In the Human, Social, and Political Sciences (HSPS) Tripos, students in Part IIA and Part IIB can choose from a range of optional Social Anthropology courses that vary from year to year. These optional courses reflect the current research interests of Social Anthropology staff.
Current optional papers
- SAN7: Ethnographic Methods and Writing (available to Part IIA only)
- SAN8: Environment, Development and Indigeneity
- SAN10: The Anthropology of Post-socialist Societies
- SAN14: The Anthropology of History, Memory and Time
Optional papers 2025-26
- SAN2 (was SAN7): Ethnographic Methods and Writing (Part I and Part IIA single SAN track only)
- SAN8: Environment, Development and Indigeneity
- SAN13: Gender, Kinship and Care
- SAN17: Engaged Anthropology: Policy, Practice and Institutions
Provisional list of optional papers for 2026-27
- SAN2: Ethnographic Methods and Writing
- SAN13: Gender, Kinship and Care
- SAN15: Expression and Evocation in Anthropology (NEW paper, title tbc)
- SAN17: Engaged Anthropology: Policy, Practice and Institutions