Reviewed 21.09.11
UCL DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY
PROVISIONAL ANTHROPOLOGY COURSES 2011-12
* PLEASE CHECK THE ONLINE TIMETABLE AND MOODLE NOTICES FOR ANY TIMETABLE/ROOM CHANGES
FIRST YEAR COURSES
ANTH1001
Introduction to Material Culture and Visual Culture
Value: 1.0 unit
Description:
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Dr Ludovic Coupaye
l.coupaye@ucl.ac.uk
A general introduction to material culture studies including their history,
comparative study of technology; theories of artifacts; art and museum practice
and theory; theories of social evolution and an outline of social development
from early hunter-gatherers to premodern states and the development of the
modern world.
2 x 1hr lectures + 1 x hr tutorial per week
Terms 1 & 2
Term 1: Monday 10-11am and Thursday 2-3pm + 1 x hr tutorial
Tutorial times: Thursday 11, 12, 3, 4pm and Friday 10, 11, 12, 2, 3, 4pm.
Term 2: Tuesday 3-4pm (lecture) + 2 x hr lab class: Wednesday 9-11am, Thursday
9-11am, Thursday 2-4pm
Seminar/project (40%) and unseen written exam (60%) = 100%
Material Culture
None. Core course for first-year Anthropology students.
ANTH1001A
Introduction to Material and Visual Culture I
Value: 0.5 unit
Description:
Dr Ludovic Coupaye
l.coupaye@ucl.ac.uk
A general introduction to material culture studies including their history,
comparative study of technology; theories of artifacts; art and museum practice
and theory; theories of social evolution and an outline of social development
from early hunter-gatherers to premodern states and the development of the
modern world.
2 x 1 hr lecture + 1 hr tutorial per week
Term 1 only
Term 1: Monday 10-11am and Thursday 2-3pm + 1 x hr tutorial
Tutorial times: Thursday 11, 12, 3, 4pm and Friday 10, 11, 12, 2, 3, 4pm.
Seminar/project (40%) and unseen written exam (60%) = 100%
Material Culture
None. History of Art students wishing to take an introductory material culture option
should take this course as there will be restricted access to ANTH1001B: Introduction to
Material and Visual Culture II in Term 2.
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ANTH1001B
Introduction to Material and Visual Culture II
Value: 0.5 unit
Description:
Dr Ludovic Coupaye
l.coupaye@ucl.ac.uk
This course follows on from the first term ANTH1001A: Introduction to Material and
Visual Culture I course as outlined above. This second term course will consist of a lab
based component which will introduce students to methodologies in material culture and
intensify their understanding of the role and objectives of material culture.
2 x hr lab session + 1 hr lecture per week
Term 2 only.
Term 2: Tuesday 3-4pm (lecture) + 2 x hr lab class: Wednesday 9-11am, Thursday
9-11am, Thursday 2-4pm
100% coursework
Material Culture
Normally ANTH1001A: Introduction to Material and Visual Culture I
Restricted access to subsidiary students (permission of course tutor required).
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ANTH1005
Introduction to Social Anthropology
Value: 1 unit
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Dr Jerome Lewis (Term 1)
jerome.lewis@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Luke Freeman (Term 2)
luke.freeman@ucl.ac.uk
The first part of the course deals with the pre-history and history of social anthropology,
with principles and types of social organisation in both small and large-scale societies,
and with aspects of economy, politics, social control, kinship and cosmology. It also
considers the local and global integration of these societies. In Term 2 the course shows
the relationship between some key debates in social anthropology such as kinship,
ethnicity, exchange and taboo. Readings (2-3 per week) are a mixture of book chapters
and journal articles. .
1 x 2 hr lecture + 1 hr tutorial per week - Term 1
2 x 1 hr lecture + 1 hr tutorial per week - Term 2.
Term 1: Monday 2-4pm + 1 x hr tutorial
Tutorials: Tuesday 10, 11, 12, 2, 3, 4pm, Wednesday 10, 11, 12pm and Friday 10,
11, 12, 2, 3pm
Term 2: Monday 11-12pm and Wednesday 11-12pm + 1 hr tutorial
Tutorials: Tuesday 10, 11am, Wednesday 10am and Friday 9, 10, 11, 3 and 4pm.
Unassessed Essays + 3 hour examination 100%
Social Anthropology
None. Core course for first-year Anthropology students.
ANTH1005A
Introduction to Social Anthropology I
Value: 0.5 unit
Description:
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Dr Jerome Lewis
jerome.lewis@ucl.ac.uk
First term of full unit course ANTH1005: Introduction to Social Anthropology as outlined
above.
