Welcome to Anthropology at Durham City and Queen’s Campus.

1. Welcome to Anthropology at Durham City and Queen’s Campus.

2. Are your students interested in different cultures and people around the world (past, present and future) ?

3. Do they like discovering new things about what makes us human, and occasionally inhuman?

4. Are they interested in human evolution and diversity?

5. Do they wonder why some people are better off than others?

6. Then anthropology might be an avenue for them to consider!

7. What does Anthropology involve? • Anthropology is the study of people: where they came from, how they live differently in different societies across the world, how they interact with each other and with their environment. • Anthropologists do fieldwork in all manner of places; in favelas in Brazil, in the deserts of Australia, with reindeer herders in Siberia, in funeral parlours of New York, with molecular biologists in their laboratories, and with contemporary witchcraft practitioners in London.

8. Anthropology degrees offered by Durham Anthropology are delivered at Durham City and Queen’s Campus • BA Anthropology • BSc Health and Human Sciences (Medical Anthropology) • BSc Biological Anthropology • Master of Anthropology [Health and Well-Being] • Master of Anthropology

9. Focus of the degrees • Anthropology BA: examines human variation from social, cultural and evolutionary perspectives using a broad range of research methods and theories • Biological Anthropology BSc: examines human variation with special emphasis on evolutionary, ecological and medical perspectives informed by one of department’s key research strengths Health and Human Sciences BSc: studies health, illness and medicine from social, cross-cultural and biological perspectives and introduces a range of qualitative and quantitative research techniques All our degrees are research-led and pay close attention the employability of graduates.

10. Integrated Masters for 2011. • From 2011 we will be offering two integrated Masters programmes. • These programmes have been introduced in recognition of the importance of transferable skills for our graduates. • The Masters are built on the existing degrees but offer students the opportunity to work in year 4 on a research project under close supervision of a research active member of staff. • For 2011 these programmes will be funded at current HEFCE rates

11. Personal Development • Students are encouraged to make themselves objects of study. We aspire to produce graduates who are well-informed, analytical ,curious, self-aware and who see anthropology as the foundation for a life time of learning and self-development. • ‘I loved the course and gained a lot of knowledge and personal development’ • ‘I enjoyed my degree very much. It has helped me in the way I think about things, I used to act before I thought and now I don't. My understanding of different cultures surprises people’

12. Podcasts wikis, blogs, and other interactive technologies How do we teach? • Student centred, flexible learning • Lectures, seminars, classes, practicals • and lab work • Group work and individual supervision • Guest lectures • Experiencing anthropology (fieldtrips, research opportunities) Students are encouraged and helped by the very high quality of teaching in Anthropology at Queen’s Campus (External Examiner)

13. Fieldwork opportunities • Erasmus Programme • University of Western Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic • University of Iceland, Reykjavik • University of Ljubljana , Slovenia • University of Malta • VSO (Voluntary Service • Overseas) placements • Fiji • Tonga • Kazbekistan • Indian subcontinent

14. What do we teach? • students take 6 modules (each worth 20 credits) at levels one, two and three (total 360 units). • Your degree can be taken to certificate, diploma or degree level. • Common 1st year • Anthropological foundations • Springboard into specialism • Flexibility to discover new interests

15. Stage 1 Curriculum • Stage 1 (certificate) provides a common foundation to each of the Anthropology Programmes. It gives you a comprehensive introduction to the discipline of Anthropology covering socio-cultural, biological and medical perspectives. • Students across all levels get to know each other, and to learn from one another.

16. Stage 2 Curriculum • Stage 2 (Diploma) gives you a more specialised entry into social, biological and medical anthropology and specifically through the required options of each degree. • In Stage 2 modules, ideas, concepts and theories introduced in Stage 1 are developed with greater depth and sophistication. • There are 2 required modules for all 3 degrees: Develop research skills and analytical techniques in preparation for your dissertation in the following year.

17. Stage 3 (Degree/honours) • You’ll be engaging with advanced study of selected anthropological topics and putting your skills and knowledge into first hand research practice via a dissertation. • In addition you will be required to take optional modules from a slate of options provided at Queen’s Campus and at Durham City • Specialist modules currently offered include: Environmental Anthropology [QC] Mental Health, Illness and Drug Use [QC], Power and Governance [QC], Cyber Anthropology [QC], Evolutionary Medicine [QC] , Understanding Behaviour [QC], Anthropological Perspectives on Science and Biotechnology Change and development [DC], Social Evolution [DC], Paleaoanthropology [DC], Nutritional and Disease Ecology [DC].

18. Dissertations • Lost in Translation: An exploration of the socio-cultural context in which Czech and British students practice ‘unsafe sex’. • The effects of stress upon the human sex drive: An evolutionary perspective. • Wha Gawn wit de Blak pickney dem?: An insight into educational experiences of Black Caribbean boys. • A comparative study of heroin rehabilitation methods. • No women please, we are British: The relationship between men and women in a working men’s club.

19. Diversity of students • Our students at Queens come from a broad range of backgrounds, including local, mature and international students. • In anthropology, we welcome this diversity!

20. Career opportunities • Development(both local, national and international) • Health and social work: drugs alcohol prevention and counselling, • health education and promotion programmes, nutritionists, forensic scientists, counsellors, nurses, midwives, occupational therapists. physiotherapists - all via one year post graduate courses. • Education, teaching (Primary School, Further Education, via one year post graduate courses) • Local government - housing, social services and welfare rights, teenage pregnancy prevention programmes,  refugees and asylum seekers, management in ambulance service and services for elderly, research posts and outreach programmes of many kinds • Civil service (government) - all departments. • Conservation and local regeneration organisations such as One North East. • Probation service: (fast track graduate programmes for governors); police force. • Large range of charities and NGOs at home and abroad as programme,  managers, fund raisers,   Commercial companies of all kinds (manufacturing, service industries and retailing)  as managers and in human resources. • Journalism - print and broadcast (with and without post graduate courses). Advertising and Public Relations. • Travel, tourism and recreation. • Postgraduate degrees: post graduate courses in MA and  MSc, including specialist history courses, social psychology, international relations, politics and diplomacy, religious studies, cultural studies, environmental management. • Research posts in all of the above fields and private research consultancies.

21. Stay in touch with us….. • If you would like to talk to a member of staff, do not hesitate to arrange a call or an appointment via our Admissions Secretary • Lisa.Brownlie@durham.ac.uk • http://www.dur.ac.uk/anthropology/