Program Overview

Overview

This mutually enriching joint programme equips students in identifying historical and contemporary patterns of social organisation, ethnic and cultural divisions, varieties of inequality, and patterns of change over time across diverse societies.

Course Structure

The programme is structured around four innovative, engaged themes:

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

Modules

Year 1

• Exploring History 2 (20 credits)
• Being Human: Culture and Society (20 credits)
• Exploring History 1 (20 credits)
• The Long Road to Black Lives Matter (20 credits)
• Us And them: Why do we have ingroups and outgroups? (20 credits)
• Revolutions (20 credits)
• A World on the Move:Historical and Anthropological Approaches to Globalization (20 credits)
• 'Understanding Northern Ireland: History, Politics and Anthropology' (20 credits)
• Being Creative: Music Media and the Arts (20 credits)
• History and Historians: Contested Pasts (20 credits)

Year 2

• Key Debates in Anthropology (20 credits)
• Apocalypse: Cultures, communities, and the end of the world (20 credits)
• Alexander The Great and the Creation of the Hellenistic World (20 credits)
• Cabinets of Curiosity: Museums Past and Present (20 credits)
• Recording History (20 credits)
• Hanging out on Street Corners: Creative, Public and applied Anthropology (20 credits)
• Anthropology of Media (20 credits)
• Northern Ireland: Past, Present and Future (20 credits)
• Human Morality (20 credits)
• Nationalism and Liberation in 20th Century Africa (20 credits)
• Skills in the Field: Ethnographic methods (20 credits)
• The American South, (20 credits)
• Politics and Society in 20th Century Ireland (20 credits)
• The American South (20 credits)
• The Roman Origins of the East and West; From Augustus to Charlemagne (20 credits)
• The Expansion of Medieval Europe, (20 credits)
• Politics and Society in 19th Century Ireland (20 credits)
• The making of contemporary Britain: 1914 to the present (20 credits)
• Europe between the Wars, (20 credits)
• Revolutionary Europe, (20 credits)

Year 3

• Anthropology Dissertation (40 credits)
• Wolf Children and Baby Boomers: The Family in European History s (20 credits)
• Twentieth-Century China (20 credits)
• In Gods We Trust: The New Anthropology of Religion (20 credits)
• The Ancient City (20 credits)
• Remembering the Future: Violent Pasts, Loss and the Politics of Hope (20 credits)
• Diaspora: Irish 19th-century migration (20 credits)
• Music, Power and Conflict (20 credits)
• African and Irish Relations in the Americas (20 credits)
• War, Politics, and Identity in Late Medieval Ireland, c.1166-c.1521 (20 credits)
• Anthropology and Roma (20 credits)
• Extermination: History and Memory of the Murdered Jews of Europe (20 credits)
• Sin Cities? Everyday Life in the Modern Metropolis (20 credits)
• Thatcher's Britain (20 credits)
• The Politics of Performance: From Negotiation to Display (20 credits)
• The Irish Revolution, (20 credits)
• The Soviet Union (20 credits)
• The Origins of Protestantism (20 credits)
• The American Civil War and Reconstruction, (20 credits)
• The Peasants' Revolt 1381 (20 credits)
• Dissertation (40 credits)
• The Rise of Christianity 2: The Conversion of the Roman Empire (20 credits)
• Crime & Punishment 19th Century Ireland (20 credits)
• Religion and Empire: Christian Missions To Africa, Asia and Middle East (20 credits)
• United Irishmen and Unionists: the religion and politics of Ulster protestants (20 credits)
• That Vast Catastrophe: The Great Irish Famine (20 credits)

Entrance Requirements

• A level requirements: ABB
• Irish leaving certificate requirements: H3H3H3H3H3H3/H2H3H3H3H3
• Access Course: Successful completion of Access Course with an average of 70%
• International Baccalaureate Diploma: 33 points overall, including 6,5,5 at Higher Level
• BTEC Level 3 Extended/National Extended Diploma: QCF BTEC Extended Diploma (180 credits at Level 3) with overall grades D*DD
• Graduate: A minimum of a 2:2 Honours Degree

Tuition Fees

• Northern Ireland (NI): £4,855
• Republic of Ireland (ROI): £4,855
• England, Scotland or Wales (GB): £9,535
• EU Other: £20,800
• International: £20,800

Additional Course Costs

• Students have the option to take the Social Anthropology dissertation module, which will involve undertaking fieldwork in the summer vacation period between years 2 and 3. The cost will vary depending on the location of the fieldwork, ranging from £100-£500. The School will provide financial support up to a maximum of £300.

Career Prospects

• Skills to enhance employability
• Employment after the Course
• Employment Links
• Professional Opportunities
• International Travel
• Degree Plus/Future Ready Award for extra-curricular skills

How to Apply

• Application for admission to full-time undergraduate and sandwich courses at the University should normally be made through the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS).
• The advisory closing date for the receipt of applications for entry in 2025 is still to be confirmed by UCAS but is normally in late January (18:00).
• Applications from UK and EU (Republic of Ireland) students after this date are, in practice, considered by Queen’s for entry to this course throughout the remainder of the application cycle (30 June 2025) subject to the availability of places.
• Applications from International and EU (Other) students are normally considered by Queen's for entry to this course until 30 June 2025.