Anthropology is the study of cultural differences and similarities in a globalised world. As a field of study anthropology is uniquely placed to interpret the widest range of contemporary social phenomena - from migration to religious fundamentalism, online communities and new social movements, contemporary indigenous cultural expression and identity politics, consumption and commodification, and many changing forms of social relationships. The School of Archaeology and Anthropology offers a diverse range of undergraduate courses which cover these themes and more.
The discipline's distinctive methodology, long-term ethnographic fieldwork, provides anthropologists with finely grained and in-depth understandings of complex social phenomena. With a commitment to a comparative and holistic framework, anthropologists' treatment of cultural diversity provides insights into the different ways people comprehend their place in the world and relationships to each other, as well as new ways for us to think about our own relationships and society. It is an ideal foundation for a contemporary liberal-arts degree. Students of non-English languages can find anthropology especially useful.
Learning outcomes
- familiarity with the major dimensions of analysis of societies and cultures (e.g., gender, religion, personhood, identity, violence, emotion, state, nation, globalisation)
- familiarity with directed as well as unintended processes of change (e.g., culture and development, applied anthropology)
- familiarity with the interrelation of technique and theory in the recording and describing of cultures (e.g., film); and
- familiarity with the intersection of bio-social and material dimensions of social life
Relevant Degrees
Requirements
This minor requires the completion of 24 units, which must include:
A maximum of 12 units may come from completion of courses from the following list:
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| ANTH1002 | Culture and Human Diversity: Introducing Anthropology | 6 |
| ANTH1003 | Global Citizen: Culture, Development and Inequality | 6 |
A minimum of 12 units must come from completion of courses from the following list:
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| ANTH2004 | Religion, Ritual and Cosmology | 6 |
| ANTH2005 | Traditional Australian Indigenous Cultures, Societies and Environment | 6 |
| ANTH2009 | Culture and Development | 6 |
| ANTH2010 | Anthropology of Art | 6 |
| ANTH2017 | Culture, Social Justice and Aboriginal Society Today | 6 |
| ANTH 2024: Ties That Bind | ||
| ANTH2025 | Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective | 6 |
| ANTH2026 | Medicine, Healing and the Body | 6 |
| ANTH2050 | Themes in Anthropology I | 6 |
| ANTH2051 | Themes in Anthropology II | 6 |
| ANTH 2056: Belonging Identity & Nat | ||
| ANTH2057 | Culture and Person | 6 |
| ANTH 2065: Sex, Gender and Finance | ||
| ANTH2066 | Anthropology of Money: Introduction to Economic Anthropology | 6 |
| ANTH2067 | Doing Ethnography: Practicum on Applied Anthropology | 6 |
| ANTH2128 | Media and Modernity | 6 |
| ANTH2129 | Crossing Borders: Migration, Identity and Livelihood | 6 |
| ANTH2130 | Violence and Terror | 6 |
| ANTH2132 | Food for Thought: Anthropological theories of food and eating | 6 |
| ANTH2133 | Social Animals: anthropological perspectives on animal-human relationships | 6 |
| ANTH2134 | States and Citizens: Anthropological Perspectives | 6 |
| ANTH2135 | Vietnam Field School | 6-12 |
| ANTH3010 | Supervised Research in Anthropology | 6 |
| ANTH3014 | Indonesia Field School: Contemporary Change in Indonesia | 6 |
| ANTH3016 | Indonesia Field School Extension | 6 |
| ANTH3017 | Indigenous Worlds: Challenges of Emergence, Recognition, and Change | 6 |
| BIAN2064 | Anthropology of Environmental Disasters | 6 |
