Program Overview

Anthropology and English

Anthropology and English at Queen's University Belfast

Overview

This course explores the variety of human experience around the world, from the earliest writings in Anglo-Saxon to contemporary Irish, British, and 'global' literatures. Students study English in its historical, cultural, and material contexts, and develop skills in critical thinking, cross-cultural understanding, researching, interviewing, writing, and presenting.

Course Structure

The course is structured around four innovative, engaged themes:

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

Modules

• Being Human: Culture and Society
• English in Transition
• Introduction to English Language
• Issues in Contemporary Fiction: Gender, Race, Ecology
• Us And them: Why do we have ingroups and outgroups?
• Being Creative: Music Media and the Arts
• 'Understanding Northern Ireland: History, Politics and Anthropology'
• Key Debates in Anthropology
• Utopia / Dystopia: The Future in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature
• Fiction and the Novel
• Modernism and Modernity
• Modern American Fiction: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality
• Romantic Poetry
• Anthropology of Media
• Northern Ireland: Past, Present and Future
• Dickens and the Cult of Celebrity
• Enlightenment and its Discontents
• Havoc and Rebellion: Writing and Reading Later Medieval England
• Hanging out on Street Corners: Creative, Public and applied Anthropology
• Shakespeare and Co
• History of English: Studying Language Change
• Language and Power
• Foundations for Speech Analysis: The Phonetics of English
• Irish Literature
• Skills in the Field: Ethnographic methods
• Mapping the Anglo-Saxon World
• An Introduction to Critical and Cultural Theory
• Apocalypse: Cultures, communities, and the end of the world
• Human Morality
• In Gods We Trust: The New Anthropology of Religion
• Writing Africa: The Colonial Past to Colonial Present
• Stevens & Bishop
• Irish Gothic
• The Structure of English
• Representing the Working Class
• Stylistics: The Language of Literature
• Work-based Learning
• Remembering the Future: Violent Pasts, Loss and the Politics of Hope
• Music, Power and Conflict
• Love Across the Divide: Northern Irish Literature and Culture 1968-Present
• Anthropology Dissertation
• Restoration to Regency in Contemporary Fiction
• Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction Devolutionary Identities
• Renaissance Performance, Gender, Space
• Language in the Media
• Literature and Science in the Nineteenth Century: Evolution, Degeneration, and the Mind
• The Politics of Performance: From Negotiation to Display
• Televising the Victorians
• Speech Worlds: Phonological Acquisition, Variation and Disorder
• Double Dissertation English Literature
• Double Dissertation English Language
• Special Topic in Creative Writing
• Special Topic in Irish Writing
• Contemporary Indian Literature in English
• Marvels, Monsters and Miracles in Anglo-Saxon England
• Double Dissertation Creative Writing
• Shakespeare on Screen

Entry Requirements

• ABB including A-level English
• 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.
• Irish leaving certificate requirements: H3H3H3H3H3H3/H2H3H3H3H3
• Access/Foundation Course: Successful completion of Access Course with an average of 70% to include an average of 65% in Literature modules.
• International Baccalaureate Diploma: 33 points overall, including 6(English),5,5 at Higher Level.
• Graduate: A minimum of a 2:2 Honours Degree, provided any subject requirement is also met

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

Scholarships

• Each year, we offer a range of scholarships and prizes for new students.
• Information on scholarships available.

Career Prospects

• Anthropology combines an understanding of cultural diversity through human behaviour and expression, with a hands-on method of study that focuses on lived experience.
• Queen's offers the only anthropology course in the UK that combines the study of expressivity (through art and music) with thematic strands on conflict, religion, cognition, and applied anthropology.
• Many of our students work with NGOs and other organisations (e.g. Operation Wallacea; Belfast Migration Centre; Heavy Sound) as part of their fieldwork.
• The School of English regularly consults and develops links with a large number of employers including, for example, BBC Northern Ireland who provide sponsorship for our course in Broadcast Literacy (currently offered at postgraduate level but soon to be offered at undergraduate level also).

Contact

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