Undergraduate Anthropology Modules
Please note: Not all modules listed will be available every year. Please contact the department office for further information.Introductory modules (Level 4):
- Anthropology in and of the World: An Introduction (compulsory)*
- World Social Theory: Imagining Society from 500 BC to 1900 (compulsory)
- Social Theory, Reform and Revolution in an Age of Extremes (compulsory)
- SOAS Anthropology Now (compulsory Y1 single hons)
Years 2, 3, 4 (Levels 5 & 6):
- Anthropology Through History (compulsory Y2)*
- Ethnography in Practice (compulsory Y2 single hons; option for joint hons)
- African and Asian Diasporas: Migration, Space and Identity*
- Anthropology of "Race", Gender and Desire*
- Anthropology and Climate Change*
- Anthropology of Human Rights*
- Ethnography of China*
- Ethnography of East Africa*
- Ethnography of Japan*
- Ethnography of Near and Middle East*
- Ethnography of South Asia*
- Ethnography of South East Asia*
- Ethnography of West Africa*
- Mind, Culture and Psychiatry*
- New Religious Movements in Africa, Asia and the Middle East*
- Contemporary Trends in the Study of Society (compulsory Y3 single hons; option for joint hons)
- Independent Study Project in Social Anthropology (option Y3 single & joint hons - 30 cr)
- Directed Readings in Anthropology (option Y3 single & joint hons - 15 cr, Term 1 or Term 2)
* Open option for all SOAS undergraduates
The single and joint honours degrees also include Open Options. To fulfill the open options requirement, students choose any module listed as an open option in any subject. You may choose Anthropology modules among your open options.
Running 2021/22
- African and Asian Diasporas. Migration, Space, Identity (UG)
- Anthropology Through History
- Anthropology and Climate Change
- Anthropology in and of the World: An Introduction
- Anthropology of "Race", Gender and Desire
- Contemporary Trends in the Study of Society
- Directed Readings in Anthropology A and B
- Ethnography in Practice
- Ethnography of China
- Ethnography of Japan
- Independent Study Project in Social Anthropology
- Mind, Culture and Psychiatry
- SOAS Anthropology Now
- Social Theory, Reform and Revolution in an Age of Extremes
- World Social Theory: Imagining Society from 500BCE to 1900