Units that can be counted towards Anthropology
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First-year level
- ANY1010 Culture, Power and Difference: Indigeneity and Australian Identity
- ANY1020 Culture, Power and Globalisation
OR
Second/Third-year level
Prerequisite for any Second Year Unit: A first year ANY sequence or 1st year or a 1st semester PLT or SCY unit with ANY1020.
Third Year Unit Prerequisite: Second-year ANY units to a total of at least 12 points or permission of head of discipline.
Core Units
Students must complete at least 24 points of core units chosen from the following:
- ANY2110 / ANY3120 Magic, science and religion
- ANY2140 / ANY3140 Polynesia: great anthropological debates
- ANY2160 Understanding prejudice and discrimination
- ANY2170 / ANY3170 Visualising cultures: film and ethnography
- ANY2180 / ANY3180 Witchcraft in the Modern World
- ANY2230 Culture and society: introduction to cultural theory
- ANY2350 / ANY3350 Questions of identity: ethnicity, nationalism and globalisation
- ANY2530 / ANY3530 Modernities in the making: indigenous peoples and colonial cultures
- ANY3230 Culture and conflict in Indonesia
- ANY3370 Comparative sociology of 'development'
- ANY3440 Asia and the West
- ANY3460 Intergenerational tyrannies: gender, age and culture
- ANY3480 The third world
- ANY3510 A comparative examination of cultures in South and Southeast Asia
- ANY3520 Theorising culture
- ANY3630 Feminism cross-culturally: exploring women's worlds
- ASN2170 / ASN3170 Women in Asia: gender, tradition and modernity
- INS2020 / INS3020 Islam in Indonesia
- INT2050 / INT3050 Mobile Worlds: migrants, refuges and the politics of belonging
- INT2075 / INT3075 Faith in the future: relision & spirituality in a globalising world
Electives
NB: Students can take up to 12 points of elective units as part of the major in Anthropology.
- ASN2010 / ASN3010 Global Change and Changing Identities in Asia
- AIS1050 Aboriginal Peoples, Gender, and the Colonial Frontier
- AIS2050 / AIS3050 Celluloid Images of Aboriginal Australia
- AIS2070 / AIS3070 Australian Aboriginal Women
- AIS2020 / AIS3020 Racism and Prejudice
- AIS2090 / AIS3090 Hearing the Country: Studies in Indigenous Australian Ethnoecology
- CRI2010 / CRI3010 Legal Studies, Law and Society
- GND2010 / GND3010 Contemporary Feminist Theory
- GND2070 / GND3070 Rethinking Global Culture: Sex, Race, Consumption
- GND3020 Feminist Research
- HSY2710 / HSY3710 The Island World of South-East Asia
- INT2040 / INT3040 Globalization and its Discontents
- LIN2070 / LIN3070 Eastern Austronesian languages of Indonesia, East Timor and Oceania
- LIN2160 / LIN3160 Managing intercultural communication
- LIN2350 / LIN3350 Sociolinguistics
- LIN2390 / LIN3390 Language, communication and the sexes
- LIN3030 Issues in language endangerment
- PLT2040 / PLT3040 Raging Against the Machine: The Politics of Rock and Global Identities
- PLT2470 / PLT3470 Politics of Development
- SCY2031 / SCY3031 Sexuality, Gender and Social Relations
- SCY2041 / SCY3041 Multiculturalism, culture and social identities
- SCY2121 / SCY3121 Youth, Culture and Social Change
- SCY2290 / SCY3290 Spiritualities, Faiths and Religions: Society and the Transcendent
- SCY2460 / SCY3460 Sociology of Men and Masculinity
NB: Some of these electives may require permission from Schools as students may not have completed first-year sequences in the appropriate disciplines. All affected Heads have been made aware of this list.