# Social Anthropology

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# Social Anthropology

Level:
:   Master

Duration:
:   2
    years

ECTS Credits:
:   120

What is the cultural background for crucial issues such as climate change, financial crises, migration, activism, and sustainability? And how do they influence people's lives?

This Master’s programme offers a distinctive opportunity to study these and other social phenomena through ethnographic research. In one of Europe’s most respected Social Anthropology departments, we promote long ethnographic fieldwork in a familiar or unfamiliar setting, at home or abroad. The Master’s thesis based on your research will make you an expert not only in anthropological thinking but on a unique issue of your interest that will advance your skill sets both academically and professionally.

- [Why choose this programme?](https://www.uio.no/english/studies/programmes/social-anthropology/why-choose)
- [Learning outcomes](https://www.uio.no/english/studies/programmes/social-anthropology/learning-outcomes)
- [Admission](https://www.uio.no/english/studies/programmes/social-anthropology/admission)
- [Programme structure](https://www.uio.no/english/studies/programmes/social-anthropology/structure)
- [Fieldwork and semester abroad](https://www.uio.no/english/studies/programmes/social-anthropology/abroad)
- [Career opportunities](https://www.uio.no/english/studies/programmes/social-anthropology/career)

> "The programme finds a good balance between the academic and the applied part of anthropology"
>
> – Sara

## Questions about the programme?

[Contact us](https://www.sv.uio.no/english/studies/contact/index.html)

## Programme offered by

[Department of Social Anthropology](http://www.sai.uio.no/)