Anthropology & Irish
In Anthropology, you will explore what it means to be human, learn about human cultural diversity, compare societies and cultures from around the world and understand how conflict arises and how resolutions are found.
Students on this course will receive intensive tuition in the Irish language and culture. Language modules examine core aspects of written and spoken Irish, covering subjects such as syntax, phonetics and semantics.
| Award Name | Degree - Honours Bachelor at UK Level 6 |
|---|---|
| NFQ Classification | |
| Awarding Body | Queens University Belfast |
| NFQ Level |
| Award Name | NFQ Classification | Awarding Body | NFQ Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| Degree - Honours Bachelor at UK Level 6 | Queens University Belfast |
Duration
3 years (Full Time)
Entry Requirements
Irish leaving certificate requirements
H3H3H3H3H3H3/H2H3H3H3H3 including Higher Level grade H3 in Irish
Careers / Further progression
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
• Language development and promotion
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’.
Further information
Start date: September 2024
Deadlines for on-time applications
2024 entry application deadlines
For courses starting in 2024 (and for deferred applications), your application should be with us at UCAS by one of these dates – depending on what courses you apply for. If your completed application – including all your personal details and your academic reference – is submitted by the deadline, it is guaranteed to be considered.
16 October 2023 for 2024 entry at 18:00 (UK time) – any course at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, or for most courses in medicine, veterinary medicine/science, and dentistry. You can add choices with a different deadline later, but don’t forget you can only have five choices in total.
31 January 2024 for 2024 entry at 18:00 (UK time) – for the majority of courses.
Some course providers require additional admissions tests to be taken alongside the UCAS application, and these may have a deadline. Find out more about these tests at https://www.ucas.com/undergraduate/applying-university/admissions-tests
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A range of optional modules provide you with a broad understanding of diverse aspects of Irish culture, society and identity. These include film studies, studies in Irish translation, language and rights, modern poetry, Irish linguistics, and the short story. The growth of Gaelic identity is also explored and insight into the country’s wider heritage is developed through the study of mythology, folklore and Scottish Gaelic. All our students spend an extended period in the Gaeltacht each summer as part of our residential course. Final-year students can also avail of work internships in an Irish-language setting.
Through classroom modules, optional placements, and your own anthropological fieldwork, you will also gain valuable skills in critical thinking, cross-cultural understanding, researching, interviewing, writing, and presenting.
Global Opportunities
Undergraduate anthropology students, as part of their training, have carried out ethnographic field research around the world. Projects have focused on orphanages in Kenya; AIDS in southern Africa, education in Ghana; dance in India, NGOs in Guatemala, music in China, marriage in Japan, backpacking in Europe, and whale-watching in Hawaii.
In addition, through the different stages of the dissertation module (preparation and research design, fieldwork itself, and post-fieldwork writing-up), students develop a range of skills (organisational skills, interpersonal skills, information-handling skills, and project management skills) that prepare them for later employment. Many of our students work with NGOs and other organisations as part of their fieldwork.
Anthropology is constructed around four innovative, engaged themes:
What Makes Us Human?
Conflict, Peacebuilding and Identity
Arts, Creativity and Music
Morality, Religion and Cognition
View different stages of the programme under Course Content in the course webpage (link above).
The information below is intended as an example only, featuring module details for the current year of study (2023/24). Modules are reviewed on an annual basis and may be subject to future changes – revised details will be published through Programme Specifications ahead of each academic year.
Year 1
Core Modules
Gaeilge 1 (40 credits)
Being Human: Culture and Society (20 credits)
Optional Modules
Celtic Mythology (20 credits)
Nualitríocht na Gaeilge ó 1916 go dtí an lá inniu (20 credits)
A World on the Move:Historical and Anthropological Approaches to Globalization (20 credits)
Us And them: Why do we have ingroups and outgroups? (20 credits)
'Understanding Northern Ireland: History, Politics and Anthropology' (20 credits)
Being Creative: Music Media and the Arts (20 credits)
Year 2
Core Modules
Gaeilge 2 (40 credits)
Key Debates in Anthropology (20 credits)
Optional Modules
Scottish Gaelic Language 1 (20 credits)
Anthropology of Media (20 credits)
Kings and Warriors (20 credits)
Apocalypse: Cultures, communities, and the end of the world (20 credits)
An Gearrscéal sa Ghaeilge (20 credits)
The Northern Ireland Conflict and paths to peace (20 credits)
Hanging out on Street Corners: Public and applied Anthropology (20 credits)
Human Morality (20 credits)
Cearta an Duine agus Nualitríocht na Gaeilge (20 credits)
Skills in the Field: Ethnographic methods (20 credits)
Year 3
Core Modules
Gaeilge 3 (40 credits)
Optional Modules
Remembering the Future: Violent Pasts, Loss and the Politics of Hope (20 credits)
An Miontráchtas: Dissertation (20 credits)
Music, Power and Conflict (20 credits)
The Politics of Performance: From Negotiation to Display (20 credits)
Language and Literature in the Gaelic World (20 credits)
Nuafhilíocht na Gaeilge (20 credits)
Gairmeacha le Gaeilge (20 credits)
An Béal Beo (20 credits)
Human-Animal Relations: An Anthropological Perspective (20 credits)
Anthropology Dissertation (40 credits)
In Gods We Trust: The New Anthropology of Religion (20 credits)
Admissions
Tel: 028 9097 3838
Fax: 028 9097 5151
Email address: admissions@qub.ac.uk