Anthropology (B-ARTS_MAJOR_31)

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Overview

Anthropology is the study of people’s common humanity as well as the extraordinary cultural and social diversity found around the globe. Its distinctive methodology, based on intense, long-term participation in people’s daily lives, allows for ideas to develop out of local experience and knowledge. Contemporary fieldwork is as likely to take place in an urban tower block or tourist resort or moving with migrants or refugees, as it would be in a remote village in Africa or an island community in Melanesia. This major invites participation in subjects on: diverse ideas about the body; belief and religious practices; the growth of consumption and commodification, ethnic and national identity, and constructions of nature, sex, family and gender. The course we offer will expand your horizons by challenging your taken-for-granted understanding of the world, and it will also provide you with the skills needed to work successfully with people, to listen, to think critically, and to be fully engaged in an ever more expanding world.

Intended learning outcomes

On successful completion of this major, students will be able to:

apply critical and comparative analytical skills to the identification and resolution of problems within complex changing social and cultural contexts; and
demonstrate a detailed knowledge and understanding of selected fields and intellectual debates in social and cultural anthropology; and
apply an independent and creative approach to knowledge based on an appreciation of interplay between theory and ethnographic inquiry; and
articulate the relationship between diverse and contested forms of knowledge and practice and the social, historical and cultural contexts that produced them; and
communicate effectively in a variety of written and oral formats; and
act as intellectually informed and ethically aware participants within a community of scholars, as citizens and in the workforce; and
collaborate effectively in groups to meet a shared goal with people whose disciplinary and cultural backgrounds may differ from their own; and
work with independence, self-reflection and an appreciation of cultural diversity to meet goals and challenges in the workplace and personal life.

Last updated: 18 December 2020

Structure

75 credit points

Anthropology

MAJOR

A major in Anthropology consists of eight 12.5-point subjects (total 100 points) as follows:

Level 1 (25 points)

ANTH10001 Anthropology: Studying Human Diversity (compulsory subject)
AND
One Arts Foundation Subject (MULT10018 Power highly recommended); OR
DEVT10001 The Developing World

Level 2 (37.5 points)

ANTH20012 Engaging the World in Theory and Practice (compulsory subject)
At least one level 2 core subject
maximum one level 2 elective subject (12.5 points)

Level 3 (37.50 points)

ANTH30013 Theory and the Anthropological Imagination (compulsory capstone subject)
At least one level 3 core subject
maximum one level 3 elective subject

Total 100 points

MINOR

A minor in Anthropology consists of six 12.5-point subjects (total 75 points) as follows. As not all subjects listed in the major are available to students completing a minor, please see below for a separate list of subjects that can be taken.

Level 1 (25 points)

ANTH10001 Anthropology: Studying Human Diversity (compulsory subject)
AND
One Arts Foundation Subject (MULT10018 Power highly recommended)

Level 2 (25 points)

Two core subjects

Level 3 (25 points)

Two core subjects

Total 75 points

The capstone subject is not available in the minor or as breadth studies outside the BA. Not all subjects listed in the major are available to students completing a minor; for Level 2 and Level 3 subjects included in the minor, see below.

*Please note that the Anthropology major has had a name change. Students who commenced prior to 2013 can complete the 'Anthropology & Social Theory' major or the 'Anthropology' major.

Subject Options

Level 1 Compulsory Subject

Students completing a major in Anthropology must complete ANTH10001 Anthropology: Studying Human Diversity (compulsory) and one Arts Foundation Subject (MULT10018 Power highly recommended) OR DEVT10001 The Developing World.

Code	Name	Study period	Credit Points
DEVT10001	The Developing World	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
ANTH10001	Anthropology: Studying Human Diversity	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5

Level 2 Compulsory Subject

Students completing the major in Anthropology must complete the following subject.

Code	Name	Study period	Credit Points
ANTH20012	Engaging the World in Theory & Practice	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5

Level 2 Core Subjects

Students completing a major in Anthropology must complete a minimum of one of the following level 2 core subjects.

