MSc Evolutionary Approaches to Cultural Anthropology and Archaeology: University of East London

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Degree: MSc
Address: MSc Evolutionary Approaches to Cultural Anthropology and Archaeology: University of East London, Anthropology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of East London, Docklands Campus, 4-6 University Way, London E16 2RD, London, United Kingdom
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Subject: Anthropology and Archaeology
Course Language(s): English
Course Beginning: September
Duration: 1 year full-time or 2 years part-time
Submit Application To: Diane Ball, Anthropology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of East London, Docklands Campus, 4-6 University Way, London E16 2RD, UK
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8223 7089
E-mail: p.va...@uel.ac.uk
Website: http://www.uel.ac.uk/hss/index.htm

About the programme

On the one hand, the UEL programme will offer the student the opportunity to work within the established discipline of Human Behavioural Ecology. On the other hand, it will focus on how or why, over evolutionary time, humans have established, elaborated and diversified their symbolic systems, languages, rituals, gender ideologies and magico-religious myths. The challenge will be taken up, rarely addressed by Darwinians, to specify the concrete selection pressures which, uniquely in the case of human evolution, led to such fictions being entertained by human minds in the first place.

Career opportunities

Prepares students for employment where their skills as cultural brokers, their fieldwork ability and qualitative and quantitative research skills can be used. They include posts in the Civil Service, Local Government, Health Authorities, Central Government, Voluntary Organizations and NGOs. Others will develop skills for further academic research.

Admission requirements

Applicants are normally required to have a good honours degree in a cognate area of study. Under special circumstances, applicants without a relevant first degree but with substantial professional experience may be considered usually by interview. For those students whose first language is not English, they are expected to have an International English Language Testing System (IELTS) grade of 6.5.

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