• Offered by School of Archaeology and Anthropology
  • ANU College ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
  • Course subject Anthropology
  • Academic career PGRD
  • Course convener
    • Simone Dennis
  • Mode of delivery In Person
  • Co-taught Course
  • Offered in Second Semester 2015
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Social Animals: anthropological perspectives on animal-human relationships (ANTH6519)

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

Students will develop analytic and critical thinking skills as well as increasing research and writing capacity.

Students will demonstrate an existing capacity to deeply and critically analyse a range of classic and contemporary readings in the discipline, in an area of interest to their main research goals. This capacity will be evidenced in and through the production of the major essay. Students will develop an existing capacity to conduct research on an area of animal/human relationships of interest to them and to the discipline, and to develop and present critical insights in the area of animal-human relationships. This capacity will be facilitated by and evidenced in the production of the tutorial presentation. Students will gain experience in the professional practice of presenting a paper to an audience, responding to audience questions, and in working feedback from that audience into a professsionally polished paper. This will be facilitated and evidenced in the presentation of the tutorial paper, and the production of the subsequent minor essay. Additionally,  students can experience researching, presenting and then writing a paper in the same order that a professional researcher might. This is especially important for postgraduate students, who will need to develop this capacity to advance in the discipline as professionals.  Students will also develop presentation skills that will be of use in any academic or employment context in which oral presentations are expected.


Indicative Assessment

major essay (6000 words 65%);
tutorial presentation (20%);
tutorial participation (10%);
tutorial attendance (5%)

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Workload

22 lectures over 11 weeks (1 * 2 hour lecture per week) + weekly tutorials + 1-3 hours of personal study per week.

Requisite and Incompatibility

You are not able to enrol in this course if you have successfully completed ANTH2133

Fees

Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.  

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Student Contribution Band:
1
Unit value:
6 units

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Units EFTSL
6.00 0.12500
Domestic fee paying students
Year Fee
2015 $2604
International fee paying students
Year Fee
2015 $4146
Note: Please note that fee information is for current year only.

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Second Semester

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
3277 20 Jul 2015 07 Aug 2015 31 Aug 2015 30 Oct 2015 In Person N/A

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