UCL DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology
UNDERGRADUATE
STUDENT HANDBOOK
2011-12
Disclaimer
The information contained in this handbook is believed to be correct at the time of
going to press but no guarantee can be given that it will not be amended before the
commencement of, or during the course of, the degree programmes to which it refers.1
Students in any doubt about the requirements for their degree programme should
consult their personal or year tutor.
This handbook should be read in conjunction with the UCL Student Handbook
2011/2012 and Notes to Students, issued by The Faculty of Social and Historical
Sciences and on the web at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/shs/faculty/students
Any suggestions for improvements to future editions of the handbook should be
passed to the Publications Co-ordinator via the Departmental Office.
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This handbook was last updated on 13th September 2011
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CONTENTS
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1. ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT
CALENDAR FOR 2011-12
MEMBERS OF STAFF WITH ADDITIONAL DEPARTMENTAL ROLES
ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF
LOCATIONS
ACADEMIC AND PERSONAL PROBLEMS: WHOM TO CONTACT
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
CONTACTING STAFF
PERSONAL TUTORS
LIBRARY FACILITIES
STAFF-STUDENT CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE (SSCC)
STUDENT FEEDBACK ON COURSE OPTIONS (OPINIO)
PROGRAMME REVIEW QUESTIONNAIRE
THE ANTHROPOLOGY SOCIETY
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FACILITIES
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT COMMON ROOM
PHOTOCOPIERS
COMPUTERS
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STUDENT WELFARE
ACCESS TO LEARNING FUND
HEALTH AND SAFETY ON THE PREMISES
SAFETY MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE AND SAFETY IN THE FIELD
SMOKING
ILLNESS
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2. ACADEMIC INFORMATION: DEGREE PROGRAMME STRUCTURE
COURSE UNITS
THE DEGREE - GENERAL INFORMATION
BSc ANTHROPOLOGY
BA ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY
HARMONISED SCHEME OF AWARD FOR UNDERGRADUATE COURSE UNIT DEGREES
ANNUAL PRIZES
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3. ACADEMIC INFORMATION: GENERAL
PORTICO – THE UCL STUDENT INFORMATION SERVICE
ONLINE MODULE REGISTRATION
ENROLLING FOR COURSES
ATTENDANCE
READING WEEKS
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TEACHING
LECTURES
COURSE TUTORIALS
LABORATORY-BASED COURSES
THE FINAL YEAR INDIVIDUAL STUDIES PROJECT
EXPEDITION TRAVEL AND RESEARCH FUND
EXAMINATIONS
ESSAYS AND OTHER WRITTEN COURSE WORK
PRODUCING, HANDING IN AND RECEIVING BACK COURSE WORK
ESSAY MARKS AND MARKING
ESSAY EXTENSIONS
PLAGIARISM
STUDY SKILLS
UCL Online Timetable
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4. ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENT ACADEMIC STAFF 2011-12
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UCL DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY
ACADEMIC CALENDAR 2011-12UCL
FIRST TERM
Monday 26th September 2011 - Friday 16th December 2011
READING WEEKS
7th – 11th November 2011
12th – 16th December 2011
SECOND TERM
Monday 9th January 2012 – Friday 23th March 2012
READING WEEKS
13th – 17th February 2012
19st – 23th March 2012
THIRD TERM
Monday 23rd April 2012 - Friday 8th June 2012
NO READING WEEKS.
** EXAMINATION PERIOD: 27th April 2012 – 30 May 2012**
Information may also be found on the Anthropology Department
website at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology
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ACADEMIC STAFF WITH ADDITIONAL DEPARTMENTAL ROLES:
HEAD of DEPARTMENT
Prof Susanne Kuechler
s.kuechler@ucl.ac.uk
DEPUTY HEAD OF DEPARTMENT with responsibility for teaching
DEPARTMENTAL TUTOR
Prof Sara Randall
s.randall@ucl.ac.uk
FIRST YEAR PASTORAL TUTOR
Helen Cooper
helen.cooper@ucl.ac.uk
FIRST YEAR PERSONAL TUTORS
Dr Dena Freeman
Dr Adam Drazin
Dr Joe Calabrese
Prof Danny Miller
Dr Rebecca Empson
Dr Martin Holbraad
Dr Victor Buchli
d.freeman@ucl.ac.uk
a.drazin@ucl.ac.uk
J.calabrese@ucl.ac.uk
d.miller@ucl.ac.uk
r.empson@ucl.ac.uk
m.holbraad@ucl.ac.uk
v.buchli@ucl.ac.uk
IBSc INTERCALATED MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY TUTORS
Dr Jennifer Randall
jennifer.randall@ucl.ac.uk
BSc ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY TUTOR
Prof Chris Tilley
c.tilley@ucl.ac.uk
AFFILIATE/ERASMUS/SOCRATES STUDENT TUTOR
Dr Ruth Mandel
r.mandel@ucl.ac.uk
EXAMINATIONS TUTOR
Dr Christophe Soligo
c.soligo@ucl.lac.uk
ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF:
DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATOR
Martin O’Connor
martin.o’connor@ucl.ac.uk
ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATOR AND HUMAN SCIENCES COURSE CO-ORDINATOR
Jane Turner
j.turner@ucl.ac.uk
POSTGRADUATE CO-ORDINATOR
Diana Goforth
d.goforth@ucl.ac.uk
MASTER’S COORDINATOR
James Emmanuel
james.emmanuel@ucl.ac.uk
UNDERGRADUATE CO-ORDINATOR
Helen Cooper
helen.cooper@ucl.ac.uk
RECEPTION DESK
Keiko Homewood
keiko.homewood@ucl.ac.uk
DEPARTMENTAL TECHNICIAN
Chris Hagisavva
c.hagisavva@ucl.ac.uk
WRITING TUTOR
Timothy Carroll
timothy.carroll.09@ucl.ac.uk
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LOCATION
The Department of Anthropology is based at 14 Taviton Street, just north of Gordon Square.
The Anthropology Department is next door to the School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies
(SSEES). The Department houses all members of academic staff from Biological Anthropology, Material
Culture and Social Anthropology. No lectures are held in this building, however small group tutorials for all
subjects are held in Rooms 128, 129, 130, 131 and 132.
The Undergraduate Student Common Room is on the ground floor of the Anthropology Department where
there are tea and coffee making facilities, a microwave and a small fridge. Please note that smoking is strictly
prohibited in accordance with College policy. This includes the outside courtyard. Student pigeon-holes are
located in the Undergraduate Common Room.
The Daryll Forde Seminar Room may be found on the second floor and all laboratory-based classes and
research seminars are held inside this room.
The Anthropology Departmental Office is on the ground floor. This office houses the Department’s
Undergraduate and Postgraduate Coordinators, the Academic Administrator, Departmental Administrator and
the Head of Department. The staff pigeon-holes may be found in the staff common room on the ground floor.
The Material Culture Room, in which small group tutorials may be held, is located in the basement of this
building.
ACADEMIC AND PERSONAL PROBLEMS: WHOM TO CONTACT
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The Department of Anthropology belongs to the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences and is subject to
its regulations.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/shs/
The Department is led and managed by the Head of Department. Overall responsibility for the progress and
behaviour of all undergraduate students in the Department is shared between the Head of Department and
Departmental Tutor. Affiliate Students should see the Affiliate Tutor and Joint Degree Students the Tutor
for their particular degree.
Students suffering serious academic problems, or experiencing personal problems affecting their academic
performance, may ultimately be referred to the Departmental Tutor. However, the first point of contact for
students with problems is their Personal Tutor.
In each of terms 1 and 2, you are expected to meet with your Personal Tutor. Students will be reminded well in
advance to book an appointment to discuss their academic progress. If a student is experiencing any personal,
financial or other problems which may affect academic performance, s/he should raise these with his/her
personal tutor.
If problems arise unexpectedly, students should make an appointment with their personal or year tutor to seek
advice and help.
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT COORDINATOR
During the second and third year if a student is unable or reluctant for any reason to contact his/her personal
tutor to raise particular issues, s/he should approach the Undergraduate Student Coordinator.
The Undergraduate Student Coordinator is a trained counsellor equipped to deal with pastoral issues as well
as giving general advice on academic procedures and other matters. She will hold a confidential meeting with
the student where sensitive matters can be discussed and dealt with as speedily and effectively as possible.
The Undergraduate Student Coordinator may refer students on as appropriate to academic tutors, UCL
counselling or other UCL services, and will deal with and maintain student records in the appropriately
confidential way.
INTERRUPTION OF STUDIES
In cases involving a possible interruption or termination of studies, students may be referred by the
Departmental Tutor to the Faculty Tutor. Ideally, though, (and usually), problems are sorted out by students
and their Personal Tutors at Departmental level. The chain of referral for problems is:
Student ---> Personal Tutor ---> Departmental Tutor ---> Faculty Tutor
WHOM TO CONTACT WHEN:
(i)
If you are unable to attend a class because of illness or other reasons, you must give prior notice to the
relevant lecturer or tutor, or leave a message with one of the administrators in the Departmental Office.
(ii)
If you have straightforward academic problems with a single course, you should contact the lecturer in
charge of the course.
(iii)
If you have personal or medical problems, you should contact your Personal Tutor in the first instance,
or, if s/he is not available, your Departmental Tutor or Undergraduate Student Adviser.
(iv)
If you have a query about your course or examination registration, you should contact the
Undergraduate Coordinator in the Departmental Office. If he cannot answer your query he can put
you in touch with the Departmental Tutor.
(v)
If you wish to change a course unit or your degree programme, you should see your Personal Tutor
either during his or her office hours or by appointments arranged via email. Such changes however can
only take place within strict deadlines and must continue to fulfil the degree course requirements.
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(vi)
If you need a reference, you should ask your Personal Tutor or where appropriate, another member of
the academic staff.
(vii)
If you feel that you have a grievance or complaint you should initially contact your Personal Tutor. If
your Personal Tutor is away, you should contact your Departmental Tutor. (Please see the UCL
Registry website for details of grievance procedures.)
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/registry/current/rights/complaints/
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
The main sources of information regarding courses of study in the Anthropology come from the following
sources and it is the STUDENT’S RESPONSIBILITY for keeping up to date and informed of all of these:
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this Handbook for Undergraduate Students taking Anthropology
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Notes for Students distributed by The Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences (which contains
information regarding degree requirements, interruption of study, failure of courses etc.)
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The Departmental Timetable available at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/timetable/
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The Optional Courses information for second and third year students available from the Departmental
Office and Anthropology Departmental website. Also available is information on courses for first year
students.
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Information on Examinations (which is distributed by The College Registry to students before the
May examination period)
(vi)
Letters sent to individual students via student pigeon-holes located in the Undergraduate Student
Common Room.
(vii)
Notice boards in the Undergraduate Student Common Room and in the entrance foyer of the
Anthropology Department.
(viii)
UCL Email
HOW SHOULD MESSAGES REACH STUDENTS?
Students should ensure that they are immediately contactable by members of staff so that important messages
can be passed onto them. Letters are sent to student's pigeon-holes in the Undergraduate Student Common
Room. However, UCL email and mobile telephone are fast becoming the preferred mode of contact.
