Anthropology & History
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.
Issues addressed in anthropology modules include:
Does globalisation mean the end of cultural difference?
Can a post-conflict society heal?
How do ritual traditions, musical performances, and art shape cultural identities?
How do some people become willing to die for a group?
| 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
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’.
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
This mutually enriching joint programme equips students in identifying historical and contemporary patterns of social organisation, ethnic and cultural divisions, varieties of inequality, and patterns of change over time across diverse societies.
Through classroom modules, optional placements, and your own anthropological fieldwork, you will also gain valuable skills in critical thinking, cross-cultural understanding, researching, interviewing, writing, and presenting.
History is vital to understanding the world around us. What is gender, race, class, religion, the state, empire, capitalism? What is the USA, China, the United Kingdom, Ireland? What is NATO and the EU? Our historians explain the modern world by reaching back to the Roman empire, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Reformation and the great modern revolutions across all of Europe, North America, Africa, and Asia. From their first year, we trust our students to make choices and range widely across all these histories to understand where we have come from. And from the beginning of your degree, you will be taught in small groups by expert historians. Our range in time and space, our trust in you to explore and make good choices, and our small group teaching from the first year of the degree, mark us out among our peer universities.
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.
This joint programme also offers students opportunities to travel and study at universities in Europe and North America. Short-term (two weeks) and longer-term (up to one academic year) exchanges are on offer.
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)
Exploring History 2 (20 credits)
Exploring History 1 (20 credits)
Optional Modules
History and Historians: Contested Pasts (20 credits)
Revolutions (20 credits)
The Long Road to Black Lives Matter (20 credits)
'Understanding Northern Ireland: History, Politics and Anthropology' (20 credits)
Us And them: Why do we have ingroups and outgroups? (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)
Optional Modules
Skills in the Field: Ethnographic methods (20 credits)
Uniting Kingdoms (20 credits)
Recording History (20 credits)
The American South, 1865-1980 (20 credits)
Apocalypse: Cultures, communities, and the end of the world (20 credits)
Europe between the Wars, 1919-1939 (20 credits)
Politics and Society in 20th Century Ireland (20 credits)
Cabinets of Curiosity: Museums Past and Present (20 credits)
The American South 1619-1865 (20 credits)
Human Morality (20 credits)
Politics and Society in 19th Century Ireland (20 credits)
Hanging out on Street Corners: Public and applied Anthropology (20 credits)
The Northern Ireland Conflict and paths to peace (20 credits)
The Expansion of Medieval Europe, 1000-1300 (20 credits)
The Roman Origins of the East and West; From Augustus to Charlemagne (20 credits)
Alexander The Great and the Creation of the Hellenistic World (20 credits)
The making of contemporary Britain: 1914 to the present (20 credits)
Revolutionary Europe, 1500-1789 (20 credits)
Year 3
Optional Modules
Diaspora: Irish 19th-century migration (20 credits)
Popular Culture in England 1500-1700 (20 credits)
The Ancient City (20 credits)
Remembering the Future: Violent Pasts, Loss and the Politics of Hope (20 credits)
The Politics of Performance: From Negotiation to Display (20 credits)
The Origins of Protestantism (20 credits)
Surviving the Victorian city: poverty, welfare and public health in nineteenth-century Belfast (20 credits)
Music, Power and Conflict (20 credits)
War, Politics, and Identity in Late Medieval Ireland, c.1166-c.1521 (20 credits)
The Rise of Christianity 2: The Conversion of the Roman Empire (20 credits)
Paths to Independence and Decolonisation in India and East Africa (20 credits)
In Gods We Trust: The New Anthropology of Religion (20 credits)
Human-Animal Relations: An Anthropological Perspective (20 credits)
Extermination: History and Memory of the Murdered Jews of Europe (20 credits)
Wolf Children and Baby Boomers: The Family in European History 1945-1970s (20 credits)
Religion and Empire: Christian Missions ro Africa, Asia and Middle East (20 credits)
Kings, courts and culture in Carolingian Europe (20 credits)
Anthropology Dissertation (40 credits)
That Vast Catastrophe: The Great Irish Famine (20 credits)
Twentieth-Century China (20 credits)
The Exceptional Origins of the American Republic (20 credits)
The Irish Revolution, 1917-1921 (20 credits)
The Soviet Union 1921-1991 (20 credits)
The War of Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Ireland (20 credits)
Dissertation (40 credits)
Admissions
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