Course Structure

Introduction	Anthropology at Queen’s is constructed around four innovative, engaged themes: What Makes Us Human? Key modules explore core elements of anthropology. They examine social groups, from families to nations, and social dynamics, from village politics to globalisation. In understanding social groups we examine individual life trajectories against the background of diverse social expectations. Modules may include: Being Human: Evolution, Culture and Society; World on the Move; How Society Works. Conflict, Peacebuilding and Identity Modules on this theme deal directly with large-scale Global Challenges such as conflict, security, and peacebuilding. Issues such as migration, ethnic conflict, and globalisation will be covered across all three years of the degree, with specialist modules looking at Ireland and at the role of anthropology in policy. Modules may include: Us & Them: Why We Have Ingroups and Outgroups; Why Are Humans Violent? Understanding Violence, Conflict, and Trauma; Migration, Mobilities and Borders. Arts, Creativity and Music Globally renowned for long-standing research expertise in the area of ethnomusicology and the arts, our modules examine issues of sound and music making; art, aesthetics and emotion; and performance and identity around the world. We explore the production, appropriation and use of material artefacts and images in a world of interconnectedness through migration, trade, and digital communication technology. Modules may include: Being Creative: Music, Media and the Arts; Radical Musics: Understanding Sounds of Defiance across Disciplines Morality, Religion and Cognition These modules examine a number of important themes in religion and morality, including the origins of religion, apocalyptic movements, sacred values, and the relationship of emotion and religion. We will explore our moral worlds and beliefs through the socio-cultural, psychological, and evolutionary sciences. Modules may include: Apocalypse!: The End of the World; In Gods We Trust: The New Science of Religion; Human Morality; Love, Hate, and Beyond.
Stage 1	Anthropology • Being Human: Evolution, Culture and Society • A World on the Move: Anthropological and Historical Approaches to Globalisation • Us and Them: Why Do We Have In-groups and Outgroups? • Being Creative: Music, Media and the Arts • Understanding Northern Ireland English • English in Transition • English in Context • Introduction to English Language
Stage 2	Anthropology • How Society Works: Key Debates in Anthropology • Skills in the Field: Dissertation Preparation • Hanging out on Street Corners: Public and Applied Anthropology • Business Anthropology in the Digital Age • Sex and Gender: Biology, Desire and Equality • Why are Humans Violent? Understanding Violence, Conflict, and Trauma • Human Morality • Radical Musics: Understanding Sounds of Defiance across Disciplines • Apocalypse! The History and Anthropology of the End of the World. English • Foundations for Speech Analysis: The Phonetics of English • Mapping the Anglo-Saxon World • Havoc and Rebellion: Writing and Reading Later Medieval England • Shakespeare and Co • Fiction to Austen (1660-1820) • Inventing America Romantic Poetry (1789-1832) • Enlightenment and its Discontents • The English Language: Language and Power • History of English: Studying Language Change • An Introduction to Critical and Cultural Theory • Modernism and Modernity • Modern American Fiction: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality • Dickens and the Cult of Celebrity • Irish Literature
Stage 3	Anthropology • Dissertation in Social Anthropology: Writing-Up • The Politics of Performance: From Negotiation to Display • Human-Animal Relations • In Gods We Trust: The New Science of Religion • Love, Hate and Beyond: Emotions, Culture, Practice • Music and Identity in the Mediterranean • Ireland and Britain: People, Identity, Nations • Remembering the Future: Violent Pasts, Loss, and the Politics of Hope English • Marvels, Monsters and Miracles in Anglo-Saxon England • Women's Writing 1700-1820 • Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction • Televising the Victorians • Shakespeare on Screen • Contemporary US Crime Fiction • Special Topic Irish Writing • Broadcasting and Identity • Speech Worlds: Phonology in Acquisition and Disorder • Language in the Media • The Structure of English • Double Dissertation English Literature • Contemporary Literature: Poetry and Precariousness in the 21st Century • Stylistics: Analysing Style in Language • Restoration to Regency in Contemporary Fiction • Writing Africa: The Colonial Past to Colonial Present • Irish Gothic • Stevens and Bishops • Special Topic Creative Writing • Special Topic Irish Literature • Work-based Learning (Placement) • Dissertation Joint Supervision Note that this is not an exclusive list and these options are subject to staff availability.

