Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
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Study Details: MRes one year full-time, two – three years part-time
The MRes Social Anthropology offers students training in social science research methods, with a strong focus on ethnographic methods. It aims to provide students with the skills they need to conduct research at a doctoral level, or to work as social science researchers. In addition to the acquisition of strong methodological skills, students are able to benefit from SOAS’ renowned offering of African and Asian languages, as well as its expertise in the humanities, including philosophy, linguistics, literature, and history.
We will consider all applications with 2:ii (or international equivalent) or higher. In addition to degree classification we take into account other elements of the application including supporting statement and references.
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Students from SOAS’ Department of Anthropology and Sociology develop an in-depth understanding of the world. Employers value our graduates’ cultural awareness and global perspective, as well as their skills in analysis, data interpretation and problem-solving.
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Core
90 credits core
799B Dissertation (MRes) in Anthropology - 90 credits
Open
Compulsory
30 credits compulsory, including 802 Research Training Seminar (non-credit bearing)
801 Research Methods in Anthropology - 15 credits
Open
802 Research Training Seminar
Open
Introduction to Quantitative Methods in Social Research - 15 credits
Open
Guided options
Guided options - 30-60 credits
753 Mind, Culture and Psychiatry - 15 credits
Open
750B Ethnographic Locations: East Asia - 15 credits
Open
750A Ethnographic Locations: Sub-Saharan Africa - 15 credits
Open
750D Ethnographic Locations: South Asia - 15 credits
Open
730 Anthropology and Climate Change - 15 credits
Open
752 Anthropology of 'Race', Gender and Sexuality - 15 credits
Open
729 Anthropology of Sustainability: Global Challenges and Alternative Futures - 15 credits
Open
725 African and Asian Diasporas: Culture, Politics, Identities - 15 credits
Open
724 Migration, Borders and Space: Decolonial Approaches - 15 credits
Open
722 Food, Place and Mobility - 15 credits
Open
755 Bodies and Cultures - 15 credits
Open
754 Medical Anthropology: Global Perspectives - 15 credits
Open
723 Diet, Society and Environment - 15 credits
Open
731 How to Change Things - 15 credits
Open
701 Contemporary Anthropological Theory - 15 credits
Open
721 Ethnographic Encounters - 15 credits
Open
751 Conceptualising the Social - 15 credits
Open
750E Ethnographic Locations: Southeast Asia - 15 credits
Open
Open options
Students can take a maximum of 30 credits from the School-wide languages' open options list.
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