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Graduate Certificate in ArtsSpecialisation (formal)Year: 2024
Anthropology
Contact information
Coordinator
Professor Tamara Kohn
Email: tkohn@unimelb.edu.au
Currently enrolled students:
Future students:
Overview
A Graduate Certificate in Arts allows you to complete a comprehensive six-month course of study in Anthropology. It is particularly useful if you are returning to tertiary study after time away from an academic environment.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this specialisation, students should be able to:
- Demonstrate an independent approach to knowledge that uses rigorous methods of inquiry and appropriate theories and methodologies that are applied with intellectual honesty and a respect for ethical values
- Apply critical and analytical skills and methods to the identification and resolution of problems within complex changing social contexts
- Act as informed and critically discriminating participants within the community of scholars, as citizens and in the work force
- Communicate effectively in a variety of written and oral formats
- Commit to continuous learning
- Be proficient in the use of appropriate modern technologies, such as the computer and other information technology systems, for the acquisition, processing and interpretation of data.
Last updated: 8 November 2024
Structure
50 credit points
Duration: 6 months full-time / 1 year part-time
Program Requirements -
- Four elective subjects (50 points), where at least one subject must be at Level 4 or above. Students can only take 12.5 points of elective subjects at first-year level
Total 50 points
Subject Options
Level 4 Electives
Please note: students must take at least 12.5 points of elective subjects at level 4
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
ANTH40011 | Critical Anthropological Theory | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
SOTH40001 | Emotions in Society | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Elective Subjects
Note: Students can only take 12.5 points of elective subjects at first-year level
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 |
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 |
ANTH20012 | Self, Culture and Society | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
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 |
ANTH20013 | Diplomat, Soldier, Spy: The Deep State | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ANTH20015 | Melbourne: Urban Anthropology in Action | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ANTH30018 | Cultures of Law | Not available in 2024 | 12.5 |
ANTH30019 | Innovation, Design, and Society | Not available in 2024 | 12.5 |
ANTH30023 | Crisis, Culture and Resistance | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
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://arts.unimelb.edu.au/ssps
Last updated: 8 November 2024