Courses Handbook 2010

312601 (v.1) Self, Culture and Society 111


Area: Department of Social Sciences
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: An introduction to the disciplines of anthropology and sociology. This unit will introduce recent developments in both practice and theory. Topics studied will include: sexuality and gender, families and changing patterns of human relationships, ritual,politics and power, culture and the sociology of knowledge. A core theme uniting the different topics will be current ideas of what the 'self' is, how it may be known, and how comparative studies can shed light on its formation.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 090303 Anthropology
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Supplemental
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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