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Anthropology minor
Bachelor of ArtsMinorYear: 2021
Anthropology minor
Contact information
Coordinator
Debra McDougall
Email: debra.mcdougall@unimelb.edu.au
Currently enrolled students:
Future students:
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 minor 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
- Apply critical and comparative analytical skills to the identification and resolution of problems within complex changing social and cultural contexts;
- Demonstrate a detailed knowledge and understanding of selected fields and intellectual debates in social and cultural anthropology;
- Articulate the relationship between diverse and contested forms of knowledge and practice and the social, historical and cultural contexts that produced them;
- Apply an independent and creative approach to knowledge based on an appreciation of interplay between theory and ethnographic inquiry;
- 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;
- Collaborate effectively in groups to meet a shared goal with people whose disciplinary and cultural backgrounds may differ from their own;
- Work with independence, self-reflection and an appreciation of cultural diversity to meet goals and challenges in the workplace and personal life.
Last updated: 12 November 2021
Structure
75 credit points
This minor requires the completion of:
- 12.5 credit points of Level 1 core subject
- 12.5 credit points of Arts Foundation Subjects (MULT10018 Power highly recommended)
- 25 credit points of Level 2 electives
- 25 credit points of Level 3 electives
Level 1 core subject
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
ANTH10001 | Anthropology: Studying Self and Other | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Level 2 electives
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
ANTH20001 | Keeping the Body in Mind | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ANTH20007 | Working with Value | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ANTH20008 | Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ANTH20011 | Ethnic Nationalism and the Modern World | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ANTH20012 | Self, Culture and Society | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ANTH20013 | Diplomat, Soldier, Spy: The Deep State | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ANTH20014 | The Secret Life of Students | Not available in 2021 | 12.5 |
Level 3 electives
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
ANTH30003 | Lived Religion in an Uncertain World | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ANTH30004 | Anthropology of Kinship and Family | Not available in 2021 | 12.5 |
ANTH30005 | Power, Ideology and Inequality | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ANTH30009 | Anthropology of More-Than-Human Worlds | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ANTH30017 | Cultural Tourism in Southeast Asia | Not available in 2021 | 12.5 |
ANTH30018 | Cultures of Law | Not available in 2021 | 12.5 |
ANTH30019 | Innovation, Design, and Society | August (Online) |
12.5 |
ANTH30021 | The Corporation and the Gig-Economy | Not available in 2021 | 12.5 |
ANTH30022 | Extractive Legacies in Latin America | Not available in 2021 | 12.5 |
ANTH30020 | Anthropology of Urban Life and Conflict | Not available in 2021 | 12.5 |
ANTH30023 | Crisis, Culture and Resistance | Not available in 2021 | 12.5 |
Links
http://ssps.unimelb.edu.au/study-areas/anthropology-and-development-studies
Last updated: 12 November 2021