Social Anthropology

Study mode:On campus Study type:Full-time Languages: English
Foreign:$ 1.66 k / Year(s) Deadline: Apr 30, 2024
109 place StudyQA ranking:3097 Duration:2 years

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The MASA program at the University of Bern addresses all the varied aspects of social anthropology. The program also focuses on innovative research in both traditional areas, such as kinship, social exchange, religious and ritual practices, ethnicity, material culture and the human-environment relationship, and new fields such as gender studies and the anthropology of climate change.

The MASA program is designed for graduates of a BA program in social or cultural anthropology, or ethnology. The program conveys in-depth knowledge and extensive expertise in theory and methodology, as well as in specific research fields and regions chosen by the student. The focus here is on the topics and regions addressed by the lecturers (see institute research profile). Students are taught how to conduct research work independently, how to critically and knowledgeably participate in current theoretical debates, and how to address relevant questions related to both their own societies and other societies.

Graduates of the MASA program (major and minor) are able to analyze the complexities people and societies have to deal with today, which in turn enables them to understand the circumstances in which actions are taken, as well as the possibilities associated with such actions. This involves social, political, economic, symbolic and ritual actions, as well as the way identities are constructed, inequalities are created and legitimized, and conflicts are carried out.

  • ATS (BA, MA): Liberty, Equality, Solidarity II: Equality
  • BA (MA) Sachbereichs-Regionalübung: At the heart of the state? Anthropological approaches to detention, containment and imprisonment
  • BA (MA) Sachbereichs-Regionalübung: Greece and the European »Debt Crisis»: Explorations of Power and Nationhood in a Critical Conjuncture
  • BA (MA) Sachbereichs-Regionalübung: The Eternal City? Anthropology and the Cityscape
  • BA (MA) Theorie-Wahlpflichtübung: Time and the Anthropologist: Exploring ethnographic engagements with temporality and history
  • BA/MA: Just India: the state, law and aspirations to justice
  • Course: Introduction to Social Anthropology - Group Reade
  • Filmmaking for Fieldwork
  • MA: Ethnography - intensive methods course

The following academic qualifications are required for admission to the master’s degree program in Social Anthropology (major):

a) Bachelor's degree from a recognized Swiss or foreign university in the branch of studies Social and Cultural Anthropology
b)

Bachelor's degree from a recognized university with a minor in one of the following branches of studies:

  • Sociology
  • Social and Cultural Anthropology
  • or in another branch of studies

provided that the master's degree can be successfully completed with an additional maximum 60 ECTS credits.
Additional attainments can either be admission requirements which must be fulfilled in order to complete the master's degree program or admission requirements which must be fulfilled before admission to the master's degree program. The ECTS credits will be listed separately in the diploma supplement as extracurricular attainments.

  • Curriculum vitae in table form with uninterrupted chronology of your education and academic studies up to the present incl. up-to-date passport photo (45 mm high by 35 mm wide)
  • Motivation letter (incl. family name, given name, full address, e-mail address, date and signature and – if you have one – mobile phone number)
  • If you are holding a bachelor degree's: Originally certified photocopies of your degree (e.g. diploma and diploma supplement). The correspondence of the photocopy to the original must be officially certified.
  • Originals (stamped and signed) or originally certified photocopies of all official proofs of your achievements (transcripts) with grades/scores
  • Grading system of the degree issuing university, if the grading system is different from ours. Our scale goes from 1 to 6, with 6 being excellent and grades below 4 being unsatisfactory.
  • Brief description of the content/learning objectives of the different courses/lectures (annotated course catalog or module handbook)
  • Originally certified translations of the original documents (e.g. diploma, diploma supplement, bachelor's or master's degree, transcripts of diploma records), if these are not written in German, English, French or Italian. These translations have to be inseparably connected with the originally certified photocopies of the original documents.
  • GRE General Test score (only the results of the test part “Quantitative Reasoning” are relevant for admission)
  • Photocopy of your valid passport or identity card
  • Application fee: CHF 105
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