POSTGRADUATE PROSPECTUS

46 EXEMPTION FROM TRAININGOnly those students who can demonstratethe satisfactory completion of a comparableprogramme of study in qualitative andquantitative methods at Masters level from arecognised university will be exempted fromthis element of formal training. All students arerequired to participate in the Research Seminar.MA ANTHROPOLOGY OF FOODDURATIONOne calendar year (full-time)Two or three years (part-time, daytime only)START OF PROGRAMMESeptember intake onlyENTRY REQUIREMENTSMinimum upper second class BA degree (orequivalent) in the humanities or social or naturalsciences, or significant experience in a relevantfood- and/or agriculture-related careerPROGRAMME CONVENORDr Harry WestSEE ALSO:MA Anthropological Research Methods,MA Social Anthropology of Development,MA Social Anthropology,MA Migration and Diaspora Studies,MA Medical Anthropology,MSc Development Studies,MA Anthropology of Mediaknowledge systems, as well as on the naturalenvironment, are assessed. Movements towardorganic agriculture, fair trade, and slow food arealso analysed in the programme.An anthropological approach to the study offood draws upon and challenges the perspectivesof other disciplines, whether agronomy ornutritional science, economics or law, history orliterature. Dependent upon individual interestsand experiences, graduates of the programme maypursue research degrees in any number of academicdisciplines, or find employment in food-relatedgovernment ministries, international organisations,development agencies, or non-governmentalassociations, as well as in the fields of public health,education, and media, or in the catering industry.Students are required to write a 10,000-worddissertation on an approved topic.MA ANTHROPOLOGY OF FOODNot all courses listed below may be available everyyear. For courses being offered in 2008/09, pleasevisit the relevant departmental website or contactthe Faculty office. Some courses may be taught inother departments of the School.CORE COURSES- Issues in the Anthropology of Food C- Theoretical Approaches to Social Anthropology** compulsory only for students without a previous[anthropology] degree; students exempted fromTheoretical Approaches to Social Anthropologytake two units of optional coursesANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGYThe MA in the Anthropology of Food offersstudents the opportunity to explore historicallyand culturally variable foodways, from foragingto industrial agriculture, from Europe and NorthAmerica to Africa, Asia and South America. Theprogramme asks students to trace the passage offood from plant to palate, and to examine whobenefits, and who suffers, from contemporarymodes of food production, exchange, preparation,and consumption.Students in the programme examine food policyat national and international levels, as well as therole played in its formation by the food industry.Focus is given to the study of famine and thecontroversial role of food aid in securing foodsupplies. Debates over the impact of agriculturalbiotechnology on agrarian livelihoods andSTUDENTS SELECT FROM THE FOLLOWING OPTIONS TOMEET THE THIRD TAUGHT UNIT REQUIREMENT- A regional ethnography (China, Japan, South Asia,South East Asia, Near and Middle East, SouthernAfrica, West Africa, East Africa)- An Asian or African language (list available fromthe Faculty of Languages and Cultures)- Perspectives on Development (half unit)- Therapy and Culture (half unit)- African and Asian Diasporas in the ModernWorld (half unit)- Critical Approaches to Neoliberalism (half unit)- Political Economy of Development*- Globalisation And Development * (half unit)- Civil Society, Social Movements And TheDevelopment Process * (half unit)- Jainism: History, Doctrines and theContemporary World- Jain Scripture and Community