Consequently, at registration, all students are required to submit their email addresses, their telephone
numbers and their term-time addresses. This applies to subsidiary students as well as degree students in the
Anthropology Department.
If you change your address, you must update the UCL Student Information Service (PORTICO) (see
subsequent section). Please also inform the Undergraduate Coordinator in the Departmental Office.
STUDENTS SHOULD CHECK THEIR UCL EMAIL AND STUDENT PIGEON-HOLES ON A DAILY BASIS!
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CONTACTING STAFF
Staff may be contacted through their pigeon-holes that are located in the Staff Common Room on the ground
floor of the Taviton Street building. Individual lecturers may be contacted by email at any time, by telephone
during usual working hours or in person during their official office hours. Email addresses and office hours
are posted outside staff offices, on Department notice boards and are also available on the Anthropology
Department web site at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology
Office hours will not apply during vacation periods or Reading Weeks. During these periods it is best
to contact staff via their email addresses.
PERSONAL TUTORS
Every student is assigned a Personal Tutor and lists of each member of staff’s personal tutees are displayed
on the Department notice boards and website. For students registered for joint degrees, the positions of
Personal Tutor and the Joint Degree Tutor are usually held by the same person. Similarly, the Affiliate and
Socrates/Erasmus Tutors act as Personal Tutors for the Affiliate and Socrates/Erasmus students and the
Intercalated Medical Anthropology Tutor for IBSc Medical Anthropology students.
The role of the Personal Tutor is to provide a general pastoral oversight of a student’s personal and academic
wellbeing and to provide advice on a wide range of issues, especially in relation to (i) course choices; (ii)
academic performance; and (iii) future careers. Students MUST see their Personal Tutor on at least one
occasion each term. Personal Tutors will be expected to submit a record of these meetings. These records
will be kept on the student's file.
Illness and/or problematic personal circumstances likely to affect attendance and academic progress
should be reported to, and discussed with, Personal Tutors or, in the case of first years, with the first year
pastoral tutor.
PERSONAL TUTORS AND WRITTEN REFERENCES
Both during and after a student's stay in the Anthropology Department, Personal Tutors may be asked to write
academic and personal references on behalf of their personal tutees. Good, positive references can only be
written if students ensure that they see their Personal Tutors on a reasonably regular basis. Additionally, 3rd
year students will be required to supply their tutor with:
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
A curriculum vitae (CV), detailing personal details, academic background, employment history and
special interests
Copies of transcripts or records of marks achieved so far in their time at UCL
details of the particular job or course for which they are applying plus suggestions as to how they may
be suitable
If possible, an autobiographical profile of university career to date, pointing out and explaining, strong
and weak performances. This information will be kept on file by the Department.
In addition to Personal Tutors the department also has a Departmental Tutor, one Joint Degree Tutors who
provides oversight for the Archaeology and Anthropology joint degree and an IBSc Medical Anthropology
Tutor. These tutors will be able to provide advice on programmes of study. They may also ask to see students
whose attendance or work is causing concern. Finally, the Departmental Tutor is responsible for monitoring
the academic progress of all students in the Department.
NOTIFICATION OF EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES
In exceptional cases, the Exams Board can take Extenuating Circumstances into account when deciding on a
candidate’s final degree classification. Typically, this is only done in the case of severe occurrences that are
very likely to have seriously affected a student’s academic performance, such as serious or prolonged illness or
the serious illness or death of a close relative. If you are at any point affected by circumstances that you feel are
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having an impact on your academic performance you must contact your personal tutor or the Departmental
Tutor at the earliest opportunity. You will also need to complete the Student Notification of Extenuating
Circumstances form, which you can download from the departmental website’s Download Area, and hand it in
to the Undergraduate Coordinator together with any supporting documentation where applicable.
LIBRARY FACILITIES
The main Anthropology Teaching Collection is housed on the second floor of the DMS Watson Science
Library that is situated directly opposite the entrance to Foster Court on Malet Place. The Issue Desk is on
the ground floor. The Anthropology Departmental Teaching Collection is located by the Issue Desk. Lecturers
are permitted to lodge on reserve for students 5 copies of any given chapter or articles, and no more than one
chapter/article per book or 10% of that book in the teaching collection. Beyond that limit, we breach copyright
regulations and are vulnerable to legal action taken out against us by publishers. Students should note that
further photocopying of these offprints is illegal. Many readings have now been digitised and can be
accessed via course Moodle pages or digitised reading lists.
The Department has a Library Committee comprised of the DMS Watson Anthropology Librarian, student
representatives and Dr Ruth Mandel (Chair). Students should pass on their comments and ideas regarding
library matters directly to the Staff Library Representative or to their Staff-Student Representatives (see
subsequent section), for discussion at Staff-Student and Staff meetings.
THE STAFF-STUDENT CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE (SSCC) AND STUDENT REPRESENTATION AT
STAFF MEETINGS
The Staff-Student Consultative Committee meets at least twice a year, once each teaching term on dates
and at times to be decided and circulated. There is a representative for each year group of the BSc
Anthropology and the joint degrees, for affiliate students, and for postgraduates. Elections will be held at the
start of term and details of the representatives and copies of minutes will be posted via email.
If students have matters which they wish to raise, student representatives should be contacted and informed of
the issues well in advance of the meeting in order for the meeting agenda to be up-dated. Dates of meetings
will be published and displayed around the Department and committee representatives will be informed
individually by email. In addition there will be one AGM held in the second term to which all students of the
Department are invited.
STUDENT FEEDBACK ON COURSE OPTIONS (OPINIO)
Towards the end of each course option students are asked to complete a course evaluation. This may take
two forms: an anonymous, online course appraisal questionnaire (Opinio) or a questionnaire distributed in the
last lecture of term. These questionnaires are designed to prompt and channel feedback in the direction of
course organisers. This is a valuable mechanism for formally recording both satisfaction and problems with
courses and is the best way of generating change and improvements.
The procedure for administering and returning appraisal questionnaires is as follows:
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Students will be asked to complete an online appraisal questionnaire (Opinio) or a hard copy
questionnaire before submitting their final coursework.
Student appraisals and staff responses are handed into the Departmental Teaching Committee to be
discussed.
Problems arising and key improvements to be undertaken are reported to The Staff-Student Committee
and the Staff Meeting
Students are informed of the outcome of appraisals by Staff-Student Representatives
PROGRAMME REVIEW QUESTIONNAIRE (OPINIO)
At the end of the degree programme, students will be asked to complete an online questionnaire on the
programme as a whole. Responses to questionnaires are taken seriously and are used to develop and
improve courses. Constructive advice offered to lecturers and tutorial assistants at anytime is always welcome.
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THE ANTHROPOLOGY SOCIETY
The Anthropology Society is run by students and elects its committee in The Anthropology Undergraduate
Common Room during the first term. Parties are organised, outside speakers are often invited, and an
occasional newsletter is produced. Members of the Staff-Student Committee may organise these elections if a
separate body does not emerge. Watch the notice boards for details of events.
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT COMMON ROOM
The undergraduate student common room is on the ground floor of the Anthropology Department. It contains
student pigeon-holes for your mail and notice boards for general information on events and courses etc. There
are a limited number of lockers for use on a first come first serve daily basis. There are facilities for making tea
and coffee, a microwave oven and a small fridge.
In accordance with College Policy, smoking is prohibited in the Student Common Rooms AND in the courtyard.
PHOTOCOPIERS
Card operated photocopiers are available in the Library and the photocopying room in the South Junction.
There are no photocopying facilities available for students in the Department.
COMPUTERS
Students should use the College system of networked computer cluster rooms at various locations in College.
The Information Systems (IS) Helpdesk is available to answer questions and help with computing problems.
The Helpdesk is located in the basement of the UCL Language Centre, in the Kathleen Lonsdale Building*,
Ext. 25000, email: helpdesk@ucl.ac.uk (* The Kathleen Lonsdale Building is accessed from Gower Street).
ACCESS TO LEARNING FUND (HARDSHIP FUND AND ACCESS FUNDS)
The College has an allocation of money for the provision of assistance to full-time UK students experiencing
financial difficulties. Students requiring Hardship and Access Loans should contact their Personal Tutor and/or
Departmental Tutor who will complete the form. Details and forms can be downloaded on the UCL website
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/registry/current/financial-support/alf/ See UCL Notes for Students for more details.
HEALTH AND SAFETY ON THE PREMISES
The Departmental Safety Officer is Martin O’Connor, Departmental Office, Room G21, Anthropology
Department, 14 Taviton Street, ext. 21040. Anyone suffering or observing an accident in the Department
should obtain an accident report form from the Departmental Safety Officer. The completed form should be
returned to the Departmental Safety Officer for forwarding to the College Safety Office. Serious accidents
should be reported immediately to the Safety Office, Ext. 46944
EMERGENCY SITUATIONS In all emergencies phone 222
FIRE SAFETY AND EMERGENCY EVACUATION if you discover a fire, phone 222 and sound the fire alarm.
ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENT, 14 TAVITON STREET
Evacuate the building, closing doors and windows if possible, and meet on the corner of Taviton Street outside
the Institute of Archaeology. Do not block the exits from the building and assemble away from the buildings.
All employees, students and visitors MUST leave the building immediately the fire alarm sounds. They
must proceed to the designated ‘Fire Assembly Point’, obeying any instructions given to them by
authorised UCL Fire Evacuation Marshals or others in authority, in the course of their duties.
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FIRST AID
The Departmental First Aider is Diana Goforth.
If first aid is needed, please contact the Departmental First Aider on 020 7679 8622.
After hours, approach UCH Accident and Emergency Department (internal dial 820 or external dial 020 7387
9300 for UCH switchboard)
In the event of a major injury, phone 222, state location and telephone number and give details of accident.
Obtain assistance from nearest First Aider.
MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE OF HEALTH AND SAFETY
The following staff have responsibility for Health and Safety arrangements in the Department:
Title
Name
Telephone
Head of Department
Prof Susanne Kuechler
020 7679 8644
Martin O’Connor
Diana Goforth
020 7679 1040
020 7679 8622
Specialist Officers
Departmental Safety Officer
Departmental First Aider
The following UCL Safety Office Representative is the Primary Area Safety Officer (ASO) assigned to the
Department.
UCL Area Safety Officer (ASO)
Stephen Tidmarsh
020 7679 8850
SAFETY IN THE FIELD: FIELDWORK AND HEALTH AND SAFETY
If as part of your final year individual studies project you intend to undertake fieldwork you must ensure that
you have:
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
Made sure that you have adequate insurance cover for your journey and activities
Completed a Risk Assessment form, available from the Departmental Office and/or the Department
website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/download/index.htm
Have visited your doctor/ health centre to receive the necessary inoculations
Acquired and read a copy of the College booklet entitled ‘Guidance for Fieldwork’ available from
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/efd/safety_services_www/guidance/fieldwork/acop.pdf
In addition to these four tasks being a requirement for the safe and effective completion of fieldwork through
the Department at UCL then they should also be used in any future research or work you may undertake.
Risk assessment forms must be filled in for all fieldwork even where it is undertaken in London and
other parts of the UK.
