UBAANTGEOFT-2024-5-O - L-Università ta' Malta

Course Title

Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Geography

MQF Level

Duration and Credits

3 Years

180 ECTS

Mode of Study

Full-time

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Anthropology

Applicants in terms of the 'maturity (adult learners) clause' are required to sit for an interview, held on a date which will be announced in due course. Once announced, this date cannot be changed. The closing date for receipt of applications from applicants in terms of the 'maturity (adult learners) clause' is 31 August 2024 at 2pm.

Applicants may also be required to submit a Learning Portfolio. Further information about the Portfolio will be forwarded to applicants.

Applicants wishing to join the part-time mode must submit their application as full-time, and then include a note in the comments box of the application form, denoting their preference to be considered for the part-time option. Such requests will be considered by the Board of the Faculty.

Geography

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Anthropology

The programme in Anthropology will provide you with an intricate and wide academic understanding of the subject-matter. During your course of studies, you will learn about the social, cultural, biological and linguistic aspects that comprise anthropology. Your knowledge on these areas may also culminate into a research-based dissertation that you will carry out in your final year of your programme of study. By studying about the origin and contemporary standing of anthropology, you will be provided with a wide spectrum of facets that will contribute to a more holistic understanding, ranging from evolution and society, to psychoanalysis, migration and post-colonialism, to name a few. We will also encourage you to participate in the Erasmus+ mobility programme, as we believe that an international and multi-cultural experience will provide you with a more holistic learning outcome.

Geography

The undergraduate course in Geography will provide you with an academic perspective on the geographic knowledge of the crucial and major material qualities of the Earth. During the course you will learn concepts and theories ranging from populations, cartography, and biogeographic and oceanographic processes, to geology, degradation, human geography and Marine management, to name a few. We also encourage you to participate in the Erasmus+ mobility programme for a multicultural and diversified learning experience.

Communication and Academic Skills Programme

The communication and academic skills programme complements students’ main course of study. It introduces them to writing and presenting as situated within academic contexts sensitive to specific disciplines and develops their competences for future careers.

Anthropology

In addition to the compulsory study-units, students are required to choose study-units to the value of 10 ECTS credits from the elective study-units on offer during the year.


Year (This/these unit/s start/s in Semester 1 and continue/s in Semester 2)

Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s)

ANT1004	Ethnography and Anthropological Theory	8 ECTS	(NC)


Semester 1

Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s)

ANT1003	Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology	4 ECTS	(NC)
ANT1030	Academic Writing and Anthropology	4 ECTS

Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints)

ARC1105*	Introduction to Human Evolution	2 ECTS
CVL1013	Introduction to Legal Anthropology	4 ECTS
* Study-unit ARC1105 cannot be taken by students who registered for study-unit ARC1005 in their Archaeology area.

Semester 2

Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints)

ANT1001	Human Societies: The Comparative Perspective	4 ECTS
ANT1005	Locating the Anthropology of the Mediterranean	4 ECTS
ANT1009	Anthropology and the Contemporary World	2 ECTS

Requirement for regular progression to Year 2:
26 ECTS credits in Anthropology
26 ECTS credits in the other area
8 ECTS credits in optional study-units

Total credits for this year: 60 ECTS credits

In addition to the compulsory study-units, students are required to choose study-units to the value of 18 ECTS credits from the elective study-units on offer during the year.


Semester 1

Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s)

ANT2020	Kinship, Family and Marriage	4 ECTS	(NC)

Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints)

ANT2002	Law, State and Society in Southern Europe	4 ECTS
ANT2003	Nation, State and Society in the Middle East/North Africa	4 ECTS
ANT2057	Anthropology of Food	4 ECTS
ANT2059	Refugees and Displacement: Anthropological Perspectives	4 ECTS
ANT3019	Historical Anthropology	4 ECTS
ANT3027	Visual Anthropology: Theory and Photographic Applications	4 ECTS


Semester 2

Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s)

ANT3016	Anthropology of Religion	4 ECTS	(NC)

Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints)

ANT2050	Anthropology of Borders	4 ECTS
ANT2054	The Body in Culture and Society	2 ECTS
ANT2055	Anthropology and Art	2 ECTS
ANT3022	Anthropology of Gender and Sexualities	4 ECTS
ANT3060	Advanced Topic in Social or Cultural Anthropology	2 ECTS
ANT3082	Anthropology and the Hellenic World	4 ECTS
ANT3122	Anthropology and Literature	2 ECTS

Requirement for regular progression to Year 3:
26 credits in Anthropology
26 credits in the other area
8 credits optional study-units

Total credits for this year: 60 credits

In addition to the compulsory study-units, students are required to choose study-units to the value of 4 ECTS credits from the elective study-units on offer during the year.


Semester 1

Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s)

ANT3006	Political Anthropology	4 ECTS	(NC)

Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints)

ANT2047	Emotions, Culture and Society	4 ECTS
ANT3023	Anthropological Perspectives on Human Rights	4 ECTS
ANT3030	Anthropology of Migration	4 ECTS
ANT3035	Special Topic in Anthropology	2 ECTS
ANT3037	Anthropology and Post-Colonialism	4 ECTS


Semester 2

Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s)

ANT3007	Economic Anthropology	4 ECTS	(NC)
ANT3033	Current Issues in Cultural and Social Anthropology: Synoptic Revisions	4 ECTS	(NC)
ANT3068	Synoptic Study-Unit: General Anthropology	6 ECTS	(NC)
ANT3069	Synoptic Study-Unit: Regional and Global Anthropology	6 ECTS	(NC)

Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints)

ANT2082	Themes in Evolutionary Anthropology	2 ECTS
ANT3021	Feminisms and Anthropology	2 ECTS
ANT3041	Anthropology of Islam	4 ECTS
ANT3052	Medical Anthropology	4 ECTS
ANT3064	Psychoanalysis and Anthropology	4 ECTS
ANT3080	History, Memory and Identity	4 ECTS

