History and Anthropology

About this course

History and anthropology share a fundamental curiosity about human life across time and across cultures, and together they offer an unusually rich lens on the world. History trains you to work with evidence from the past, to question sources critically, and to understand how societies change and why. Anthropology takes the present and the recent past as its territory, using ethnographic methods and cross-cultural comparison to examine how different communities organise their lives, make meaning, and respond to power. Studying both together deepens your understanding of what it means to be human in ways that neither discipline achieves alone. At the University of Sussex, this three-year full-time programme draws on more than fifty years of anthropological teaching and research that has consistently engaged with real-world problems. You will study periods and societies from across global

Where its graduates go

The 5 largest scored destinations, covering 47% of graduates; the headline also reflects the subject baseline.

• 60 / 100Business, Research and Administrative Professionals · 7% of graduatescards →
• 55 / 100Administrative occupations · 13% of graduatescards →
• 52 / 100Finance Professionals · 6% of graduatescards →
• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 16% of graduatescards →
• 40 / 100Sales occupations · 5% of graduatescards →

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