SMOKING
Smoking is not permitted anywhere in the Department, including the Common Rooms and the outside
courtyard area. This is in accordance with College Policy. Please note that there are smoke alarms in the
Undergraduate Common Room that will be set off if students smoke in the room.
ILLNESS
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Where students fall ill, and where this illness interferes, or threatens to interfere with their academic work, they
should visit a doctor who may give them a medical note, describing their malaise. Students should copy these
notes, keeping one for themselves, to the Undergraduate Coordinator who will inform the Departmental
Tutor. Students should also write or email the Undergraduate Coordinator explaining which courses are
affected by the illness and in what manner. Copies of all medical notes and correspondence regarding
student absences should be forwarded to the Undergraduate Coordinator in the Departmental Office.
Extensions of deadlines may be given by the Undergraduate Coordinator only, and only on the
presentation of an official medical note. Extensions are not indefinite but are stipulated for definite dates.
Lengths of extensions will be agreed and recorded by the Undergraduate Coordinator.
Serious personal circumstances should also be reported in writing to your Personal Tutor and/or Departmental
Tutor if these circumstances are likely to interfere with academic work.
2. ACADEMIC INFORMATION: COURSE UNITS AND DEGREES
COURSE UNITS
All degree programmes in the department are based on course units. The course units provided by the
Department of Anthropology for the BSc in Anthropology are of FOUR types:
(i)
Compulsory core subjects in the First Year of which students MUST normally pass all these in order to
proceed into the second year. Only one unit of first year course marks will count numerically towards
the final degree grade and classification. This is the highest mark from the theoretical course units
excluding ANTH1010 and ANTH1013. However it is necessary to complete the other courses to
accumulate sufficient units to graduate.
(ii)
Compulsory core subjects in the Second Year which students MUST normally pass in order to proceed
to the third year. These courses ALL count toward the final degree grade and classification.
(iii)
Optional Subjects in the Second and Third Years which count towards the final degree grade and
classification.
(v)
Compulsory Individual Studies Project in the Third Year which counts towards the final degree grade
and classification.
Normally, full-unit courses in the Anthropology Department run for the two terms of the teaching year and
consist of a total of 50 hours of lectures and small-group tutorials. Half-unit courses normally run for one term
only and consist of 25 hours of lectures and tutorials. In addition to teaching hours however, much of the work
of any given course consists of extensive reading and preparation of coursework.
Please note that normally no more than one half unit of optional courses may be taken each year
outside of the Department (note that no courses may be taken outside of the Department in the first
year of the Anthropology BSc as it consists of a compulsory four units).
THE DEGREE PROGRAMME - GENERAL INFORMATION
THE GENERAL REGULATION
In order to obtain an Honours degree, a student must complete TWELVE course units. Students take 4.0
units in each of the first, second and third years.
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THE BSc DEGREE IN ANTHROPOLOGY (UCAS Code L602)
BSc Anthropology students normally graduate with TWELVE units.
In the FIRST YEAR, students take four units of compulsory courses from the three main branches of
anthropology: biological anthropology, material culture, and social anthropology. To move up to the
second year students must normally pass ALL four units of the first-year courses. Under special circumstances
students may be allowed to proceed into the second year on the basis of three first year units passed on
condition that the other first year courses are retaken and passed during the second year.
In the SECOND YEAR students are:
(i)
required to take and pass ANTH2006: Introduction to Theoretical Perspectives in Social Anthropology
and Material Culture (0.5 unit), and one of two specified half-units of Biological Anthropology.
The Biological Anthropology specified half units are currently ANTH2003: Palaeoanthropology and/or
ANTH7005: Population Studies.
(ii)
In addition, second year students are required to choose (a) a HALF unit of Biological Anthropology,
(b) a HALF unit of Social Anthropology, (c) a HALF unit of Material Culture and (d) a further
HALF unit of EITHER Social Anthropology OR Material Culture.
Please note that some Third Year only course options require specific courses to be taken as
prerequisites in the second year. Please check!
Second year students must normally pass four units including all the required core courses before proceeding
to the third year. Under special circumstances students may proceed to the third year on the basis of a
minimum of three units including all the required courses. To proceed into the third year, students must
have passed 7 units from the 2nd and 3rd year including all compulsory modules.
PLEASE NOTE:
All students registering from September 2005 onwards will be assessed under the UCL Harmonised Scheme
of Award. For the first-year students, marks from courses to the value of one course unit from the first-year
programme will be included in the classification, together with marks from all the courses taken in the second
and third years. First-year courses will be given a weighting of 1, second-year courses a weighting of 3 and
final year courses a weighting of 5, from which a median mark will be calculated.
For the 2005 cohort onwards, Honours will be awarded on the basis of the following scheme:
First
Upper Second
Lower Second
Third
Fail
70% and above
60%-69%
50%-59%
40%-49%
39% and below
TAKING COURSES OUTSIDE THE DEPARTMENT
Students may by agreement take 0.5 units of academically relevant courses outside the Anthropology
Department in their 2nd and 3rd years.
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BSc ANTHROPOLOGY COMPULSORY CORE COURSES: (2011-12 entry)
First Year
ANTH1001
ANTH1005
ANTH1010
ANTH1013
ANTH1014
Introduction to Material and Visual Culture
Introduction to Social Anthropology
Research Skills in Social Anthropology
Methods and Techniques in Biological Anthropology
Introduction to Biological Anthropology
1.0 unit
1.0 unit
0.5 unit
0.5 unit
1.0 unit
Second Year
ANTH2006
Introduction to Theoretical Perspectives in Social Anthropology and Material Culture 0.5 unit
ANTH2003
OR
ANTH7005
Palaeoanthropology
0.5 unit
Population Studies
0.5 unit
Individual Studies in Anthropology
1.5 unit
Third Year
ANTH3048
OPTIONAL COURSES AVAILABLE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY 2011-12
Biological Anthropology
ANTH2003
ANTH7005
ANTH7008
ANTH7009
ANTH3005
ANTH3049
ANTH3050
ANTH3052
BIOL2011
Palaeoanthropology
Population Studies
Man and Animals
Primate Behaviour and Ecology
Hunter Gatherers: Past, Present and Future
Reproduction, Fertility and Sex (+ some social Anth)
Evolution and Human Behaviour
Primate Evolution and Environments
Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology (a Biology course but co-taught with Anthropology)
Social Anthropology
ANTH2007
ANTH7006
ANTH7016
ANTH3007
ANTH3012
ANTH3017
ANTH3028
ANTH3030
ANTH3049
ANTH3051
ANTH3053
The Anthropology of kinship
Religion, Cosmology and Wellbeing
Applied Studies
Medical Anthropology
The Study of Advanced Industrial Society (Risk, Power and Uncertainty)
Anthropology and Psychiatry
Gender, Language and Culture
Nationalism, Ethnicity and Race
Reproduction, Fertility and Sex (Biological + some social Anth)
Advanced Medical Anthropology
Temporality, Consciousness and Everyday Life
Material Culture
ANTH7004
ANTH7013
ANTH3001
ANTH3020
ANTH3037
ANTH3055
Anthropology of Art and Design
Anthropology of the Built Environment
Anthropology of Games and Simulation
Social Construction of Landscape
Colonial and Post-Colonial Visual Culture: Anthropology and Photography
Transforming and Creating the World: Anthropological Perspectives on Techniques and Technology
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BA ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY SYLLABUS: 2010 entry
YEAR 1
ARCL1006
ARCL1003
ANTH1005A
ANTH1001
ANTH1014B
Introduction to Field Methods and Techniques (1.0)
Past Societies (1.0)
Introductory Social Anthropology I (0.5)
Introduction to Material and Visual Culture (1.0)
Introduction to Biological Anthropology II (0.5)
YEAR 2
ARCL2037
ARCL2028
ANTH2006
Interpreting Archaeological Data (0.5)
Current Issues in Archaeological Theory (0.5)
Introduction to Theoretical Perspectives in Social Anthropology and Material Culture (0.5)
Option(s)
Option(s)
in Archaeology (1.0)
in any area of Anthropology (1.0)
Free option in Archaeology, Anthropology or a related subject (0.5)
YEAR 3
ARCL2038
ARCL3024
ARCL3056
Research and Presentation Skills in Archaeology (0.5)
Dissertation (1.0)
Fieldwork Portfolio (0.5)
2 further course units - free options in Archaeology, Anthropology or a related subject
Students are also required to complete a total of 70 days of archaeology or anthropological fieldwork, spread
across the 3 years of the degree.
YEAR 1 CORE COURSE DETAILS
ARCL1003: Past Societies
1.0 unit
Short Description: An introduction to cultural, technological and subsistence change in prehistory and early
history. The course begins with the evolution of hominids, and human dispersal to all parts of the world.
Archaeological evidence and analogies with ethnographically-documented societies are used to examine the
lifestyles of hunter/gatherer/forager communities from the Palaeolithic to the present, with emphasis on subsistence
practices and social organization. The changes brought about by the transitions to agriculture and settled life are
considered, and the conflicting explanations for these changes evaluated. The nature of small-scale farming
societies is discussed. The later part of the course gives an introduction to some of the world's historic civilizations.
Discussion of the nature of urban societies, states and empires is combined with the study of archaeological
examples from Mesopotamia, the Greek and Roman world, China, Central and South America, and Viking Europe.
Duration of Course: Terms I and II
Means of Assessment: One three-hour written paper (50%) and two assessed essays (50%)
ARCL1006: Introduction to Archaeological Field Methods and Techniques
1.0 unit
Short Description: An introduction to archaeological field methods and techniques based on lectures, small group
practical classes and fieldwork. The majority of the teaching will take place in the first two terms, with a four-day
experimental archaeology field-course taking place at the end of the first week of the first term. During May/June
there will be a two-week field training course and a one-week archive archaeology course. The elements covered
by the course will include i) survey techniques including aerial survey, geophysics and field walking; ii) excavation
strategies and recording including planning and photography; iii) conservation iv) sampling strategies for
environmental and dating evidence v) post-excavation, publication and archiving. The development of basic
computing skills, the use of reference collections, and the analysis of raw data, will all be an integral part of the
course.
Duration of Course: Terms I and II; field course and archive archaeology course in May/June
Means of Assessment: Two assessed essays, write-up of a Experimental Archaeology task, three work-sheets,
continuous assessment on the field course and an assessment of the archive course.
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YEAR 2 CORE COURSES
ARCL2028: Current Issues in Archaeological Theory
0.5 unit
Short Description: The aim of this course is to provide students with an in-depth and sophisticated understanding
of the major contemporary trends in archaeological thought. This course will enable students to place issues of
archaeological interpretation in their broader theoretical framework, and should act as an intellectual underpinning
for the more regionally specific courses.
Duration of Course: Term I
Means of Assessment: Assessed essay (33%) and critical commentaries (67%)
ARCL2037: Interpreting Archaeological Data
0.5 unit
Short Description: This course presents an introduction to the principles of interpreting archaeological data. Its
aims are to teach students to criticize and evaluate published interpretations of archaeological data; to give students
practical hands-on experience in interpreting archaeological evidence; and to teach students how to apply the
fundamentals of data interpretation to new problems and to their own research (e.g. BA/BSc dissertations).
