Overview | Summary of Courses

Offered By:	ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Academic Contact:	Dr.Sverre Molland

The MAAPD (Humanitarian Action) is a specialisation within the MAAPD. It aims to give students a critical understanding of the  role that humanitarian intervention can play in local development processes. It will provide the skills from applied anthropology and enable the graduate to be able to work in humanitarain disaster situations and be able to assess the role of specific interventions  in ongoing development work.

Graduates of the Master of Applied Anthropology and Participatory Development (MAAPD Humanitarian action) program will have the knowledge and skills to:

• understand the role that humanitarian crises can play in national and local development processes in developing countries,

• identify practical approaches to dealing with humanitarian crises including both International led, State led, NGO and community led processes;

• gain an understanding of trends and changes in humanitarian response in recent times;

• apply critical social inquiry and participatory processes to the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of humanitarian activities;

• undertake social assessments and integrate social perspectives and participatory practices with other forms of technical expertise in humanitarian work;

• advise on the development policy processes of NGOs, the private sector, government, and multilateral agencies to ensure the inclusion of local and community perspectives in humanitarian responses.

Requirements

The program consists of 48 units of coursework, 36 of which are compulsory courses as listed in the Summary of Courses page, and 12 of which are elective courses determined in consultation with the co-ordinator, in light of the student's prior background, and particular regional and topical interests.

The compulsory courses will be available annually as indicated.

Elective courses (listed in the Summary of Courses page) consist of:

• existing courses in given areas that would be strongly recommended to students as appropriate choices;

• an internship course which could be taken up by particular students where this is successfully negotiated with a participating organisation.

• for students with strong grades in other MAAPD courses, and an interest in further research, a Research option is available in 24 Units research  thesis is undertaken over six months full-time (or one year part time) in addition to the 48 Unit MAAPD. This option generally requries an 70% or greater average in the MAAPD and is subject to the approval of Program Convenors

Humanitarian Action Specialisation:

Compulsory Courses

Semester 1:

ANTH8019 (6 units): Practical Studies in Social Analysis

Winter Session

HUMN8023 (6 Units) Human Rights and Humanitrian Law:

Semester 2:

ANTH8054 (12 units): Humanitarian Action

ANTH8008 (12 units): Social Impact Studies in the Project Cycle

 

Elective Courses

Semester 1:

ANTH8009 (6 units): Development in Practice

ANTH8038 (6 units): Introduction to Gender and Development

THGEO8001 Thinking about Hazards and People

Semester 2:

ANTH8007 (6 units): Key Concepts in the Anthropology of Development

ANTH8032 Law Order and Conflict in the Pacific

ANTH8042 (6 units): Migration, Refugees and Development

HGEO8002 - People At Risk from Hazards in Asia-Pacific

Inter-semester break:

 

ENVS6021 (6 units): Participatory Resource Management

Semester 1 or 2:

ANTH8037 (12 units): Supervised Project

ANTH8030 (6 units): Critically Assessing Contemporary Development Approaches

ANTH8016 (6 units): Internship

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