The Master’s programme in Social and Cultural Anthropology provides theoretical concepts and skills for analyzing the world's social and cultural complexity, using human security as a prism. The programme takes both the physical and existential dimensions of human security, and their interaction into account. A core principle of the programme is the interdependency between social transformations and the meaning that people give to these transformations. That’s why the programme has two profiles. The Development and Social Transformations profile focuses on poverty, sustainability, politics and peace; the Constructing Identities and Notions of Belonging profile addresses issues of nationality, ethnicity, gender and religion.
Over the past years the Master’s in SCA has proven to be highly successful, in terms of the quality assessment by the accreditation organisation for higher education in the Netherlands, NVAO; in terms of success rate of students; and by intake of students.