Duration of Course: Term I
Means of Assessment: One essay (50%) and a two-hour examination (50%)
YEAR 3 CORE COURSES
ARCL2038: Research and Presentation Skills in Archaeology
0.5 unit
Short Description: This course provides an introduction to the aims and methods of research in archaeology as a
data-based discipline, including research design, basic statistical analysis and the presentation of results. It will give
practical training in the selection, analysis and presentation of data, and practical experience of the critical appraisal
of research proposals, analyses and presentations.
Duration of Course: Term I
Means of Assessment: Portfolio of coursework (100%)
ARCL3024: A detailed study of a selected topic (Dissertation)
1.0 unit
Short Description: The dissertation is a 10,000-word piece of written-up research based on fieldwork, museum
work, laboratory work, other forms of analytical work, or library/archive work (or any combination of these). The
written account of your dissertation research is different from an essay - you are expected to outline aims and
objectives, methods and results. You are expected to apply your own critical judgment to your chosen research area
and discuss your own ideas alongside the published ideas of others working in the same field. You will be guided in
your choice of topic, in your programme of fieldwork or data collection, and in the writing up of your results by your
Dissertation Supervisor, the Third Year Tutor, and the Dissertation Handbook. The 'Dissertation Timetable' provides
an important framework for pacing your work and for having regular meetings with your Dissertation Supervisor and
the Third Year Tutor.
Means of Assessment: 10,000-word dissertation (100%) submitted at the start of the second week of Term 3.
ARCL3056: Field Archaeology
0.5 unit
Short Description: Fieldwork is a key research tool in archaeology and anthropology and develops many skills
that have extensive professional applications. Through your UCL-supported fieldwork you will gain knowledge of
methods and the techniques to apply in many situations. This course requires the completion of a Fieldwork
Notebook(s) – a daily log of the field activities that you undertake as part of this course
Means of Assessment: Portfolio comprising two examined Elements: (a) A Reflexive Log. A 2500-word Reflexive
Log outlining the work undertaken, and a personal assessment of the types of skills and knowledge that you gained
and/or developed, for one project that you have attended as part of your UCL-supported fieldwork that forms part of
this course and (b) A Project Critique. A 2500-word critique of the aims and methods, and their context within wider
research debates, of one field project attended as part of this course.
NB The Fieldwork Notebook(s) are not examined but must be submitted alongside the Portfolio as a supporting
record of your fieldwork.
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FACULTY OF SOCIAL & HISTORICAL SCIENCES, UCL
NEW HARMONISED SCHEMES OF AWARD FOR UNDERGRADUATE COURSE UNIT DEGREES
SCHEME A, THREE-YEAR DEGREE PROGRAMMES (BSc degree in Anthropology)
1.
PROGRAMME REQUIREMENTS
Students registered for the degree are required to undertake a programme of study comprising courses to the value of 4.0 course units
in each year; the courses taken will be subject to local departmental rules and guidelines, as appropriate.
In order to proceed to the second year of the programme, all students must have passed a minimum of 3.0 course units. In order to
proceed to the third and final year of the programme, all students must have passed a minimum of 7.0 course units. In each year,
students must have passed any courses deemed compulsory for progression, subject to local rules.
The pass mark for each course unit is 40%.
2.
AWARD OF DEGREE
To be awarded an honours degree, a student must have completed courses to the value of 12.0 course units, and satisfied the
examiners in courses to a minimum value of 11.0 course units, fulfilling all attendance and coursework requirements, submitting all
written work prescribed for assessment purposes and taking all parts of any examination in those courses.
To be awarded a degree with honours in the field of study for which the student is registered, the student must have taken and passed
any course units deemed compulsory for such an award, according to local rules.
Students who fail to satisfy the examiners in 11.0 or more course units, but who have nevertheless completed at least 11.0 course units
and passed a minimum of 10.0 course units, including at least two at advanced level and two in their final year, together with any
deemed compulsory according to local rules, may be awarded an Ordinary Degree in their registered field of study. Students who are
eligible for the award of an Ordinary Degree under these requirements, but who have not satisfied the examiners in one or more
courses deemed compulsory, will be awarded an Ordinary Degree in a different field of study, to be determined by the Board of
Examiners.
3.
CLASSIFICATION OF HONOURS
The class of honours degree shall be determined by the relevant Board of Examiners on the basis of the results obtained in 9.0 course
units, to be selected as follows:
a)
b)
c)
EITHER the result from the best 1.0 course unit from Year 1, subject to local rules OR the result from a 1.0 course nominated in
advance (or alternatively the two best 0.5 course units or two 0.5 course units nominated in advance);
The 4.0 course units taken in Year 2, subject to local rules;
The 4.0 course units taken in Year 3.
Classification will be based in the first instance on a consideration of the median of the marks from the 9.0 units of assessment. The
units are to be weighted 1 : 3 : 5, as follows:
d)
e)
f)
Year 1: 1
Year 2: 3
Year 3: 5
Marks for retaken or substitute course units will be included in the calculation for the mark of the year in which that course unit was first
attempted, rather than in the year it was actually taken, if that is different.
4.
CONSIDERATION OF BORDERLINES
Candidates whose median mark falls within 1% of a class boundary may be considered for raising to the higher class. Such
consideration will be at the discretion of the Board of Examiners and will take account of one or more of the following:
(i)
(ii)
the mean of class marks across the units selected;
the distribution and preponderance of class marks across the units selected;
Reports of academic performance may be taken into account.
Reference may be made to medical gradings agreed in an appropriate pre-meeting of a special committee in cases where there are
good reasons for supposing a candidate’s performance may have been adversely affected by illness, bereavement or similar
circumstances. The committee’s decisions will be based on available medical certificates and related documentation. Full details of any
such circumstances MUST be submitted by candidates well IN ADVANCE of the final Board of Examiners Meeting in order for them to
be considered.
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5.
APPLICATION OF CLASSIFICATION SCHEME
In exceptional cases, the Board of Examiners may exercise discretion in the application of this Faculty Scheme. The general
Regulations of the College and of the University are assumed to apply in conjunction with the above Scheme, as are the local rules and
guidelines produced by the relevant Department(s).
Local Rules for BSc in Anthropology L602
Courses which must be passed for progression to the second year:
All 4 course units in year 1 are compulsory and must be passed to progress to year 2 of the BSc in Anthropology
(ANTH1001, ANTH1005, ANTH1010, ANTH1013 and ANTH1014). Students who have not passed all 4.0 units but
have passed at least 3.0 units must either complete additional work in the summer or resit any failed exams the
following year to continue with the BSc in Anthropology. If not, students may be considered for the Faculty Degree in
Social and Historical Sciences if they have passed sufficient units for progression. Failure to pass these courses will
result in students being transferred to the Faculty Degree in Social and Historical Sciences.
Courses which must be passed for progression to the third year:
Biological Anthropology half unit (either ANTH2003 or ANTH7005), combined Social Anthropology and Material
Culture half unit course ANTH2006.
Compulsory course units which must be passed for award of named degree:
ΑΝΤΗ1014, ΑΝΤΗ1005, ΑΝΤΗ1001, ΑΝΤΗ1013, ΑΝΤΗ1010, ΑΝΤΗ2003 or ΑΝΤΗ7005, ΑΝΤΗ2006,
ΑΝΤΗ3048
Additional Programme Requirements:
In addition to the compulsory courses listed above students in their 2nd year must take an additional half unit course
in each of the subject areas of Biological Anthropology, Social Anthropology and Material Culture plus a further half unit
course in either Social Anthropology or Material Culture.
Students may still be considered for the BSc in Anthropology if they fail a required course.
Classification of Honours:
The best 1.0 or two 0.5 course units from the first year excluding ANTH1013 and ANTH1010.
All 4 units from Year 2 and all 4 units from Year 3
Resits
In line with College regulations, students may only be permitted one opportunity to resit failed or incomplete
courses.
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ANNUAL PRIZES
The Department of Anthropology offers the following prizes each year:
RE Bradbury Memorial Prize
Best First Year BSc Anthropology student
£15
Rosa Morison Prize
Best Second Year BSc Anthropology student
£30
Daryll Forde Award
Best Third Year BSc Anthropology student
£100
MG Smith Prize
Best Second Year Joint Degree student
Best Third Year Joint Degree Student
£30
£30
Murray Last Prize
Best IBSc Medical Anthropology student
£30
The Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences awards a prestigious Faculty Medal to the final year student
judged to have performed best within the Faculty.
The Faculty also cites its best finishing students each year in The Dean's List. This is for students who have
performed with distinction and, whilst this citation involves no monetary reward, it appears on a student's
curriculum vitae and will be mentioned in references.
3 ACADEMIC INFORMATION: GENERAL
PORTICO: THE UCL STUDENT INFORMATION SERVICE
UCL’s Student System is known as PORTICO – The UCL Student Information Service.
Access to PORTICO is available to everyone across UCL – both staff and students alike – via the web portal
www.ucl.ac.uk/portico. You will need to log on using your UCL userid and password, which are issued to you
once you have enrolled. These are the same as the ones used for accessing UCL restricted web pages, UCL
email and the Windows Terminal Service (WTS). If you do not know them, you should contact the IS Helpdesk
as soon as possible (www.ucl.ac.uk/is/helpdesk).
Please remember that passwords automatically expire after 150 days, unless they have been changed.
Warnings are sent to your UCL email address during a 30 day period, prior to your password being reset.
- You can read your UCL email on the web at www.webmail.ucl.ac.uk
- You can change your password on the web, at any time, at www.ucl.ac.uk/is/passwords/changepw
Passwords cannot be issued over the phone unless you are registered for the User Authentication Service,
see www.ucl.ac.uk/is/helpdesk/authenticate/. We strongly advise that you register for this service. If you have
not registered for the User Authentication Service you will need to visit the IS Helpdesk in person or ask them
to post a new password to your registered home or term-time address.
More information can be found at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/is/helpdesk/.
As a student you can take ownership of your own personal data by logging on to PORTICO.
In PORTICO you can:


edit your own personal data - update your home and term addresses, contact numbers and other
elements of your personal details;
complete online module registration – select the modules you would like to study, in accordance with
the rules for your programme of study (subject to formal approval & sign off by the relevant teaching
department and your parent department);
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

view data about courses/modules - information on courses/modules available either in your home
department or elsewhere to help you choose your optional modules/electives.
view your own examination results online;
As before, any continuing student requiring official confirmation of their results, or any graduating
student requiring additional copies of their transcript, should refer to the information for obtaining an official
transcript at www.ucl.ac.uk/current-students/examinations/transcripts/.
ONLINE MODULE REGISTRATION
This facility enables you to choose your modules in accordance with the rules for your programme of study.
Please note that Portico does not include timetabling information, so you should check with the
teaching department concerned to ensure that your choice of any optional/elective module does not
clash with any of your other modules/classes. In addition, many departments have specific procedures for
approving module selections/signing students up so you should ensure that you familiarise yourself with these.
You can access the Module Selection screen in Portico via the option ‘Select your modules/course
components’ in the Student Academic Details container.
The top of the screen shows any compulsory modules which you have to take. To complete the module
registration process you should select any optional/elective modules as listed at the bottom of the screen.
