BA (Hons) Anthropology, Media and Digital Practice Bachelor's degree at Goldsmiths, University of London

will introduce you to key areas in the history and practice of image use in Anthropological research and publication. You'll also have hands-on training in a number of professional-level software packages, as well as high-level visual and audio production equipment (cameras, recorders, microphones). The module will be split into 4 x 5 week blocks over the year, and will cover the following topics: Photography Sound Film Multimedia

The aim of this module is to acquaint you with contemporary social anthropology, as well as to give you the confidence and the tools to think critically and work collaboratively. The module begins by locating the discipline within the social sciences and humanities before proceeding to an exploration of central themes, methodologies and ethical concerns. The course is structured around lectures, seminars and workshops. Lectures and seminar discussions will draw on late-20th century and contempor

Anthropological Methods is an introduction to practices of ethnographic research. The module examines the relationship between theory and method within anthropology. You will learn about the specific techniques that are used by anthropologists as they conduct their fieldwork. This module also draws attention to how ethnographic knowledge produced during fieldwork is both relational and contextual. It considers certain historical conjectures and power dynamics that have contributed to the way eth

This module aims to encourage a critical appreciation of ethnographic film, introducing some of the growing literature on visual anthropology, and raising general issues of representation in anthropology as a whole. Each week there will be a short lecture and a film screening, which will be followed by group discussion. The module offers you a forum for general discussion of anthropological theory and practice while focusing on the work of particular filmmakers. This module will introduce you to

This module will allow you to develop inter-disciplinary academic and independent research skills which will allow them to study successfully at degree level. You'll learn transferrable skills such as time management, critical analysis, essay writing and digital research, through anthropological topics. You'll not only learn to 'think anthropologically' but to engage with critical academic theory and research from other disciplines. You'll gain the skills and confidence to communicate in a clear

The aim of the module is to introduce you to black, indigenous and transnational feminist analyses of the historical and sociopolitical foundations and consequences of predatory capitalism. You'll explore the challenges different communities face in relation to different forms of large-scale resource extraction and climate change, and the actions undertaken by those communities to deal with those challenges. You'll be introduced to these themes via literature and audio-visual content that offers

This module is concerned with key ways of thinking that have shaped and continue to shape the discipline of social anthropology. As such, the module is intended to augment what you have learned in the first year and to help consolidate your sense of how important concepts in social anthropology fit together. The focus of the module is how the discipline's main 20 th century schools of thought have developed, how they relate to one another and what they have contributed to our understandings of t

Thinking through race foregrounds several contemporary debates that bring to the fore why race – a concept which purports essential, biologized difference between humans – continues to get reproduced in policy, media representations, expert knowledge, and everyday encounter across the globe even though it was debunked in the previous century. The module also engages with ethnographic accounts that think through how race, gender, and class are experienced and inhabited in relationship to one anot

Our academic Schools are developing exciting elective ideas to allow you to broaden your education, either to develop vocationally orientated experiences or to learn more about contemporary society, culture and politics. You'll be able to choose safe in the knowledge that these modules have been designed for non-subject specialists and to bring students from different disciplines together. For example, you may want to take introductions to areas such as Law, Education, the digital industries, th

This module provides a critical introduction to the anthropology of policy and engages with key questions of power, governance, and the role of institutions in social change. The aim of the module is to promote a better understanding of public anthropology in ways that provide learning opportunities that both enhance your academic skills and provide opportunities for personal development by engaging with real-world problems and their possible solutions. We'll explore a range of issues involving