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 are expected to have at least a High II:i Honours Degree or higher in Social Anthropology, either as a Single Honours Degree or as part of a Joint Honours degree.
University Minimum Academic Requirements
In addition to individual supervision to support their dissertation and essay writing, students attend a core course seminar and six seminars on specialist modules. The core course covers contemporary themes and concerns in social anthropology as well as professional and skills development. Specialist modules cover research methods and themes related to staff research interests, with topics that vary each year.
Students will develop a critical and well-informed understanding of the discipline of social anthropology that they can use as the foundation for focussed individual research, building their capacity for social anthropological research in academic and other professional contexts. For those who intend to go on to doctoral work the course will help them to acquire the requisite research skills and to prepare a well-planned and focussed PhD proposal.
Teaching for the MPhil is via introductory sessions, seminars, and individual supervision. Each student will have a Supervisor: a member of staff who can provide general guidance throughout the course, as well as advice on the assessed work (practical writing exercise, essays and dissertation).
In addition, students attend a core course seminar and choose a total of six specialist modules to attend during Michaelmas and the first half of the Lent term. The core seminar runs fortnightly and covers contemporary themes and concerns in social anthropology as well as professional and skills development. The latter includes training in writing research proposals and non-academic outputs, such as blog posts, news items and comment pieces; producing podcasts or other audio-visual material; preparing research presentations.
Each specialist module consists of seminars delivered in 4-week blocks over Michaelmas term and the first half of Lent Term. Students choose 6 modules from a range on offer each year. These modules cover research methods and topics related to staff research interests, in a dynamic programme, with precise topics varying each year. Seminars are focused on discussions of key readings and enable a thorough exploration of contemporary theories and ethnographies. Two of the available specialist modules offer training in anthropological research methods and ethics.
Students may also attend any lecture they or their supervisor consider relevant to their work.
Students will share written work with supervisors and receive oral and written feedback on that.