Clicking on the ‘Select’ button next to the appropriate rule, which will open the optional/elective selection
screen.
SELECTION SCREEN – OPTIONAL MODULES
Click in the ‘Select’ box next to the appropriate module to choose the module(s) you wish to take. To view
further details about the module, click on the module name. The rule in the header above the list of modules
states how many modules/credits you should choose. You must enter the correct number and then click on
the ‘Submit Selections’ button to return to the main screen.
To return to the main screen without submitting any selections, click on the ‘Cancel Selection’ button.
SELECTION SCREEN – ELECTIVE MODULES
If the rule specifies choosing ‘any undergraduate’ or ‘any postgraduate module’ (an elective module, subject to
approval), clicking on the ‘Select’ button next to the appropriate rule on the main screen will open the following
screen:
As with the optional module selection screen, the rule in the header will state how many modules/credits you
should choose. You should input the appropriate module code(s) in the module box and insert an ‘A’ in the
‘Occ’ (Occurrence) field. Alternatively, you can use the ‘Search’ button to find a module. Use the ‘Submit
Selections’ button to enter the modules, or the ‘Cancel selections’ button to return to the main screen without
submitting anything.
VALIDATION/CONFIRMATION OF SELECTIONS
Once you have completed all of your selections, ensure that they comply with any ‘Overarching rule’ indicated
in the ‘Overarching’ column on the main screen and then click on the ‘Submit Selections’ button on the main
screen.
Once you have submitted your selections, you will be presented with a final screen, where you can either undo
your last change or you can confirm your selections by clicking on the ‘Confirm Selections’ button.
Note that once you have clicked on this button you cannot go back – you will then need to contact the
departmental office in your parent department to make any amendments to your selections.
Following your confirmation, you will be presented with a screen that confirms you have completed the module
registration process, listing the modules you have selected.
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All of your selections are subject to the approval of the teaching department for the module and your parent
department. You will receive an automatic email to your UCL email address if any of your selections are
rejected and you must ensure that you respond to this by contacting the departmental office in your
parent department, whom you should also contact if you wish to amend a selection at any time. You can
check on the approval status for each of your modules by clicking on the ‘View Module Selection status’ option
in your Student Academic Details container.
ENROLLING FOR COURSES
Because they contain compulsory units and other important degree requirements, all students’ course choices
are subject to their tutor’s approval. First year students take a programme of compulsory courses.
Information about all options is updated on the Departmental website, Portico and a Course Options booklet
which is available on the Anthropology website. Requirements for each course are listed in terms of (i)
prerequisites, (ii) mode of assessment (i.e. examinations and/or term essays and/or other assignments).
Restrictions on numbers are sometimes imposed.
Only in exceptional circumstances will students be permitted to join a course more than three weeks after it
has begun. Students will not be allowed to discontinue a course after three weeks without the permission of
the Departmental Tutor and the Faculty Tutor who has the final decision on late course changes.

All changes in Course Registration Forms must be signed by the Departmental Tutor or a deputy

All changes must be reported to the Undergraduate Coordinator in the Departmental Office

Individual course details, including Reading Lists, will normally be distributed in the first lecture. Dates of
first lectures will be posted or pre-circulated. Where there is no notice of a first lecture date, students
should assume that the course commences in the first term as early as possible in the week following
registration week. In the second term courses begin in the first week of term unless otherwise stated. Apart
from the Readings, Reading Lists state: (a) the aims of the course; (b) a list of course requirements; (c)
deadlines for course work; (d) essay questions with relevant bibliography; (e) how and where course work
should be dated and handed in; (f) the skills you are expected to derive from the course; (g) how the
course fits in with other courses offered by The Department. If any of these pieces of information are
absent or unclear, students should point this out to the lecturer.
ATTENDANCE
Students are expected to attend all lectures, seminars, classes and labs for the courses they are taking. The
only grounds for non-attendance are illness, certified by a doctor’s note, bereavement or other serious
personal circumstances (for which a written explanatory note is also required). If students cannot attend
classes, they should provide lecturers with prior notice directly or through The Departmental Office and then
provide a covering (medical) note to the Undergraduate Coordinator.
Class registers are taken in tutorials and seminars and any absences noted. After a student has been absent,
unless a prior explanation has been provided by the student, tutors will report this absence to the
Undergraduate Coordinator who will contact the student's Personal Tutor to arrange to meet with the student
to discuss the problem.
READING WEEKS
The Anthropology Department holds two Reading Weeks per term, one in the middle of each term, and one at
the end of each term. Courses are not usually taught during reading weeks. Exceptional classes held during
Reading Week will be publicised. Reading weeks are not vacations, they are an integral part of terms and
should be used to complete essays, undertake reading, and prepare for forthcoming courses. You are
expected to be available in College for reading weeks.
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LECTURES
Most Anthropology courses expect students to attend two lectures per week. In some cases there will only be
a single lecture and, occasionally, for seminar based courses, none. Attendance at lectures is compulsory.
Examination and essay questions may test a student's understanding of lecture content as well as readings.
Lectures are 50 minutes long; students should not be late for lectures, especially when moving from one
lecture hall to another.
COURSE TUTORIALS
In the Anthropology Department there are two kinds of tutorial. There are pastoral meetings with Personal
Tutors which tutors and students arrange themselves. And there are Course Tutorials that are an integral
teaching component of many courses.
Students are allocated to Course Tutorial Groups at the beginning of each course that runs them. These
groups meet at the same time and place on a regular basis except during Reading Weeks. Students will be in
different Course Tutorial groups for different courses.
Students are expected to prepare intensively for Course Tutorials. This will involve reading set texts, preparing
questions and points for discussion and completing any tasks set by the tutor. TUTORS AND TEACHING
ASSISTANTS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO DELIVER MINI-LECTURES IN TUTORIALS though they can be
expected to ask other students in the class to help clarify points in the lecture or the readings. The emphasis
in course tutorials is on student participation. Discussion will only emerge if EVERY student prepares in
advance points to contribute and/or questions to ask. Students should NOT leave looking for readings until the
last minute. The last minute is always the busiest!
PLEASE NOTE THAT PERSISTENT ABSENCES FROM COURSE TUTORIALS ARE REPORTED TO
STUDENT’S PERSONAL TUTORS AND STUDENTS WHO FAIL TO ATTEND TUTORIALS RISK BEING
FAILED FOR THE COURSE.
LABORATORY-BASED COURSES
These are practical courses in Biological Anthropology, Social Anthropology and Material Culture. Where
students are registered for lab-based courses then attendance is compulsory and failure to attend for two
consecutive weeks will be reported to personal tutors. Students must keep an up-to-date lab-book that is
handed in regularly for marking. Failure of lab-based courses may lead to a student having to repeat the
course in the following year. Incomplete lab-books will HAVE to be completed during the summer break.
THE FINAL YEAR INDIVIDUAL STUDIES PROJECT
All students MUST undertake a course of individual studies in their third year that is assessed by dissertation.
Students may conduct fieldwork at the end of their second year to provide data for this final year project, often
in the context of a small expedition. However, fieldwork is not compulsory and most students carry out librarybased projects.
This course is designed to provide advanced students with the knowledge and skills to identify, design, and
carry out a small research project of their own. A 1.5 unit ANTH3048 Individual Studies project should be
no less than 10000 and not more than 12000 words.
EXPEDITION TRAVEL AND RESEARCH FUND
Current second year students may apply to the College Expedition Fund (ETC) and to other sources of
funding such as the Royal Geographical Society for financial assistance to fund fieldwork in preparation for the
final year Individual Studies Project. Students should regularly check notice boards for the information on the
process and deadline for applications for the ETC fund (usually December and March). Please note that the
College ETC does not fund academic projects per se but it does fund the travel associated with such projects if
a student makes a good case for the likely general value of the experience. Further information can be found
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on the Expeditions and Travel website at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/expeditions/ where application forms and advice
regarding risk assessments may also be downloaded.
EXAMINATIONS
Many, but not all, courses taken in the Anthropology Department are assessed fully or partly by examination.
Exams are normally unseen. This means that they are held in Examination Halls, located outside of the
Department and are professionally invigilated. All unseen examinations in Anthropology are held at the
beginning of the Summer Term, normally in May. The exact format of the unseen examination will vary from
course to course. Some examinations will be divided into sections and students will be required to answer
questions from each section. The course lecturer will discuss the form that the examination will take with the
students on the course. No books, dictionaries, papers or computers may be taken into unseen exams.
Illegible or semi-legible handwriting will be penalised.
Students who feel that they need special arrangements for taking their exams (e.g. sitting the exams in
the Health Centre) should also see the Undergraduate Co-ordinator as soon as possible in the Spring
Term to discuss their needs.
DYSLEXIC STUDENTS
The Dyslexia Assessment and Support Centre is currently based in:
Remax House, 31-32 Alfred Place, London WC1E 7DP
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/disability/services/dyslexia-centre
If you are dyslexic, or if you are concerned that you might be dyslexic, you should email the Dyslexia
Assessment and Support Centre administrator who will give you all the information you need to arrange an
appointment to establish your assessment needs. You should do this even if you have been assessed
recently. When you go to the Centre for your appointment with the Dyslexia Coordinator, you should bring
with you any previous assessment reports, because these may well have some bearing on your current
assessment needs. It may be that you have a recent assessment report that provides all the information the
college needs to inform decisions about appropriate provision for you. If this is the case, the Dyslexia Tutor will
discuss with you how your needs can best be met. Alternatively, you may need only a short, supplementary
assessment, the report of which should be appended to your previous report. If you have never been assessed
before, or if your previous report is more than two years old, you may need a full assessment, for which you
will need to attend the Centre for two one hour sessions. The Dyslexia Coordinator will then send a detailed,
confidential report to you, and a summary of your assessment results to your tutor and to the examinations
section so that appropriate support can be put in place. The College deadline by which notification of the
need for special arrangements due to dyslexia has to be made is the beginning of March each year.
EXAM REGISTRATION
Students should check their exam registrations on Portico carefully and inform the Undergraduate Coordinator immediately if there are any errors or omissions. It may be difficult to sort out problems if you only
discover that you have not been properly registered when the exam timetables are issued in March/April.
Revision classes are held as appropriate at the beginning of the Summer Term. You should aim to practise
the skills that will be tested in the examination, such as timed essays, written during the revision period.
In taking the examination it is essential that you attempt the full number of questions specified as
being required.
Past examination papers are stored in the DMS Watson Library and are available on the UCL website at
http://exam-papers.ucl.ac.uk/
Students should note however, that where a course changes its content or tutor, past examination papers may
offer little help in preparing for the current year's exams. Course lecturers should be consulted on this matter.
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ESSAYS AND OTHER WRITTEN COURSE WORK
In the Department of Anthropology essays and other types of written course work are of two sorts.
These are:
(i)
Unassessed essays (compulsory and graded for feedback purposes but not contributing to the overall
mark for that course)
(ii)
Assessed coursework: essays, lab-books, posters etc (which are compulsory AND contribute to the
overall mark for that course)
Unassessed work, set in any year of the degree, is a crucial part of teaching and learning. Although this work
is graded to help students evaluate their performance, marks do not count towards the final course grade and
to the overall degree class. Only the examination grade counts. However, unassessed work is still
compulsory and failure to complete it may lead to students being considered incomplete for the
course, which may affect progression and degree classification.
