Program Requirements

The program consists of 48 units of courses.

Students must complete the two compulsory courses (24units). The remaining four courses are selected from the elective offerings to complete 48 units:

Compulsory courses

ANTH8035 – Topics in the history of anthropology (12 units)

ANTH8034 – Advanced issues in anthropology (12 units)

Elective courses

ANTH8019 - Practical Studies in Social Analysis

ANTH8029 - Introduction to Australian Indigenous Policy

ANTH8030 - Critically Assessing Contemporary Development Practice

ANTH8032 - Law, Order and Conflict in the Pacific

ANTH8038 - Introduction to Gender and Development

ANTH8041 - Photography in Social Context

ANTH8042 - Migration, Refugees and Development

ANTH8001 - Graduate Reading Course (Anthropology)

CHMD8006 - Global Health and Development

CHMD8007 - Health and Inequality in Latin America

ANTH6004 - Religion, