University of Pretoria UP Anthropology

The Department is relatively small with ten full-time staff and has a friendly, collegial atmosphere. Undergraduate students are encouraged to participate in discussion and debate in class, and in the student societies. Postgraduate students and staff are drawn together in a fortnightly departmental seminar, where they have opportunity to present their own work as well as to learn from and discuss the research of their peers, staff members, and eminent visitors.

Postgraduate Programmes Honours

Entry to the honours course is restricted to students who have obtained an average of at least 65% in their third-year undergraduate majors. The honours course comprises four coursework modules and a research project on an approved topic leading to a research report (mini-dissertation) of between 10-15,000 words.

APL 761: Contemporary Ethnography [20 credits]

APL 754: The Anthropology of Money and Economy [20 credits]

APL 756: Politics and Identity [20 credits]

APL 770: Research Methods [20 credits]

APL 770: Research Report: Anthropology [40 credits]

Master’s and PhD

Master’s and doctoral degrees are by research (dissertation) alone.

For more information contact: Detlev.Krige@up.ac.za

Undergraduate Programme

Anthropology

The first-year modules comprise a general introduction to the main aspects of social-cultural anthropology, including politics, economics, kinship, religion, and South African anthropology. The second-year modules add depth in several of the above areas, but also include new fields such as the anthropology of health and healing and the anthropology of power, wealth and politics. The third year combines more advanced theoretical and thematic modules, including anthropological perspectives on Africa as well as fieldwork and ethnography.  Students conduct an ethnographic research project in the last semester of third year.