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Limited is the right word - I emailed them about applying for it to go in my third year (Students at the Durham campus have to go for a year, rather than just a semester, so you take a year out of your degree and then come back to Durham afterwards to do third year) - They said that Erasmus probably wont be running this year, they're having some sort of problem with it, which is really annoying as they have it on their website and it was something i'd set my heart on doing! However, they said there is the International Exchange programme that you can apply for, which means you can go anywhere in the world, but I don't know what funding is available for this yet, I need to go speak to the International Office as Anthropology dept don't real deal with it, and it's far more competitive than Erasmus which rarely turns anyone away.

It's definitely a big negative point, depending on how important study abroad is to you. However, I definitely feel like Durham has one of the best Anth departments in the country, the staff are excellent and so friendly and whilst sometimes you'll be like wtf am I actually learning here (as with any course i'd imagine!) it's also at other times one of the most absorbing and fascinating courses to study. It gets a lot better by the end of first year in most people's opinion, and the second year modules look really good so hopefully it's only upwards from there on.

I certainly have no regrets about studying Anth here!

I would probably say that it was more weighted towards the biological side, for example in my first year there were two social modules, one evolutionary, one medical and then obviously you pick two outside modules. However many of these modules are inter-disciplinary because Durham's course likes to highlight the interplay between the bio and social sides a lot, which becomes more apparent when you see the second year modules. For example Families in the Social Order, one of the social modules, had a lot of genetics and biology in it too, whereas Well-Being Livelihood and Society, the medical module, also has a lot of social stuff in it because the science needs context.

I started off thinking i'd be more interested in the social side and now strongly prefer the biological, but the mixture at Durham is nice, I don't think you'd find yourself wanting too more social stuff than there is.

I'd advise you to look at the module handbooks and see for yourself what it's all about really, you never know, the biological stuff might spark your interest.

Hi there, yeah i'm willing to answer any questions you have about it What was it that made you unsure that you'd enjoy it?