Contact Teaching Times

Large Group Teaching	6 (hours maximum) In a typical week you may have up to 6 hours of lectures, depending on the level of study.
Medium Group Teaching	9 (hours maximum) In a typical week, you may have up to 9 hours of practical classes, workshops or seminars, depending on the level of study.
Personal Study	10 (hours maximum) Typically 10 hours per module (30 hours per week), revising in your own time
Small Group Teaching/Personal Tutorial	6 (hours maximum) In a typical week, you will have 3-6 hours of tutorials (or later, project supervision).

• E-Learning technologies
  Information associated with lectures and assignments is often communicated via a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) called CANVAS. A range of e-learning experiences are also embedded in the degree programme through the use of, for example, interactive support materials, podcasts and web-based learning activities.
• Fieldwork
  Students who take anthropology as part of their joint degrees have the opportunity to study research methods and carry out anthropological fieldwork for an 8-week period. This crucial period of skill-formation and research forms the basis of a dissertation they write up in the first semester of their third year.
• Lectures
  Lectures introduce foundation information about new topics as a starting point for further self-directed private study/reading. Lectures, which are normally delivered in large groups to all year-group peers, also provide opportunities to ask questions and seek clarification on key issues as well as gain feedback and advice on assessments.
• Self-directed study
  This is an essential part of life as a Queen’s student. It is during self-directed study when a student completes important private reading, engages with e-learning resources, reflects on feedback, and completes assignment research and preparation.
• Seminars/tutorials
  A significant amount of teaching is carried out in small groups (typically 10-12 students). These sessions are designed to explore in more depth the information that has been presented in the lectures. They provide students with the opportunity to engage closely with academic staff, to ask questions of them and to assess their own progress and understanding with the support of their peers. During these classes, students will be expected to present their work to academic staff and their peers.

• The assessment methods used include:
  • coursework essays (submitted during or at the end of the semester)
  • oral presentations by individual students
  • video logs
  • artwork and performance workshops
  • weekly online commentaries on set readings
  • written examinations
  • dissertations.

• Feedback may be provided in a variety of forms including:
• Face to face comment. This may include occasions when you make use of the lecturers’ advertised “office hours” to help you to address a specific query.
• Placement employer comments or references.
• Online or emailed comment.
• General comments or question and answer opportunities at the end of a lecture, seminar or tutorial.
• Pre-submission advice regarding the standards you should aim for and common pitfalls to avoid. In some instances, this may be provided in the form of model answers or exemplars which you can review in your own time.
• Comment and guidance provided by staff from specialist support services such as, Careers, Employability and Skills or the Learning Development Service.
• Once you have reviewed your feedback, you will be encouraged to identify and implement further improvements to the quality of your work.

Entrance requirements

A level requirements ABB including A-level English Note: for applicants who have not studied A-level English then AS-level English (grade A) would be acceptable in lieu of A-level English.

Irish leaving certificate requirements H3H3H3H3H3H3/H2H3H3H3H3 including Higher Level grade H3 in English

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 6,5,5 at Higher Level, including English

Graduate A minimum of a 2:2 Honours Degree, provided any subject requirement is also met

Career Prospects

Introduction
Skills to enhance employability

Studying for an Anthropology degree at Queen‘s will assist you in developing the core skills and employment-related experiences that are increasingly valued by employers, professional organisations and academic institutions. Through classroom modules, optional placements and your own anthropological fieldwork, you will gain valuable skills in critical thinking, cross-cultural understanding, researching, interviewing, writing, and presenting.

Employment after the Course
Career pathways typically lead to employment in:
• User Experience
• Consultancy
• Civil Service
• Development, NGO work, International Policy, Public Sector
• Journalism, Human Rights, Conflict Resolution, Community Work
• Arts Administration, Creative Industries, Media, Performance, Heritage, Museums, Tourism
• Market Research
• Public and Private Sector related to: Religious Negotiation, Multiculturalism/Diversity
• Teaching in schools
• Academic Teaching and Research
• Human Rights, Conflict Resolution, Community Work, Journalism

Employment Links
A growing number of internship opportunities will match dissertation students with organisations and institutions relevant to their career paths by building on local and international staff networks and professional connections.

Current placement partners include
• Operation Wallacea, which works with teams of ecologists, scientists and academics on a variety of bio-geographical projects around the globe.
• Belfast Migration Centre offers students of the module ‘Migration, Displacement and Diasporas’ internship opportunities in their ‘Belonging Project’.

Professional Opportunities
International Travel
As part of undergraduate training, students have the opportunity to use practice-based research skills during eight weeks of ethnographic fieldwork in areas of their specialisation, which can entail working with organisations around the globe.

