• Offered by School of Culture History and Language
  • ANU College ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
  • Classification Research
  • Course subject Anthropology
Anthropological Methods for PhD students (ANTH9949)
This course offers students the opportunity to focus on a number of core anthropological methods that characterise the way the the discipline collects information and uses it in the production of ethnography.
The course also builds knowledge about the relationship of methods to the core aims and orientations of the discipline. Students will have the opportunity to gain practical skills in anthropological methods, including taking field notes, creating genealogies, conducting life history interviews, and developing an understanding of the ethical issues involved in anthropological research.
The course aims to:
• present core ethnographic methods, introduce the basic tools and techniques
• introduce the basic tools and techniques of qualitative field research in anthropology
• provide practical experience of basic methods such as interviewing, genealogy, fieldnotes and structured observations
• introduce the basic elements of data analysis for qualitative materials, and
• provide research integrity and ethical training.

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Requisite and Incompatibility

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Student Contribution Band:
1
Unit value:
12 units

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Units EFTSL
12.00 0.25000

Course fees

Domestic International
Domestic fee paying students
Year Fee
2020 $7140
International fee paying students
Year Fee
2020 $10920
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2020
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Autumn Session

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
5647 22 Apr 2020 15 Jul 2020 08 May 2020 15 Jul 2020 Online N/A

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