1 x 2 hr lecture + 1 hr tutorial per week – Term 1
Term 1: Monday 2-4pm + 1 x hr tutorial
Tutorials: Tuesday 10, 11, 12, 2, 3, 4pm, Wednesday 10, 11, 12pm and Friday 10,
11, 12, 2, 3pm
Unassessed Essays + 2.5 hour examination 100%
Social Anthropology
None
ANTH1005B
Introduction to Social Anthropology II
Value: 0.5 unit
Description:
Dr Luke Freeman
luke.freeman@ucl.ac.uk
Second term of full unit course ANTH1005 Introduction to Social Anthropology as
outlined above. The course shows the relationship between some key debates in social
anthropology such as kinship, ethnicity, exchange and taboo. Readings (2-3 per week)
are a mixture of book chapters and journal articles.
2 x 1 hr lecture + 1 hr tutorial per week.
Term 2: Monday 11-12pm and Wednesday 11-12pm + 1 hr tutorial
Tutorials: Tuesday 10, 11am, Wednesday 10am and Friday 9, 10, 11, 3 and 4pm.
Unassessed Essay + 2.5 hour examination 100%
Social Anthropology
Normally ANTH1005A: Introduction to Social Anthropology (0.5 unit) However, this
prerequisite is waived in some circumstances, especially for Affiliate students arriving at
the beginning of Term 2.
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ANTH1010
Researching the Social World (*new name for Research Methods in Social Anthropology and
Material Culture)
Value: 0.5 unit
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Dr Cressida Jervis-Read
c.jervis-read@ucl.ac.uk
An introduction to the data-gathering methods and analytic techniques used in social and
cultural anthropology, consisting of a graded series of laboratory-based and field work
exercises. The course emphasises the close relationship between methods of datagathering and theoretical analysis.
1 hr lecture + 2 hr lab session per week
Term 2 only, Monday 12-1pm (lecture) + 2 x hr lab class per week: Friday 9-11am
or Friday 2-4pm
Project Report 45%, Lab Book 5%, Group Project 5%, Research Diary 45%.
Social Anthropology/Material Culture
Only available to Anthropology students.
ANTH1013
Methods and Techniques in Biological Anthropology
Value: 0.5 unit
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Dr Ruth Malleson
r.malleson@ucl.ac.uk
A laboratory-based course designed as a practical introduction to biological
anthropology. The course runs in parallel with ANTH1014: Introduction to Biological
Anthropology. The course introduces methods of data collection and data handling,
descriptive statistics and hypothesis testing. Subject areas include nutrition,
anthropometry, demography, resource use, genetics and primate evolution.
2hr lab sessions per week
Term 1: Tuesday 9-11am and 11-1pm
Term 2: : Tuesday 9-11am and 11-1pm
Lab book 33.3%, Scientific Report 33.3%, Quizzes 33.3%
Biological Anthropology
Only available to Anthropology students.
ANTH1014
Introduction to Biological Anthropology
Value: 1.0 unit
Dr Andrea Migliano
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a.migliano@ucl.ac.uk
v.sommer@ucl.ac.uk
Prof Volker Sommer
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Basic evolutionary biology as applied in anthropology, covering evolutionary theory,
socio-biology, introductory primate behaviour, taxonomy and phylogenetic
reconstruction. Introduction to the similarities and differences between humans and nonhuman primates from both biological and behavioural points of view. Introductory
overview of human adaptation to different environmental and other stresses; General
introduction to human nutritional requirements and problems. Introductory overview of
the fossil and archaeological evidence for human evolution, and of the interpretation of
this evidence. Introductory survey of principles and findings in the fields of nutrition,
environmental physiology, epidemiology and evolution of infectious diseases relevant to
the study of human ecology.
Lecture (2 hours) + tutorial (one hour) per week
Term 1: Monday 11-1pm + 1 hr tutorial
Tutorials: Wednesday 9, 10, 11 and Thursday 9, 10, 11 and 12pm
Term 2: Monday 2-3pm and Thursday 4-5pm + 1 x hr tutorial
Tutorials: Monday 3, 4pm, Tuesday 2, 3, 4pm, Wednesday 10, 11, 12 and Thursday
11, 12pm.
4 x 1500 non-assessed essays and 3 hr exam (100%)
Biological Anthropology
None. Anthropology first year core course.
