We offer a Culture, Health and Medicine specialisation to give you an introductory understanding of the area that is also a pathway to a Masters degree in the discipline.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the Culture, Health and Medicine specialisation, students will have skills and knowledge to:- critically apply theoretical frameworks and research techniques to understanding national and international issues and problems;
- relate a field of study in the arts, humanities or social sciences to its wider cultural and societal context;
- critically evaluate ideas and develop creative solutions to complex problems; and
- communicate and debate complex issues both orally and in writing, using a variety of media.
Relevant Degrees
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 |