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>>Nura: Hi I'm Nura, I study Anthropology
here at Bournemouth University. Welcome to
Christchurch House.
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>>Nura: Christchurch House is where we have
most of our lectures and seminars and a lot
of our labs are here as well. So We have our
bone labs and our
chemistry labs, so I think you'll be here
a lot.
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>>Nura: Alright, so this is the Anthropology
lab. I'm in my final year so I'm in here once
a week usually, when we're in here we look
at bones in the body a lot
and we look at different kind of dentition.
As well as looking at the human body in general
we look at sub-adult people and their skeletons.
So this is an example
of a 10 year old, so a juvenile and this is
an adult skull. So the kind of differences
we see in that. As well as that we look at
pathology, so these are
examples of pathology shown in bones. So this
is an example of syphilis shown in the skull.
And this is just trauma, so a gunshot wound.
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>>Nura: Hey!
>>Alex: Hi there
>>Nura: I'm Nura, I do Anthropology, what
do you do?
>>Alex: I'm Alex, I study Sociology & Anthropology.
>>Nura: Oh wow, what's that about?
>>Alex: So, Sociology & Anthropology is the
study of cultures so, all across the world.
So whereas your course is more focussed on
humans and what they're made
of, mine is more focussed on what people do
and maybe why they do it and trying to draw
similarities across cultures, both of our
own and others. How do you find
your lecturers at BU?
>>Nura: They're so helpful, so many different
lecturers that are in different kinds of fields.
Like, one of my lecturers specialises in evolution,
another lecturer
focusses entirely like on like primates. So
I think that we've got a wide like, a wide
set of staff. So we, whatever we are interested
in to, this helps with
dissertation as well. We can go to them and
be like, well I like this subject, they know
more about it because they're like experts
in that field.
>>Alex: Oh that's really helpful.
>>Nura: Yeah, what about you?
>>Alex: My lecturers are great. I like how,
yeah many of them they actually have a specialty,
so they may study one kind of culture in depth
and become
experts in that culture.
>>Nura: So do you do a placement year on your
course?
>>Alex: Yeah we have the option of doing a
sandwich placement, so it's a thirty week
placement. At any workplace which you need
to find that yourself, but
you do get a lot of help in that process,
from kind of like careers advisors and stuff
like that.
>>Nura: Yeah, we have the option to do a sandwich
year as well. So, yeah originally I didn't
really know what to do and I was like you
know, maybe when
I finish university I won't have the skills
that I could possibly have if I go on a placement.
So I said, oh maybe, probably going on placement
is you know,
more helpful for me in the future.
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>>Alex: I'm based on Lansdowne most of the
time, but occasionally I'm on Talbot campus
too.
>>Nura: What's Lansdowne like?
>>Alex: Lansdowne's good, so it's the university
campus in the middle of the town centre I
guess? So it's quite nice especially in first
year it's good
because its near where your living most of
the time and it's only a short walk away for
lectures and stuff. So most of the social
sciences degrees are
in Lansdowne campus. So what do you get up
to outside of university?
>>Nura: Um, i usually go to a lot of seminars
and talks and a lot of society talks. It sounds
a bit boring [laughs], but no, like every
Tuesday the
university or the department runs seminars
each week.
>>Alex: Oh ok
>>Nura: Lecturers from different universities
or researchers come in to talk about their
interests. And you know, I do a lot of like
society things. Like,
I'm part of the Archaeological society, you
know go to the beach a lot I guess!