3
ANTH1014A
Introduction to Biological Anthropology I
Value: 0.5 unit
Dr Andrea Migliano
a.migliano@ucl.ac.uk
v.sommer@ucl.ac.uk
Prof Volker Sommer
Description:
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Term 1 of the whole unit ANTH1014 as above. Basic evolutionary biology as applied in
anthropology, covering evolutionary theory, socio-biology, introductory primate
behaviour, taxonomy and phylogenetic reconstruction. Introduction to the similarities and
differences between humans and non-human primates from both biological and
behavioural points of view.
1 x 2hr lecture and 1 x tutorial per week
Term 1: Monday 11-1pm + 1 hr tutorial
Tutorials: Wednesday 9, 10, 11 and Thursday 9, 10, 11 and 12pm
4 x 1500 non-assessed essays and 3 hr exam (100%)
Biological Anthropology
None. Term 1 of the core Anthropology first year course.
ANTH1014B
Introduction to Biological Anthropology II
Value 0.5 unit
Dr Andrea Migliano
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a.migliano@ucl.ac.uk
v.sommer@ucl.ac.uk
Prof Volker Sommer
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Introductory overview of human adaptation to different environmental and other stresses;
General introduction to human nutritional requirements and problems, environmental
physiology, epidemiology and evolution of infectious diseases relevant to the study of
human ecology. Introductory overview of the fossil and archaeological evidence for
human evolution, and of the interpretation of this evidence.
2 x 1hr lecture and 6 x tutorials
Term 2: Monday 2-3pm and Thursday 4-5pm + 1 x hr tutorial
Tutorials: Monday 3, 4pm, Tuesday 2, 3, 4pm, Wednesday 10, 11, 12 and Thursday
11, 12pm.
4 x 1500 non-assessed essays and 3 hr exam (100%)
Biological Anthropology
None. Term 2 of Anthropology first year core course (ANTH1014). This half unit is a
core course for Human Sciences students. This course is not open to subsidiary
students.
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SECOND YEAR COURSES:
ANTH2006
Introduction to Theoretical Perspectives in Social Anthropology and
Material Culture
Value: 0.5 unit
Prof Chris Tilley
c.tilley@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Charles Stewart
c.stewart@ucl.ac.uk
An introduction to social theory including functionalist models, Marxism, structuralist
approaches to social structure/kinship and to conceptual organisation/communication;
phenomenological theory in anthropology, agency and structure, post-modernism and
post-structuralism, post-colonialism, globalisation and cognitive approaches within the
discipline.
2 x 1 hr lecture and 1 hr tutorial per week
Term 1 only, Monday 10-11 and Tuesday 10-11am + 1 hr tutorial per week
Tutorials: Wednesday 9, 10, 11, 12pm and Thursday 9, 10, 11, 12pm.
1 x unassessed essay and 2.5 hour examination 100%
Social Anthropology/Material Culture
Core course for Anthropology 2nd year students and joint degree BA
Archaeology/Anthropology students. Open to term one affiliate students and subsidiary
students who have completed ANTH1005: Introduction to Social Anthropology or
ANTH1001: Introduction to Material Culture.
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SECOND AND THIRD YEAR COURSES
ANTH2003
Palaeoanthropology
Value: 0.5 unit
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Dr Matthew Skinner
m.skinner@ucl.ac.uk
The course provides a thorough introduction to the biological evidence for human
evolution, as well as to the way in which this evidence is analysed and interpreted. The
anatomy of various hominid species is discussed from the perspective of reconstructing
human evolutionary history and the evolution of human behaviour. We will also relate
fossil discoveries to the archaeological record and reconstructions of environment,
ultimately arriving at a synthetic view of human origins.
2 x 1 hr lecture and 2 hr lab session per week
Term 2 only, Friday 11-1pm (lecture) and 1 x 2 hr lab class per week : Monday 9-11,
11-1pm or 2-4pm
Lab Report 25% + 2.5 hr examination 75%
Biological Anthropology
None. One of the Biological core courses for Anthropology second year students.
ANTH2007
The Anthropology of Kinship
Value: 0.5 unit
Dr Rebecca Empson
r.empson@ucl.ac.uk
Prof Danny Miller
d.miller@ucl.ac.uk
The anthropology of kinship, the study of how we are related and what it means to be
related, lies at the heart of the discipline of anthropology. This course will introduce you
to classic and new debates in kinship theory. Focusing on topics such as love, sex,
social networking sites, houses, the body, ancestors, and the role of the state in shaping
family lives and histories, we will see how these topics are being questioned in light of
new ethnographic concerns.
