Anthropology, Media and Digital Practice

In an increasingly media-based world, this programme will equip you with the digital media production skills required to create contemporary anthropologically and socially informed work.

• Anthropology is the study of humans, culture and society. On this programme, you will develope your theoretical knowledge of anthropology, while honing your digital media production skills to produce creatively challenging work and alternatives to contemporary media representations

• You will explore creative approaches to digital media, including approaches from contemporary art practice, photojournalism, and many other kinds of media production – as well as more traditional documentary approaches

• You will receive hands-on training in the use of industry-standard editing software such as Adobe Premiere and Audition. Goldsmiths is an official Adobe Creative Campus, meaning you will also be able to access and download the Adobe Creative Cloud suite for free on your own devices

• You will be actively encouraged to draw from your own experiences to produce audiovisual work that addresses issues that directly affect your own life, from racial injustices to climate change

• You will explore ideas of multimodality (the combination of different audiovisual media, such as photography, film, audio recording and others, alongside text to engage with social process) and how this has shifted the discipline of anthropology as a whole

• On completion of the programme, you will have produced a coherent portfolio of visual and digital creative work, which demonstrates cross-disciplinary skills to potential employers, or for further postgraduate study

Course Modules

Year 1
In your first year, you will study the following compulsory modules:

• Introduction to Digital Research Practices

• Approaches to Contemporary Anthropology

• Anthropological Methods

• Ethnographic Film

• Academic Skills for Anthropology

• Anthropological Ideas Today

Year 2
In your second year, you will study the following compulsory modules:

• Digital and Image-based Storytelling: (Counter) Cartographies

• Digital Ethnographic Filmmaking

• Critical Ecologies: black, indigenous, queer and transnational feminist approaches

• Anthropology and Political Economy

• Thinking Anthropologically

• Thinking Through Race

• The Goldsmiths Elective

You will also choose one of the following optional modules:

• Anthropology and Public Policy

• Indigenous Cosmopolitics, Anthropology and Global Justice

• Anthropology of Religion

• The Goldsmiths Project

Year 3
In your final year, you will choose to study one of the following compulsory modules:

• Individual Studies with Practice or Extended Individual Studies with Practice

Option modules
You will also choose 75 - 90 credits of option modules from a list of approved options available annually from the Department of Anthropology.

Please note that due to staff research commitments not all of these modules may be available every year.

You’ll be assessed by a variety of methods, depending on your module choices. These may include coursework, examinations, group work and projects.

All assessed work is accompanied by some form of feedback to ensure that your work is on the right track. It may come in a variety of forms ranging from written comments on a marked essay to oral and written feedback on developing projects and practice as you attend workshops.