Requirement for successful completion of Year 3: 60 ECTS credits, of which:
28 ECTS credits in Anthropology
28 ECTS credits in the other area
4 ECTS credits optional study-units

Requirement for award of B.A. Anthropology and in another area of study: 180 ECTS credits, of which:
80 ECTS credits in Anthropology
80 ECTS credits in the other area
20 ECTS credits optional study-units

Geography


Semester 1

Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s)

GEO1005	The Geography of Populations: Concepts and Theories	4 ECTS
GEO1008	Cartography: Introduction, Development and Use	4 ECTS
GEO1012	Introduction to Climatic and Biogeographic Processes	4 ECTS
GEO1015	Fieldwork in Human Geography	2 ECTS


Semester 2

Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s)

GEO1009	Culture and Society	3 ECTS
GEO1016	Fieldwork in Physical Geography	2 ECTS
GEO1017	Maltese Heritage through Maps	3 ECTS
GEO1019	Introduction to Geomorphology: Principles and Processes	4 ECTS

Requirement for regular progression to Year 2:
26 credits in Geography
26 credits in the other area
8 credits in optional study-units

Total credits for this year: 60 credits

In addition to the compulsory study-units, students are required to choose study-units to the value of 12 ECTS credits from the elective study-units on offer during the year.


Semester 1

Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s)

GEO2000	Geology	4 ECTS
GEO3004	Economic Geography	4 ECTS

Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints)

GEO2008	Applied Geomorphology: Methods and Applications	4 ECTS
GEO2009	Landscapes, Natural Hazards and Human Opportunities	4 ECTS
GEO2010	Environmental Impact Assessment	4 ECTS
GEO3021	Climate Change and Sustainability in the Mediterranean	4 ECTS
GEO3096	The Geography of the Rural Environment: Agriculture and Food Production	4 ECTS


Semester 2

Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s)

BIO2010	Biotic Communities: Composition and Dynamics	4 ECTS
GEO2038	Remote Sensing	2 ECTS

Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints)

GEO2017	Hydrology and Water Management	4 ECTS
GEO2035	Geographic Information Systems	4 ECTS
GEO3006	Urbanisation and Development	4 ECTS
GEO3028	A Geographical Approach to Travel Planning	4 ECTS

Requirement for regular progression to Year 3:
26 credits in Geography
26 credits in the other area
8 credits optional study-units

Total credits for this year: 60 credits

In addition to the compulsory study-units, students are required to choose study-units to the value of 12 ECTS credits from the elective study-units on offer during the year.


Semester 1

Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s)

GEO3087	The Physical Geography of the Mediterranean	2 ECTS

Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints)

GEO2016	The Geography of Tourism	4 ECTS
GEO2050	Historical and Political Geography	4 ECTS
GEO3009	Ocean Processes and Marine Management: A Spatial and Resource Perspective	4 ECTS
GEO3010	Environment and Resources: Issues and Management	4 ECTS
GEO3095	The Geography of the Rural Environment: Pedology	4 ECTS


Semester 2

Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s)

GEO3083	The Human Geography of the Mediterranean	2 ECTS
GEO3090	Geography Synoptic Study-Unit 1	6 ECTS	(NC)
GEO3091	Geography Synoptic Study-Unit 2	6 ECTS	(NC)

Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints)

GEO2012	Geographies of Health and Wellbeing	4 ECTS
GEO3022	Coastal Geomorphology: Physical Processes and Shoreline Management	4 ECTS
GEO3027	Transport Geography	4 ECTS

Requirement for successful completion of Year 3: 60 credits, of which:
28 credits in Geography
28 credits in the other area
4 credits optional study-units

Requirement for award of B.A. Geography and in another area of study: 180 credits, of which:
80 credits in Geography
80 credits in the other area
20 credits optional study-units

This programme of study is governed by the General Regulations for University Undergraduate Awards, 2019 and by the Bye-Laws for the award of the Bachelor of Arts and the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) under the auspices of the Faculty of Arts.

Anthropology

Upon successfully completing the course, you will:

Have a refined and proficient skill-set in understanding how human diversity, behaviours and ideas have been impacted across time through biological, cultural, historical and linguistic perspectives.
Be able to carry out independent research and compose academic writings.
Be knowledgeable of the theories and history related to the discipline.
Contribute your anthropological knowledge to interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary discussions.
Demonstrate your knowledge through effective communication and construct arguments by using your refined capacity for critical thinking.

Geography

Upon successfully completing this course, you will be able to:

Carry out and conduct research and academic writing of a particular research topic related to the subject matter.
Have a keen understanding of the interrelating qualities that constitute your geographic perspective of the world.
Locate major cultural features of the Earth on a map through a refined use of cartographic skills.
Demonstrate knowledge of key geographic features through the application of concepts and theories in practical case studies and contemporary issues.
Discuss and elaborate critically theories in an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary discursive atmosphere.

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Fee per academic year: Eur 8,500

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Anthropology

This programme of study will prepare you for a wide range of anthropology related careers, both locally and abroad. These include working at museums, non-profit and community-based organisations, international development, organizational psychology, governmental work and marketing. If you are more inclined towards an academic career, we encourage you to further your studies by pursuing a post-graduate programme that our University offers, as a number of alumni have done so.

Geography

As a graduate of this course you will be employable in a number of careers, both locally or internationally, as a cartographer, social researcher, commercial surveyor, development surveyor, town planner, geographical information systems officer, nature conservation officer, and environmental consultant. If you would like to further your studies, or are considering an academic career, we encourage you to enrol in one of our local postgraduate courses for a holistic and honed academic experience.

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