Anthropology and Professional Practice MSc
University College London
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Want to learn how to use anthropological skills to solve real world problems? This programme helps you develop your professional outlook through hands-on, research-led anthropological training, allowing you to apply anthropological perspectives and insights in diverse professional fields. You will design, pitch and conduct your own projects, learning how to use anthropology to make a difference with support from industry mentors.About this degreeUnique in the UK, our Anthropology and ...Read more

Want to learn how to use anthropological skills to solve real world problems? This programme helps you develop your professional outlook through hands-on, research-led anthropological training, allowing you to apply anthropological perspectives and insights in diverse professional fields. You will design, pitch and conduct your own projects, learning how to use anthropology to make a difference with support from industry mentors.

About this degree

Unique in the UK, our Anthropology and Professional Practice MSc provides you with comprehensive training in social and cultural anthropology with a specific focus on its relevance to professional practice in contemporary society.

Our distinctive mission is to help you develop your professional outlook and skill set through hands-on research-led anthropological training, allowing you to apply anthropological perspectives and insights in diverse professional fields, including social research, user experience research, ethnographic consultancy, design research, as well as the creative industries, policy making, think-tanks, and social enterprise.

Based in a world-leading centre for anthropological research and training, you will design, pitch and conduct your own projects, learning alongside industry experts and mentors how to use anthropology to make a difference in and to the world.

Who this course is for

The programme is suited equally well to those in employment seeking continuing professional development by adding anthropological perspectives and skills to their toolkit, and to students with prior academic training in anthropology or other related disciplines who wish to specialise in applying anthropological concepts and skills in professional practice.

What this course will give you

This degree is unique in the UK in training students to use anthropological concepts and methods in an array of professional settings. Designed to drastically enhance students’ skill-set and professional profile, the programme is distinctive in its outward-looking mission to explore and demonstrate the relevance of anthropological perspectives and insights to real-world problems and professional challenges. Building a bridge between academic anthropology and diverse industry settings, it gives students unparalleled opportunities to apply the insights and skills in ways that directly enhance their own career goals in the world of work.

Employability

The programme equips you with skills including finding and synthesising a range of sources; conducting independent research in response to a brief; interpreting and presenting complex data for diverse audiences; developing effective oral and written communication skills, as well as strong conceptual, analytical and critical toolkits.

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9th
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Entry requirements

An upper second-class Bachelor's degree in any discipline from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard. Applicants with a lower second-class Bachelor’s degree in any discipline from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard and a minimum of two years’ work experience may also be considered.

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£19,300 per year

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£31,100 per year

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£31,100 per year

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