2 x 1 hr lecture + 1 tutorial per week
Term 1 only, Wednesday 10-11 + 1 hr tutorial per week
Tutorials: TBC
1 x unassessed essay and 2.5 hour examination 100%
Social Anthropology
Core course for Anthropology 2nd year students and joint degree BA
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ANTH3020
Social Construction of Landscape
Value: 0.5 unit
Description:
Prof Chris Tilley
c.tilley@ucl.ac.uk
Landscapes are never inert: people engage with them, re-work them, appropriate them and
contest them. They are part of the way in which identities are created and disputed. Crisscrossing between history and politics, social relations and cultural perceptions, landscape is
a ‘concept of high tension’. It is also an area of study that blows apart from conventional
boundaries between disciplines. This course looks at the number of theoretical approaches
to the Western Gaze; colonial, indigenous and prehistoric landscapes; contested
landscapes; and questions of heritage and ‘wilderness’.
Term 2 only, Tuesday 2-4pm and 1 x hr tutorial per week.
Tutorials: Wednesday 9, 10, 11 and 12pm
100% by one assessed essay/project 3500 words max.
Material Culture
2nd and 3rd year students only.
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ANTH7004
Anthropology of Art and Design
Value: 0.5 unit
Description:
Prof Susanne Kuechler
s.kuechler@ucl.ac.uk
The course is aimed at those who wish to deepen their understanding of art in visual
culture. It intends to capture the role of art and performance in anthropological theory
and methodology and introduce students to questions that are at the core of an
interdisciplinary debate about artefactual form, image and materiality. It will reflect on
what anthropology has to say about how mere artefacts come to have agency in culture
and society by drawing on case studies that range from modernism to the arts that have
conventionally been studied by Anthropology.
1 hr lecture + 1 hr tutorial per week
Term 2 only, Tuesday 11-1pm + 1 x hr tutorial per week.
Tutorials: Monday 9, 10am, Tuesday 2, 3 and 4pm and Thursday 2, 3pm.
Assessed 3000 word essay 25% + 2.5 hour examination 75%
Material Culture
ANTH2006: Introduction to Theoretical Perspectives in Anthropology and Material
Culture or permission from tutor.
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ANTH7005
Population Studies
Value: 0.5 unit
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Prof Sara Randall
s.randall@ucl.ac.uk
An introduction to the study of human populations focusing on patterns and determinants
of fertility, mortality. The course examines the interplay between biological and social
determinants of change in the basic population parameters, using examples drawn
largely from contemporary developing countries, although issues in historical
demography and contemporary developed-country demography are touched upon;
theories of population change, population and resources, population policy.
14 x 1 hr lectures, 2 x 2 hr practicals, 4 x 1 hr tutorials, 3 x 3 hr country profiles.
Term 1 only, Monday 11-1pm and 3-4pm + 1 x hr tutorial per week
Tutorials: Tuesday 11, 12pm, Wednesday 10, 11, 12pm
Practical book 5% + Assessed essay 30% + Group presentation and powerpoint 10% + 2
hour examination 55%.
Biological Anthropology
None. One of the Biological core course choices for Anthropology 2 nd year students.
ANTH7008
Man and Animals
Value: 0.5 unit
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Prof Katherine Homewood
k.homewood@ucl.ac.uk
This course looks at the interrelations of humans with animal populations,
focusing on human populations as a selective force shaping environments,
wildlife conservation and utilisation; domestication; and diseases shared by
human and animal populations.
2 x 1 hr lecture + 1 hr tutorial per week
Term 1 only, Monday 1-2pm and Thursday 1-2pm + 1 x hr tutorial per week
Tutorials: Monday 2, 3 and 4pm and Thursday 2, 3 and 4pm
2.5 hour examination 100%
Biological Anthropology
None
ANTH7009
Primate Behaviour and Ecology
Value: 0.5 unit
Description:
Prof Volker Sommer
v.sommer@ucl.ac.uk
Current Darwinian theory is applied to explore the evolution of primate social systems. A
particular focus lies on the interplay between environmental conditions and reproductive
strategies as well as cognitive abilities.
1 x 2 hr lecture + 1 hr tutorial per week
Term 1 only, Thursday 4-6pm + 1 x hr tutorial per week
Tutorials: Monday 3, 4, 5pm, Wednesday 1, 2, 3pm, Thursday 1pm
Assessed 1,500 word essay 25% + 2.5 hour examination
Biological Anthropology
None
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ANTH7013
Anthropology of the Built Environment
Value: 0.5 Unit
Description:
Dr Victor Buchli
v.buchli@ucl.ac.uk
'Buildings are good to think'. This course will explore anthropological approaches to the
study of architectural forms. It will focus primarily on the significance of domestic space
and public private boundaries, gender and body, the materiality of architectural form and
materials and the study of architectural representations. The course will be structured
chronologically beginning with early anthropological encounters with built forms and the
philosophical, historical and social context of these approaches up to the present day
within anthropology.
