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is housed at the Kent Osteological
Research and Analysis Centre
within the School.
Anthropology programmes
are offered within the School of
Anthropology and Conservation,
which includes the Durrell Institute
of Conservation and Ecology
(DICE) (see Conservation p80).
Taught programmes
For the most up-to-date information,
see website details below.
All of our anthropology Master’s
programmes are recognised
by the Economic and Social
Research Council (ESRC) as
having research training status.
For those programmes marked
with an asterisk*, we will, in
certain circumstances, consider
students who have not followed
a conventional education path.
These cases are assessed by the
Director of Graduate Studies and
the programme convenor.
Please note that modules are
subject to change. Please contact
the School for more detailed
information on availability.
Assessment
For the most up-to-date information,
see website details below.
Environmental Anthropology
MA, MSc
www.kent.ac.uk/pg/188
Location: Canterbury
You acquire advanced knowledge
of how different societies are
influenced by the environment
and manage natural resources
and hazards, in relation to issues
in human ecology, biodiversity
management, sustainable
development, environmental
change and the practical
applications of such knowledge.
You gain practical and evaluative
skills, and experience of
conducting empirical or
other applied research. This
allows you to pursue work
as a researcher, perhaps in
conjunction with national or
international environmental
bodies, governmental
departments and nongovernmental
organisations.
Course content
Content differs slightly between
the MA and the MSc.
• Anthropological Research
Methods 1 and 2
• Environmental Anthropology
• Ethnobiological Knowledge
Systems
• Dissertation in Environmental
Anthropology
Ethnobotany MSc
www.kent.ac.uk/pg/189
Location: Canterbury and Kew
Gardens, London
This programme combines
anthropological studies of humanenvironment
interaction and sociocultural
knowledge of plants in
different parts of the world with
ecology, conservation science
and biodiversity management.
It also covers plant conservation
and sustainable management
practices, taxonomy, and
economic botany.
The programme is taught
collaboratively with the Royal
Botanic Gardens at Kew (a
World Heritage Site) and DICE.
Course content
• Anthropological Research
Methods 1
• Botanical Foundations
of Ethnobotany
• Contemporary Issues in
Ethnobotany and Environmental
Anthropology
• Environmental Anthropology
• Ethnobiological Knowledge
Systems
• Holism, Health and Healing
• Plant Resources and their
Conservation
• Dissertation in Ethnobotany
Evolution and Human
Behaviour MSc *
www.kent.ac.uk/pg/190
Taught jointly with: School
of Psychology
Location: Canterbury
This MSc combines evolutionary
anthropology, focusing on the
behaviour of human and nonhuman
primates, with evolutionary,
social, developmental and
cognitive psychology. You gain an
interdisciplinary understanding of
the origins and functions of human
behaviour.
Course content
• Advanced Topics in
Evolutionary Anthropology
• Advanced Topics in Group
Processes
• Advanced Topics in Human
Behaviour
• Advanced Topics in Primate
Behaviour
• Statistics and Methodology
• Research Project (Evolution
and Human Behaviour)
Forensic Osteology and Field
Recovery Methods MSc
www.kent.ac.uk/pg/1231
Location: Canterbury
This exciting and innovative new
MSc programme offers practical
and lab-based training to provide
you with core skills in skeletal
identification, biological profiling
from hard tissue, methods of
excavation, and recovery of
human hard tissue. You learn
from real human skeletal material
curated in the Human Osteology
Research Laboratory, which
provides a unique learning