Master's Programme in Social Anthropology

Application period for national students is mid March until mid April

The master’s programme reflects the Department’s commitment to understanding people, ideas, and objects in situ, and how they travel across political and cultural borders, challenging, reinforcing or redrawing them in the process.

The program offers a range of courses that reflects the Department’s research interests. It is also possible, by agreement, to choose courses from other departments to tailor an individual specialization.

The first year of the programme provides students with an in-depth understanding of current anthropology and its historical roots. Both general and specialized courses give students support in creating a theoretical and thematical frame for the upcoming thesis work. Teaching is set at the department itself and focuses on continual production of text and seminar discussions apart from ordinary lectures.

The second year is of a more practical orientation where students develop their individual research projects. The first semester includes a methods course alongside an individual tutorial as well as 10 weeks dedicated to fieldwork in Sweden or abroad. The second semester is dedicated to writing the master’s thesis.

The group of students in the master’s programme is normally around 20-25 students from Sweden and abroad with a background in anthropology or similar academic subjects.