Anthropology & English
Students undertaking Anthropology and English at Queen’s explore the variety and richness of human experience.
Anthropology is the study of human diversity around the world. In studying anthropology, you will learn how different societies live together and think about such topics as family, sex, religion, art, and economics and gain skills increasingly in demand in a globalized and automated world
Students of English at Queen’s explore literatures in English in the widest sense. From the earliest writings in Anglo-Saxon to contemporary Irish, British, and ‘global’ literatures, students study English in its historical, linguistic, and cultural circumstances.
| Award Name | Degree - Honours Bachelor at UK Level 6 |
|---|---|
| NFQ Classification | |
| Awarding Body | Queens University Belfast |
| NFQ Level |
| Award Name | NFQ Classification | Awarding Body | NFQ Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| Degree - Honours Bachelor at UK Level 6 | Queens University Belfast |
Duration
3 years (Full Time)
Entry Requirements
Irish leaving certificate requirements
H3H3H3H3H3H3/H2H3H3H3H3 including Higher Level grade H3 in English
Careers / Further progression
Employment after the Course
Career pathways typically lead to employment in:
• User Experience
• Consultancy
• Civil Service
• Development, NGO work, International Policy, Public Sector
• Journalism, Human Rights, Conflict Resolution, Community Work
• Arts Administration, Creative Industries, Media, Performance, Heritage, Museums, Tourism
• Market Research
• Public and Private Sector related to: Religious Negotiation, Multiculturalism/Diversity
• Teaching in schools
• Academic Teaching and Research
• Human Rights, Conflict Resolution, Community Work, Journalism
Current placement partners include
• Operation Wallacea, which works with teams of ecologists, scientists and academics on a variety of bio-geographical projects around the globe.
• Belfast Migration Centre offers students of the module ‘Migration, Displacement and Diasporas’ internship opportunities in their ‘Belonging Project’.
Further information
Start date: September 2024
Deadlines for on-time applications
2024 entry application deadlines
For courses starting in 2024 (and for deferred applications), your application should be with us at UCAS by one of these dates – depending on what courses you apply for. If your completed application – including all your personal details and your academic reference – is submitted by the deadline, it is guaranteed to be considered.
16 October 2023 for 2024 entry at 18:00 (UK time) – any course at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, or for most courses in medicine, veterinary medicine/science, and dentistry. You can add choices with a different deadline later, but don’t forget you can only have five choices in total.
31 January 2024 for 2024 entry at 18:00 (UK time) – for the majority of courses.
Some course providers require additional admissions tests to be taken alongside the UCAS application, and these may have a deadline. Find out more about these tests at https://www.ucas.com/undergraduate/applying-university/admissions-tests
Check course information in the search tool to see which deadline applies to you at the application weblink below.
Apply as soon as possible: Student funding arrangements mean that as offers are made and places fill up, some courses may only have vacancies for students from certain locations. It’s therefore really important that you apply for your chosen courses by the appropriate deadlines mentioned above, as not all courses will have places for all students.
All applications received after 30 June are entered into Clearing - find out more about Clearing at https://www.ucas.com/undergraduate/clearing-and-results-day/what-clearing
Together, Anthropology and English open windows onto worlds, real and imagined, that differ from our own.
Global Opportunities
Undergraduate anthropology students, as part of their training, have carried out ethnographic field research around the world. Projects have focused on orphanages in Kenya; AIDS in southern Africa, education in Ghana; dance in India, NGOs in Guatemala, music in China, marriage in Japan, backpacking in Europe, and whale-watching in Hawaii.
English at Queen’s offers a range of Study Abroad opportunities, from the Erasmus programme with a range of European partners, to the chance to study at a number of partner institutions in the United States.
Anthropology at Queen’s is constructed around four innovative, engaged themes:
What Makes Us Human?
Conflict, Peacebuilding and Identity
Arts, Creativity and Music
Morality, Religion and Cognition
The information below is intended as an example only, featuring module details for the current year of study (2023/24). Modules are reviewed on an annual basis and may be subject to future changes – revised details will be published through Programme Specifications ahead of each academic year.
Year 1
Core Modules
English in Transition (20 credits)
Issues in Contemporary Fiction: Gender, Race, Ecology (20 credits)
Being Human: Culture and Society (20 credits)
Introduction to English Language (20 credits)
Optional Modules
A World on the Move:Historical and Anthropological Approaches to Globalization (20 credits)
Us And them: Why do we have ingroups and outgroups? (20 credits)
'Understanding Northern Ireland: History, Politics and Anthropology' (20 credits)
Being Creative: Music Media and the Arts (20 credits)
Year 2
Core Modules
Key Debates in Anthropology (20 credits)
Optional Modules
Irish Literature (20 credits)
Apocalypse: Cultures, communities, and the end of the world (20 credits)
Fiction and the Novel (1660-1820) (20 credits)
Modern American Fiction: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality (20 credits)
Skills in the Field: Ethnographic methods (20 credits)
Language and Power (20 credits)
Diachronic Linguistics: Exploring language change (20 credits)
Anthropology of Media (20 credits)
Dickens and the Cult of Celebrity (20 credits)
Romantic Poetry, 1789-1832 (20 credits)
Havoc and Rebellion: Writing and Reading Later Medieval England (20 credits)
Human Morality (20 credits)
Mapping the Anglo-Saxon World (20 credits)
Hanging out on Street Corners: Public and applied Anthropology (20 credits)
The Northern Ireland Conflict and paths to peace (20 credits)
Enlightenment and its Discontents (20 credits)
Utopia / Dystopia: The Future in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature (20 credits)
Foundations for Speech Analysis: The Phonetics of English (20 credits)
Modernism and Modernity (20 credits)
An Introduction to Critical and Cultural Theory (20 credits)
Shakespeare and Co (20 credits)
Year 3
Optional Modules
Contemporary Literature: Poetry and Precariousness in the Twenty-First Century (20 credits)
Writing Africa: The Colonial Past to Colonial Present (20 credits)
Televising the Victorians (20 credits)
Women's Writing 1680-1830 (20 credits)
The Politics of Performance: From Negotiation to Display (20 credits)
Remembering the Future: Violent Pasts, Loss and the Politics of Hope (20 credits)
Language in the Media (20 credits)
Restoration to Regency in Contemporary Fiction (20 credits)
Music, Power and Conflict (20 credits)
Further Adventures in Shakespeare (20 credits)
Analysing Language: Exploring linguistic structures of English (20 credits)
Work-based Learning (20 credits)
Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century: Evolution, Degeneration, and the Mind (20 credits)
Speech Worlds: Phonology in Acquisition and Disorder (20 credits)
In Gods We Trust: The New Anthropology of Religion (20 credits)
Representing the Working Class (20 credits)
Marvels, Monsters and Miracles in Anglo-Saxon England (20 credits)
Irish Gothic (20 credits)
Stylistics: Analysing Style in Language (20 credits)
Renaissance Performance, Gender, Space (20 credits)
Double Dissertation Creative Writing (40 credits)
Special Topic in Creative Writing (20 credits)
Double Dissertation English Literature (40 credits)
Anthropology Dissertation (40 credits)
Contemporary US Crime Fiction: the Police, the State, the Globe (20 credits)
Human-Animal Relations: An Anthropological Perspective (20 credits)
Shakespeare on Screen (20 credits)
Special Topic in Irish Writing (20 credits)
Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction Devolutionary Identities (20 credits)
Double Dissertation English Language (40 credits)
Admissions
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Fax: 028 9097 5151
Email address: admissions@qub.ac.uk