Programme Requirements for 2024/25 Session

B.A. Social Anthropology and Archaeology Full-time

Year: 2
2024/25 Session

The following must be taken:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Research in Practice	09 33702	20	Semester 2
LI Theory and Ethnography	09 24291	20	Semester 1

Students choose 80 credits of optional modules: 40 in each semester.

A minimum of 40 credits to a maximum of 80 credits in CAHA and up to a maximum of 80 credits in DASA.

All students must do at least 40 credits of modules in each department (including any compulsory credits)

In consultation with the programme lead, students taking 60 or 80 credits in either department may replace 20 credits with ONE 20 credit Future or Professional Skills module.

All optional lists are indicative: not all modules will run each year depending on staff availability.

Credits must be evenly balanced across semesters.

Students taking 80 credits in DASA and 40 credits in CAHA:

DASA: Students choose TWO 20-credit options, one from each semester, which may include ONE 20-credit skills module in Semester 1.

CAHA: Students choose TWO 20-credit options, one from each semester,

Students taking 60 credits in DASA and 60 credits in CAHA

DASA: Students choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 1, which may include 20-credit Skills module.

CAHA: Students choose TWO 20-credit options in Semester 2

OR

DASA: Students choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 2.

CAHA: Students choose TWO 20-credit options, one from each semester, which may include ONE 20-credit Skills option.

Students taking 40 credits in DASA and 80 credits in CAHA

DASA: Students take the compulsory modules

CAHA: Students choose ONE 20-credit option in Semester 1 and TWO 20-credit options in Semester 2, which may include ONE 20-credit skills module.

DASA Optional Module list: DASA Optional Module list: This list is indicative; not all modules will run each year depending on staff availability.

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

CAHA Optional Module list:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
Field Archaeology	09 27258	20	Semester 2
LI Athenian Drama	09 27279	20	Semester 1 or 2
LI Classical Epic	09 27261	20	Semester 1
LI Environmental Archaeology in the Lab	09 39675	20	Semester 2
LI Greek Texts	09 38823	20	Semester 2
LI Human Remains: From Forensics to Display	09 28688	20	Semester 1
LI Imperial Rome	09 27269	20	Semester 2
LI Latin Texts	09 38861	20	Semester 2
LI Matrons and Monsters: Women in Rome and Byzantium	09 36039	20	Semester 2
LI Mediterranean and European Archaeology	09 27314	20	Semester 2
LI Palace Societies	09 40082	20	Semester 1
LI Poets and Tyrants: Archaic Greece	09 39826	20	Semester 2
LI Republican Rome: From the Gracchi to Caesar	09 28747	20	Semester 1
LI Republican and Imperial Rome	09 36038	20	Semester 2
LI Thinking Athenian	09 27272	20	Semester 2
Roman Women: Matrons and Monsters	09 28096	20	Semester 1
Understanding Ancient Societies	09 27278	20	Semester 1

Future Skills module:

Module Title	Code	Credits	Semester
LI Humanities in the classroom	09 37804	20	Semester 2
LI Media in Practice	09 37869	20	Semester 1
LI Sustainable Development: Climate, Culture, Society and Policy	09 37673	20	Semester 1

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