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Short History of the Department of Cultural and Visual Anthropology, University of Miskolc, Hungary
Cultural anthropology is quite a newly emerged social science to be taught in the system of the Hungarian higher education. After the fall of the socialist regime in 1989 the practice of Hungarian social scientific education has also experienced significant changes. Despite our discipline’s, cultural anthropology’s more than one hundred years of history in the Anglo-Saxon world, it was only the newly emerging approaches that made it possible to include cultural anthropology to the Hungarian higher educational system. Before that cultural anthropology did not have institutional background, professional recognition or acknowledged publication resources in the country. To introduce cultural anthropology into the Hungarian higher education, in 1990 the ELTE University (Budapest) established its own cultural anthropological group. In 1992 the first independent cultural anthropological department of Hungary was founded at the University of Miskolc (UM), under the name of Department of Cultural and Visual Anthropology.

Founder of the Department, UM, Hungary
The founder and the first head of the department was Ernő KUNT (1948–1994), a well-known scholar in Hungary in the field of the anthropology of death and visual anthropology. In 1993 both the ELTE and the University of Miskolc received the right to offer a five-year program (BA and MA degree together) on cultural anthropology. Both universities experienced a huge interest by students both toward the discipline and the program.

Bachelor and Master of Arts Program in Cultural Anthropology, UM, Hungary
When the system of differentiating between university degrees (BA and MA) was implemented in the Hungarian higher educational system, the program on cultural anthropology became one of the 102 majors offered in Hungary. In 2006, the University of Miskolc accredited the first and only BA program in cultural anthropology in Hungary. In 2008, the MA program has also been accredited at the University of Miskolc. In 2015, the BA program was terminated together with other BA programs in social sciences according to the then relevant amendments of the Hungarian education law. After significant changes made in the curriculum, integrating different applied aspects of contemporary sociocultural anthropology, the new BA program in Cultural Anthropology has been accredited in 2019. In September 2020, the Department proceeds to educate and train students in accordance with the new application-oriented and, as it is, the only Bachelor’s degree program in Cultural Anthropology in Hungary. The Department also offers a two-year long MA program in Cultural Anthropology in English as of 2020/2021.

MA Program in Cultural Anthropology in English, UM, Hungary
The Master of Arts program in Cultural Anthropology (UM) offers students a twofold opportunity at a university in Central Europe in English. One is to explore historically and socially variable cultural phenomena, from Europe and North America to Africa, Asia and South America (mandatory courses on People of the World) with a special emphasis on Central Europe. The other is to deepen and broaden their knowledge and understanding of local contexts and sociocultural processes in our fully globalized world. We welcome students from all over the world who are interested in various aspects and dimensions of culture (cultural diversity) and human nature, the application of social scientific knowledge and the special sociocultural contexts of Central Europe. Cultural Anthropology is a master degree (MA) program including courses on history and theory of anthropology, qualitative research methods, and on subdisciplines of contemporary sociocultural anthropology, especially different aspects of applied and visual anthropology. The courses offer deep understanding of and broad knowledge on the structure of Hungarian and Central European societies, regional and local social and cultural conflicts, an analysis of the effects of globalization, and on the evolution and workings of local sociocultural changes. Strength of our program is that it provides a deep insight into recent anthropological discourses and practices in and on Central Europe.

Applicants for the MA Cultural Anthropology may be eligible to apply for Stipendium Hungarcium. See details here.

Career Prospects
The degree prepares students 1) to proceed to advanced postgraduate research or 2) to work as practitioners in fields related to applied and visual anthropology both in the civil society and the business world; 3) as researchers to use different kinds of qualitative methods of data collection and analysis; 4) as experts to prepare and make policy briefs and recommendations in the government sector; and 5) as change agents to identify, understand and analyze various types of sociocultural conflicts.

Location
3515 Miskolc – University of Miskolc, Hungary Bld. C/1, Third floor

Contact
Head of Department: József KOTICS, PhD (kotics.j@gmail.com) Program Coordinator: Veronika LAJOS, PhD (miskolc.anthropology@gmail.com) Webpage: http://anthropology.uni-miskolc.hu and http://www.kvat.uni-miskolc.hu For any concerns or further questions on our MA Program in English, please do not hesitate to contact Our Department at miskolc.anthropology@gmail.com.