1 x 2 hr lecture + 1 x hr tutorial per week
Term 2 only, Thursday 4-6pm + 1 hr tutorial per week
Tutorials: Monday 3, 4pm, Friday 9, 10 or 2, 3pm
2 assessed essays each worth 50% of the final mark
Material Culture
At least ANTH1001: Introduction to Material and Visual Culture I, ANTH1001B:
Introduction to Material and Visual Culture II or ANTH2006: Introduction to Theoretical
Perspectives in Social Anthropology and Material Culture.
2nd or 3rd year students only.
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ANTH7016A
Applied Studies
Value: 0.5 unit
Description:
Dr Jennifer Randall
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2 hour seminar per week
Term 1 only: Thursday 9-11, Friday 11-1pm, 2-4pm
TBC
Social Anthropology
ANTH7016B
Applied Studies
Value: 0.5 unit
Dr Jennifer Randall
jennifer.randall@ucl.ac.uk
Description: Applied Studies This one term seminar style course is a special option available
jennifer.randall@ucl.ac.uk
Applied Studies This one term seminar style course is a special option available to 2nd and 3rd year
undergraduate students in either Term 1 or Term 2. The course focuses on the theory and practice
of anthropology in public health, development and commercial research and involves international
outreach through the web-based Network for Student Activism. Topics covered vary but explore
current debates around indigenous rights, ethics, global citizenship and health.
In addition to text-based lectures and discussions, students have the opportunity to apply their
skills in a work environment. The module integrates a short applied placement with an NGO,
governmental, community or business organisation in London within a supporting framework of
lectures, tutorials, seminars and supervised coursework (see
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/placements/index.htm for a full list of organisations). Placements
total 10-20 days, usually on a one-day a week basis. Care is taken to ensure that placements are
relevant to students' interests and overall programme of study. More information can be obtained
from any of the course tutors'.
to 2nd and 3rd year undergraduate students in either Term 1 or Term 2. The course focuses on the
theory and practice of anthropology in public health, development and commercial research and
involves international outreach through the web-based Network for Student Activism. Topics
covered vary but explore current debates around indigenous rights, ethics, global citizenship and
health. In addition to text-based lectures and discussions, students have the opportunity to apply
their skills in a work environment. The module integrates a short applied placement with an NGO,
governmental, community or business organisation in London within a supporting framework of
lectures, tutorials, seminars and supervised coursework (see
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/placements/index.htm for a full list of organisations). Placements
total 10-20 days, usually on a one-day a week basis. Care is taken to ensure that placements are
relevant to students' interests and overall programme of study. More information can be obtained
from any of the course tutors'.
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2 x hour seminar per week
Term 2 only: Monday 11-1pm, Tuesday 9-11am, Thursday 9-11am or 2-4pm
TBC
Social Anthropology
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ANTH3007
Medical Anthropology
Value: 0.5 unit
Dr Joe Calabrase
j.calabrase@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Alex Argenti-Pillen
a.argenti-pillen@ucl.ac.uk
Using data from societies throughout the world, the course covers biomedical and
behavioural definitions of disease and illness: systems of classification, the distribution of
disease and illness; the roles of healer and the sick; rituals of healing; politics of
diagnosis; competition between, and change with, medical systems; the assessment of
efficacy.
1 x 2 hr lecture + 1 hr tutorial per week
Term 1 only, Thursday 11-1pm, Friday 9-11am
Tutorials: Thursday 10, 2 and 3pm.
2,500 - 3,000 word essay 40% + 2 hr examination 60%
Social Anthropology
ANTH2006: Introduction to Theoretical Perspectives in Anthropology and Material
Culture or permission from tutor. Core course for IBSc Medical Anthropology students.
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ANTH3052
Primate Evolution and Environments
Value: 0.5 unit
Description:
Dr Christophe Soligo
c.soligo@ucl.ac.uk
The course has two parts. The first part provides required background knowledge:
- An introduction to modern primates and their habitats
- Knowledge of the tools used to interpret the fossil record (time proxies, climate proxies,
behavioural proxies
- An introduction to Cenozoic climate history and its causes
The second part builds on this knowledge in order to
1) Contextualise primate evolution (phylogenetically, chronologically, environmentally)
2) Generate an understanding of how major changes in environmental conditions have
influenced primate evolution
3) Discuss the role of modern humans as environmental factors influencing species and
habitat diversity.
