The MA in Anthrozoology at the University of Exeter is unique in its anthropological focus on the many and varied ways in which humans perceive, engage, compete and co-exist with non-human animals in a range of cultural contexts. An understanding of human interactions with other animals is of paramount importance in the contemporary world where human lives and sustainable futures are inextricably linked with the fate of the nonhuman world.

This Distance-Learning MA covers a diverse range of themes, including pet-keeping, animal domestication, environmental conservation, eating animals, animal assisted therapy, zoonotic disease, cruelty to animals, representations of animals and animal welfare. These topics are subjected to rigorous theoretical analysis, and the anthropological approach facilitates cross-cultural comparison of seemingly contradictory attitudes and practices. The MA has won a Humane Society of the United States Distinguished Course Award and the Programme Director is the winner of the Association of Social Anthropologists' Award for Excellence 2011 and has recently published a core textbook on Anthrozoology.

Entry Requirements

Normally a 2:1 Honours degree or equivalent in a discipline related to the programme.
If candidate are an international student, please visit our international equivalency pages to enable candidate to see if candidate's existing academic qualifications meet our entry requirements. Candidate will also need to satisfy our English language entry requirements. Please see our English language requirements pages for details.

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We have developed this MSc to support research students and for students interested in a specific area of education. Students attend one or two weekly twilight sessions during term-time dependent on whether the full- or part-time option is selected. The programme can also be studied with no attendance at Exeter by distance learning.

You will be able to specialise in a particular field of education, within a research preparation framework or context and benefit from collaboration with fellow students in small online groups on directed activities.
Distance students follow the taught modules through listening to online recorded presentations that correspond to campus sessions. Distance students also join the small online groups with campus students for the directed activities and have occasional online live links to campus sessions, e.g. for a debate and online group presentations.

If English is your second language, we offer a supplementary support.

The programme aims to equip you with:

a good grasp of the central ideas, concepts, debates, theories, philosophies and approaches employed by educational researchers;

a critical understanding of the main methodologies of educational research and strategies to decide which are appropriate to the problems they are investigating;

skills and understanding to conduct research projects independently using any of the main methodologies of educational research;

knowledge of and skills in the various forms of communicating and disseminating educational research.

Entry Requirements

Candidates will be expected to have obtained a first degree equivalent to at least a UK 2:1 Honours in a relevant area such as Social Sciences, Humanities or Management, and to have demonstrable interest in educational research.
If candidates are an international student, please visit our international equivalency pages to enable candidates to see if candidate's existing academic qualifications meet our entry requirements. Candidates will also need to satisfy our English language entry requirements. Please see our English language requirements pages for details.

Other Fees

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