Overview
Status: Active
National Framework Of Qualifications (NFQ) Level: 9
NFQ Award Class: Minor Award
Total Credits: 30
Connected Curriculum: - Civic and Community Engagement
- Employability
- Global Reach
- Inter-and Transdisciplinary
- Research Based Teaching
- Sustainability
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): - Quality Education
- Gender Equality
- Reduced Inequality
- Peace Justice Strong Institutions
Graduate Attributes: - Creator, evaluator and communicator of knowledge
- Digitally Fluent
- Effective global citizen
- Independent and creative thinker
- Socially Responsible
UCC policies applying to applicants/students on this programme: - Fitness to Practise Policy
Exit Award only
Students who successfully complete and pass taught modules to the value of at least 30 credits in Part I of the MA (Anthropology) may exit the programme and be conferred with a Postgraduate Certificate in Anthropology. A student who subsequently applies to complete the Master's programme must do so within 5 years of successful completion of the Postgraduate Certificate in Anthropology subject to the programme being on offer.
Programme Requirements
For information about modules, module choice, options and credit weightings, please go to Programme Requirements.
Programme Requirements
Module List
Code |
Title |
Credits |
| |
AY6013 | Anthropology: Paradigms & Theories | 10 |
AY6015 | Ethnography, Practice and Writing | 10 |
AY6016 | Rereading the Anthropological Classics | 10 |
| |
| 0-10 |
| Atlantic Anthropological Workshop (10) | |
| Anthropology Research Laboratory (5) | |
| 20-30 |
| Anthropology and History: Archives, Materiality and Memory (10) | |
| Dark Heritage: why we remember contested and difficult pasts (5) | |
| Semiotics and Anthropology (5) | |
| Nature-Culture: Anthropologies of the More-than-Human (5) | |
| Anthropology and Aesthetics of Performance: Ritual and Theatre (10) | |
| Ethnography of Music (10) | |
| History and Theory of Ethnomusicology (10) | |
| Sociology of Sustainable Development (10) | |
| Feminist Epistemologies: Feminisms, Sexuality and Society (10) | |
| Social Theory and Climate Justice (10) | |
| Im/mobilities: forced migration and belonging (10) | |
| Social and Sociological Theory (10) | |
| Alcohol and Society: Use, Regulation and Harms (10) | |
Examinations
Full details and regulations governing Examinations for each programme will be contained in the Marks and Standards Book and for each module in the Book of Modules.
Programme Learning Outcomes
Programme Learning Outcomes for Postgraduate Certificate in Anthropology (NFQ Level 9, Minor Award)
On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge of a range of classical and contemporary anthropological theories
- Show understanding of classical and current anthropological debates
- Engage in the critical reflection on contemporary theoretical discourses
- Communicate advanced knowledge and understanding of a contemporary anthropological topic relating to ethnographic writing and practice.