Student Contact Hours:
2 x 1 hr lecture + 2 hr seminar/practical per week. 1-day palaeontological field trip.
Duration of Course:
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Term 1 only, Tuesday 11-1pm + 2 hour lab session: Friday 9-11 or 11-1pm
1 Lab report 10%, 1 essay 2,000 words 30%; 1 Open book take home exam (7 days,
3000 words) 60%
Biological Anthropology
ANTH1014 Introduction to Biological Anthropology (ANTH1014B for Human Sciences
students) or equivalent biological background. Preference given to students who have
completed ANTH2003 Palaeoanthropology or ANTH7009 Primate Behaviour and
Ecology.
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BIOL2011
Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology (Biology course but co-taught
with Anthropology)
Value: 0.5 Unit
Dr Andrea Migliano (Anthropology)
a.migliano@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Max Reuter (Biology)
Introduces key theoretical concepts and methods including optimisation modelling, game
theory and comparative approaches. These will then be applied to specific areas of
animal and human behaviour such as foraging, territoriality, life-histories, parental care
and mating systems, competition and fighting, alternative strategies, communication,
group-living and social behaviour, and predator-prey interactions. Examples will come
from both vertebrate and invertebrate taxa. The second half of the course is on human
behavioural ecology.
2 x 1 hr lecture per week + 4 x 1hr tutorials per term
Term 2 only, Monday 11-1pm (lecture), Wed 9, 10am (tutorials)
Assessed coursework 25% + 3 hour examination 75%
Biological Anthropology
None
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THIRD YEAR ONLY COURSES:
ANTH3001
Anthropology of Games and Simulation
Value: 0.5 Unit
Description:
Dr Lane DeNicola
l.denicola@ucl.ac.uk
An introduction to the analysis of games and simulations as cultural
phenomena. Spanning the anthropological literature from early documentation of
Chinese card games to critical examinations of football and Halo 3, we will discuss topics
including play, interactivity, competition, risk, luck, cheating, bluffing, mimicry,
authenticity, immersion, and presence. Will also look at the various social and
communicative functions of simulation, the institutions and
material culture of games, their intermingling with and challenges to
other media forms such as film and television, and the expanding roles
anthropologists and other social researchers play in their design.
1 x 2 hr lecture + 1 hr tutorial per week
Term 1 only; Thursday 11-1pm + tutorial Tuesday 2pm
2,500-word essay (60%) + game project (40%)
Material Culture
ANTH2006: Theoretical Perspectives in Soc Anthropology and Material Culture. 3 rd year
students only.
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ANTH3005
Hunter Gatherers Past, Present and Future
Value: 0.5 Unit
Description:
Dr Andrea Migliano
a.migliano@ucl.ac.uk
Hunter-gatherers past present and future’ will cover the relevant literature on the study of
contemporary hunter-gatherers aiming at understanding their evolutionary history and
pre-history, their demography and demographic challenges to their existence that began
with the invention of agriculture. The course will cover hunter-gatherer’s genetic,
linguistic and behavioral affinities, population decrease, extinction and resilience. The
course will also focus on hunter-gatherers adaptations in the past and present, exploring
their behavioral, genetic, life history and cultural adaptations to the environment and to
the current demographic pressures imposed by the growing neighbor populations.
Furthermore, the course will discuss the usefulness of current hunter-gatherer models to
explore past human evolution and will also focus on the political and conservation
conflicts related to the current and future maintenance of hunter-gatherers’ lands and the
process of cultural and biological loss happening to most hunter-gatherer populations
due to external pressures.
1 x 1 hr lecture + 1 hr tutorial per week
Term 2 only; Thursday TBC
Tutorials: TBC
1500-2000 word assessed essay (50%) + 2.5hr exam (50%)
Biological Anthropology
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ANTH3012
The Study of Western Industrial Societies
Value: 0.5 unit
Description:
Dr Allen Abramson
a.abramson@ucl.ac.uk
The aim of this course is to critically examine the anthropological and social analysis of
situations, trends and issues in contemporary Europe and North America. The major
emphasis of this examination will be upon expert and lay concerns with the apparent
growth of risk and uncertainty, and upon the power relations implicated in this growth.
1 x 2 hr lecture
Term 2 only, Thursday 4-6pm
25% essay, 75% exam.
Social Anthropology
ANTH2006: Introduction to Theoretical Perspectives in Anthropology and Material
Culture or permission from tutor. 3rd year students only.
