The anthropology curriculum at Wits encourages critical and informed debate about the ways that vital social issues - problems of inequality, power, justice, violence, health, identity, intimacy, or ethics - have taken shape and been argued about in modern African lifeworlds. In the first year of this undergraduate programme, students learn how questions about humanity, diversity and identity have been framed and debated in modern African thought. In the second year, students experience fieldwork as a technique to explore both the lifeworlds of African cities, such as Johannesburg, and the ways in which our bodies become so important to our experiences of social life. In the third year, students explore the global history of modern anthropological thought, examine critical concepts for thinking through questions of race and racism, survey important sub-fields such as medical or legal and political anthropology, and are introduced to the practice of presenting social research in public fora.

High School Completion International English Language Testing System (IELTS) with a minimum test score of 7.0