Bachelor of Arts
Anthropology - unit set code MJ-A000007
Anthropology is the study of the lives of people in a range of societies. This major sequence investigates kinship and family; gender; economic and political anthropology; work and consumption; religion, ritual and witchcraft; person, society and cosmos; death; the impact of and problems caused by expanding European nations on the peoples of Africa and the Pacific; globalisation; processes of change in the Third World; international tourism; festivals; medical anthropology; communal conflict; ethnicity; international migration and doing fieldwork.
On successful completion of the Anthropology major sequence, students should have the following skills:
- a detailed understanding of cultural diversity
- an appreciation of the full array of globalising forces at work in the contemporary world
- an ability to reflexively relate the cultural realities of other societies to their own social experience
- an informed and refined critical consciousness in regard to social life.
Level 1
Trimester 1
| ASS101 | Anthropology 1A: Culture and Imagination (G, X) |
Trimester 2
| ASS102 | Anthropology 1B: Culture and Communication (G, X) |
Select 6 credit points, including at least 2 credit points at level 2 and at least 2 credit points at level 3 from the following:
Level 2 and 3
Trimester 1
| ASS205/ASS305 | Anthropology of Poverty and Development (G, X) |
| ASS229/ASS329 | Anthropology of Crime and Violence (G, X) |
| ASS233/ASS333 | Myth and Ritual (G, X) |
Trimester 2
| ASS206/ASS306 | Medical Anthropology (G, X) |
| ASS228/ASS328 | Australian People: Anthropological Insights (G, X) |
| ASS234/ASS334 | 10 Billion People: Environmental Anthropology (G, X) |
