The Anthropology with a Year Abroad BSc looks at the biological, cultural, social and material culture aspects of communities and human beings as well as their evolution and provides the opportunity to spend your third year at a university abroad with one of our many excellent partner institutions.

Course overview

In the first year, you take compulsory modules covering the three branches of the programme; evolutionary and environmental anthropology, social anthropology and material culture.

Evolutionary and environmental anthropology focuses on contemporary human-environment interactions and human evolution. Social anthropology explores social and cultural differences and their determinants across local and global contexts.

Social anthropology explores social and cultural differences and their determinants across local and global contexts.

Material culture studies human, social and environmental relationships through the evidence of people's construction of their material world.

Your learning

Our teaching comprises lectures, tutorials, seminars and laboratory classes. Small-group tutorials, normally meeting weekly, are an important element of many modules. Ongoing feedback is given to help you improve your written work.

Assessment

Your modules may be assessed by written coursework, by examination or a mixture of both. Examinations are normally unseen, and their formats vary according to the module. Some combine short answers with essay questions, others rely solely on longer essay answers.

Careers

The broad range of methodological skills and analytical perspectives offered by the UCL Anthropology programme gives our graduates an unusually wide range of career possibilities, many of them directly related to the discipline's cross-cultural focus and to our blending of the social and biological sciences.

Former graduates work in diverse fields, such as journalism, film-making, TV, museums, social work, international development, NGOs and voluntary sector, police, probation, refugee work, wine tasting, market research, advertising, design, PR, marketing, music industry, accountancy, local government, HR, ESL teaching, and as cultural advisors for multinationals.