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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...

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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 2020 from 1 September 2019.

Advisory closing date: 15 January 2020 (18:00).

Late applications are, in practice, accepted by UCAS throughout the remainder of the application cycle, but you should understand that they are considered by institutions at their discretion, and there can be no guarantee that they will be given the same full level of consideration as applications received by the advisory closing date.

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.

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A level requirements
ABB

Irish leaving certificate requirements
H3H3H3H3H3H3/H2H3H3H3H3

Access/Foundation Course
Successful completion of Access Course with an average of 70%.

International Baccalaureate Diploma
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A level requirements
ABB

Irish leaving certificate requirements
H3H3H3H3H3H3/H2H3H3H3H3

Access/Foundation Course
Successful completion of Access Course with an average of 70%.

International Baccalaureate Diploma
33 points overall, including 6,5,5 at Higher Level

BTEC Level 3 Extended/National Extended Diploma
QCF Level 3 BTEC Extended Diploma (180 credits), with 120 credits at Distinction grade and 60 credits at Merit grade

RQF Level 3 BTEC National Extended Diploma (1080 Guided Learning Hours (GLH)), with at least 660 GLH at Distinction grade (minimum 240 GLH to be externally assessed) and 420 GLH at Merit grade

Graduate
A minimum of a 2:2 Honours Degree

International Students
For information on international qualification equivalents, please check the specific information for your country.

English Language Requirements
An IELTS score of 6.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in each test component or an equivalent acceptable qualification, details of which are available at: go.qub.ac.uk/EnglishLanguageReqs

If you need to improve your English language skills before you enter this degree programme, INTO Queen's University Belfast offers a range of English language courses. These intensive and flexible courses are designed to improve your English ability for admission to this degree.
•Academic English: an intensive English language and study skills course for successful university study at degree level
•Pre-sessional English: a short intensive academic English course for students starting a degree programme at Queen's University Belfast and who need to improve their English.

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS - FOUNDATION AND INTERNATIONAL YEAR ONE PROGRAMMES
INTO Queen's offers a range of academic and English language programmes to help prepare international students for undergraduate study at Queen's University. You will learn from experienced teachers in a dedicated international study centre on campus, and will have full access to the University's world-class facilities.

These programmes are designed for international students who do not meet the required academic and English language requirements for direct entry.

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Anthropology is the study of human diversity around the world. In studying anthropology, you will learn how different societies live together and think about such topics as family, sex, religion, art, and economics and gain skills increasin...

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Anthropology is the study of human diversity around the world. In studying anthropology, you will learn how different societies live together and think about such topics as family, sex, religion, art, and economics and gain skills increasingly in demand in a globalized and automated world.

The BA in Anthropology at Queen’s will allow you to examine some of the deepest and most pressing questions about human beings. Issues addressed in our modules include:

Does globalisation mean the end of cultural difference?
Can a post-conflict society heal?
How do ritual traditions, musical performances, and art shape cultural identities?
How do some people become willing to die for a group?

Through classroom modules, optional placements, performance ensembles and your own anthropological fieldwork, you will also gain valuable skills in critical thinking, cross-cultural understanding, researching, interviewing, writing, and presenting.

Anthropology Degree highlights
Global Opportunities
•As part of their dissertation study in years 2 and 3, students have carried out ethnographic field research around the world, including 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. 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.

World Class Facilities
•The Performance Room includes a variety of musical instruments from around the world, a collection that has grown since the 1970s when Ethnomusicology was first established as an International Centre at Queen’s by the late Professor John Blacking. These instruments, together with the sprung performance room floor, facilitate music and dance ensembles, enabling our unit to remain one of the leading departments in Ethnomusicology. • Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice. • Institute of Cognition and Culture • Institute of Irish Studies • Two International Summer schools (the Irish Studies Summer School; and the Conflict Transformation and Social Justice Summer School). • The Performance Room, including a variety of musical instruments from around the world

Internationally Renowned Experts
•Anthropology at Queen’s has international renown in the following areas: • Ethnomusicology and performance • Conflict and borders • Religion • Cognition and culture • Migration and diasporas • Irish studies • Material culture and art • Human-animal relations • The cross-cultural study of emotions In the Research Excellence Framework of 2014, Anthropology at Queen’s was ranked first in the UK in terms of research impact with 100% 4*, indicating that the research by our staff has had a significant impact on life outside the academy.

Student Experience
•QUB anthropology received very high scores in the 2016 National Student Survey and was ranked 3rd in the UK according to the 2018 Guardian University Guide.

Course Structure
Introduction
The BA in Anthropology is constructed around four innovative, engaged themes:

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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; Sound Cultures: Music and Noise from Around the World.

4. 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.

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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 Nor...

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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
(Plus two optional courses from other subject areas)

Stage 2
How Society Works: Key Debates in Anthropology
Skills in the Field: Dissertation Preparation
Hanging out on Street Corners: Public and Applied Anthropology
Economic Anthropology
Sex and Gender: Biology, Desire and Equality
Why Are Humans Violent? Understanding Violence, Conflict, and Trauma
Human Morality
Sound Cultures: Music and Noise around the World
Apocalypse! End of the World

Stage 3
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
Migration, Mobilities and Borders

Note that this is not an exclusive list and these options are subject to staff availability.

Expand+Assessment
A variety of assessment methods are used throughout the programme
•The assessment methods used include coursework essays (submitted during or at the end of the semester), oral presentations by individual students, video logs, artwork a...

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A variety of assessment methods are used throughout the programme
•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, and dissertations.

Feedback
As students progress through their course at Queen’s, they will receive general and specific feedback about their work from a variety of sources including lecturers, module co-ordinators, placement supervisors, personal tutors, advisers of study and peers. University students are expected to engage with reflective practice and to use this approach to improve the quality of their work.
•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.

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Introduction
Career pathways typically lead to employment in:

1. Development, NGO work, International Policy, Public Sector
2. Journalism, Human Rights, Conflict Resolution, Community Work
3. Arts Administration, Creative Cult...

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Introduction
Career pathways typically lead to employment in:

1. Development, NGO work, International Policy, Public Sector
2. Journalism, Human Rights, Conflict Resolution, Community Work
3. Arts Administration, Creative Cultural Industries, Media, Performance, Heritage Policy, Museums, Tourism
4. Public and Private Sector related to Religious Negotiation, Peace Building, Multiculturalism, Diversity
5. Teaching in schools
6. Academic Teaching and Research

Employment after the Course
Our graduates have followed careers in the fields of Development, Policy, Public Sector; Arts Administration, Creative Cultural Industries, Media, Performance, Heritage Policy, Museums, Tourism; International Policy, Journalism, Human Rights, Conflict Resolution, Community Work; NGO work and the Public Sector related to: Religious Negotiation, Peace Building, Multiculturalism, and Diversity

Employment Links
Internships 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’.

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.