Code	Name	Study period	Credit Points
ANTH20001	Keeping the Body in Mind	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
ANTH20008	Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
ANTH20007	Working with Value	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
ANTH20011	Ethnic Nationalism and the Modern World	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
ANTH20006	Culture Change and Protest Movements	Not available in 2018	12.5

Code	Name	Study period	Credit Points
ANTH20013	Corporations and their Critics	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
ANTH20014	Doing Ethnographic Research	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5

Level 2 Elective Subjects

Students completing a major in Anthropology may include a maximum of one of the following level 2 elective subjects:

Code	Name	Study period	Credit Points
		Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) Not available in 2018
GEND20003	Genders, Bodies & Sexualities	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
GEND20008	Sex and Gender Present and Future	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
MULT20003	Critical Analytical Skills	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
DEVT20001	Development in the 21st Century	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
GEND20001	Sex, Gender and Power	Not available in 2018	12.5
LING20010	Language, Society and Culture	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
POLS20006	Contemporary Political Theory	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
SOTH20003	Social Theory and Political Analysis	Not available in 2018	12.5
DEVT20004	Understanding Poverty	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5

Level 3 Capstone Subject

Students completing a major in Anthropology must complete the following compulsory capstone subject:

Code	Name	Study period	Credit Points
ANTH30013	Theory & the Anthropological Imagination	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5

Level 3 Core Subjects

Students completing a major in Anthropology must complete a minimum of one of the following level 3 core subjects:

Code	Name	Study period	Credit Points
		Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) July (Off Campus) Not available in 2018 Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) July (On Campus - Parkville)
ANTH30005	Power, Ideology and Inequality	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
ANTH30009	Anthropology of Nature	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
ANTH30018	Cultures of Law	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
ANTH30017	Cultural Tourism in Southeast Asia	July (Off Campus)	12.5
ANTH30004	Anthropology of Kinship and Family	Not available in 2018	12.5
ANTH30003	Society, Politics, and the Sacred	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
ANTH30019	Beauty as Ethnographic Practice	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
ANTH30020	Anthropology of Urban Life and Conflict	July (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
ANTH30021	Work in Crisis	Not available in 2018	12.5

Level 3 Elective Subjects

Students completing a major in Anthropology may include a maximum of one of the following level 3 elective subjects:

Code	Name	Study period	Credit Points
MULT30017	Indigenous People and Social Control	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
SOCI30001	Contemporary Sociological Theory	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
SOTH30001	Critical Theories	July (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
SOTH30004	Psychoanalysis and Social Theory	Not available in 2018	12.5

Minor: Level 1 Subject

Students completing a minor in Anthropology must complete ANTH10001 Anthropology: Studying Human Diversity and one Arts Foundation Subject (MULT10018 Power highly recommended).

Code	Name	Study period	Credit Points
ANTH10001	Anthropology: Studying Human Diversity	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5

Minor: Level 2 Core Subjects

Code	Name	Study period	Credit Points
		Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) Not available in 2018
ANTH20001	Keeping the Body in Mind	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
ANTH20008	Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
ANTH20012	Engaging the World in Theory & Practice	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
ANTH20007	Working with Value	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
ANTH20011	Ethnic Nationalism and the Modern World	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
ANTH20006	Culture Change and Protest Movements	Not available in 2018	12.5

Minor: Level 3 Core Subjects

Code	Name	Study period	Credit Points
		Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) July (Off Campus) Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) Not available in 2018
ANTH30005	Power, Ideology and Inequality	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
ANTH30009	Anthropology of Nature	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
ANTH30018	Cultures of Law	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
ANTH30017	Cultural Tourism in Southeast Asia	July (Off Campus)	12.5
ANTH30003	Society, Politics, and the Sacred	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
ANTH30004	Anthropology of Kinship and Family	Not available in 2018	12.5

Links

http://ssps.unimelb.edu.au/study-areas/anthropology-and-development-studies