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• +Shorter Thesis - Gender StudiesGEND70001

  Offered:Time-based ResearchYear:2019

  The masters program allows students to combine coursework with extensive independent research in gender studies. The thesis should demonstrate a critical application of specialist knowledge and make an independent contribution to existing scholarship in the area of research. Candidates may advanc...

• +Gender Studies Thesis Part 1GEND40006

  Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2Year:2019

  A research topic will be selected in consultation with the allocated supervisor. Enrolment in the thesis is across two consecutive semesters and students must enrol in the subject in each semester to ensure they are meeting the full 50-point requirement for this yearlong subject. Students are exp...

• +Gender Studies Research MethodsGEND40005

  Offered:FebruaryYear:2019

  This subject introduces students to research methods and research skills for planning, researching and writing a thesis in Gender Studies. Gender Studies is a uniquely transdisciplinary field, incorporating critical work on topics relating to gender, sexuality and feminisms from across multiple d...

• +Sex, Gender and Culture: An IntroductionGEND10001

  Offered:Semester 2Year:2019

  The world is gendered - but what is gender? We know gender is fundamental to the way in which we see ourselves and others, and how our communities and institutions are organised, but why? Why do gender norms and stereotypes emerge? What effects do they have on our lives? Drawing on feminist and q...

• +Researching Society and CultureARTS90010

  Offered:Semester 1Year:2019

  This subject aims to enable students to deepen and broaden their understanding of core and, whether perennial, resurgent or cutting-edge, contemporary concepts in the social sciences. The emphasis is on relating this to students' development of their own and their peers' doctoral theses.

• +Researching ImagesARTS90011

  Offered:Semester 1Year:2019

  This subject will introduce students to methodologies of researching images and to current issues in the research of images. The subject will be taught through active discussion and joint class readings of extracts from recent significant publications within or cognate to disciplines that work wi...

• +Visiting Scholar: Advanced Seminar AARTS90020

  Offered:May, SeptemberYear:2019

  This subject will be taught by a Visiting Scholar in an area of their expertise. It will provide a graduate-level introduction to an important area of scholarship, including discussion of the visitor’s own work and the scholarly field to which it contributes. The subject will appeal both to stude...

• +Migration and DevelopmentANTH90004

  Offered:Semester 1Year:2019

  Migration is one of the most significant drivers of social change in the developing world. The objective of this subject is to examine key issues and debates around the migration - development nexus, drawing on conceptual, theoretical, and empirical studies in human geography, anthropology, socio...

• +Anthropology Thesis Part 1ANTH40009

  Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2Year:2019

  An independent research project on a topic to be approved by the Anthropology Honours/Graduate Diploma (Advanced) Program coordinator, under the supervision of a member of the academic staff.

• +Anthropology & Social Theory ThesisANTH40007

  Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2Year:2019

  An independent research project on a topic to be approved by the course coordinator and under the supervision of a member of the academic staff.

• +Critical Anthropological TheoryANTH40011

  Offered:AugustYear:2019

  While ethnography as method is the most distinguishing feature of anthropology, ethnographic practice has always taken place in continual conversation with theory. Just as theoretical and philosophical considerations sometimes guide and generate particular ethnographic orientations and issues, so...

• +Fieldwork: Anthropology in PracticeANTH20014

  Offered:Semester 1Year:2019

  Ethnographic research enables us to grasp the complexity and diversity of human experience. This subject provides an invaluable opportunity for students early in their studies of anthropology and related fields to undertake hands-on research in field sites close to home. In 2019, we will focus on...

• +Inclusive Policy DevelopmentSOCI90012

  Offered:Semester 2Year:2019

  This unit of study will provide students with an introduction to contemporary approaches to the development and evaluation of social policy. In particular, it will enable students to explore ways of involving those whose lives are to be affected by social policy, in the formulation, implementatio...

• +Rethinking Rights and Global DevelopmentGEND90007

  Offered:Semester 2Year:2019

  This subject explores the theoretical and political issues surrounding ideas of rights and human rights, with special reference to the development process within the contemporary globalising order. It draws on recent critical feminist and other (re)theorising within a range of disciplines, includ...

• +Social Policy: Special Topics ASOCI90020

  Offered:Semester 1Year:2019

  Special Topic: Survey Research Methods This subject will give practical tips and hands-on experience for designing and implementing social surveys, for both academic purposes and the public/business sector. The structure of the subject will parallel the steps taken when executing a survey: compa...

• +Sociology InternshipSOCI30005

  Offered:Semester 2Year:2019Quotas apply

  In this subject a student, under academic supervision, undertakes a sociological research project or prepares a portfolio of work in an organisation outside the university, such as a trade union, social movement, women's organisation, social service provider, government or non-government organisa...

• +Gender Studies Reading CourseGEND40002

  Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2Year:2019

  This subject is for Gender Studies Honours students only, but is only available in special circumstances and must be organised in advance with the Honours convenor. This subject involves a supervised study of an area of scholarship chosen by the student in consultation with an appointed supervi...

• +Gender, Globalisation and DevelopmentGEND90006

  Offered:Semester 1Year:2019

  This subject examines the relationships between gender, globalisation and development, illustrated principally through case studies, policy documents, and ethnographic texts. It also draws theoretical perspectives and insights from a number of social science and humanities disciplines as well. On...

• +Sociology of 'Race' and EthnicitiesSOCI30014

  Offered:Semester 2Year:2019

  This subject provides a sociological examination of the racialized underpinnings of Australian society. Focusing on how social forces such as colonisation, dispossession and the White Australia Policy have shaped understandings of racial difference, the subject will be concerned with the specific...

• +Gender Diversity in the WorkplaceGEND30005

  Offered:Semester 2Year:2019

  This subject will examine the following questions: what exactly do we mean by gender diversity, who do current ideas include or exclude, why and when is it important, and how should we try to achieve it? The what, why and how of gender diversity are fundamental questions relating to organization...