University College London

Social Anthropology is the comparative study of human society and culture. It focuses on investigating the everyday complexities of social life across diverse contexts at local, national, and global scales. This course introduces students to some of the methods, theories, and approaches used by social anthropologists in making sense of human socio-cultural diversity across the world. The course provides students with an introduction to a range of core concepts and ideas underpinning anthropological studies of socio-cultural life, and examines how ethnographic accounts enable anthropologists to make theoretical claims about the social and cultural world. Throughout the term, we will cover topics of central importance to Social Anthropology including the ethnographic method; comparison, reflexivity, and positionality; the culture concept; history, colonialism, and decolonization; kinship and social organisation; individual and society; personhood, gender, and embodiment, nature, culture, and environment; and anthropology in the Anthropocene.  

The course presents the integration of three different disciplines under an applied philosophical dimension needed to achieve the impossible. A vision needs leadership to develop the strategy, the roadmap through which management coordinates the execution of thoughts and acts. Strategic management without leadership is a well thought plan with the vision. The course presents the philosophy behind each discipline, their integration and their execution through various frameworks, methods and practices, but also metrics, case studies, and examples.

This gallery-based course focuses on developments in modern art during the 20th century in relation to artistic concepts of the future, looking at how these changed as the century progressed and earlier imagined futures were not realized. Themes discussed include historical avant-gardes, the Dada group, surrealism, utopion ideas, futurism, and activist art from Europe and the US in the 1960s.

The course introduces students to topics in applied psychology (e.g. educational psychology, psychopathology and counselling, criminal psychology and neuropsychology/science) with an emphasis on their relevance in everyday life. There is less emphasis on particular psychological theories, but more focus on how this knowledge transfers to real life situations.