Social Anthropology
Description
The Master's program in Social Anthropology delves into the interconnections of contemporary global transnational and multicultural societies, intercultural understanding, and teaches students to explore social practices, political strategies, and cultural meanings. Here, you will study the fundamentals of ethnography and anthropological field research methods, contemporary theories of social anthropology, ethnicity, migration, identity politics, and other subjects. You will also have the opportunity to learn more about topics that interest you from the list of elective subjects: from gender, medical, and visual anthropology to urban, food, and nutrition anthropology. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to obtain a certificate in "Intercultural Understanding" from Southern Illinois University (USA) as part of your studies. The certificate will be awarded alongside your VDU diploma. After completing these studies, you will be able to work as an intercultural understanding consultant, researcher, and analyst in various projects, migration, asylum, and refugee affairs services, intercultural institutions, international organizations, foundations, human resources, public opinion, and market research fields. You will also have the opportunity to further your studies in a doctoral program.
Keywords
#InterculturalUnderstanding #Identity #Regions #MulticulturalSociety #Culture

Anthropology offers a unique lens that transforms how we see and understand our world. Unlike any other discipline, it provides tools to decode the complexity of human experience across cultures, making the unfamiliar familiar and the familiar extraordinary. As program head, I invite you to join us in this intellectual journey that will forever change how you understand society, culture, and ultimately, yourself.
Dr. Eugenijus Liutkevičius Lecturer

Anthropology is the science of humans, society, and culture, which will compel you to look at "common sense" things with completely new eyes.
dr. Kristina Jonutytė Lecturer

Personally, this science helps me understand the world around me - why we live the way we do; why we have certain customs or traditions; where all of this comes from... It's a science that encourages questioning everything.
Šarūnė Baltramonaitytė, Graduate, Researcher at "Kilo Health"
Partners


Student internships, research, projects, conferences, and other events, participation in the process of improving and implementing studies.
Curriculum
Course | Lecturer | ECTS Credits |
Contemporary Theories in Sociocultural Anthropology | Vytis Čubrinskas | 6 |
Engaging with Ethnography | Kristina Jonutytė | 6 |
Research Methods in Social Anthropology | Kristina Šliavaitė | 6 |
Optional courses I | ||
Special Course 1 | Kristina Šliavaitė | 6 |
Sociology and Anthropology of Gender | Artūras Tereškinas | 6 |
Medical Sociology and Anthropology | Giedrė Baltrušaitytė | 6 |
Visual Anthropology | Kristina Šliavaitė | 6 |
Economic Anthropology | Kristina Jonutytė | 6 |
Special Course No. 2: Home, Belonging and Identity in Migration | 6 | |
Special Course 2 | Kristina Šliavaitė | 6 |
Special Course 3 | Kristina Šliavaitė | 6 |
Special Course 1: Anthropology of Heritage | 6 |
Course | Lecturer | ECTS Credits |
Ethnicity, Migration and Politics of Identity | Vytis Čubrinskas | 6 |
Research Project Design | Vytis Čubrinskas | 6 |
Applied Anthropology | Kristina Šliavaitė | 6 |
Optional courses I | ||
Area Studies in Anthropology | Vytis Čubrinskas | 6 |
Special Course 2 | Kristina Šliavaitė | 6 |
Anthropology of Food | Ullrich Kockel | 6 |
Religion, Culture and the State | Jolanta Kuznecovienė | 6 |
Anthropology of Law and Crime | Kristina Šliavaitė | 6 |
Course | Lecturer | ECTS Credits |
Anthropological Fieldwork | Vytis Čubrinskas | 6 |
Ethnographic Practice | Vytis Čubrinskas | 6 |
Political Anthropology | 6 |
Optional courses I | ||
Sociology and Anthropology of Gender | Artūras Tereškinas | 6 |
Medical Sociology and Anthropology | Giedrė Baltrušaitytė | 6 |
Sociology of Civil Society | Jurga Bučaitė-Vilkė | 6 |
Anthropology of Socialism and Postsocialism | Kristina Šliavaitė | 6 |
Urban Anthropology | Kristina Jonutytė | 6 |
Cognitive Anthropology | Kristina Šliavaitė | 6 |
Course | Lecturer | ECTS Credits |
Master Graduation Thesis | Vytis Čubrinskas | 30 |