Programme And Module Handbook
 
Programme Requirements for 2024/25 Session


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B.A. Social Anthropology and Politics Full-time

Year: 2
2024/25 Session

The following must be taken:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Comparative Politics 08 29356 20 Semester 1
LI History of Political Ideas: power, revolution and the state 08 37483 20 Semester 1
LI Research in Practice 09 33702 20 Semester 2
LI Theory and Ethnography 09 24291 20 Semester 1

The University Regulations permit students registered to Joint degrees to vary their credit weighting in their second and final year. A minimum of 40 credits and a maximum of 80 credits must be taken in each discipline in both years (subject to a total number of 120 credits in each year). Students who undertake less than 160 credits in one of their disciplines will graduate with a major/minor degree. Optional modules: All lists are indicative; due to staff availability not all modules will run each year: Optional modules: Students taking 80 credits in DASA and 40 credits in Politics DASA: Students choose 40 credits of optional modules in Semester 2, this may include ONE 20-credit Skills module, PLUS the two 20-credit compulsory modules. Politics: Students take the two 20-credit compulsory modules in Semester 1. Optional modules: Students taking 60 credits in DASA and 60 credits in Politics DASA: Students choose ONE 20-credit option module in Semester 2, this may include ONE 20-credit Skills module, PLUS the two 20-credit compulsory modules. Politics: Students choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 2 PLUS the two 20-credit compulsory modules in Semester 1. Optional modules: Students taking 40 credits in DASA and 80 credits in Politics DASA: Students take the two compulsory modules. Optional modules: Politics: Students choose TWO 20-credit options in each Semester, PLUS the two 20-credit compulsory modules in Semester 1.

DASA modules:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
African Popular Culture 09 20436 20 Semester 1
Atlantic Slavery: West Africa and the Caribbean 09 22695 20 Semester 2
LI Africans in the Global Diaspora 09 30662 20 Semester 1 or 2
LI Aid, NGOs and Development 09 17887 20 Semester 2
LI Anthropology and/of Activism 09 39836 20 Semester 1
LI Anthropology of Islam 09 31886 20 Semester 2
LI Anthropology of Migration 09 31403 20 Semester 1
LI Anticolonial, Postcolonial, Decolonial 09 37918 20 Semester 1
LI Development in Africa 09 37920 20 Semester 2
LI Ethnographies of the Marginalised 09 29674 20 Semester 2
LI From Colony to Nation: Ghana 1874-1966 09 28016 20 Semester 1
LI Gender and Colonialism in African History 09 37923 20 Semester 1
LI Independent Study 09 17908 20 Full Term
LI Kinship, Gender and Sexuality 09 29605 20 Semester 1
LI Law, Rights and Justice 09 29607 20 Semester 2
LI New African Writing 09 23566 20 Semester 1
LI Political Anthropology 09 35012 20 Semester 2
LI Recovering Africa's Past: oralities in the digital age 09 39834 20 Semester 1
LI Religion and Ritual 09 28073 20 Semester 2
LI Rural Livelihoods and Development Interventions in West Africa 09 24295 20 Semester 1
LI The African Canon 09 23563 20 Semester 1
LI The Social Life of the Economy 09 24822 20 Semester 1
LI The Struggle for Zimbabwe: Nationalism, Liberation and the International Community Since the Cold War 09 39835 20 Semester 2
LI Urban Anthropology 09 31888 20 Semester 2

Future Skills module:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
LI Humanities in the classroom 09 37804 20 Semester 2

OR Students may also apply to undertake a Professional Skills module at level I. If successful this will be taken in place of 20 credits of taught modules. The credits to be dropped will be discussed with the programme convenor. 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 undertaking 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
LI Professional Skills 09 36839 20 Semester 1
LI Professional Skills – Freelance 09 37012 20 Semester 1

POLSIS Options:

Module Title Code Credits Semester
Global Governance 08 27732 20 Semester 1
LI British Politics 08 20898 20 Semester 2
LI Comparative Politics 08 29356 20 Semester 1
LI International Political Economy 08 20895 20 Semester 2
LI International Relations Theory 08 20900 20 Semester 1
LI International Security 08 20903 20 Semester 2
LI Politics of Sustainable Development 08 37826 20 Semester 2
LI Post-Colonial Britain: Race, Identity & Belonging 08 37828 20 Semester 2
LI The Politics of the European Union 08 37827 20 Semester 2