Additional Awards Gained(QSIS ELEMENT IS EMPTY)

Prizes and Awards(QSIS ELEMENT IS EMPTY)

Degree plus award for extra-curricular skills

In addition to your degree programme, at Queen's you can have the opportunity to gain wider life, academic and employability skills. For example, placements, voluntary work, clubs, societies, sports and lots more. So not only do you graduate with a degree recognised from a world leading university, you'll have practical national and international experience plus a wider exposure to life overall. We call this Degree Plus. It's what makes studying at Queen's University Belfast special.

Tuition Fees

Northern Ireland (NI) 1	£4,530
Republic of Ireland (ROI) 2	£4,530
England, Scotland or Wales (GB) 1	£9,250
EU Other 3	£17,400
International	£17,400

¹ EU citizens in the EU Settlement Scheme, with settled or pre-settled status, are expected to be charged the NI or GB tuition fee based on where they are ordinarily resident, however this is provisional and subject to the publication of the Northern Ireland Assembly Student Fees Regulations. Students who are ROI nationals resident in GB are expected to be charged the GB fee, however this is provisional and subject to the publication of the Northern Ireland Assembly student fees Regulations.

² It is expected that EU students who are ROI nationals resident in ROI will be eligible for NI tuition fees, in line with the Common Travel Agreement arrangements. The tuition fee set out above is provisional and subject to the publication of the Northern Ireland Assembly student fees Regulations.

³ EU Other students (excludes Republic of Ireland nationals living in GB, NI or ROI) are charged tuition fees in line with international fees.

For further information please refer to www.qub.ac.uk/brexit-advice/information-for-students.

All tuition fees quoted are for the academic year 2021-22, and relate to a single year of study unless stated otherwise. Tuition fees will be subject to an annual inflationary increase, unless explicitly stated otherwise.

Tuition fee rates are calculated based on a student’s tuition fee status and generally increase annually by inflation. How tuition fees are determined is set out in the Student Finance Framework.

Additional course costs

Anthropology and English costs

Students are required to take the Social Anthropology dissertation module. This will involve undertaking fieldwork in the summer vacation period between years 2 and 3. The cost will vary depending on the location of the fieldwork, ranging from £100-£500. The School will provide financial support up to a maximum of £300.

How do I fund my study?

There are different tuition fee and student financial support arrangements for students from Northern Ireland, those from England, Scotland and Wales (Great Britain), and those from the rest of the European Union.

Information on funding options and financial assistance for undergraduate students is available at http://www.qub.ac.uk/Study/Undergraduate/Fees-and-scholarships/.

Scholarships

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

International Scholarships

Information on scholarships for international students, is available at http://www.qub.ac.uk/International/International-students/International-scholarships/.

How and when to Apply

How to Apply
Application for admission to full-time undergraduate and sandwich courses at the University should normally be made through the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS). Full information can be obtained from the UCAS website at: www.ucas.com/students.

When to Apply
UCAS will start processing applications for entry in autumn 2022 from 1 September 2021.

Advisory closing date: 15 January 2022 (18:00). This is the 'equal consideration' deadline for this course.

Applications from UK and EU (Republic of Ireland) students after this date are, in practice, considered by Queen’s for entry to this course throughout the remainder of the application cycle (30 June 2022) subject to the availability of places.

Applications from International and EU (Other) students are normally considered by Queen’s for entry to this course until 30 June 2022. If you apply for 2022 entry after this deadline, you will automatically be entered into Clearing.

Applicants are encouraged to apply as early as is consistent with having made a careful and considered choice of institutions and courses.

The Institution code name for Queen's is QBELF and the institution code is Q75.

Further information on applying to study at Queen's is available at: www.qub.ac.uk/Study/Undergraduate/How-to-apply/

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Additional Information for International (non-EU) Students

1. Applying through UCAS
   Most students make their applications through UCAS (Universities and Colleges Admissions Service) for full-time undergraduate degree programmes at Queen's. The UCAS application deadline for international students is 30 June 2021.
2. Applying direct
   The Direct Entry Application form is to be used by international applicants who wish to apply directly, and only, to Queen's or who have been asked to provide information in advance of submitting a formal UCAS application. Find out more.
3. Applying through agents and partners
   The University’s in-country representatives can assist you to submit a UCAS application or a direct application. Please consult the Agent List to find an agent in your country who will help you with your application to Queen’s University.

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