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ANTH3017
Anthropology and Psychiatry
Value: 0.5 unit
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Prof Roland Littlewood
r.littlewood@ucl.ac.uk
The course examines: a) popular understandings of psychology, self-hood and abnormal
experience in different societies, and how they may be organised into a body of
knowledge; b) the relationship between popular and professional notions of 'mental
illness' and their roots in the wider social, economic and ideological aspects of different
societies, with particular respect to women and minority groups; c) the contribution of
academic psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis to social anthropology; d )running
through the course is the question of whether we can reconcile naturalistic and
personalistic modes of thought and, if so, how.
2 hr seminar per week
Term 2 only, Tuesday 4-6pm
Tutorials: Wednesday 9, 10 and 11am
Assessed 3,000 word essay 25% + 2.5 hr examination 75%
Social Anthropology
ANTH2006: Introduction to Theoretical Perspectives in Social Anthropology and Material
Culture and ANTH3007: Medical Anthropology or permission from tutor.
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ANTH3028
Gender, Language and Culture (* new name for Current Issues in the Study of Gender and
Sexuality)
Value: 0.5 unit
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Dr Alex Argenti-Pillen
The course will explore the cultural concepts and models through which sexual difference
is produced and to consider a number of different theoretical approaches to the
relationship between the biological/physical body and its social and political meaning and
interpretation.
2 hr seminar + 1 hr tutorial weekly
Term 2 only, Monday 11-1pm + 1 x hr tutorial per week
Tutorials: Tuesday 10, 11am or Wednesday 10am
Assessed 3-5,000 word essay 25% + 2.5 hour examination 75%
Social Anthropology
3rd year students only. Subsidiary students will require permission form the tutor.
ANTH3030
Nationalism, Ethnicity & Race
Value: 0.5 unit
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Dr Ruth Mandel
r.mandel@ucl.ac.uk
This course focuses on theories and practices of ethnicity, race and nationalism. The
reading material is divided between theoretical work on these issues and ethnographic
examples. The readings primarily are from what sometimes are called the '1 st and 2nd
worlds'. Though most of the readings are contemporary, historical sources will be used as
well.
1 x 2 hr session per week. Combination of lectures, discussion, and a few relevant films.
Term 2 only, Thursday 11-1pm
Tutorials: Thursday 2, 3, 4pm
2 x assessed essays (50% each)
Social Anthropology
ANTH1005: Introduction to Social Anthropology. Third year students only
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ANTH3036
Anthropology for Medical Students
Value: 1.0 unit
Dr Jennifer Randall
j.randall@ucl.ac.uk
For students taking the intercalated BSc in Medical Anthropology. The course provides an
introduction to some of the key concepts and texts in medical anthropology. It considers how
anthropology can be applied to clinical issues and in turn how clinical practice raises questions for
anthropology. It will also look at a few anthropological ethnographies in some detail. Finally it will
provide a range of methodological tools to give an insight into anthropological research methods to
equip students to undertake a small piece of independent research.
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ANTH3037
Value: 1.0 unit
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2 hrs per week for 2 x terms
Term 1 (Wednesday 11-2pm) and Term 2 (Wednesday 11-1pm)
Dissertation 100%
Social Anthropology
Intercalated BSc Medical Anthropology students only.
Anthropology and Photography
Prof Chris Pinney
c.pinney@ucl.ac.uk
The course examines how anthropologist use photography as part as their research
methodology and also study it ethnographically. We will also consider how
anthropologists might engage photography in the future.
1 x lecture + 1 hr tutorial per week
Thursday 4-6pm + 1 hr tutorial
One 2000 word essay and one portfolio (50% each)
Material Culture
ANTH3049
Reproduction, Fertility and Sex
Value: 1.0 unit
Prof Sara Randall
s.randall@ucl.ac.uk
This course takes an interdisciplinary perspective on a range of topics in the domain of
reproduction, fertility and sex. Each week a different topic is considered
using
perspectives from biology, medicine, evolutionary anthropology, demography, social
anthropology and other disciplines. Students play an active role in seminars contributing
to developing their own reading list through identifying important articles,posting
summaries on a data base which is accessible to the class and presenting material to the
class Topics covered vary from year to year but are likely to include Love, hormones
and bonding, breastfeeding, infertility, abortion and miscarriage, contraception,
adolsecent sex, male and female reproductive strategies. . Essays and exam answers
must demonstrate an integration of different disciplinary perspectives.
