Overview
Status: Active
National Framework Of Qualifications (NFQ) Level: 9
NFQ Award Class: Major Award
Total Credits: 60
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 60 credits in Part I of the MA (Anthropology) and opt not to complete Part II may exit the programme and be conferred with a Postgraduate Diploma in Anthropology. A student who subsequently applies to undertake the Master's programme must do so within 5 years of successful completion of the Postgraduate Diploma 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 Diploma in Anthropology (NFQ Level 9, Major 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
- Demonstrate knowledge on the empirical and ethical challenges of fieldwork
- Design an individual or collaborative anthropological fieldwork research project
- Essay submission on a topic of research realised within the core modules.