Comparative Literature and Social Anthropology

About this course

Comparative literature and social anthropology is an unusual and intellectually rich combination that approaches human culture from two different but complementary directions. Comparative literature opens literary study across the boundaries of language and culture, inviting you to read texts of any genre, any period, and any origin, asking how literary forms and ideas travel across traditions and what the study of one literature illuminates about another, as St Andrews itself describes. Social anthropology takes a similarly cross-cultural approach, but through the study of societies and their practices, beliefs, kinship systems, and material cultures, asking fundamental questions about what it means to be human across radically different social contexts. The University of St Andrews' four-year full-time Comparative Literature and Social Anthropology degree has a typical entry tariff of

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 60% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 60 / 100Business, Research and Administrative Professionals · 5% of graduatescards →
• 55 / 100Administrative occupations · 15% of graduatescards →
• 52 / 100Finance Professionals · 5% of graduatescards →
• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 25% of graduatescards →
• 45 / 100Media Professionals · 10% of graduatescards →

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