credits must be evenly balanced across semesters.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
The Social Life of the Economy 09 24821 20 Semester 1

OR Students may also apply to undertake a Professional Skills module at level H. If successful this will be taken in place of one of their semester 1 taught modules. The placement can be taken either during the summer vacation (part-time or full- time) or during semester 1 (part-time only). The placement must be completed prior to the Christmas vacation. Students who undertook a Professional Skills module at level I will not be able to undertake a Professional Skills module at level H.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Professional Skills 09 29674 20 Semester 1

OR Students may also apply to undertake a Professional Skills module at level H. If successful this will be taken in place of one of their semester 1 taught modules. The placement can be taken either during the summer vacation (part-time or full- time) or during semester 1 (part-time only). The placement must be completed prior to the Christmas vacation. Students who undertook a Professional Skills module at level I will not be able to undertake a Professional Skills module at level H.

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LH Professional Skills - Freelance 09 37923 20 Semester 1