Applicants for this course should have achieved a High II.i Honours Degree .
If your degree is not from the UK, please check International Qualifications to find the equivalent in your country.
Applicants wishing to follow the options in 'Medical Anthropology' or 'Social Anthropology and Museums' would benefit from previous experience in these areas. You are asked to indicate in your application if you are interested in following either of these options.
This course requires candidates to have strong English language reading, writing and oral skills, and to achieve at the very minimum the IELTS / TOEFL minimum requirement scores listed below.
University Minimum Academic Requirements
This is a demanding course which enables students to reach a fairly high level of specialist knowledge in social anthropology within a relatively short time and, subject to performance in their exams and assessed work, equips them to undertake a research degree. Given that MPhil students are supervised on an individual basis in order to provide a programme of teaching tailored to individual needs, the assignment of supervisors is spread as evenly as possible among the staff attached to the Department.
Principal fields of anthropological analysis are covered in two core seminar courses in 'The Scope of Social Anthropology'. Attendance at these is compulsory for all students. These two courses cover, respectively, 'Production and Reproduction', which includes the fields of economic anthropology and kinship; and 'Systems of Power and Knowledge', which includes political anthropology and the anthropology of religion.
Students also take a non-assessed course in theory and methods and one course in a specialist option subject. Different optional papers are on offer each year. Examples of optional papers include : Ethnography; Gender, Kinship and Care; Engaged Anthropology. In addition, for those wishing to specialise in a particular professional field, the Department may also offer options in Social Anthropology and Museums and Medical Anthropology.
Teaching for the MPhil is via introductory sessions, seminars, lectures, small-group supervision and individual supervision. It is centred around four core compulsory seminars (Kinship, Politics, Economics, and Religion) that constitute the principal teaching under the headings 'Production and Reproduction' (Paper 1) and 'Systems of Power and Knowledge' (Paper 2). Those who are pursuing one of the professional options are expected to attend and take an active part in the above core seminars as well.
In addition to these seminars, the Department requires all MPhil students to attend a range of lectures that are relevant to the MPhil course, plus those for one optional paper, chosen by the student during the first week of the Michaelmas term. Students are not expected to confine themselves exclusively to these lectures, and are additionally encouraged to attend any lectures they or their supervisor consider relevant to their work. The Department also offers a fieldwork research methodology course for all MPhil students.
Each student will have a Principal Supervisor who can provide general guidance throughout the course, as well as advice on the assessed work (essay and dissertation). In addition, students attend small-group supervisions to discuss essays they write on themes from the core seminars and in preparation for exams.
| QS 综合 | 院校 | 学制 | 学费 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 第 4 位 | 牛津大学University of Oxford | 2年 | 43860英镑/年 |