Program name

Psychological Anthropology (interdisciplinary)

Program authors

Professor Lali Surmanidze

Qualification awarded

Master of Psychological Anthropology  

Language of instruction

Georgian

The purpose of the MA program is to provide students with current topics of modern psychological anthropology, integral knowledge and research problems about those strategies with which an individual, emotions and subjectivity are established through cultural practices. The program focuses on the establishment of anthropological vision based on cultural aspects of human experience.

• Persons with bachelor’s degrees in psychology and educational sciences, social and political sciences as well as humanities are eligible to study on the program.
• Persons willing to change their profession who have bachelor’s degree in natural, exact (biology, mathematics, physics, medicine), technical sciences and management;
• The program is open for persons with bachelor’s degrees who are interested in psycho-anthropological aspects of any particular sphere (mass media, politics, international relations, economy, law, etc.);
• The program is also open for BA graduates of 2010-2011 (in line with the program requirements), as  well as the persons with five-year education diplomas;
• The enrollment will take place based on an essay written in specialization and an interview.

Providing students with the scientific information about socio-cultural anthropology and particularly about applied anthropology; critical teaching of the latest empirical/research strategies and basic principles of methodological and empirical-research paradigms of anthropological research; acquirement of broadly used research technologies; teaching of the research planning and data collection, statistical analysis and interpretation of collected data; generally, teaching of the research-specific activity on the basis of development of the interdisciplinary thinking.

Learning Outcomes:

Graduates will acquire: Deep and systematic knowledge of traditional and modern anthropology that includes terminological /conceptual apparatus and theoretical models; research skills: research planning, choosing/applying methods, data analysis; conclusion making, communicational, learning skills and general transfer skills; ability to use acquired knowledge in practice.

Program Structure: Master’s Program is based on certain courses from the curriculums of the faculties of Humanities and Social and Political Sciences. Amount of courses is 22. 17 of them are mandatory, 5 – elective. Each course – both, mandatory and elective – has 5 ECTS. Program ends with empirical-research thesis, which has 30 ECTS.

• Centers interested in comparative anthropological and psychological research (both scientific and applied)
• Research institutes for human studies with both socio-humanitarian and natural orientation;
• Scientific organizations or their departments studying culture and cultural peculiarities;
• Institutions offering specializations in anthropology, psychology and culture;
• Government and private structures whose interests involve studying the dynamics of various spheres of public life;
• Specialized research organizations/centers (governmental and non-governmental sectors) whose interests involve analysis of various spheres of social and cultural life through using psycho-anthropological research data (economy, business, marketing, management, education, medicine, mass media, politics, law, service sphere, etc.);
• Organizations oriented to solving social, political and economic problems that have demand for psycho-anthropological research data;
• Governmental and non-governmental, as well as international organizations involved in regulation of ethnic conflicts;
• Mass media
• Travel agencies