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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

307120 v.3 Anthropology and Sociology Double Degree Major

Introduction

This double degree major introduces students to the complementary fields of anthropology and sociology. This major enables students to understand how contemporary local, regional and national cultures are affected by, and react to, processes of global change such as industrialisation, urbanisation, increasing inter-ethnic contacts, environmental transformation and new modes of communication.

Course Structure Hrs/Wk Credit
Year 1 Semester 1
311922 v.1   Engaging in the Humanities 100 3.0 25.0
312601 v.2   Self, Culture and Society 111 3.0 25.0
  50.0
Year 1 Semester 2
311926 v.2   Communicating with Asia: Languages and Societies 100 3.0 25.0
  OR  
311925 v.2   Senses of Place 100 3.0 25.0
312602 v.2   Global Change in Australia and its Region 112 3.0 25.0
  50.0
Year 2 Semester 1
312600 v.2   Social Inequality: Possibilities for Change 211 3.0 25.0
  SELECT 1 ELECTIVE   25.0
  50.0
Year 2 Semester 2
312603 v.2   Private Lives and Public Issues 212 3.0 25.0
  SELECT 1 ELECTIVE   25.0
  50.0
Year 3 Semester 1
  SELECT 1 ELECTIVE   25.0
  SELECT 1 OPTION   25.0
  50.0
Year 3 Semester 2
  SELECT 1 ELECTIVE   25.0
  SELECT 1 OPTION   25.0
  50.0
Year 4 Semester 1
312321 v.2   Understanding Social Research 311 3.0 50.0
  50.0
Year 4 Semester 2
312322 v.2   Doing Social Research 312 3.0 50.0
  50.0
Optional Units (No Year Level Specified) Hrs/Wk Credit
312580 v.2   Contested Knowledges: Truth, Lies and Memories 222 3.0 25.0
312582 v.2   Human Rights and Social Justice 223 3.0 25.0
312584 v.2   Ethnographies of the City 221 3.0 25.0
312587 v.2   International Political Economy 222 3.0 25.0
312592 v.2   Islam in Contemporary Asia 225 3.0 25.0
312597 v.2   Sustainability: Sociocultural Perspectives 223 3.0 25.0