Program Overview

Anthropology and Philosophy

Overview

The programme is designed to provide students with an intellectual training in the disciplines of Philosophy and Anthropology which, while discrete subjects, are complementary and mutually enriching. The combination of Philosophy and Anthropology allows for the development of an in-depth appreciation of the ideas that help to explain the foundations of the current world, human behaviour, and thinking across and beyond cultural difference.

Course Structure

The programme is constructed around four innovative, engaged themes:

• What Makes Us Human?
• Conflict, Peacebuilding and Identity
• Arts, Creativity and Music
• Morality, Religion and Cognition

Philosophy at Queen's focuses on a range of introductory modules at Stage 1, including:

• Introductory Logic
• Perspectives on Politics
• Philosophy and Human Nature
• Philosophy and the Good Life

At Stage 2, students choose six modules that explore the wide range of major debates and inquiry in Philosophy, exploring questions that range from how to understand the mind, to how ‘reality’ might be understood, to key political theories about how we live as a society.

In the final year, students focus on particular areas of specialisation that build on their studies in years 1 and 2. Students will write a dissertation (double-weighted) and choose four modules.

Modules

Year 1

• Being Human: Culture and Society (20 credits)
• A World on the Move: Historical and Anthropological Approaches to Globalization (20 credits)
• Us And them: Why do we have ingroups and outgroups? (20 credits)
• Introductory Logic (20 credits)
• Philosophy and The Good Life (20 credits)
• 'Understanding Northern Ireland: History, Politics and Anthropology' (20 credits)
• Perspectives on Politics (20 credits)
• Being Creative: Music Media and the Arts (20 credits)
• Philosophy and Human Nature (20 credits)

Year 2

• Key Debates in Anthropology (20 credits)
• Human Morality (20 credits)
• Hanging out on Street Corners: Creative, Public and applied Anthropology (20 credits)
• Northern Ireland: Past, Present and Future (20 credits)
• Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (20 credits)
• Philosophy of Race (20 credits)
• Anthropology of Media (20 credits)
• Apocalypse: Cultures, communities, and the end of the world (20 credits)
• Modern Political Thought (20 credits)
• Moral Theories (20 credits)
• Skills in the Field: Ethnographic methods (20 credits)
• History of Philosophy (20 credits)
• Knowledge and Reality (20 credits)

Year 3

• Anthropology and Roma (20 credits)
• Remembering the Future: Violent Pasts, Loss and the Politics of Hope (20 credits)
• Philosophy of Technology and Environment (20 credits)
• Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art (20 credits)
• Music, Power and Conflict (20 credits)
• Anthropology Dissertation (40 credits)
• In Gods We Trust: The New Anthropology of Religion (20 credits)
• The Politics of Performance: From Negotiation to Display (20 credits)
• Dissertation (40 credits)
• Applied Ethics (20 credits)
• Philosophy for Children (20 credits)
• Contemporary Political Philosophy (20 credits)

Entry Requirements

• ABB
• A maximum of one BTEC/OCR Single Award or AQA Extended Certificate will be accepted as part of an applicant's portfolio of qualifications with a Distinction* being equated to grade A at A-Level and a Distinction being equated to a grade B at A-level.
• Successful completion of Access Course with an average of 70%.
• 33 points overall, including 6,5,5 at Higher Level
• QCF BTEC Extended Diploma (180 credits at Level 3) with overall grades D*DD
• RQF BTEC National Extended Diploma (1080 GLH at Level 3) with overall grades D*DD
• A minimum of a 2:2 Honours Degree
• All applicants must have GCSE English Language grade C/4 or an equivalent qualification acceptable to the University.

Tuition Fees

• Northern Ireland (NI) £4,855
• Republic of Ireland (ROI) £4,855
• England, Scotland or Wales (GB) £9,535
• EU Other £22,400
• International £22,400

Careers

• 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

Research Areas

• Ethnomusicology and performance
• Conflict and borders
• Religion
• Cognition and culture
• Migration and diasporas
• Irish studies
• Material culture and art
• Human-animal relations
• The cross-cultural study of emotions

Contact

For more information, please contact the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen's University Belfast.