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2025 unit information
Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online, Community Based Delivery (CBD)*
Nil
1 x 1-hour on-campus lecture per week
1 x 1-hour on-campus seminar per week
1 x 1-hour online lecture per week (recordings provided)
1 x 1-hour online seminar per week
Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.
*Community Based Delivery (CBD): only for students of the National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation NIKERI Institute (located at the Waurn Ponds campus)
Anthropology asks the ultimate question for human beings: what does it mean to be human? Because of this, anthropology is the science that must understand both the physical and the metaphysical dimensions of human existence: how we both create and relate to our environment. The unit commences with an examination of the foundational issues for anthropologists including the nature of human culture, the nature of humans as an evolved species, and the critical importance of human rationality and belief. Examples of human societies and cultures are drawn from Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Americas, and Australia.
Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs)
Articulate a range of anthropological attitudes, terms, and methods in the study of Human Being, including the place of ethnography in anthropological thinking
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO2: Communication
Trace the development of anthropological theory with an ethnographic focus on African cultural and political systems
GLO4: Critical thinking
Unpack and re-assess contemporary social issues by using anthropological terms and frameworks, such as witchcraft, magic, and sorcery
GLO5: Problem Solving
Critique a specific understanding of science and rationality by engaging seriously with the logics of other cultural systems, and communicate understandings of these through written assessments
GLO6: Self-management
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
The texts and reading list for ASS101 can be found via the University Library. Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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