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Undergraduate 2027

Undergraduate 2025

BA | Undergraduate

Anthropology and French

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Entry year : Academic Year 2027/28

Entry requirements : ABB

Attendance : 4 years (Full-time) \

UCAS Code : RL16

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In addition to developing linguistic proficiency in French, students on the Anthropology and French degree learn to critically reflect on identity, culture and society. In Anthropology, they examine patterns of social interaction, interrogate how social identities bind groups together, and understand how conflict arises and resolutions are found across the world’s cultures. \ \ In French, they analyse Francophone cultures (literature, cinema, linguistics, art, history) in the broadest sense. Students often spend their year abroad in a francophone country such as Martinique or Réunion, where they can complete anthropological fieldwork for their final-year project.

In the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023, Anthropology was ranked 10th in the UK for graduate prospects. French at Queen's has consistently been in the top 10 in a range of league tables over the last five years.

Course highlights

Global Opportunities

Undergraduate anthropology students, as part of their training, have carried out ethnographic field research around the world. Projects have focused on gender and fashion in Martinique; nationalism and ethnic identity in Réunion; orphanages in Kenya; AIDS in southern Africa, education in Ghana; dance in India, NGOs in Guatemala, music in China, marriage in Japan, backpacking in Europe, and whale-watching in Hawaii.

Industry Links

Anthropology students develop a range of skills (organizational skills, interpersonal skills, information-handling skills, and project management skills) that prepare them for later employment. Many of our students work with NGOs and other organisations (e.g. Operation Wallacea, Belfast Migration Centre, Heavy Sound) as part of their fieldwork.

Career Development

Anthropology combines an understanding of cultural diversity through human behaviour and expression, with a hands-on method of study that focuses on lived experience.\ Queen's offers the only anthropology course in the UK that combines the study of expressivity (through art and music) with thematic strands on conflict, religion, cognition, and applied anthropology.

French at Queen’s reflects the dynamism and cultural diversity of the French-speaking world, focusing on the language, culture and society of metropolitan France, and opening up perspectives on a range of global cultures. French language, written and oral, is at the centre of the course. Students will also explore a variety of contemporary issues, historical periods and geographical areas through a range of media, including art, cinema, linguistics and literature. All students spend an academic year in a francophone country.

In the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023, Anthropology was ranked 10th in the UK for graduate prospects.

World Class Facilities

The Performance Room includes a variety of musical instruments from around the world, a collection that has grown since the 1970s when Ethnomusicology was first established as an International Centre at Queen’s by the late Prof John Blacking. These instruments, together with the sprung performance room floor, facilitate music and dance ensembles, enabling our unit to remain one of the leading departments in Ethnomusicology.

Internationally Renowned Experts

Anthropology at Queen’s has international renown in the following areas: \ \ • Ethnomusicology and performance\ • Conflict and borders\ • Religion\ • Cognition and culture\ • Migration and diasporas\ • Irish studies\ • Material culture and art\ • Human-animal relations\ • The cross-cultural study of emotions.\ \ Anthropology at Queen's also connects with the following research institutes: Institute of Cognition and Culture; Institute of Irish Studies.

French at Queen’s is taught by world-leading experts in nineteenth and twentieth-century French and Francophone culture, with particular expertise in visual culture, linguistics, popular culture, medical humanities and postcolonial writing. Research in Languages at Queen’s was ranked 3rd in the UK in the Research Assessment (REF 2014).

Prof Janice Carruthers is an internationally renowned expert on linguistics. She is currently the Leadership Fellow in Modern Languages with the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Student Experience

Students run a lively French Society, and staff offer support through a personal tutoring system, skills development programme and a structured framework for feedback.

In the Complete University Guide 2023, Anthropology was ranked 5th in the UK for student satisfaction.

Anne Maguire Memorial Prize\ The prize is awarded to an Anthropology student who, in the judgement of the Board of Examiners for Social Anthropology, produces the best dissertation for this module in any year.

Improved Performance Undergraduate Prize\ This prize is awarded by the Board of Examiners of the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics (HAPP) to the student registered on any HAPP UG programme with the most improved performance between Level 2 and Level 3.

The Joint Honours Undergraduate Prize\ This prize is awarded to the student with the highest final\ degree mark in a School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics (HAPP)-owning Joint Degree programme, excluding any combination with History or Politics.

Queen’s currently has over 4400 international students from over 90 different countries (Queen’s Planning Office, 2024).

Further Study Opportunities

Further study is also an option (eg MA Anthropology, MA Conflict Transformation and Social Justice); see the School website for details.

‘’Recently the dissertation experience has been really useful in my job search. Because it involves different research methods and demonstrates good written and verbal communication skills, it's great for the CV and even better for coming up with examples for competency questions in interviews. It's also brilliant for networking because it provides easy conversation and an awareness of social issues etc.” \ Lucy Proudlock

"The fieldwork and dissertation have been central to my experience as a Anthropology student. While I am sure it will stand me in good stead in my future search for employment, its central value was as a practice which revealed what Anthropology is really about; through fieldwork, the abstract and theoretical concepts which we had absorbed in two years previous study became immediate and concrete; the subject came alive. Observing and analysing patterns of human action and thought, and later attempting to relay any inferred information (in the form of a dissertation) was a stimulating and challenging process, which seemed to me to be of value in and of itself." \ Samuel Ward\ https://youtu.be/mubluBjb9Ds

‘’Doing an anthropology dissertation is great for allowing you to use your own creativity and actually apply your knowledge rather than simply learning from others. It is a fantastic way of building confidence for any future career as it gives you the opportunity to expand on something independently and looks great on the CV!’' \ Genevieve Bigger

‘’Recently the dissertation experience has been really useful in my job search. Because it involves different research methods and demonstrates good written and verbal communication skills, it's great for the CV and even better for coming up with examples for competency questions in interviews. It's also brilliant for networking because it provides easy conversation and an awareness of social issues etc.” \ Lucy Proudlock

"The fieldwork and dissertation have been central to my experience as a Anthropology student. While I am sure it will stand me in good stead in my future search for employment, its central value was as a practice which revealed what Anthropology is really about; through fieldwork, the abstract and theoretical concepts which we had absorbed in two years previous study became immediate and concrete; the subject came alive. Observing and analysing patterns of human action and thought, and later attempting to relay any inferred information (in the form of a dissertation) was a stimulating and challenging process, which seemed to me to be of value in and of itself." \ Samuel Ward\ https://youtu.be/mubluBjb9Ds

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