• 专业概况
• 所属院系
• 中国学生入学要求
• 课程信息

专业概况

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Overview

Anthropology of Food - Our MA programme in the Anthropology of Food offers you the opportunity to explore historically and culturally variable foodways, from foraging to industrial agriculture, from Europe and North America to Africa, Asia and South America.

You will study the passage of food from plant to palate, and examine who benefits, and who suffers, from contemporary modes of food production, exchange, preparation, and consumption. You will also explore the role of food in human migrations and investigate the formation of regional and national cuisines. As well as examine food fears and food safety and concerns over ‘nutrition transition’.

Debates over the impact of agricultural biotechnology on agrarian livelihoods and knowledge systems, as well as on the natural environment, are assessed. Movements toward organic agriculture, veganism and vegetarianism, fair trade, and slow food are also analysed.

An anthropological approach to the study of food draws upon and challenges the perspectives of other disciplines, whether agronomy or nutritional science, economics or law, history or literature.

This programme has a first-rate graduate employability record, with graduates moving on to find employment in food-related government ministries, international organisations, development agencies, or non-governmental associations.

South East Asian Language - The two-year language pathway is directed at students who want to engage with South East Asia in a professional as well as academic way, as the intensive language module would enable them to reach a good level of proficiency in one of the four languages; Burmese, Indonesian, Thai or Vietnamese. The summer between the first and second year of study is spent in the region following an intensive language module.

In the two-year pathway, students can take intensive South East Asian language with either MA South East Asian Studies, MA History, MA Religions of Asian and Africa, MA Medical Anthropology, MA Anthropological Research Methods, MA Migration and Diaspora Studies.

Learning Outcomes Knowledge

• How to locate and evaluate data from a variety of sources.
• Knowledge of aspects of the region, such as its history, politics, economics, arts, religions etc.
• Subject specific skills, such as an awareness of current critical thinking in a specific field, and the acquisition of language skills, intensive in the case of the 2-year MA.

Intellectual (thinking) skills

• Development of precision and caution in assessing evidence.
• Development of critical awareness and independence of thought.
• Sensitivity to the existence of non-Eurocentric views and an awareness of the limitations of purely Eurocentric interpretations.
• Awareness of the value of a South East Asian language in understanding the culture of a specific country within the region.

Subject-based practical skills

• Development of written communication skills
• Development of oral communication skills
• Development of research skills
• Development of language skills

Transferable skills

• Effective oral and written communication skills
• Ability to access and assess information from both traditional and electronic sources
• Ability to work to deadlines
• Ability to interact with native speakers of the language at an appropriate level.

所属院系

进入哪个院系学习？ School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics

中国学生入学要求

为来自中国的学生设计 Students with an Upper Second Class degree (2:1) or above in their UK Bachelor degree will be considered. Students with a Bachelors degree from a university in China may be considered for entry if they have a minimum passing grade of 80% or GPA 3.3. Relevant work experience may also be considered.

课程信息

学制：全日制(2 年)

学费：£22,500.00 (¥ 203,173) /年

开学时间：2022十月1日, 2022二月4日, 2022十月1日, 2023二月4日

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留学地点：SOAS, University of LondonThornhaugh Street,Russell Square,Camden,WC1H 0XG, England