1 x lecture + 1 hr tutorial per week
Term 2: Monday 2-4pm
Assessed essay (2,000-2,500 words) 40% + 2hr hour examination 60%
Biological Anthropology
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ANTH3050
Evolution and Human Behaviour
Value: 0.5 unit
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Dr David Lawson
d.lawson@ucl.ac.uk
The course will study to what extent evolutionary processes (genetic and cultural) explain
human behaviour, life history and cultural norms as adaptive responses to their
environmental circumstances. This is a seminar based reading and discussion course for
those who have already had an introductory lecture course in animal and human
behavioural ecology (ie BIOL2011: Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology), and now
want to explore the subject in more depth.
Weekly 2 hour seminar
Term 2 only, Tuesday 11-1pm
2hr exam (50%) and coursework inc essay (2,500 words) 40%, oral presentation 10%
Biological Anthropology
3rd year Anthropology and Human Sciences students only who have completed
BIOL2011: Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology in their second year.
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ANTH3051
Advanced Medical Anthropology for Medical Students
Value: 0.5 unit
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Prof David Napier
d.napier@ucl.ac.uk
This course covers major dimensions of clinically-relevant medical anthropology, but
focuses particularly on social dimensions of delivering primary care across cultures and
with multicultural populations in the contemporary UK and US, especially among ethnic
groups where compliance to therapy is influenced by cultural, ethnic, and religious
factors. Topics covered include learning medicine and the medical gaze, health
disparities, culturally appropriate treatment, privatization, global health and international
primary care. This course brings together MSc and IBSc students and is also open to
third year students by prior arrangement
Weekly 2 hour seminar
Term 2 only, Thursday 2-4pm
2 x 2,000 – 2,500 word essays (100%)
Social Anthropology
None, 3rd Year course, Intercalated and affiliate students with appropriate medical and
social science background
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ANTH3053
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Temporality, Consciousness and Everyday Life
Dr Charles Stewart
c.stewart@ucl.ac.uk
This course examines the different social modes and states of consciousness through
which knowledge of the past may be gained in world societies, while recognizing that
views of the past are necessarily conditioned by present experiences and intimations of
the future. In the West, rational research into documents and artifacts is generally
accepted as the authoritative means of knowing the past. Yet even within Western
societies people may contest official history with alternative accounts of the past deriving
from personal revelations sometimes received in altered states of consciousness. In
various societies from the Pacific to the Arctic the elders possess exclusive authority to
pronounce upon what happened in the past. Amongst the First Nations of Canada, in the
absence of written sources documenting the ownership of land, a shaman may be called
upon to dream the truth of the past.
Weekly 2 hour seminar including student presentations and discussion of the weekly
readings.
TBC
1 x 1,500 and 1 x 2,500-3,000 word essays (100%)
Social Anthropology
3rd Year course, ANTH1005/A: Introduction to Social Anthropology and ANTH2006:
Introduction to Theoretical Perspectives in Social Anthropology and Material Culture.
ANTH3055
Transforming and Creating the World: Anthropological Perspectives on
Techniques and Technology
Value: 0.5 unit
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Dr Ludovic Coupaye
l.coupaye@ucl.ac.uk
In the 20th century anthropology made a name for itself as a discipline partly by using
ethnographic descriptions as a vantage point from which to question assumptions that
other disciplines take for granted. While throughout the 20th century this intellectual
investment in alterity & was deemed as a form of professional relativism &, in recent
years anthropologists have used ethnography in order to experiment with ways of
thinking that go beyond oppositions between relativism and universalism and the
assumptions that underlie them. Examining ethnographically-driven experimentations
with basic anthropological concepts such as society &, culture &, time &, and the
person &, the course also explores the transgressive potential of such forms of
anthropological thinking in relation to contemporary political concerns. The course is
suitable, and may appeal especially, to students with a keen interest in recent theoretical
developments in worldwide social anthropology.
Weekly 2 hour seminar including student presentations and discussion of the weekly
readings.
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Material Culture
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ANTH7006
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3rd Year course, ANTH1005/A: Introduction to Social Anthropology and ANTH2006:
Introduction to Theoretical Perspectives in Social Anthropology and Material Culture.
Anthropology of Religion
Dr Charles Stewart
c.stewart@ucl.ac.uk
This course aims to familiarise the student with the major anthropological approaches to
religion. Different topics will be studied week by week and will include belief, magic and
science, possession/shamanism, religious experience and reflexivity, the Protestant
ethic, new religions, syncretism and fundamentalism. A solid background knowledge of
social anthropology will be assumed.
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Social Anthropology
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