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Anthropology

Bachelor of ArtsMajorYear: 2019

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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: 2 February 2021

Structure

100 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 Self and Other (compulsory subject)
    and one of
  • 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 Self and Other (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 Self and Other (compulsory)

Code Name Study period Credit Points
ANTH10001 Anthropology: Studying Self and Other
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

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

Level 2 Compulsory Subject

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

Code Name Study period Credit Points
ANTH20012 Self, Culture and Society
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 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ANTH20008 Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ANTH20007 Working with Value
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ANTH20011 Ethnic Nationalism and the Modern World
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ANTH20006 Culture Change and Protest Movements Not available in 2019 12.5
ANTH20013 Diplomat, Soldier, Spy: The Deep State
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ANTH20014 Fieldwork: Anthropology in Practice
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
GEND20003 Genders, Bodies & Sexualities Not available in 2019 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 2019 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 2019 12.5
DEVT20004 Understanding Poverty Not available in 2019 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
ANTH30005 Power, Ideology and Inequality
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ANTH30009 Anthropology of More-Than-Human Worlds
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 2019 12.5
ANTH30003 Society, Politics, and the Sacred
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ANTH30019 Design & Desire in the Startup World
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ANTH30020 Anthropology of Urban Life and Conflict Not available in 2019 12.5
ANTH30021 The Corporation and the Gig-Economy
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ANTH30022 Extractive Legacies in Latin America
July (Off Campus)
 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 Australian Indigenous Public Policy
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
SOCI30001 Contemporary Sociological Theory
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
SOTH30001 Critical Theories Not available in 2019 12.5
SOTH30004 Psychoanalysis and Social Theory
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

Minor: Level 1 Subject

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

Code Name Study period Credit Points
ANTH10001 Anthropology: Studying Self and Other
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

Minor: Level 2 Core Subjects

Code Name Study period Credit Points
ANTH20001 Keeping the Body in Mind
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ANTH20008 Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ANTH20012 Self, Culture and Society
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 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ANTH20006 Culture Change and Protest Movements Not available in 2019 12.5

Minor: Level 3 Core Subjects

Code Name Study period Credit Points
ANTH30005 Power, Ideology and Inequality
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ANTH30009 Anthropology of More-Than-Human Worlds
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 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
ANTH30004 Anthropology of Kinship and Family Not available in 2019 12.5
ANTH30022 Extractive Legacies in Latin America
July (Off Campus)
 12.5

Links

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

Last updated: 2 February 2021