Anthropology
Entry requirements
A level
Access to HE Diploma
GCSE/National 4/National 5
Applicants should have grade C or 4 in Mathematics GCSE or a suitable equivalent level qualification.
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
Applicants should have either an overall grade of 30 or 15 points at higher level.
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
Scottish Higher qualifications are considered on an individual basis.
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About this course
Find your place in an ever-changing world. Our creative and critical thinkers will delve into the history of our species and explore the amazing diversity of human cultures.
Overview
Examine how we evolved, why we live in different societies, and how we interact with one another and the environment. You’ll develop insight into social and cultural difference, understand the history, behaviour, and evolution of our species and gain a unique perspective invaluable to employers across a wide range of industries.
Get practical with facilities like the brand new micro CT-scanner within the Imaging Centre for Life Sciences, the Ethnobiology Laboratory for identification of useful plants, and the Charles Darwin Lab with its impressive fossil cast collection. Field trips present another opportunity for you to learn beyond your lectures at zoos, museums, religious sites, and the financial district.
Reasons to study Anthropology at Kent
- Ranked 10th for student satisfaction in The Complete University Guide 2023.
- Be inspired by academics at the forefront of their fields including biological, environmental, evolutionary, and social anthropology.
- Add a "year in" to expand your skills and apply your knowledge. Add a Year in Professional Practice or live, study and be immersed in a different culture with a Year Abroad. You can also enhance your career prospects by adding a Year in Data Analytics, Year in Computing, or a Year in a Language. Our current Biological Anthropology student Abigail Shortland studied a year in Spanish.
- Ongoing support in your studies through our excellent staff-student ratio, regular workshops and alumni talks as well as dedicated academic advisors and peer mentoring scheme.
- Make the degree your own. Take more social or biological anthropology focussed modules and earn a ‘BA Anthropology-social’ or a 'BSc Anthropology-biological' degree, or maintain a mix of modules and earn a BSc Anthropology degree.
What you'll learn
Be introduced to anthropology, its foundations and its leading thinkers. Benefit from practical learning through lab-based sessions and visits away from campus. Enjoy a varied choice of optional modules enabling you to expand your perspective or develop a specialism. You can study human sexual behaviour, medical anthropology, ethnicity and nationalism, power and money, or discover more about primate communication or forensic anthropology, or any combination of the above among many other diverse topics.
Modules
On this degree you are introduced to anthropology, its foundations and its leading thinkers. You also benefit from practical learning through lab-based sessions and a number of visits away from campus.
You also enjoy a wide and varied choice of optional modules enabling you to expand your perspective or develop a specialism. You can study human sexual behaviour, or medical anthropology; take modules in ethnicity and nationalism, and power and money or discover more about primate communication or forensic anthropology.
Tuition fees
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The Uni
University of Kent
School of Anthropology and Conservation
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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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