Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Anthropology with Philosophy with Politics

Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Anthropology with Philosophy with Politics

MQF Level

6

Duration and Credits

3 Years

180 ECTS

Mode of Study

Full-time

Anthropology

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.

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.


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.

Information for International applicants

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.

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.


Philosophy with Politics

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.

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.


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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)
 
ANT1005 Locating the Anthropology of the Mediterranean 4 ECTS      
ANT1009 Anthropology and the Contemporary World 2 ECTS      
ANT1040 Symbols in Culture and Society 4 ECTS      

 
 
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      

 
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 34 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)
 
ANT2025 Anthropology of Moralities 4 ECTS      
ANT2047 Emotions, Culture and Society 4 ECTS      
ANT2080 Anthropology of South Asia 4 ECTS      
ANT2088 International Development, NGOs and Poverty 4 ECTS      
ANT3023 Anthropological Perspectives on Human Rights 4 ECTS      
ANT3037 Anthropology and Post-Colonialism 4 ECTS      
ANT3080 History, Memory and Identity 4 ECTS      

 
 
Semester 2
 
Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s)
 
ANT2008 Ethnographic Research Strategies 4 ECTS   (NC)    
ANT3007 Economic Anthropology 4 ECTS   (NC)    
 
Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints)
 
ANT3021 Feminisms and Anthropology 2 ECTS      
ANT3030 People, Migration and Change 4 ECTS      
ANT3035 Special Topic in Anthropology 2 ECTS      
ANT3041 Anthropology of Islam 4 ECTS      
ANT3064 Psychoanalysis and Anthropology 4 ECTS      

 
Requirement for regular progression to Year 3:
46 ECTS credits in Anthropology
10 ECTS credits from the subsidiary area
4 ECTS credits 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 20 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)
 
ANT3065 Dissertation 12 ECTS   (NC)    

 
 
Semester 1
 
Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s)
 
ANT2020 Kinship, Family and Marriage 4 ECTS   (NC)    
ANT3062 Research Seminar 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      
ANT2051 Anthropology of Violence 4 ECTS      
ANT2055 Anthropology and Art 2 ECTS      
ANT2059 Refugees and Displacement: Anthropological Perspectives 4 ECTS      
ANT2060 Dance Anthropology and Ethnographic Practice 4 ECTS      
ANT2082 Themes in Evolutionary Anthropology 2 ECTS      
ANT2124 Intangible Cultural Heritage: Applications and Implications 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)    
ANT3033 Current Issues in Cultural and Social Anthropology: Synoptic Revisions 4 ECTS   (NC)    
ANT3066 Synoptic Study-Unit: General Anthropology 6 ECTS   (NC)    
ANT3067 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)
 
ANT2050 People, States and Borders 4 ECTS      
ANT2052 Anthropology of Tourism 4 ECTS      
ANT2149 Culture and Society in Contemporary Korea and Japan 4 ECTS      
ANT3022 Anthropology of Gender and Sexualities 4 ECTS      
ANT3025 Anthropology Placement 4 ECTS      
ANT3052 Medical Anthropology 4 ECTS      

 
Requirement for successful completion of Year 3: 60 ECTS credits

Requirement for award of B.A. (Hons) in Anthropology: 180 credits, of which:
132 ECTS credits in Anthropology
36 ETCS credits in the subsidiary area
12 ECTS credits optional study-units

Philosophy with Politics

 
Semester 1
 
Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s)
 
PHI1001 History of Philosophy: (a) Ancient Philosophy and (b) Medieval Philosophy 4 ECTS   (NC)    
PHI1014 Political Philosophy 4 ECTS      
PHI1028 Philosophical Practice 2 ECTS      
PHI1090 Philosophy: Tools and Problems 4 ECTS      

 
 
Semester 2
 
Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s)
 
PHI1006 History of Philosophy: (a) Modern Philosophy and (b) Contemporary Philosophy 4 ECTS   (NC)    
PHI1036 What is Politics? 4 ECTS      
PHI1039 On the Question of the Ethical and the Political 4 ECTS      

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

Total credits for this year: 60 ECTS credits

Students are required to choose study-units to the value of 10 ECTS credits from the elective study-units on offer during the year.
 
Semester 1
 
Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints)
 
LLT3410 Discourse, Ideology and Power 4 ECTS      
PHI2029* Early Modern Ideas: Science, Politics and Religion 4 ECTS      
PHI2037 Plato: Three Dialogues (Republic, Symposium, Phaedrus) 4 ECTS      
PHI2047 Aristotle's Ethics 4 ECTS      
PHI2103 Reading Politics: Foucault and Derrida 4 ECTS      
PHI2120 Metaphysics 1: Ontology 4 ECTS      
PHI3043 Frege: Conceptual Notation (Begriffsschrift) 4 ECTS      
PHI3045 Contemporary Analytic Philosophy 4 ECTS      
SOC2000 Economic Sociology 4 ECTS      
SOC3031 Sociology of Politics and the State 4 ECTS      

* Study-unit PHI2029 is offered on alternate years.

 
 
Semester 2
 
Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints)
 
HST2006 Malta Before and After Independence: Aspects of Maltese Social and Political History 4 ECTS      
IRL3010** Norms, Rights and Climate Justice 4 ECTS      
PHI2001 Logic 6 ECTS      
PHI2043 Essence and Identity between Metaphysics, Politics and Culture 4 ECTS      
PHI2121 Philosophy of Language 4 ECTS      
PHI3046 Contemporary Continental Philosophy 4 ECTS      
PHI3047 Philosophy and Technology 4 ECTS      
PHI3059** Utopian Politics 4 ECTS      
SOC2345 Sociology of Social Movements and Protest 4 ECTS      

** Study-units IRL3010 and PHI3059 are offered on alternate years.

 
Requirement for successful completion of Year 2: 10 ECTS credits

Requirement for regular progression to Year 3:
10 ECTS credits in Philosophy with Politics
46 ECTS credits in the other area
4 ECTS credits optional study-units

Total credits for this year: 60 ECTS credits

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.

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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.


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