Courses Handbook 2010

307120 v.2 Anthropology and Sociology Double Degree Major


Introduction

This double degree major introduces students to anthropology - the study of humanity: its origins, development and contemporary variations. It 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 25.0
312601 v.1   Self, Culture and Society 111 3.0 25.0
  50.0
Year 1 Semester 2
311925 v.1   Culture, Place, Globality 100 3.0 25.0
  OR
311926 v.1   Communicating with Asia: Languages and Societies 100 3.0 25.0
312602 v.1   Global Change in Australia and its Region 112 3.0 25.0
  50.0
Year 2 Semester 1
311923 v.1   Making Meanings 103 3.0 25.0
  OR
311924 v.1   Narrating Selves 101 3.0 25.0
312603 v.1   Private Lives and Public Issues 211 3.0 25.0
  50.0
Year 2 Semester 2
311927 v.1   The Design Experience 100 4.0 25.0
  OR
311928 v.1   Art and Creativity 100 4.0 25.0
312600 v.1   Social Inequality: Possibilities for Change 212 3.0 25.0
  50.0
Year 3 Semester 1
  SELECT 2 OPTIONS   50.0
  50.0
Year 3 Semester 2
  SELECT 2 OPTIONS   50.0
  50.0
Year 4 Semester 1
312321 v.1   Understanding Social Research 311 3.0 50.0
  50.0
Year 4 Semester 2
312322 v.1   Doing Social Research 312 3.0 50.0
  50.0
Optional Units (No Year Level Specified) Hrs/Wk Credit
312580 v.1   Contested Knowledges: Truth, Lies and Memories 222 3.0 25.0
312582 v.1   Human Rights and Social Justice 223 3.0 25.0
312584 v.1   Ethnographies of the City 221 3.0 25.0
312587 v.1   International Political Economy 222 3.0 25.0
312592 v.1   Islam in Contemporary Asia 225 3.0 25.0
312597 v.1   Sustainability: Sociocultural Perspectives 223 3.0 25.0
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