Programme Requirements for 2026/27 Session

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.

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	09 39832	20	Semester 1
LH Anthropology of Islam	09 31885	20	Semester 2
LH Anthropology of Migration	09 31404	20	Semester 1
LH Anticolonial, Postcolonial, Decolonial	09 37917	20	Semester 1
LH Development in Africa	09 37919	20	Semester 2
LH Ethnographies of the Marginalised	09 29673	20	Semester 2
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 39831	20	Semester 2
LH Urban Anthropology	09 31887	20	Semester 2
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 36876	20	Semester 1
LH Professional Skills - Freelance	09 37013	20	Semester 1