Units that can be counted towards Comparative Cultures
First-year level
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- ANY1010 Culture, Power and Difference: Indigeneity and Australian Identity
- ANY1020 Culture, Power and Globalisation
- PLT1020 Australian politics and government
- PLT1040 Introduction to international relations
- PLT1050 Nature, law, revolution: political ideas in context
- PLT1070 Modernity in crisis: citizenship, democracy and identity
- PLT1120 Fanatics and Fundamentalists: the Global Politics of Violence
- SCY1100 Introduction to Sociology I
- SCY1200 Introduction to Sociology II
- a first-year level unit from a cognate discipline [needs to part of first-year level list]
Second/Third-year level
Entry into second- year studies is prerequisite upon completion of two units from ANY1010, ANY1020, PLT1020, PLT1040, PLT1050, PLT1070, PLT1120, SCY1010 or SCY1020, or one of these plus a unit from a cognate discipline. Third-year level studies is prerequisite on second-year level of appropriate ANY, PLT or SCY units, totalling at least 12 points.
- ANY2110 / ANY3120 Magic, science and religion
- ANY2130 Race and sexual politics: questioning concepts and categories
- ANY2160 Understanding prejudice and discrimination
- ANY2170 Visualising cultures: film and ethnography
- 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
- ANY3430 Civilisation and its malcontents
- ANY3480 The third world
- ANY3630 Feminism cross-culturally
- PLT2040 / PLT3040 Raging against the machine: the politics of rock and global identities
- PLT2060 / PLT3060 Images of democracy: early Greek origins
- PLT2120 / PLT3120 Justice, Rights and Difference
- PLT2152 / PLT3152 Nationalism: Interpretations*
- PLT2960 / PLT3960 Seeking a new world order? Washington and world politics
- PLT2970 / PLT3970 Australia and the world
- SCY2031 / SCY3031 Sexuality, gender and social relations
- SCY2041 / SCY3041 Multiculturalism, culture and social identities
- SCY2290 / SCY3290 Spiritualities, faiths and religions: society and the transcendent
- SCY2310 / SCY3310 Population and migration
* From 2004 this single unit replaces the previously offered PLT2150 / PLT3150 Nationalism 1: Global Transformations and PLT2152 / PLT3152 Nationalism 2: Interpretations. Students who have completed PLT2150 / PLT3150 prior to 2004 cannot complete the new version of PLT2152/ PLT3152. However, if either of the older versions of the units (or both) were completed prior to 2004 they may still count them toward a major in Comparative Cultures.