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Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)
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Full Time
Sep 2027
3 Year
Take your knowledge of culture and society to the next level and equip yourself with a big range of practical and analytical skills for a changing world with our Anthropology and Sociology BSc. Anthropology is concerned with contemporary issues such as multiculturalism, identity politics, racism and ethnic nationalism, changing forms of the family, religious conflict, gender, and the political role of culture. It also addresses fundamental questions about human nature, such as: ‘What do we have in common with each other cross-culturally?’ and ‘What makes us different?’ Sociology, its sister subject, looks at the foundations of social life and the big issues in contemporary society such as inequality, racism, globalisation, and migration. In particular, your sociology studies at Brunel will be closely related to the central and ever-increasing importance of the communications media in our culture, for example, how poverty is portrayed and the powerful influence of celebrity. Brunel is a great choice for this combined study with lecturers from both subjects producing cutting edge research alongside their teaching, on both global issues and local problems. This research expertise filters down into what you will learn. In anthropology students have learnt about youth and motorcycles in Rwanda, and in sociology, about cosmetic tourism. Choose this course and you can do fieldwork on any subject, anywhere in the world, whether it’s learning about refugees in Athens or mother and toddler groups in inner London. Around half of Brunel anthropology students carry out a placement or fieldwork abroad, in places as wide ranging as India, Nepal, Australia, South Africa, Papua New Guinea and Jamaica. Recent UK placement destinations include the Royal Anthropological Institute, Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, Amnesty International and the Department of Health. Alternatively, could choose a placement that’s more sociologically focussed. Either way, you can choose to take it as two six month placements or one year-long placement.
Hands-on experience of how social and political science operates outside the university; small-group applied research on real-world social, political and institutional problems, with mentoring, methods training and structured reflection.
Key concepts, theories, thinkers and approaches in the social and political sciences and history, and techniques for gaining and validating knowledge of the social and political world.
Students take three classes - at least one from their degree subject, others from across the department - covering a range of social and political science topics.
Students take three classes - at least one from their degree subject, others from across the department.
Core ideas in feminism via the key concepts of gender and sexuality; social structures, human cultures, economic inequalities and political relationships.
Key concepts and theories in the anthropology of ethnicity, culture, nationhood and identity, examined through migration, citizenship, transnationalism, globalisation, xenophobia and deportation.
How politics and economics relate to anthropological knowledge; how anthropologists have studied economic and political lives of others.
Training in conducting a research project in preparation for a qualitative dissertation; ethical and practical problems of ethnographic research.
Advanced understanding of research methodologies with a focus on data analysis; theoretical paradigms underpinning qualitative and quantitative social and communications research.
The meanings of ordinary everyday processes and actions in society; academic debates and theories, reflecting on everyday life through power, identity and gender in socio-cultural contexts.
Develops abilities to plan, design and execute a research project in the degree subject area and critically evaluate its success.
Guides students on the research and writing process for dissertations and develops reading, writing and analytical skills.
Accommodation (on campus)- 690-1,094 per month
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