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The Human Sciences BA degree course considers humans as a biological, social and cultural species, and provides a challenging alternative to some of the more traditional courses offered at Oxford.
 
The degree offers an inter-disciplinary academic training that enables students to study humans from the contrasting perspectives of the biological and social sciences and to make connections between them.
 
Underlying Human Sciences is a recognition that it is important to build bridges between the various human sciences at a time when advances in genetics, evolutionary biology and the social sciences need to be applied to the problems of a rapidly changing world.
 
Teaching for the Human Sciences degree is provided by a number of departments of the University, including Anthropology, Physiology, Psychology, Sociology and Zoology. Hence, while the Institute of Human Sciences has few staff of its own, it draws on the experience and expertise of academics from a wide range of disciplines. This is reflected in the links to personal web-pages that can be accessed via our ‘Fellows’ link.
 
The Institute of Human Sciences is based at The Pauling Centre 58a Banbury Road. It is administered through the School of Anthropology, within the Social Sciences division.

 

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Environmental Conflict and its Resolution Seminar Podcasts

The podcasts from the talks given at the Michaelmas Term 2011 Global Policy Seminar on Environmental Policy and its Resolution, which was hosted jointly by the Institute of Human Sciences, OxPeace and the African Studies Centre, are now available on the Democracy in Africa Website, along with a blog about the seminar.

2011 Bob Hiorns and Wilma Crowther Prizes

The Institute of Human Sciences is pleased to announce the winners of the 2011 Bob Hiorns and Wilma Crowther Prizes

 

 

 

Ethno-ornithology

Dr Andy Gosler's new book was published in February 2010.

Ethno-ornithology

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Human Sciences Seminars

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