The extent to which each piece of assessed coursework contributes to the overall course mark varies. The
relevant percentage should be stipulated on the Course Reading List.
Most courses involve course work assessment by either (a) mixture of assessed course work and
examination, or (b) written course work alone. Where it is only a fraction of the course work, the percentage
contribution of written course work to the overall course unit grade should be indicated on the list of Optional
Subjects and on the particular course Reading List.
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Students should note that failure to complete written assessed or unassessed course work will
automatically lead to a mark of `INCOMPLETE'
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Even if an examination linked to the course is taken and passed, this examination will have to be
retaken the following year!
PRODUCING, HANDING IN AND RECEIVING BACK COURSE WORK
Typing
All course work should be typed if it is not to risk being penalised for being illegible. All essays should be
word-processed.
HANDING IN ESSAYS
Students are required to submit an electronic copy to Moodle of all coursework submitted in addition to
TWO hard (paper) copies required for marking purposes as outlined in the section below.
Students MUST keep at least ONE copy of all essays that they have handed in. If lecturers can find no record
of an essay having been handed in, the excuse "I did hand in an essay. It must have gone astray" will not be
accepted. If a copy of the essay is not held in reserve in case of loss, the essay will receive a mark of
zero and/or have to be re-written. Students should develop the habit of backing up all of their work.
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TWO copies of all First, Second and Third Year assessed and unassessed essays should be
handed in and ONE copy held back as a reserve. One of these copies will be marked and
handed back to the students as quickly as possible with feedback. The other will be kept by the
markers. If only one essay is handed in, this will be kept by the markers and only a detached
sheet of comments handed back to the student.
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Essay Submission Instructions:
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Students should submit two paper copies of all assessed and unassessed coursework (except lab
books – submit 1 copy only) along with a completed Undergraduate Essay Cover Sheet (available at
Reception).
Essays must be posted into the essay submission box at the front desk in the Departmental
Office by 12.00pm on the day of the essay deadline.
All essays will be date-stamped by the staff in the Office. Failure to have an essay date stamped will
automatically lead to the deduction of marks (see section on `Penalties for Lateness').
Submit electronic copy online via Moodle (see further instructions below).
Hold one copy in reserve in case of loss.
One paper copy will be marked and a page of comments containing feedback and provisional marks (letter
grades) will be handed back to the students to help them improve and monitor their performance. The other
paper copy will be kept by the Department. If only one essay is handed in, this will be kept by the markers and
only a detached sheet of comments handed back to the student.
ELECTRONIC COURSEWORK SUBMISSION (MOODLE)
Once you are enrolled on a course within the Department of Anthropology, you will be asked to enrol on its
virtual version on Moodle, which can be accessed via the internet on campus or from home. The course code
and name are the same as the ones on top of your reading list.
Go to http://moodle.ucl.ac.uk and use your UCL user-id and password to access the course (note that this
address contains no ‘www’). On the course page simply follow the link for electronic submission to submit your
work. The deadline for submission is the same for both the printed and the electronic copy.
HANDING BACK ESSAYS
Marked essays may be picked up from the Anthropology Reception. In most instances students will receive
notification that essays are ready for pick-up.
All marked essays should be returned to students within four weeks of submission. For very large courses
with long assignments it is occasionally impossible for the course tutor to mark all the assignments within four
weeks. In this case the course tutor should notify students of the problem, explain the constraints and tell
stduents when to expect the marked work.
If an essay has not been returned with comments and a provisional grade after four working weeks, students
should write a courteous letter or email, asking the relevant lecturer when the essay, comments and grade will
be delivered.
Students should notify the Departmental Tutor if no reply to this note is received or if the essay continues to be
unmarked and/or no feedback has been received.
ESSAY MARKS AND MARKING
MARKING CRITERIA
Tutors apply the following guidelines to help them determine the marks of essays or examinations. These
guidelines provide a general framework for the assessment of work submitted and cannot be mechanically
applied in any particular case:
FIRST: Presents a sophisticated and coherent argument well supported by relevant evidence of both
secondary and primary sources. The student has adopted an independent and critical position and has
convincingly defended it. The student will have demonstrated some originality, synthesising materials from
several sources and courses in the particular answer.
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UPPER SECOND: Demonstrates a knowledge of and understanding of the main arguments and theories
about the topic. Some appropriate use of primary sources (case studies). Generally well structured and
presented and has written a coherent argument. The essay focuses closely on the question and the student
has demonstrated some willingness to take a critical and independent position.
LOWER SECOND: Evidence that the candidate has attained several of the programme’s objectives but not all
of them. The student has attempted to present an argument but it is inadequate or lacks coherence. The essay
fails to reach an appropriate conclusion and shows only limited evidence of critical thinking and use of the
required and suggested literature.
THIRD: Inadequate use of both theoretical and case study material and/or very poor grammar, structure and
presentation. Fails to focus sufficiently closely on the question and shows no evidence of critical reading.
PASS: Very limited reading (based on a single article) and/or poor presentation. Lack of understanding of any
of the pertinent issues. Inadequate use of case studies.
FAIL: Totally inadequate understanding of the arguments. No case studies. Poor presentation. Plagiarism.
MARK CONVERSION TABLE
ESSAY GRADE
DEGREE CLASS
A+
A
AB+
B
BC+
C
CD+
D
DF
PERCENTAGE MARK (%)
I
I
I
II.i
II.i
II.i
II.ii
II.ii
II.ii
III
III
III
Fail
78 +
74 - 77
70 - 73
67 - 69
64 - 66
60 - 63
57 - 59
54 - 56
50 - 53
47 - 49
44 - 46
40 - 43
0- 39
PLEASE NOTE THAT FINAL GRADE CONVERSION FOR THE PURPOSES OF OVERSEAS STUDENTS
OWN INSTITUTIONS MAY VARY SLIGHTLY FROM THE UCL SYSTEM LISTED HERE.
FACTORS AFFECTING GRADING
1. LEGIBILITY
All essays and examination scripts must be well presented and clear. Wide margins should be left to allow
lecturers and tutors to write comments. When word processing or typing essays 1.5 or double spacing should
be used. Students should proof-read word-processed work carefully, and not rely entirely on spell-checkers they can introduce mistakes.
In examinations ‘You are warned that the Examiners attach great importance to legibility, accuracy and
clearness of expression’. College regulations also require examiners to take account of ‘a candidate's ability
to express his/her knowledge in a clear, concise and scholarly fashion’. Handwriting must therefore be clear
and standards of spelling and grammar high. Please note that you must not resort to note form, abbreviated
words or shorthand. We expect the same standards for any work you undertake in the department.
Please also refer to section on dyslexia above if you feel that this may affect you.
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2. LATE SUBMISSION AND PENALTIES
The following rules apply to all students taking UCL Anthropology courses. Most courses require you to write
essays. As an integral part of a professional training, and to be fair to all students, it is critical that essays are
submitted on time. The following points should be noted:
(i)
ALL essays, assessed or unassessed, MUST be handed in by the specified deadline (usually 12.00pm
on a given date)
(ii)
ALL essays MUST be date-stamped by a member of staff in the Departmental Office. Essays which are
not date-stamped will be counted as being late and penalised accordingly.
(iii)
ALL essays must meet the course deadline or suffer lateness penalties
(iv)
The full allocated mark will be reduced by 5 percentage points for the first working day after the
deadline for the submission of the coursework.
(v)
The mark will be reduced by a further 10 percentage points if the coursework is submitted during the
following six days.
(vi)
Providing the coursework is submitted before the end of the first week of term 3 for undergraduate
courses or by a date during term 3 defined in advance by the relevant Master’s Board of Examiners for
postgraduate taught programmes, but had not been submitted within seven days of the deadline for the
submission of the coursework, it will be recorded as zero but the assessment will be considered to be
complete.
(vii)
In the case of dissertations and project reports submitted more than seven days late, the mark will be
recorded as zero but the assessment would be considered to be complete.
(viii)
Where there are extenuating circumstances that have been recognised by the Board of Examiners or
its representative, these penalties will not apply until the agreed extension period has been exceeded.
(ix)
For permission to derogate from these penalties, an application should be made to the Chair of the
UCL Board of Examiners through the relevant Faculty Tutor.
3. EXTENSIONS
Students should aim to get their essays in well before the deadlines, not least because of delays caused by
faults with computers, printers, photocopiers and the like. Do not expect everything to work smoothly. Note
that no extensions are given for computer problems or for reasons connected to the demands of paid
employment.
Extensions up to specific dates may be obtained only with the presentation of a medical note or a note
outlining serious personal circumstances (e.g. bereavement). Extensions should be requested from the
undergraduate coordinator. Course tutors and teaching assistants CANNOT give extensions. All
medical and other relevant notes should be copied, and one copy delivered to the Undergraduate Coordinator.
Always keep a copy of such notes.
4. PLAGIARISM
Plagiarism is unacceptable. UCL has now signed up to use a detection system (Turn-It-In) to scan work for
evidence of plagiarism and the Department intends to use this for assessed coursework. This system gives
access to billions of sources worldwide, including websites and journals, as well as work previously submitted
to the Department, UCL and other universities.
In the Anthropology department this software will be used on a random 10% of all submitted work and
also to check any work that arouses tutor suspicion. Students must therefore submit an electronic
version of all written work at the same time as (and NOT INSTEAD OF) submitting hard copies.
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Essays must be entirely your own work, though of course they will be based upon what you have read, heard
and discussed. It is very important that you avoid plagiarism that is the presentation of another person's
thoughts or words as though they were your own. To cite the UCL Student Handbook 2000-2001, p. 45 ...“Any
quotations from the published or unpublished works of other persons must, therefore, be clearly identified as
such by being placed inside quotation marks, and students should identify their sources as accurately and fully
as possible. A series of short quotations from several different sources, if not clearly identified as such,
constitutes plagiarism just as much as does a single unacknowledged long quotation from a single source.
Equally, if a student summarises another person's ideas, judgements, figures, software or diagrams, a
reference to that person in the text must be made and the work referred to must be included in the
bibliography... ”
Plagiarism is a serious offence akin to cheating and will be severely dealt with. Students suspected of
plagiarising other sources of work will be summoned to explain their work before a Departmental Committee,
and, if the case is serious enough, to the Faculty Tutor. Where plagiarism is extensive and repeated, students
may be compelled to withdraw from their courses.
Please note that we recognise no distinction between ‘intentional’ and ‘unintentional’ plagiarism. To avoid
plagiarism in essays your notes must carefully record who said or wrote what (see reference and bibliography
section of this booklet). Both in notes and essays always make clear what is your work and what is the work of
others.
Note that plagiarism can be:
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
the unacknowledged lifting of large continuous chunks of another author's work
the unacknowledged stringing together of disconnected sentences and phrases of another author's
work
the close paraphrasing of another author's work without referencing and acknowledgement (see
section below on referencing)
5. SELF-PLAGIARISM
Besides ensuring that all essays you submit are your own work, you must also avoid self-plagiarism. This
means that you must not submit the same piece of work (with or without merely stylistic variation) in order to
gain credit more than once. This rule also relates to the dissertation, which must not reproduce, even with
stylistic variation, ideas/data discussed in ANY PIECE OF assessed coursework or examination ANSWER
paper (and visa versa). The same criteria apply to self-plagiarism as to other forms of plagiarism, and it is
liable to incur a serious penalty - which may be a mark of zero for the work in question, and consequently a
severe reduction in the overall course work mark.
