BA Honours Anthropology at University of the Witwatersrand

Programme overview

Benefit from advancing your knowledge of the development of societies across time. Students who would like to pursue postgraduate studies in Anthropology can enrol into our Honours programme. Students must take the two core courses ’The Craft of Anthropology' and 'South African Ethnography’, and two additional elective courses selected from those on offer.

Faculty: Humanities | Department: Social Sciences | Duration: 1 - 2 years | Study mode: full-time | Location: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

What you will study

Semester 1 Course Title: The Craft of Anthropology | Course Code: ANTH4024A & ANTH 7026A The Craft of anthropology provides a context in which to examine the categories, theories, methods, and craft of social research and writing. In this course, we will be thinking together about the process of undertaking a research project, engaging with some debates within the discipline about the history and

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Application information

Entry requirements

Students will be considered for admission to Honours in Anthropology if they have a final mark of at least 67% or higher for 3rd Year in Anthropology.

Tuition is charged per module, so the total depends on the modules you register for each year. Current fees are listed in the official fee schedule.

Postgraduate applications are made online at www.wits.ac.za/applications; the closing date for each programme is listed in its course finder entry. The application fee is R200 (not payable by current Wits students applying online), paid via the Self-Service Portal or by EFT to the Wits University Application Fees account at FNB.

Apply through the official page: https://www.wits.ac.za/applications

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