IB Social & Cultural Anthropology

Applications Open: - 3rd November 2025

Applications Close: - 30th June 2026

Entry Requirements: - 5 x grade 4-9 including Maths & English at G5

How to Apply: - Please apply via KentChoices

IBCP students will take a minimum of three courses of study. All of these will be Level 3 courses (A/AS Level equivalent). The courses will be a combination of vocational BTEC qualification (equivalent to up to 3 A Levels, approximately 10 hours of study per week) and 2 IB subjects (approx. AS level each and studied for 5 hours a fortnight). If you select this subject you must also select one BTEC in your application and one other IB subject.

Anthropology contributes to an understanding of issues such as poverty, injustice, the environment, inequality, war and conflict, as well as human and cultural rights. The study of anthropology offers critical insight into social change and the development of societies alongside challenging cultural assumptions.The aim of the Social & Cultural Anthropology course is:

1. to explore the principles of social and cultural life and the characteristics of societies and cultures

2. to develop an awareness of historical, scientific and social contexts within which humanity has developed

3. to develop the capacity to recognise preconceptions and assumptions of your own social and cultural environments

4. to develop an awareness of relationships between local. regional, national and global issues

You will study 3 societies in detail:

1. TheTrobrianders of Papua New Guinea

2. UK Traveller Gypsies

3. Indian Call-Centre women

For entry into King Ethelbert School Sixth Form all students must attain 5 grades between Grade 9 and Grade 4 (or equivalent) with a Grade 5 in both English Language and Mathematics.

Anthropologists work in a number of fields: Academic Research, Healthcare, Education, Inequality: housing and homelessness, Charities - Human Rights, Banking and Development - The World Bank, Retail - Amazon, Technology - computer development, Film production, Journalism, International Politics and Development.

Anthropology can be combined with other subjects for joint honours at many universities. Law and Human Science degrees are often strongly anthropological in content.