HOWEVER, students may draw, in a limited way, on elements/aspects of an assessed coursework essay to
answer A DIFFERENT QUESTION in the exam.
THEY MAY ALSO, IN A LIMITED WAY and WITH PERMISSION FROM THE DISSERTATION
SUPERVISOR, DRAW UPON SOME PARTS OF COURSEWORK OR EXAMINATIONS IN THEIR
DISSERTATION. Students may use any material used in an unexamined laboratory-based course in any
subsequent examination.
In the case of courses that set assessed essays during the term, clear instructions are given on the
examination papers reminding students not to try and remember and copy essays that they wrote during the
term.
6. LACK OF BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES
Marks will be taken off for lack of referencing, lack of bibliography or poor cases of both. Note that
inadequate referencing can be very close to plagiarism that is an illegal offence! (See section below on
correct referencing)
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7. SUBMITTING YOUR WORK ON MOODLE
* The electronic copy must be submitted to Moodle on the same day as the hard (paper) copy is submitted.
* EXCEPT IN THE CASE OF DISSERTATIONS, the electronic copy must not exceed 1.0 MB (all diagrams/
images/videos should be deleted)
* Work should be submitted in .doc or .docx or .pdf form (no zip files, WORKS files or other formats)
* It must be submitted with the file named under the following system:
* Course number, surname, initial of first name, essay number (if more than 1 essay required)
* e.g.:
1014BloggsJ2
* If students are found to have failed to submit the electronic version of the essay they will receive zero for that
piece of work even if HARD copies have been submitted
* If students just submit an electronic version and no hard copy they will receive late submission
penalties as usual until the hard copy is submitted.
PLEASE NOTE: no excuses will be accepted: students must submit an electronic version and all submissions
must be correctly identified.
STUDY-SKILLS
TYPING, WORD PROCESSING AND HANDWRITING
Students should word-process as much of their course work as possible. This allows for the automatic
reproduction of copies. Moreover, word-processing is also an indispensable marketable skill without which it is
already virtually impossible to obtain a job.
Your work should be adequately spaced. Too little space is often left for the marker's comments and giving
good feedback requires much space. Use wide margins: at least 2cm (or 1 inch) margin on each side and use
1.5 or double space in between lines of text.
WORD LIMITS
Word limits should be adhered to carefully. This does not mean that work must be exactly of the prescribed
word length. Footnotes, appendices and the bibliography do not contribute to word length; quotes used in
the main text of the work do count.
Over-length Coursework, including dissertations:
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Assessed work should not be more than 10% longer than the word limit given (if a word-count
range is given then no leeway is permitted above the range). Assessed work with a stated word
count above this maximum will not be accepted for submission (i.e. it will not be date-stamped or
otherwise recorded as formally submitted), but immediately returned to the student with instructions
to reduce the word length. The work may then be resubmitted, except insofar as penalties for
late submission will apply.
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If submitted work is subsequently found to have an inaccurately stated word count, and to exceed
the upper word limit by at least 10% and by less than 20%, the mark will be reduced by ten
percentage marks, subject to a minimum mark of a minimum pass assuming that the work merited
a pass.
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For work which exceeds the upper word limit by 20% or more, a mark of zero will be recorded.
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THE ORGANISATION OF ESSAY WRITING
Anthropological writing seeks to be both descriptive and analytical.
It must:
(a) answer questions with an argument; and
(b) marshall facts in support of an argument
All written work should be constructed around a theory or argument, which should be clearly and cogently
presented; the reader should not have to hunt for the thesis or argument. Like a theorem, a thesis is a
proposition which first has to be formulated, then demonstrated, all the while being illustrated. Formulation,
demonstration, and illustration: these are the three processes that guide valid and convincing
anthropological writing.
All essays must contain (a) an introduction, (b) a development, (c) a conclusion. The introductory
paragraph is the single most important piece of any written work. It should say what you think the question
implies, and then summarise the thesis which will be presented as an answer. The introduction must capture
and hold the reader's attention.
Good expository writing develops the thesis at the heart of any essay or dissertation. The development must
periodically refer to the basic thesis, showing how factual material and conclusions drawn from them, relate to
the thesis and help clarify and confirm it. Tangents should be avoided OR their content be placed in footnotes.
New paragraphs should either begin on a new line or be indented. Thoughts should not be set out in a
profusion of tiny, one-sentence paragraphs!
The development of an answer/thesis may be subdivided into titled sections: in which case, the logical
relationship between successive sections should be clearly stated. In the development of the essay, use
should be made of a balanced and wide group of sources.
A conclusion is an essential component of a good piece of writing. It should restate the thesis, summarise
the argument, unravel the implications of the argument, and possibly raise new questions which further
research might answer. A student's own critical thought must be evident in the essay.
STYLE
Good expository prose of any kind should be both clear and interesting. It should be grammatically competent
and built on a good economy of words. The following suggestions may be helpful:
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Be direct - answer the question. Do not embark upon a general survey of the subject whose point is
not absolutely obvious. Ask yourself after every sentence: 'How am I advancing my argument?' 'Is this
relevant?'
Keep prose free of jargon (i.e. undefined technical words that blind the reader with `science'). Make
certain that conceptual terms (e.g. 'ideology', 'culture') are adequately defined or contextually clarified.
Avoid over-using passive sentence construction; use the active voice where possible, as this is more
direct. ("The resolution was passed by the committee" is passive. "The committee passed the
resolution" is active and preferable).
Do not be afraid to state your opinions from a first person point of view, especially when this makes it
clear which are your own ideas or criticisms.
Your own critical thought should be evident in the essay. Why are certain ideas and solutions
preferable to others? Explain.
Avoid using colloquialisms, contractions and other forms of slang.
Do NOT simply pile one example on top of another. Develop an argument!
Never simply propose an abstract argument. Always include adequate case studies of appropriate
length! In other words, summarize just enough of a case to make your point. Do not go on and on
summarizing facts without relating them to your argument and using them to extend your argument.
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Always situate you arguments and illustrations in the context of prevailing anthropological debates (i.e.
how does your focus and argument connect with existing work in the literature?).
Consult a manual of style if you are uncertain about points of grammar and style. A good text is: William
Strunk and E. B. White, The Elements of Style. The 2005 edition even has illustrations!
TECHNICAL TERMS
Technical terms have to be defined before they are used. This includes all theoretical concepts and notions,
which have to be defined when they are first introduced into the essay. Technical terms often mean different
things to different authors/theoreticians. Not defining technical terms runs the risk of being misunderstood or,
even worse, of not being understood at all!
CASE-STUDIES
Case studies should be used in virtually all essays.
(i)
They act as evidence for what you argue
(ii)
They illustrate your abstract and conceptual points and arguments
(iii)
They enliven your essay.
Ensure that your outline comparative, ethnographic case examples in sufficient detail when these are the focus
of an analysis or contrast. At other times you may just refer to ethnographic data more briefly to illustrate a
point. Do not use up excessive space describing ethnographic data that are not fully utilized in your analysis.
Make sure that the geographical and historical context of your case studies is adequately signposted. Don't
just talk about `the English' or `the Trobrianders', for example. By way of introduction, say WHERE `the
English' live, globally speaking, and say WHEN your description is valid for `the Trobrianders' you have
described (e.g. 1920 or the 1920's). Where appropriate, introduce indigenous terms. These should be
underlined or written in italics.
QUOTATIONS
Quotations should be used but not excessively. Students should always quote when it is important to convey
the words of an author exactly, especially in an author's definition of technical terms. On all other occasions, it
is better to paraphrase. Note that: as long as a direct quotation is less than three typed lines there is no need
to separate it from the rest of the text. Use triple-dot ellipses (...) to indicate when you have edited the quoted
text by cutting out some of it in order to save space. To use an imaginary example: "the working class
upsurge of the 1960's ... owed little, if anything to the organised labour movement" (Bloggs 1998:23). (see
also section on plagiarism).
2. REFERENCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
Anthropological writing MUST be properly referenced. Marks are deducted for this fault. Wherever writing
depends upon the use of published literary sources, students MUST cite their sources. And, to make any
sense to the reader, these references MUST refer to a standard format BIBLIOGRAPHY, placed at the end of
the essay.
IN-TEXT REFERENCES
These consist of a parenthesis containing:
(i)
the name of the author
(i)
the date of the work
(iii)
the relevant page number of the work to which the essay refers.
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A standard reference should look like (Sahlins 1976:123) or (Clifford 1997:35).
Alternatively, the reference may be footnoted and footnote-numbered in the text. The page number of all
quotations or specific citations must be included at the end of the quote. DO NOT INCLUDE IN THE TEXT OF
THE ESSAY THE TITLE OF ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS unless you are writing a precise history of the
works that contain them or the authors who produced them!
STANDARD BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bibliographies can vary in format. Authors must be listed in alphabetical order, and entries should include the
following elements:
(i)
the author's surname and initials
(ii)
the date of the publication
(iii)
the title of the work
(iv)
the journal or book in which the work can be found
(v)
the page numbers of the work in the book or journal
(vi)
the publisher
(vii)
the place of publication
For most essays students can borrow the referencing system used in the professional journal JRAI (Journal of
the Royal Anthropological Society), which is available online.
It is important to be consistent in your reference format, for example:
Ward, R.G., (1961). "Internal migration in Fiji” Journal of the Polynesian Society, 70 (3), 257-71
Watters, R.F., (1969). Koro: Economic Development and Social Change in Fiji, Clarendon Press, Oxford
In the case of referring to a reading, listed in an edited collection the bibliographic entry should contain the title
and the authors of both the article and the book that contains it.
For example:
Robineau, C., (1973). "Urbanisation as a process of rural change. The Polynesian case: Tahiti and Mooera"
in R. Harre (ed.) Living in Town, South Pacific Social Science Association, University of the South Pacific,
Suva
Occasionally, you will need to cite material distributed in class for which no publication information exists or
information derived from lectures. Simply be as precise and accurate as possible.
For example:
Robert Bruce, "The Powder Keg", photocopy distributed in class, 49.
Melvyn Stokes, "Politics in the New Nation", lecture, 15 October 1997.
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ORAL PRESENTATION
Oral presentations in tutorials and seminars are a regular and important part of your work. Such presentations
have at least two functions. They enable you to educate other students by exchanging ideas and information,
and they give you the chance to learn communication skills that will be of great benefit to you after graduation.
Most employers are looking for graduates who are literate and articulate. There are a few very basic rules you
should try to follow when you are asked to give a presentation:
(i)
Prepare carefully what you want to say and practise giving your presentation the night before you are
due to deliver it. Ensure that it is the right length – i.e. if your tutor has asked you to speak for ten
minutes, do not prepare a presentation which lasts for five or twenty minutes.
(ii)
Speak from notes. Do not simply read out a prepared piece of prose.
