Course contents

The MA Programme Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna aims to provide a broad range of state of the art theoretical and methodical knowledge in our discipline.

For ERASMUS Incomings

The thematic contents of lectures and seminars in the MA Programme SCA are in most cases closely connected to the research activities of the permanent staff.
So please inform yourself on the pages of the scientific staff:

https://ksa.univie.ac.at/institut/personen/wissenschaftlich/

Research Focus Areas at the department

The most important topics of research during the last five years have been the following (not ranked in order):

• Anthropology of Urban Dynamics/Migration/Globalization/Diversity
• Historical Anthropology/Ethnohistory
• Legal Anthropology
• Visual Studies/Visual Culture/Media
• Anthropology of Religion, Secularization and Ritual
• History of Socio-cultural Anthropology in the 19th and 20th centuries
• Anthropology of Biomedicine
• Anthropology of Environment, Science and Technology

Furthermore you can inform yourself on the course directory of previous terms to get an insight into our course offer.
Please keep in mind that our course directory changes every term and the current version will always be online about 1-2 month before term start.

If you are not intending to write your master thesis during your stay in Vienna we do not recommend to attend the P6 Module “Anthro Lab”.

Duration and scope

The workload for the SCA MA programme amounts to 120 ECTS credits, which corresponds to a programme duration of four semesters.

The SCA MA programme is structured as follows

• P1 Methods (15 ECTS)
• P2 Theory (15 ECTS)
• P3 Regional research fields (15 ECTS)
• P4 Thematic research fields (15 ECTS)
• APA/APB Alternative mandatory module A or B (15 ECTS)
• P5 Research design and practical abilities (15 ECTS)
• P6 Anthropological laboratory (5 ECTS)
• Master's thesis (20 ECTS)
• Master's examination (5 ECTS)