Program Overview

MArts Anthropology with Innovation (XD50)

2026 entry

Course summary

The innovators of the 21st century will think across arts, science, engineering, humanities and enterprise to deliver innovative products, services and ways of living. They will be team players with a breadth of skills and qualities that enable them to work across specialisms and cultures.

This course combines in-depth subject specialism at the University of Bristol alongside interdisciplinary, practice-based learning. In conjunction with your anthropology studies, you will apply your subject knowledge by translating ideas into innovative solutions, which may include plans for digital and creative enterprises, both social and commercial.

The course will teach you the fundamentals of anthropology in its broadest sense, studying humanity in all its diversity and covering the fundamental theories, methodologies and empirical bases of this interdisciplinary subject. You will recognise that human diversity holds multiple problems as well as creative solutions.

Group work is a core component of teaching and learning in innovation. You will come together with students from other innovation disciplines, such as electrical and electronic engineering, psychology and business and management. Each subject contributes a different perspective on a challenge as you identify needs and develop ideas. By drawing on your unique ideas and views of the world, you will learn from your subject and other students to develop innovative solutions together. You will also develop personal skills with opportunities for individual development and pursuit of topics and projects driven by your own interests and values.

By the time you graduate, you will have a portfolio of work ranging from live client projects to planning your entrepreneurial venture. You will have learned how to evaluate the potential of products and services, and how to sustain new endeavours including through financing. Importantly, you will have cultivated a network of peers and advisers who have worked with you through your studies.

Teaching for this course is delivered at both the Clifton Campus and the Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus.

Overview

• Typical offer:
  • A-level standard offer: AAB
  • A-level contextual offer: BBB
• Programme duration: 4 year(s) full-time (Part-time study is not available for this course)
• Application method: UCAS (Code: XD50)
• Location: Clifton campus, Temple Quarter
• Fees:
  • £9,535 per year, home students
  • £30400 per year, international students

Course structure

Full details about the course structure and units for this course can be viewed in the programme catalogue.

Entry requirements

• A-level standard offer: AAB
• A-level contextual offer: BBB
• BTEC: DDD in any Applied General BTEC National Level 3 Extended Diploma
• International Baccalaureate Diploma: 34 points overall with 17 at Higher Level
• International Baccalaureate Diploma contextual offer: 31 points overall with 15 at Higher Level
• European Baccalaureate: 80% overall
• Scottish Qualifications Authority: Advanced Higher: AB, and Standard Higher: AAABB
• Access to HE Diploma: Access to HE Diploma in Humanities, Social Sciences, Law or History (or similar titles). The 45 graded Level 3 credits must include 24 credits at Distinction and 21 at Merit or above.
• Welsh Baccalaureate: Requirements are as for A-levels, where you can substitute a non-subject specific grade for the Advanced Skills Baccalaureate Wales or the Welsh Baccalaureate Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate at that grade.
• Cambridge Pre-U: Requirements for principal subjects are as for A-level, where D1/D2 is A*, D3 is A, M1/M2 is B, and M3 is C.

Selection process

• Regulations and codes of conduct we abide by to create a positive environment for learning and achievement are found in the University admissions policies and procedures.
• If applying with extenuating circumstances please see our policy.

Applicants must also meet these requirements

• GCSE profile requirements: No specific subjects required.
• English language requirements:
  • IELTS 7.0 overall with 7.0 in writing and 6.5 in all other skills
  • GCSE English Language grade B or 6
  • An alternative qualification outlined in our Profile level B.