(iii)
Ensure that your argument is logical and that you understand it. If you do not understand what you are
trying to say, there is no hope that your audience will.
(iv)
Begin your presentation by giving the audience a brief summary of the main points of your argument.
(v)
Speak steadily and clearly. Do not speak too quickly, because other students will be trying to take
notes. Vary the pitch of your voice and the speed of your delivery. If you do not, you will sound
monotonous and boring.
(vi)
Try to maintain some eye contact with your audience. It is the only way for you to judge whether or not
you are having an impact on your listeners.
(vii)
Bring your talk to an end by coming to a definite conclusion that refers back to the question and
answers it.
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UCL Online Timetable
(Login with your standard UCL username and password)
Brief description of the Online Timetable
The UCL Online Timetable (www.ucl.ac.uk/timetable) displays your personal timetable week by
week, and lets you find out what is being taught, when, where and by whom across UCL. Use it to
select course units which will fit in your timetable. Your personal timetable will display all the course
units you are registered to attend including lectures, seminars, tutorials, labs, film screenings,
computer training and more. Check it regularly for changes to dates, times or locations.
Four Types of Timetable
 Personal timetables for students and teaching staff with a UCL username and password.
 Department or Subject Area timetables by year of study.
 Degree programme timetables by year of study.
 Custom timetable lets you choose modules to create a timetable.
Features
 display a week, term or year
 click back and forth through weeks or select a week
 3 sizes of event display to choose from
 click on an event to open pop-up box and see all details
 link to UCL maps route finder by clicking on the room
 students can display all groups timetabled for their modules, by default only groups they are
assigned to are displayed
 students and lecturers see all their teaching for all departments in one view
Personal timetables for students
Your personal timetable displays the modules you are registered to attend in Portico. Students are
automatically registered for compulsory modules so they immediately appear in your timetable. Use
the Department, Degree Programme or Custom timetables to find options that fit in your timetable.
An important feature of this timetableing software is that it automatically checks for and alerts you to
any clashes. Once you select your options in Portico, they will appear in your timetable the next day.
If a module selection is rejected or deleted in Portico, it will be removed from your timetable the
following day.
Groups such as tutorials, labs and seminars are added to your timetable when you are assigned to a
group by the teaching department. You can choose to display all groups for your modules.
N.B. Timetables are subject to change. Any change to the timetable from any department at UCL
is reflected immediately in the Online Timetable and your personal timetable will be updated
automatically. Remember to check it regularly.
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ANTHROPOLOGY DEPARTMENT ACADEMIC STAFF 2011-2012
Dr Allen Abramson (Senior Lecturer, Social Anthropology) a.abramson@ucl.ac.uk
Urban and rural Oceania, especially sex-gender systems, ritual and politics, and the mythical and legal content of land
relations. Death and risk in contemporary situations, especially in relation to voluntary risk-taking, near-death experience
and cultural practices.
Dr Alex Argenti-Pillen (Lecturer, Social Anthropology) a.argenti-pillen@ucl.ac.uk
Social effects of counter-insurgency warfare in the rural slums of Southern Sri Lanka. Post-war re-construction of the
public sphere and the role trauma counselling programs play in the long-term political destabilization of local communities.
Analysis of remnants of the civil war that emerge in contemporary ritual life: 'terror sediments' that alter the structure of
traditional sacrificial rites and healing rites.
Dr Victor Buchli (Reader, Material Culture) v.buchli@ucl.ac.uk
Interests in the cultural history of Russia and Eastern Europe.
Dr Joe Calabrese (Lecturer Medical Anthropology) j.calabrese@ucl.ac.ik
Dr Ludovic Coupaye (Lecturer, Material Culture) l.coupaye@ucl.ac.uk
Field research in the Sepik area, Papua New Guinea, among an Abelam community. His research interweaves
techniques, rituals, arts, knowledge, material culture and environment. His interests lie in the history and theories of
anthropology and archaeology, museums and exhibitions, epistemology, non-linear systems, cognition, and aesthetics.
Dr Adam Drazin (lecturer Material Culture) a.drazin@ucl.ac.uk
Design anthropology, the home, Romania. He has conducted long-term fieldwork in Romania & Ireland, and several
shorter-term design research projects with companies. Current work involves a book on the Irish-romanian home, and a
range of papers on the conduct of anthropological work alongside designers & engineers
Dr Lane DeNicola (Lecturer, Digital Anthropology) l.denicola@ucl.ac.uk
Culture, technology, and design, particularly in the context of digital technologies, visualization, and immersive systems.
His primary fieldwork was conducted in India on the training of satellite image interpreters. Current work includes research
on the geospatial Web and digital music.
Dr Rebecca Empson (Lecturer, Social Anthropology) r.empson@ucl.ac.uk
Research interests include concepts of personhood, photography, memory, intra-kin rebirths, the politics of bodily and
territorial boundaries, religious economies, migration. Regional focus: East Asia, especially Mongolia.
Dr Dena Freeman (Lecturer Social Anthropology d.freeman@ucl.ac.uk
International development, sustainability, happiness and wellbeing, value chains, neoliberalism, theories of cultural
change, social protests, Pentecostalism. Regional expertise in Ethiopia and Israel.
Dr Luke Freeman (Lecturer, Social Anthropology) luke.freeman@ucl.ac.uk
Early work focused on how people acquire knowledge in both formal and informal settings. It studies the practice and
perception of schooling in rural Madagascar as it relates to local ways of knowing and being. Recent research among
Malagasy cattle drovers has led to an interest in how the co-evolutionary relationship between humans, animals and the
environment is imagined, symbolised and lived.
Dr Caroline Garaway (Lecturer, Biological Anthropology) c.garaway@ucl.ac.uk
The human ecology of aquatic resource use in developing countries (particularly SE Asia) and the development of
integrated approaches to aquatic resource research. Impact of fisheries and agricultural development on aquatic
resources, local livelihoods and human/environment interactions. Institutional approaches to understanding local
collective action in natural resources management and development.
Sahra Gibbon (lecturer Social Anthropology) s.gibbon@ucl.ac.uk
Social and cultural aspects of developments in genetic knowledge and technology, particularly as this relates to breast
cancer and questions of gender, identity and citizenship. Carried out fieldwork in UK, and more recently Cuba and Brazil
examining the transnational context of developments in ´breast cancer genetics´ in relation to questions of biosociality,
public health, ancestry and health disparities.
Dr Martin Holbraad (Lecturer, Social Anthropology) m.holbraad@ucl.ac.uk
Field research in Cuba, focusing on Afro-Cuban religious phenomena. Having written his doctoral thesis on the role of
oracles and money within the diviner cult of Ifà in socialist Cuba, his current research focuses on the relationship between
myth and action in the life of the cult. These ethnographic interests inform his theoretical concerns with such topics as the
anthropology of truth and the imagination, cognitive anthropology and its limits, and the relationship between
anthropological and philosophical analysis.
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Prof Katherine Homewood (Professor, Biological Anthropology) k.homewood@ucl.ac.uk
Land-use and livelihoods change in sub-Saharan rangelands: pastoralists, wildlife ecology, tropical savanna and forest
ecosystems, with regional expertise on West and East Africa.
Prof Susanne Kuechler (Professor, Material Culture) s.kuechler@ucl.ac.uk
Art, Ethno-mathematics, Technology and Materiality, Theory of Knowledge and Cognitive Anthropology, Anthropology of
Cloth and Clothing, Pacific Anthropology (Melanesia and Polynesia).
Dr Jerome Lewis (Lecturer, Social Anthropology) jerome.lewis@ucl.ac.uk
Central African hunter-gatherers and former hunter-gatherers. Research focuses on socialization, play and religion; on
egalitarian politics and gender relations; techniques of communication. Studying the impact of outside forces on these
groups has lead to research into human rights abuses, discrimination, economic and legal marginalization, and to applied
research supporting efforts by forest people to address these issues and better represent themselves to outside
authorities.
Prof Roland Littlewood (Professor, Anthropology and Psychiatry) r.littlewood@ucl.ac.uk
Ethno-psychiatry, medical anthropology, religion and cognition, with regional expertise on Britain and the Caribbean.
Holds a joint appointment with the UCL Department of Psychiatry where he is usually based.
Prof Ruth Mace (Professor, Biological Anthropology) r.mace@ucl.ac.uk
Human behavioural ecology, life history and in the evolution of human diversity with regional expertise in Africa.
Demography and Cultural Evolution
Dr Ruth Mandel (Reader, Social Anthropology) r.mandel@ucl.ac.uk
International labour migration and ethnic minorities, media and development with regional expertise on Central Asia,
Germany, Turkey and Greece.
Prof Daniel Miller (Professor, Material Culture) d.miller@ucl.ac.uk
Research interests in material culture and consumption including house interiors and clothing, and the use of internet and
mobile phones with regional expertise on Britain and the Caribbean.
Prof David Napier (Professor, Medical Anthropology) d.napier@ucl.ac.uk
Medical anthropology, immunology, religion and cosmology, categories of the person, embodiment, psychological
change, concepts of otherness. Fieldwork in South and South East Asia, with the homeless, within rural primary caregivers with bench scientists.
Prof Christopher Pinney (Professor, Material Culture) c.pinney@ucl.ac.uk
The cosmology of industrialism and modernity, colonialism and photography, popular Indian visual culture (including film
and chromolithography), Indian studio photography.
Prof Sara Randall (Professor, Biological Anthropology) s.randall@ucl.ac.uk
Demography, fertility, reproductive decision making, health and development particularly in francophone West Africa.
Demographic dynamics and consequences of diverse forms of population mobility including nomadic pastoralism, local
and international migration. Also research into the production, meanings and use of survey data.
Dr Matt Skinner (lecturer Biological Anthropology) m.skinner@ucl.c.uk
Paleoanthropologist whose work focuses on the analysis of teeth to answer questions about the growth and development,
diet, taxonomy and evolutionary history of living and extinct primates including fossil hominins
Dr Christophe Soligo (Senior Lecturer, Biological Anthropology) c.soligo@ucl.ac.uk
Research interests focus on the adaptive origin of the major primate radiations, the evolutionary anatomy of primates and
the reconstruction of the palaeo-ecological context of human and non-human primate evolution.
Prof Volker Sommer (Professor, Biological Anthropology) v.sommer@ucl.ac.uk
Eco-ethology of primates, in particular langur monkeys in India, gibbons in Thailand and chimpanzees in West-Africa.
Director of the conservation and research activities of the "Gashaka Primate Project" (Nigeria). General interests include
the evolution of social and sexual behaviour in primates.
Dr Charles Stewart (Reader, Social Anthropology) c.stewart@ucl.ac.uk
Historical anthropology, religion, and dream narratives, with regional expertise on Greece and Europe generally.
Dr Michael Stewart (Senior Lecturer, Social Anthropology) m.stewart@ucl.ac.uk
Economic and political anthropology with particular respect to the marginal populations in Eastern Europe and recently
de-collectivised peasants in Romania.
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Prof Chris Tilley (Professor, Material Culture) c.tilley@ucl.ac.uk
Theory and philosophy, landscape, material culture and prehistoric Europe with regional expertise on Europe and the
South Pacific. He holds a joint appointment with the UCL Institute of Archaeology.
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