Anthropology and Sociology
Durham University
UCAS Code: LL36 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
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About this course
**Course details**
Anthropology and sociology are naturally complementary fields of study due to their common emphasis on understanding humans as part of wider cultural and social groups.
This degree combines modules from the BA Anthropology and BA Sociology degrees providing a comprehensive understanding of humans as social and cultural beings.
Based around a central core of theory and methods, the degree is highly flexible, allowing you to choose subjects across both disciplines. The course emphasises the application of theory and concepts to real-world cases. You will carry out a supervised research project and you can choose to take a placement with a local community organisation and make use of your knowledge in an applied setting.
In the first year of your degree, you will receive a thorough grounding in the theory and practice of Anthropology and Sociology in the broadest sense.
The second year will develop your understanding of key issues in anthropological and sociological theory and research. At this stage you can also apply to add a placement year or a year abroad to your degree, increasing the course from three years to four.
In your final year, you will design and carry out your own dissertation project in Anthropology or Sociology.
**Course Structure**
**Year 1**
**Examples of optional modules:**
Doing Anthropological Research
Social Research Methods
People and Cultures
Classic Sociological Theory
Health, Illness and Society
Human Evolution and Diversity
Being Human: An Introduction to the History and Practice of Anthropology
Societies in Transition
Introduction to Criminological Theory
Critical Scholarship in the Social Science.
**Year 2
Examples of optional modules:**
Research Methods in Action
Biology, Culture and Society
Politics and Economics
Evolution, Variation and Adaptation
Global Health and Disease
Environment, Climate, and the Anthropocene
Communities and Social Justice
Crime, Power and Social Inequalities
Modern and Contemporary Sociological Theory
Self, Identity and Society
Sociology of Education
Violence and Abuse in Society
**Year 3 (Year 4 if undertaking a placement year or year abroad)**
In your final year, you will design and carry out an Dissertation project. Your dissertation is an excellent opportunity to develop expertise in a topic of personal interest or relevance to a future career area.
**Examples of optional modules:**
Anthropology, Art, and Experience
Social Anthropology of Hormones
Anthropology of Ethics and Morality
Anthropological Skills for Climate Change Survival
Violence and Memory
Evolutionary Medicine: Maternal and Infant Health
Primates, Predators and the Ecology of Fear
Forensic Anthropology
Food Security, Nutrition, and Sustainable Livelihoods
Drugs and Society
Globalisation and the Sex Industry
Sociology of Mental Health and Illness
The Body as Data: Technology, Power and Human Rights
Youth in Crisis: Young People, Crime and Justice
Modules
Year 1
Examples of optional modules:
Doing Anthropological Research
Social Research Methods
People and Cultures
Classic Sociological Theory
Health, Illness and Society
Human Evolution and Diversity
Being Human: An Introduction to the History and Practice of Anthropology
Societies in Transition
Introduction to Criminological Theory
Critical Scholarship in the Social Science.
Year 2
Examples of optional modules:
Research Methods in Action
Biology, Culture and Society
Politics and Economics
Evolution, Variation and Adaptation
Global Health and Disease
Environment, Climate, and the Anthropocene
Communities and Social Justice
Crime, Power and Social Inequalities
Modern and Contemporary Sociological Theory
Self, Identity and Society
Sociology of Education
Violence and Abuse in Society
Year 3 (Year 4 if undertaking a placement year or year abroad)
In your final year, you will design and carry out an Dissertation project. Your dissertation is an excellent opportunity to develop expertise in a topic of personal interest or relevance to a future career area.
Examples of optional modules:
Anthropology, Art, and Experience
Social Anthropology of Hormones
Anthropology of Ethics and Morality
Anthropological Skills for Climate Change Survival
Violence and Memory
Evolutionary Medicine: Maternal and Infant Health
Primates, Predators and the Ecology of Fear
Forensic Anthropology
Food Security, Nutrition, and Sustainable Livelihoods
Drugs and Society
Globalisation and the Sex Industry
Sociology of Mental Health and Illness
The Body as Data: Technology, Power and Human Rights
Youth in Crisis: Young People, Crime and Justice
Assessment methods
Assessment on the BA (Hons) Anthropology and Sociology degree varies by module, but may include written examinations, podcasts, museum displays and outreach activities, coursework in the form of essays or research projects, and presentations.
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This is a pretty flexible degree and a good one if you want to keep your options open. Just over 1,250 graduates completed anthropology degrees last year, and they were well spread out across a whole range of jobs — many industries have jobs that can be done by anthropology graduates and unlike a lot of degrees, there aren't many jobs we can point to and say ‘graduates from this degree do that job’. Management, marketing, housing and recruitment jobs are the most popular, though, and many graduates go into the education or social care sectors. Graduates are also rather more likely than average to work in London, or to go overseas to work. This is quite a popular subject at postgraduate level, and if you want to go into research, you'll need to think about postgrad study - and it's one of the few where numbers are on the up at the moment.
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We have quite a lot of sociology graduates, although numbers fell last year. But graduates still do pretty well. Most sociology graduates go straight into work when they complete their degrees, and a lot of graduates go into jobs in social professions such as recruitment, education, community and youth work, and housing. An important option for a sociology graduate is social work - and we're short of people willing to take this challenging but rewarding career. Sociology is a flexible degree and you can find graduates from the subject in pretty much every reasonable job — obviously, you don't find many doctors or engineers, but you do find them in finance, the media, healthcare, marketing and even IT. Sociology graduates taking further study often branch out into other qualifications, like teaching, law, psychology, HR and even maths, so don’t think a sociology degree restricts you to just one set of options.
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