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Anthropology Undergraduate Units - Themes

Themes in anthropology years 1 to 4:

Ethnography

Unit Code & points Unit Name
ATS2372 / ATS3372 (6pts) Great Debates in Anthropology
ATS2373 / ATS3373 (6pts) Visualising Cultures: Film and Ethnography
ATS4258 (12pts) Theorising culture

Identity and difference

Unit Code & points Unit Name
ATS1254 (6pts) Culture, Power, Difference: Indigeneity and Australian Identity
ATS2372 / ATS3372 (6pts) Great Debates in Anthropology
ATS2376 / ATS3376 (6pts) Political Anthropology: Ethnic and National Identities in the Modern World
ATS2634 / ATS3634 (6pts) Global Indigeneity

Religion and culture

Unit Code & points Unit Name
ATS2371 / ATS3371 (6pts) Magic, Science and Religion
ATS2374 / ATS3374 (6pts) Witchcraft in the Modern World
ATS2621 / ATS3621 (6pts) Islam in the Malay World
ATS2629 / ATS3629 (6pts) Faith in the Future: Religion and Spirituality in a Globalising World

Migration and refugees

Unit Code & points Unit Name
ATS2625 / ATS3625 (6pts) Mobile Worlds: Migrants, Refugees and the Politics of Belonging
MON2003 / MON3001 (12pts) Social Inclusion Internship: Working on Migrant and Refugee Settlement in Multicultural Communities

Indigenous peoples

Unit Code & points Unit Name
ATS1254 (6pts) Culture, Power, Difference: Indigeneity and Australian Identity
ATS2373 / ATS3373 (6pts) Visualising Cultures: Film and Ethnography
ATS2359 / ATS3359 (6pts) Hearing the Country: Studies in Australian Indigenous Ethnoecology
ATS2634 / ATS3634 (6pts) Global Indigeneity

Development

Unit Code & points Unit Name
ATS2378 / ATS3378 (6pts) Development and the Third World

Asia-Pacific

Unit Code & points Unit Name
ATS2372 / ATS3372 (6pts) Great Debates in Anthropology
ATS2375 / ATS3375 (6pts) Society and Culture of Indonesia
ATS2621 / ATS3621 (6pts) Islam in the Malay World
ATS2627 / ATS3627 Global cultures, local traditions: Creating and consuming (popular) culture

Globalisation

Unit Code & points Unit Name
ATS1255 (6pts) Culture, Power and Globalisation
ATS2376 / ATS3376 (6pts) Political Anthropology: Ethnic and National Identities in the Modern World
ATS2378 / ATS3378 (6pts) Development and the Third World
ATS2627 / ATS3627 Global cultures, local traditions: Creating and consuming (popular) culture
ATS2629 / ATS3629 (6pts) Faith in the Future: Religion and Spirituality in a Globalising World
ATS2634 / ATS3634 (6pts) Global Indigeneity

Anthropological theory

Unit Code & points Unit Name
ATS2372 / ATS3372 (6pts) Great Debates in Anthropology
ATS4258 (12pts) Theorising culture