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The Department offers postgraduate one-year taught degrees (MSc) and research degrees (MRes and PhD, also MLitt).
MSc Anthropology of Religion (not running 2013-14)
Research Degrees:
12 months full-time or 24 months part-time
Aberdeen has a growing international reputation for its innovative research in environmental anthropology, particularly in fields such as perception, landscape, conservation and human-animal relations. This expertise is the basis for a new and distinctive MSc programme exploring the complex relations between people and their environment and the issues and problems that emerge from these. The course will be of great interest both to anthropology graduates and to students who have studied other environmental disciplines and now wish to develop a social dimension to their thinking and approach. A flexible curriculum means that students can tailor the course to their own requirements, whilst still gaining a solid grounding in the subject.
For more details see the MSc People and Environment home page
12 months full-time or 24 months part-time
How can we understand political violence where at least some of the parties make appeal to divine truths, or to ideals and logics which transcend humanly created social formations? How do individuals, groups and institutions that live by such ideals do so within a world of secular states? How do we understand the very categories of 'religion', 'the secular', belief' and 'the political' in the diversity of beliefs, cultures and clashes thrown up by world events? This programme balances an examination of core an thropological and sociological approaches to these questions with a choice of courses dealing with specific regional and religious themes.
For more details see the MSc Anthropology of Religion home page
12 months full-time or 24 months part-time
The M.Res. introduces students to current directions of research in social anthropology, ethnology and cultural history, and fosters awareness and critical reflection on the epistemological, conceptual and ethical problems entailed in the conduct of research in these fields. It aims to guide students in how to access, and use, key sources of research material (archival, visual, musical and museological), and to provide training in ethnographic fieldwork and related research methods (interviewing, audio-recording, filming and surveying). Students completing the programme should be adequately prepared either to undertake further research towards the PhD in any one of the constituent disciplines or in an area that overlaps two or more of them, or to enter employment as researchers in fields outside the academy, such as in libraries and museums, branches of the media, or non-governmental organisations concerned with aspects of human welfare and development, where the knowledge and skills cultivated by the programme are in demand.
M Res in Social Anthropology: Programme Handbook 2012-13
36 months full-time or 60 months part-time
The PhD is a 3-year programme of research by the end of which candidates should be able to demonstrate that they are capable of pursuing original research in Social Anthropology in a critical and scholarly way. The programme leads to the submission of a dissertation of up to 100,000 words, which should make a distinct contribution to knowledge and afford evidence of originality as shown by the exercise of independent critical powers. In Social Anthropology the dissertation is normally (though not necessarily) based on the results of long-term ethnographic fieldwork, along with archival research and library-based study.
Master of Letters (M.Litt.) in Museum Studies
12 months full-time or 24 months part-time
Museums have become an important field of study over the past, with a wide range of research focusing on their history, collections, practices and social roles. The new MLitt in Museum Studies is will use the University’s own internationally important collections and museums to explore these issues and to give practical experience of working in a museum, working closely with professional as well as academic staff. In the first half-session a core course ‘The Museum Idea’ focuses on the history and theory of collecting and museums, alongside a course selected from a range of options. The second half-session course ‘Curating an Exhibition’ includes a wide range of practical experiences as students play the key role in creating the King’s Museum’s summer exhibition, alongside a second elective course. During the summer those students with a research interest are able to complete a dissertation, while those with a more vocational interest produce a project based on a 20 day placement in a museum.
For more details see the MLItt in Museum studies homepage
12 months full-time or 24 months part-time
The M.Litt. is intended for students who wish to pursue a purely research postgraduate degree over one year (or two years part-time). It cannot be used as progression towards a Ph.D, for which completion of the M.Res. or equivalent is required.
