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Anthropology
Contact information
Coordinator
Professor Tamara Kohn
Email: tkohn@unimelb.edu.au
Currently enrolled students:
Future students:
Structure
100 credit points
This major requires the completion of:
- 25 credit points of Level 1 electives and Arts Discovery subjects including:
- A minimum of 12.5 credit points of Level 1 electives
- 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:
Please note: Students must undertake an Arts Discovery subject as part of the course requirements and the Arts Discovery subject can be counted in one major only. For this major, you will need to complete two Level 1 subjects.
If you are completing a double major the correct enrolment for this major at level 1 is: An Arts Discovery subject and one Level 1 Elective subject for the first major and two Level 1 Elective subjects for the second major.
Level 1 elective subjects
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
ANTH10001 | Anthropology: Studying Self and Other | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ANTH10002 | Anthropology & Food in Everyday Life | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Level 2 core subjects
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
ANTH20015 | Melbourne: Urban Anthropology in Action | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ANTH20017 | Anthropology: History, Theory, Practice | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Level 2 elective subject
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
ANTH20001 | Keeping the Body in Mind | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
ANTH20008 | Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ANTH20011 | Ethnic Nationalism and the Modern World | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ANTH20013 | Diplomat, Soldier, Spy: The Deep State | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
DEVT20001 | Development in the 21st Century | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEND20001 | Gender, Sexuality, Power: Key Theories | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
GEND20008 | Feminist Futures: Theory and Activism | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ANTH20012 | Self, Culture and Society | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ANTH20016 | Crisis, Culture and Resistance | Not available in 2025 | 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 | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
MULT30017 | Australian Indigenous Public Policy | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
ANTH30019 | Innovation, Design, and Society | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
ANTH30024 | Money and Sweat: Economic Anthropology | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
ANTH30025 | Extractive Legacies in Latin America | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
ANTH30026 | Health and Illness in a Global Context | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Links
http://ssps.unimelb.edu.au/study-areas/anthropology-and-development-studies
Last updated: 13 February 2025