Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the Culture, Health and Medicine specialisation, students will have skills and knowledge to:

1. critically apply theoretical frameworks and research techniques to understanding national and international issues and problems;
2. relate a field of study in the arts, humanities or social sciences to its wider cultural and societal context;
3. critically evaluate ideas and develop creative solutions to complex problems; and
4. communicate and debate complex issues both orally and in writing, using a variety of media.

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Requirements

This specialisation requires the completion of 24 units, which must consist of:

24 units from completion of the following course(s):

Code	Title	Units
ANTH6004	Religion, Ritual and Cosmology	6
ANTH6009	Culture and Development	6
ANTH6017	Culture, Social Justice and Aboriginal Society Today	6
ANTH6025	Gender and Cross-Cultural Perspective	6
ANTH6026	Medicine, Healing and the Body	6
ANTH6057	Culture and Person	6
ANTH6064	Anthropology of Environmental Disasters	6
ANTH6514	Anthropology of Media	6
ANTH6515	Crossing Borders: Migration, Identity and Livelihood	6
ANTH6516	Violence and Terror	6
ANTH6518	Food for Thought: Anthropological theories of food and eating	6
ANTH6519	Social Animals: anthropological perspectives on animal-human relationships	6
BIAN6013	Human Evolution	6
BIAN6115	Race and Human Genetic Variation	6
BIAN6119	Nutrition, Disease and the Environment	6
BIAN6120	Culture, Biology & Population Dynamics	6
BIOL6106	Biosecurity	6
BIOL6141	Infection and Immunity	6
BIOL6144	Molecular Immunology	6
BIOL6191	Biology, Society and Ethics	6
	ECON 6013: Behavioural Economics
ENVS6005	Sustainable Urban Systems	6
ENVS6013	Society and Environmental Change	6
ENVS6025	Complex Environmental Problems in Action	6
ENVS6033	International Environmental Policy	6
ENVS6101	Environment and Society: Geography of Sustainability	6
ENVS6103	Introduction to Environmental and Social Research	6
ENVS6104	Australia's Environment	6
ENVS6108	Sustainable Development	6
ENVS6306	Human Futures	6
GEND6021	Trauma, Memory and Culture	6
HIST8018	A Globalising World	6
LING6015	Language, Culture and Translation	6
LING6021	Cross Cultural Communication	6
POLS6100	The Politics of Empire	6
POLS6101	Refugee Politics: Displacement and Exclusion in the 20th and 21st Centuries	6
SCOM8014	Communicating Science with the Public	6
SOCY6045	Third World Development	6

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