Anthropology with Placement
Entry requirements
A level
Obtain a minimum of 112 UCAS tariff points in an Access to HE Diploma with 45 credits at Level 3.
Cambridge International Pre-U Certificate - Principal
GCSE/National 4/National 5
A minimum of 5 GCSEs at grade C or grade 4 and above are required including English Language (or grade B/5 in English Literature).
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
including SL5 or HL4 in English (if applicant does not have GCSE English grade C/4 or above)
Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017)
OCR Cambridge Technical Diploma
in any subject and an A level at grade C
OCR Cambridge Technical Extended Certificate
in any subject with A levels grade BB
OCR Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma
in any subject
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
in any subject and an A level at grade C
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in any subject with A levels grade BB
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
in any subject
Scottish Advanced Higher
T Level
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About this course
Anthropology offers a unique and powerful means for understanding cultural and social diversity in the modern world. It considers issues which can lead to mind blowing revelations about how individuals and cultures experience life differently.
Anthropology is concerned with contemporary issues such as multiculturalism, identity politics, racism and ethnic nationalism, changing forms of the family, religious conflict, gender, and the political role of culture.
It also addresses perennial questions about human nature, such as: ‘What do we have in common with each other cross-culturally?’ and ‘What makes us different?’.
If you are intrigued by these questions and want to study a discipline that will enrich your everyday life as well as equip you for a great variety of occupations, anthropology is the right course for you.
Our rigorous programme gives you the freedom to choose one of our pathway options:-
-Anthropology
-Anthropology (Childhood, Youth and Education)
-Anthropology (Global Health)
-Anthropology (Development, War and Humanitarian Assistance)
Through a set of compulsory modules in your first year, you will gain a firm foundation in the central themes and debates in anthropology as you are introduced to the international work carried out by the teaching staff that explores the practicalities of undertaking anthropological fieldwork.
Towards the end of your first year, you get to choose your degree pathway – either to remain on the general Anthropology route or to specialise in Anthropology (Childhood, Youth and Education), Anthropology (Development, War and Humanitarian Assistance), or Anthropology (Global Health).
In years two and three, you will follow a pre-set group of compulsory modules according to your pathway choice, plus optional modules choices according to your interests.
A special feature of the course at Brunel is the opportunity to do fieldwork placements anywhere in the world according to your anthropological interests.
Fieldwork is excellent preparation for work and a chance to make useful contacts and will help to add greater meaning to academic studies.
Around half of Brunel’s anthropology students carry out a placement or fieldwork abroad, in places as wide ranging as India, Nepal, Australia, South Africa, Papua New Guinea and Jamaica.
Recent UK placement destinations include the Royal Anthropological Institute, Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, Amnesty International and the Department of Health.
Examples of dissertation titles based on fieldwork findings have included work in a Nepalese monastery, a South African women’s refuge, the Police Complaints Authority (on the Stephen Lawrence case), as well as in schools and charities.
Outside of classes, you can look forward to a one of the most cultural diverse campuses in the UK with opportunity to meet people from all over the world.
Additionally, Brunel’s anthropological student society arrange class trips to places like the Pitt Rivers museum in Oxford, and the campus’s London location makes it ideal for exploring places like the British Museum in Central London.
This is a four-year course with a one-year placement.
Modules
Sample modules:
Anthropology and the World,
Beliefs and Ways of Thinking,
Kinship, Sex & Gender
To view the full list of modules for this course and further information on degree content, please visit the Brunel website: brunel.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/anthropology-bsc
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