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Faculties & Departments
Department of Anthropology
Postgraduate Certificate in Anthropology & Development
The Anthropology and Development Postgraduate Certificate and Taught Masters degree programmes are directed primarily at development and humanitarian aid professionals (and those who envisage such a career). This course provides a holistic and critical approach to culture, the inevitable context of all relief and development activity. The field orientation of anthropology focuses on the links between global and local processes, between abstract theory and real behaviour, and among the various dimensions of human life – political, economic, familial, religious, etc. The interconnections and interactions among these is the principal concern of the discipline, and the real context for any development work.
Those students taking the 20 ECTS Postgraduate Certificate complete the following:
- The Development Certificate Strand, assessed in four 5 ECTS module over the course of the year. This includes 3 Saturday Workshops distributed over the course of the year (20 ECTS).
Those students working on the MA will take the Development Certificate Strand as well as the following:
- Theory and Ethnographic Practice (20 ECTS in four 5ECTS module).
- Four optional ATAMs, Joint Undergrad-Graduate Seminars, or Area Studies Courses, no more than 2 of which can be replaced by Reading Courses (AN 621 and AN 622).
- Compulsory Attendance at the Presentation Seminar.
- An acceptable Thesis Proposal as detailed on P.5.
Students holding the Development and Anthropology Certificate need only 40 ECTS
The Certificate course is designed as an introduction to students, from a variety of backgrounds, to critical issues at the overlap of anthropology and Development Studies. On the successful completion of this course, and successful application to the MA in Anthropology and Development, the student requires only 40 more ECTS to be considered for the research year of the Masters