This degree is particularly suited to students who are curious about their own and other societies, and who are interested in understanding social processes and meanings in the world around them. Rigorous training is provided in a range of methodologies and research skills appropriate to anthropology and sociology. Anthropology at Brunel Anthropology at Brunel is one of the more outward-looking and cosmopolitan social sciences, its subject being the documentation and explanation of cultural diversity. The course differs from Anthropology courses at other universities because of the broad social science perspective from which it is taught. Research has an international reputation, with particular expertise in child-focused anthropological research and medical anthropology. Sociology at Brunel A central theme of Sociology at Brunel is the study of the development of techno-cultural phenomena such media and information technology, and environmental issues, which straddle traditional conceptual distinctions between the social, the natural, the technical and the material. Within this broad framework, a central theme of Sociology at Brunel is the study of the development of techno-cultural phenomena such media and information technology, and environmental issues, which straddle traditional conceptual distinctions between the social, the natural, the technical and the material. It also needs to be stressed that, at Brunel, Sociology has developed a particularly close relationship with Communication and Media Studies, reflecting and emphasising the central and ever-increasing importance of the communications media within our culture. Among the more specific interests of Brunel sociologists are, for example, social theory, celebrity culture, the influence of the media, environmental risk, media regulation, media discourses, and contemporary social structure and change, urban spaces, and addiction and deviance. These various interests strongly reflect the options available in the third level of our degree course. Anthropology brochure Sociology and Communications brochure Aims You will apply Anthropology ideas to practical issues and will gain a solid grounding in a broad range of social science topics, including sociology, social theory, social anthropology, psychology, communications and media the social sciences. Special emphasis is placed on cross-cultural studies.

Students who pursue the three-year degree in Anthropology and Sociology undertake empirical research for their final year projects, gaining experience and contacts vital for future employment in a world that increasingly expects job candidates to offer something more than a degree certificate. Brunel anthropology graduates are amongst the most employable in the country. Careers Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE) survey These statistics relate to graduates who studied Social Anthropology as well as those who combined the subject with Sociology. Graduates from this subject are frequently interested in a career in the public or charity sectors, research, social care professions and international aid and development. Others use their degree as a route into careers unrelated to the subject studied. In 2011/12, six months after graduating: * 66.7% of graduates with a first degree were in employment * 13.3% were in full-time further study Read more about graduate destinations for this subject area This degree provides a good general education, from which students can take up wide-ranging careers in, for example, television and radio production, press and publishing, the media, marketing, advertising, market research, public relations, IT work and consultancy, industrial relations, local and central government and administration, and academic research.