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If English is not your first language and you are uncertain what this means, please refer to the <a href="https://www.coe.int/en/web/common-european-framework-reference-languages/table-1-cefr-3.3-common-reference-levels-global-scale" target="_blank">global CEFR scale</a>. We would look for applicants to be at B2 level. This <a href="https://rm.coe.int/CoERMPublicCommonSearchServices/DisplayDCTMContent?documentId=090000168045bb52" target="_blank">self-evaluation PDF</a> may help you understand if you are at the B2 level.</p> </p> </section> <section id="certificate" class="heading-section content-section section__anchor--sticky"> <h2 class="heading-section__heading">Certificate</h2> <p> <p>If successful, you will receive a Certificate of Completion and a digital badge from the University of St Andrews.聽</p> </p> </section> <section id="coursedates" class="heading-section content-section section__anchor--sticky"><h2 class="heading-section__heading">Course dates</h2><div class="clist"><dl class="paired-values-list"><dt class="paired-values-list__name"><i class="far fa-calendar-alt" aria-hidden="true" title="Date"></i> Start date:</dt><dd class="paired-values-list__value">Friday 21 February 2025</dd><dt class="paired-values-list__name"><i class="far fa-calendar-alt" aria-hidden="true" title="Date"></i> End date:</dt><dd class="paired-values-list__value">Sunday 9 March 2025</dd><dt class="paired-values-list__name"><i class="far fa-calendar-alt" aria-hidden="true" title="Cost"></i> Cost:</dt><dd class="paired-values-list__value"> 拢1,500</dd><dt class="paired-values-list__name">Duration:</dt><dd class="paired-values-list__value">16 days</dd></dl></div></section> </article></div></div><div class="sta-grey-light col-md-12" id="courseteachers"><div class="container"><article class="sta-grid-item__main content"><section class="course-leads " class="heading-section content-section section__anchor--sticky"><h2 class="heading-section__heading">Course teachers</h2><div class="row"><div class="col-md-5"><div class="featured-people__person featured-people__person--indent"><a href="https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthropology/people/sp78/" class="featured-people__image" tabindex="-1"><img src="https://st-andrews.eduframe.nl//public/files/354778/stavroula.jpg?representation=medium" alt="Stavroula Pipyrou"></a><div class="featured-people__person--group"><a href="https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthropology/people/sp78/" ><h3 class="featured-people__name">Stavroula Pipyrou</h3></a></div><div class="featured-people__description"><p><p>Stavroula Pipyrou is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews and Founding Director of the Centre for Minorities Research. She has conducted long-term ethnographic research with minorities in Italy since 2006. In her first monograph 'The Grecanici of Southern Italy: Governance, Violence, and Minority Politics' (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016) she presents a theory of “Fearless Governance” – overlapping and sometimes contradictory systems of power, authority, and relational networks that enable the minority to achieve political representation at the intersection of local, national, and global encounters.</p> </p></div></div></div><div class="col-md-5"><div class="featured-people__person featured-people__person--indent"><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Camila-Marinelli" class="featured-people__image" tabindex="-1"><img src="https://st-andrews.eduframe.nl//public/files/355806/Camila.jpg?representation=medium" alt="Camila Marinelli"></a><div class="featured-people__person--group"><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Camila-Marinelli" ><h3 class="featured-people__name">Camila Marinelli</h3></a></div><div class="featured-people__description"><p><p>Camila is a PhD student in the School of Psychology, Anthropology, and Film Studies at the University of St Andrews. Her research relates to the dialogue between two different knowledge systems in universities in Brazil, indigenous and scientific knowledge. This research aims to provide original scholarship on the debate about the epistemological challenges encountered by divergent groupings of indigenous students in Brazilian universities.</p> </p></div></div></div></div></section> </article></div></div></div></div><div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-xs-12"></div></div></div> </main>  <footer id="footer"> <div id="website-footer"> <div id="d.en.186922" class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-4"> <h2>Subjects at St Andrews</h2> <ul> <li><a href="/subjects/ancient-history/" target="null">Ancient history</a></li> <li><a href="/subjects/arabic/" target="null">Arabic</a></li> <li><a href="/subjects/archaeology/" target="null">Archaeology</a></li> <li><a href="/subjects/art-history/" target="null">Art history</a></li> <li><a href="/subjects/biology/" target="null">Biology</a></li> <li><a href="/subjects/chemistry/" target="null">Chemistry</a></li> <li><a href="/subjects/chinese-studies/" 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