Anthropology (B-ARTS_MAJOR_31)

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 completion of this major, students should be able to:

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;
Articulate the relationship between diverse and contested forms of knowledge and practice and the social, historical and cultural contexts that produced them;
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;
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;
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 October 2024

Structure

100 credit points

This major requires the completion of:

25 credit points of Level 1 subjects, comprising of either:
12.5 credit points of Level 1 electives and 12.5 credit points of Arts Discovery (for a single major)

OR

25 credit points of Level 1 electives (for a double major)
25 credit points of Level 2 core subjects
12.5 credit points of Level 2 elective subject
12.5 credit points of Level 3 Capstone subjects
25 credit points of Level 3 elective subjects

*Notes:

Students must undertake the Arts Discovery subject as part of the course requirements and the Arts Discovery can be counted in one major only. For this major, you will need to complete two Level 1 subjects.

If you are completing a single major the correct enrolment for this major at level 1 is: The Arts Discovery subject and One Level 1 elective subject

If you are completing a double major the correct enrolment for this major at level 1 is: The Arts Discovery subject and One Level 1 elective subject OR Two Level 1 elective subjects

Level 1 elective subjects

Code	Name	Study period	Credit Points
ANTH10001	Anthropology: Studying Self and Other	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
ANTH10002	Anthropology & Food in Everyday Life	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5

Level 2 core subjects

Code	Name	Study period	Credit Points
ANTH20012	Self, Culture and Society	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
ANTH20015	Melbourne: Urban Anthropology in Action	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5

Level 2 elective subject

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
ANTH20011	Ethnic Nationalism and the Modern World	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
ANTH20013	Diplomat, Soldier, Spy: The Deep State	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
DEVT20001	Development in the 21st Century	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
GEND20001	Gender, Sexuality and Power	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
GEND20008	Feminist Futures: Theory and Activism	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5

Level 3 Capstone subject

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

Level 3 electives

Code	Name	Study period	Credit Points
ANTH30003	Lived Religion in an Uncertain World	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
ANTH30005	Power, Ideology and Inequality	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
ANTH30009	Anthropology of More-Than-Human Worlds	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
ANTH30018	Cultures of Law	Not available in 2024	12.5
ANTH30023	Crisis, Culture and Resistance	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
MULT30017	Australian Indigenous Public Policy	Not available in 2024	12.5
ANTH30019	Innovation, Design, and Society	Not available in 2024	12.5
ANTH30024	Money and Sweat: Economic Anthropology	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
ANTH30025	Extractive Legacies in Latin America	Not available in 2024	12.5

Links

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