Anthropology & French
In addition to developing linguistic proficiency in French, students on the Anthropology and French degree learn to critically reflect on identity, culture and society. In Anthropology, they examine patterns of social interaction, interrogate how social identities bind groups together, and understand how conflict arises and resolutions are found across the world’s cultures.
| 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
4 years (Full Time)
Entry Requirements
Irish leaving certificate requirements
H3H3H3H3H3H3/H2H3H3H3H3 including Higher Level grade H3 in French
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
Employment Links
A growing number of internship opportunities will match dissertation students with organisations and institutions relevant to their career paths by building on local and international staff networks and professional connections.
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’.
International Travel
As part of undergraduate training, students have the opportunity to use practice-based research skills during eight weeks of ethnographic fieldwork in areas of their specialisation, which can entail working with organisations around the globe.
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
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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
In French, they analyse Francophone cultures (literature, cinema, linguistics, art, history) in the broadest sense. Students often spend their year abroad in a francophone country such as Martinique or Réunion, where they can complete anthropological fieldwork for their final-year project.
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.
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
Being Human: Culture and Society (20 credits)
Beginners French Studies (Post GCSE Level) (40 credits)
French 1 (40 credits)
Optional Modules
Beyond the Hexagon: French language, politics and culture in a global frame (20 credits)
Us And them: Why do we have ingroups and outgroups? (20 credits)
Perspectives on France: moments of crisis (20 credits)
'Understanding Northern Ireland: History, Politics and Anthropology' (20 credits)
Being Creative: Music Media and the Arts (20 credits)
A World on the Move:Historical and Anthropological Approaches to Globalization (20 credits)
Year 2
Core Modules
Key Debates in Anthropology (20 credits)
French 2 (40 credits)
Optional Modules
The Sociolinguistics of Modern French (20 credits)
French Noir (20 credits)
Linguistic Variation in French (20 credits)
Anthropology of Media (20 credits)
Algeria and France: Trauma, Forgetting, Re-Membering (20 credits)
Apocalypse: Cultures, communities, and the end of the world (20 credits)
Human Morality (20 credits)
Skills in the Field: Ethnographic methods (20 credits)
The Northern Ireland Conflict and paths to peace (20 credits)
Hanging out on Street Corners: Public and applied Anthropology (20 credits)
Year 3
Core Modules
Working and Studying Abroad (20 credits)
International Placement: Languages Year Abroad (100 credits)
Year 4
Core Modules
French 3 (40 credits)
Optional Modules
The Politics of Performance: From Negotiation to Display (20 credits)
Remembering the Future: Violent Pasts, Loss and the Politics of Hope (20 credits)
Contemporary Francophone Chinese Fiction (20 credits)
Music, Power and Conflict (20 credits)
In Gods We Trust: The New Anthropology of Religion (20 credits)
Human-Animal Relations: An Anthropological Perspective (20 credits)
Home Matters: Space, Gender and Class in 19th-Century France and Belgium (20 credits)
The Structure of Modern French (20 credits)
Caribbean Cultures (20 credits)
Anthropology Dissertation (40 credits)
Admissions
Tel: 028 9097 3838
Fax: 028 9097 5151
Email address: admissions@qub.ac.uk