Anthropology,BSc (Hons)

Our world faces immense challenges: from conflict and poverty to wildlife conservation. We need people with skills to respond.

Anthropology at Oxford Brookes covers both social and biological aspects of this fascinating discipline. You will explore our origins, our interactions with nature and contemporary human relations.

You’ll examine:

• social justice
• human evolution
• race, gender and sexuality
• environment and conservation
• migration
• international development.

Through field trips, work-based learning, lectures and seminars – led by world-class published academics – you’ll gain highly employable skills.

A cross-cultural focus will take you into case studies – drawn from the research of your lecturers – in places like Japan, Indonesia, Sierra Leone, India, Madagascar, South Africa and Spain.

There are opportunities to study abroad and many extra-curricular activities. You'll build your own degree or select one of our exciting pathways focused on social, biological or combined aspects of anthropology:

• Human Origins,
• International Development & Conservation
• Human Cultures.

An anthropology degree at Oxford Brookes offers numerous possibilities for future careers or further study. The core skills you’ll develop around investigative techniques, writing, research, cultural understanding and fieldwork practices are needed by NGOs, humanitarian organisations, charities, government agencies, private companies and educational institutions.

Our pathways help you to build and refine these skills.

The Human Origins Pathway could lead you into a career as an archaeologist, a forensic anthropologist, a nutritionist, a museum curator, a lab scientist or many other fields.

The International Development & Conservation pathway provides skills that are essential for development, humanitarian and conservation projects around the world.

The Human Cultures Pathway develops cross-cultural understanding with potential to specialise in regions like Asia, Africa or Europe. This expertise is needed in sectors from government and education to the corporate world and international institutions.