IB Social and Cultural Anthropology SL

• Level 2 Pathway - For students who still need to resit their Mathematics and English Language GCSE's to gain a Grade 4 alongside Level 2 BTECs.
  
• Level 3 Vocational - For students who have gained a grade 4 in their Mathematics and English Language OR English Literature.
• IBCP Programme - For students gaining 5 GCSE's at Grade 4 and above including Mathematics and English Language.
• Sports Academies (Basketball/Football) - For students wishing to pursue Sport professionally alongside their studies. The academy must be taken in addition to one of the other three pathways on offer.

Number of subjects required:

• Level 3 Pathway - Please select three Level 3 courses (BTEC or RSL)
• IBCP Pathway - Please select two IB Diploma courses and two Level 3 Vocational courses (BTEC or RSL)

Please see our website for our online prospectus, which includes more detailed information about each subject that we offer.

How to Apply:

To apply for the Level 2, Level 3 and IBCP pathway please apply via Kent Choices

To apply for the Basketball or Football academies please email parrym@ntc.kent.sch.uk to express interest and receive invitations to trials.

IB Social and Cultural Anthropology SL - Equivalent to 0.5 A Levels

Social and Cultural Anthropology is the comparative study of culture and human societies.

Anthropologists seek an understanding of humankind in all its diversity. This understanding is reached through the study of societies and cultures and the exploration of the general principles of social and cultural life.

Social and Cultural Anthropology places special emphasis on comparative perspectives that make explicit our own cultural assumptions and those of others. Anthropologists explore problems and issues associated with the complexity of societies in local, regional and global contexts, and as such, it is a dynamic, exciting and highly relevant subject.

Units covered include:

Engaging with Anthropology:

• The language of Anthropology.
• The practice of Anthropology.
• Anthropological thinking.

Engaging with Ethnography (one from each of the following three groups):

• Group 1 - Classifying the World, Health, Illness and Healing, The Body.
• Group 2 - Belonging, Communication, Expression and Technology, Movement, Time and Space.
• Group 3 - Conflict Development, Production, Exchange and Consumption.

External Assessment - Examinations

Paper 1 – Engaging with Anthropology - 1 hrs 30 minutes

Paper 2 – Engaging with Ethnography - 1 hrs 30 minutes

Internal Assessment

Engaging with Anthropology practice – 4 components

• Observation report
• Methodological and conceptual extension of initial fieldwork
• Second fieldwork data collection and analysis
• Critical reflection
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The aim of the internal assessment is for students of anthropology to understand and explore the practice of Anthropology, in terms of the specific research methodologies that anthropologists engage with when analysing Anthropology.

Grade 4+ in 5 GSCEs including English Language, and Maths

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