• 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.

Swahili - This two-year programme will provide students with the opportunity to combine Masters’ level training with intensive study of an African language (Swahili) in order to acquire the skills necessary for future professional or research careers. The programme will enable students to engage with the subject of their Masters’ programme in Africa through an African language, to engage with sources and data in an African language and to conduct research and professional work in Africa.

This programme is also aimed at professionals wishing to pursue careers directly related to Africa, including government departments (of both the UK and other countries), and in firms requiring particular skills and knowledge related to trading, investment and promotional interests outside Europe.

Learning Outcomes Knowledge

• Discipline-based factual knowledge, familiarity with scholarly literature;
• Ability to engage in spoken and written communication, including reading of scholarly texts in modern Swahili (to different degrees depending on entry levels);Assessment through unseen examinations, long essays, course work and a dissertation.
• To acquire/develop skills in a language to Effective Operational Proficiency level.

Intellectual (thinking) skills

• Acquisition through intensive Swahili language study and study abroad, to include critical reflection on language study, styles and registers of language in texts;Assessment through unseen examinations, course work, long essays and a dissertation, together with the incorporation of Swahili-language materials in coursework and exams on the student’s concurrent MA.
• To demonstrate awareness of the conceptual and communicative underpinnings of a language and through this interlinguistic and intercultural understanding.

Subject-based practical skills

• Acquisition of spoken and written modern Swahili through intensive language study.
• Assessment: By unseen examination and course work.
• Communicate in written and spoken medium in contemporary African language.

Transferable skills

• Engage with people from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds, understand the role of different frames of reference.

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：2022九月27日

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