LONDON'S GLOBAL UNIVERSITY
Anthropology with a Year Abroad
BSc
UCAS code: L603
www.ucl.ac.uk/prospectus/anthropology
Anthropology with a Year Abroad BSc
The Anthropology with a Year Abroad BSc looks
at the biological, cultural, social and material
culture aspects of communities and human
beings as well as their evolution, and provides
the opportunity to spend your third year at a
university abroad with one of our many excellent
partner institutions.
Degree summary
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UCL Anthropology is one of the few departments in the country that
combines social anthropology, biological anthropology, material
culture and medical anthropology to give you a truly broad-based
anthropology degree.
Spend your third year abroad at one of our partner institutions, for
example in Istanbul, Athens, Barcelona, Malta, Leiden, Oslo, Finland,
Arizona or Paris.
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Access to excellent resources including extensive literature in the
UCL Main Library and other nearby libraries, such as that of the
Centre for Anthropology at the British Museum.
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We have an outstanding collection of ethnographic items and the
Napier Primate Collection, and work closely with the ethnographic
department of the British Museum and with the Horniman Museum.
In the first year, you take compulsory courses covering the three
branches of the programme: biological anthropology, social anthropology
and material culture. Biological anthropology focuses on contemporary
human-environment interactions and human evolution. Social
anthropology explores social and cultural differences and their
determinants, from indigenous groups to modern western economies.
Material culture studies human, social and environmental relationships
through the evidence of people's construction of their material world.
Your first year also includes a three-day field trip to discover ethnographic
research and participant observation in ritual, landscape, and techniques.
Your second year includes both compulsory courses and options.
Your third year will be spent abroad, where you take anthropology
courses at a foreign university.
In the final year, you return to UCL where you will select five optional
courses from a wide range alongside the individual-studies dissertation
which constitutes just over a third of your final-year studies.
Your learning
Our teaching comprises lectures, tutorials, seminars and laboratory
classes. Small-group tutorials, normally meeting weekly, are an important
part of many courses. Ongoing feedback is given to help you improve
your written work.
Your courses may be assessed by written coursework, by examination or
a mixture of both. Examinations are normally unseen and their formats
vary according to the course. Some combine short answers with essay
questions, others rely solely on longer essay answers.
Your career
The broad range of methodological skills and analytical perspectives
offered by the UCL Anthropology programme gives our graduates an
unusually wide range of career possibilities, many of them directly related
to the discipline's cross-cultural focus and to our blending of the social
and biological sciences.
Former graduates work in diverse fields, such as journalism, film-making,
TV, museums, social work, international development, NGOs and
voluntary sector, police, probation, refugee work, wine tasting, market
research, advertising, design, PR, marketing, music industry,
accountancy, local government, HR, ESL teaching, and as cultural
advisors for multinationals.
The first cohort of students admitted to this programme are due to
graduate in 2016. First destinations of recent graduates (2010-2013) of
the Anthropology BSc include:
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Management Consultancy Analyst, Accenture
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Full-time student, MA in Public Policy at King's College London
Full-time student, PhD in Anthropology at London School of
Economics and Political Science
Business Development Executive, Diageo
Research Analyst, Enders Analysis
Degree structure
In each year of your degree you will take a number of individual courses,
normally valued at 0.5 or 1.0 credits, adding up to a total of 4.0 credits for
the year. Courses are assessed in the academic year in which they are
taken. The balance of compulsory and optional courses varies from
programme to programme and year to year. A 1.0 credit is considered
equivalent to 15 credits in the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS).
Year One
Compulsory courses
Introduction to Biological Anthropology
Introduction to Material and Visual Culture
Introductory Social Anthropology
Methods and Techniques in Biological Anthropology
Researching the Social World
Optional courses
All first year courses are compulsory.
Year Two
Compulsory courses
Theoretical Perspectives in Social Anthropology and Material Culture
Being Human
Optional courses
You will select a minimum of 2.5 and a maximum of 3.0 credits from
Anthropology optional courses which must include choices in biological,
social, material culture and medical anthropology.
Anthropology of Art and Design
Anthropologies of Science, Society and Biomedicine
Anthropology of the Built Environment
Communication and Culture
Ethnography of Forest People
Fishers and Fisheries Anthropology, Aquatic Resources and Development
Human Behavioural Ecology
Population Studies
You may take up to a maximum of 0.5 credits from other undergraduate
elective courses outside the department.
Year Three
Year abroad
Final Year
Compulsory courses
Individual Studies in Anthropology
Optional courses
You will select a minimum of 2.0 and a maximum of 2.5 credits from all
final-year Anthropology options. These may include:
Anthropology and Psychiatry
Anthropology of Ethics and Morality
Ethnographic and Documentary Film Making - a practice-based
introduction
Evolution and Human Behaviour
Reproduction, Fertility and Sex
Ritual Healing and Therapeutic Emplotment
Temporality, Consciousness and Everyday Life
The Anthropology of Nationalism, Ethnicity and Race
You may take up to a maximum of 0.5 credits from other undergraduate
elective courses outside the department.
Entry requirements
A levels
biology). Those without a broad range are not excluded although they
may receive a more demanding offer.
Fees
A level grades
AAA-AAB
UK/EU fee
£9,000 (2016/17)
A level subjects
No specific subjects. One science subject is
desirable but not required.
Overseas fee
£21,320 (2016/17)
AS levels
For UK-based students a pass in a further subject
at AS level or equivalent is required.
Notes
Details about financial support are available at:
www.ucl.ac.uk/study/ug-finance
GCSE
English Language and Mathematics at grade C,
plus Science or Biology at grade B. For
UK-based students, a grade C or equivalent in a
foreign language (other than Ancient Greek,
Biblical Hebrew or Latin) is required. UCL
provides opportunities to meet the foreign
language requirement following enrolment,
further details at: www.ucl.ac.uk/ug-reqs
Contacts
Contact
Dr Lucio Vinicius
Admissions Tutor
Email
l.vinicius@ucl.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 (0)20 7679 8649
Prospectus entry
www.ucl.ac.uk/prospectus/anthropology
IB diploma
IB points
36-38
Key facts
Subjects
A total of 17-18 points in three higher level
subjects, with no score below 5. One science
subject is desirable but not required.
REF
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(‘internationally excellent’)
Department
Anthropology
Faculty
Social & Historical Sciences
Other qualifications
Full lists of all degree programmes and other entry requirements can be
found on our website at: www.ucl.ac.uk/otherquals
Undergraduate Preparatory
Certificates
UCL's Undergraduate Preparatory Certificates (UPCs) are intensive
one-year foundation courses for international students of high academic
potential, who are aiming to gain access to undergraduate degree
programmes at UCL and other top UK universities.
For more information see our website: www.ucl.ac.uk/upc
Your application
Application for admission should be made through UCAS (the
Universities and Colleges Admissions Service). Applicants currently at
school or college will be provided with advice on the process; however,
applicants who have left school or who are based outside the United
Kingdom may obtain information directly from UCAS.
Our students come from a wide variety of social and cultural backgrounds
in Britain, Europe and the rest of the world.
Generally speaking, we prefer candidates whose academic studies have
encompassed arts/humanities and science (preferably biology or human
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