This is an archived handbook for a previous year. The current undergraduate and postgraduate handbooks can be viewed using the links above.
Undergraduate Handbook 2025-2026 (archived)
Anthropology
Programmes
- L601: BSc Anthropology
- L602: BA Anthropology
- LF64: BA Anthropology and Archaeology
- LF02: BA Anthropology and Archaeology with Placement Year
- LF01: BA Anthropology and Archaeology with Year Abroad
- LL36: BA Anthropology and Sociology
- L6L3: BA Anthropology and Sociology with Placement Year
- LL63: BA Anthropology and Sociology with Year Abroad
- L611: BSc Anthropology with Placement Year
- L612: BA Anthropology with Placement Year
- L609: BA Anthropology with Year Abroad
- L610: BSc Anthropology with Year Abroad
- B991: BSc Health and Human Sciences
- B993: BSc Health and Human Sciences with Placement Year
- B992: BSc Health and Human Sciences with Year Abroad
- CL86: BSc Psychology and Anthropology
- C86L: BSc Psychology and Anthropology with Placement Year
- C8L6: BSc Psychology and Anthropology with Year Abroad
Modules
- ANTH1041: Health, Illness and Society
- ANTH1061: PEOPLE AND CULTURES
- ANTH1091: Human Evolution and Diversity
- ANTH1101: Doing Anthropological Research
- ANTH1111: Being Human: An Introduction to the History and Practice of Anthropology
- ANTH2131: Anthropology Field Course (not available in 2025)
- ANTH2187: Research Project Design
- ANTH2207: Biology, Culture and Society
- ANTH2217: Debating Anthropology & Archaeology
- ANTH2227: Conceptual Issues in Anthropology and Psychology
- ANTH2231: Anthropological Research Methods in Action
- ANTH2257: Anthropology of the Body
- ANTH2267: Critical Global Health
- ANTH2277: Health and Inequality
- ANTH2287: Markets and Exchange
- ANTH2297: Mind and Culture
- ANTH2307: Palaeoanthropology: The Story of Human Evolution
- ANTH2317: Power and Inequality
- ANTH2327: Primate Societies
- ANTH2337: Reading the Skeleton
- ANTH2347: Relations and Belonging
- ANTH2357: Ritual, Religion and Belief
- ANTH2367: Sex, Reproduction, and Health
- ANTH2377: Sustainability and the Environment (not available in 2025)
- ANTH2387: The Anthropocene and Multispecies Anthropology
- ANTH30A7: Exhibiting Anthropology
- ANTH30B1: Anthropology Field Course
- ANTH30C7: Decolonising Anthropology (not available in 2025)
- ANTH30D7: Comparative Cognition and Culture
- ANTH30E7: Homo narrans: the evolutionary anthropology of fiction (not available in 2025)
- ANTH30F7: Power and Governance
- ANTH30G7: Mediterranean Connections (not available in 2025)
- ANTH30H7: Human Reproductive Ecology (not available in 2025)
- ANTH30I7: Primates, Predators and the Ecology of Fear (not available in 2025)
- ANTH30J7: Global Mental Health: A Critical Anthropological Perspective
- ANTH30K7: Humans, Animals, Livelihoods and Wellbeing (not available in 2025)
- ANTH30L7: Energy and Environmental Politics (not available in 2025)
- ANTH30M7: Religion and Contemporary Society (not available in 2025)
- ANTH30N7: Anthropologies of Knowledge
- ANTH30P7: Social Movements in Interdisciplinary Perspectives
- ANTH30Q7: Applied Anthropology (not available in 2025)
- ANTH30R7: Evolving Knowledge Systems (not available in 2025)
- ANTH30S7: Political Ecologies of Health
- ANTH30T7: Evolution of Arts
- ANTH30U7: People and Nature
- ANTH30V7: War and Health
- ANTH3141: Anthropology Dissertation (20 credits)
- ANTH3162: Anthropology Dissertation (40 credits)
- ANTH3237: Poison, Pollution, and the Chemical Anthropocene (not available in 2025)
- ANTH3247: Violence and Memory (not available in 2025)
- ANTH3257: Anthropology of Tobacco (not available in 2025)
- ANTH3267: Anthropology of Health Inequality (not available in 2025)
- ANTH3277: Development, Conflict, and Crisis in the Lower Omo Valley (not available in 2025)
- ANTH3287: Specialised Aspects of Health and Medical Anthropology (not available in 2025)
- ANTH3297: Evolutionary Medicine of Maternal and Infant Health
- ANTH3307: The Social Anthropology of Hormones
- ANTH3317: Technological Primates (not available in 2025)
- ANTH3327: Anthropology of Data and Quantification (not available in 2025)
- ANTH3337: Anthropology of the Body (not available in 2025)
- ANTH3341: South Africa Field Course (not available in 2025)
- ANTH3347: Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainable Livelihoods (not available in 2025)
- ANTH3382: Anthropology Dissertation CH/HNS/LA
- ANTH3742: Anthropology and Archaeology Interdisciplinary Dissertation (40 credits)
- ANTH3787: Capitalism in Ruins (not available in 2025)
- ANTH3797: Physical Activity for Health: Anthropological/Critical Perspectives (not available in 2025)
- ANTH3867: Primates in Peril (not available in 2025)
- ANTH3877: Evolution of Cooperation
- ANTH3887: Forensic Anthropology
- ANTH3897: Palaeoanthropology and Palaeoecology (not available in 2025)
- ANTH3907: Specialised Aspects of Evolutionary Anthropology 6 (10 credits) (not available in 2025)
- ANTH3917: Specialised Aspects of Social Anthropology 2 (10 credits) (not available in 2025)
- ANTH3927: The Anthropology of Ethics and Morality
- ANTH3937: Anthropology Art and Experience (not available in 2025)
- ANTH3947: Anthropological Skills for Climate Change Survival
- ANTH3957: The Anthropology of Sport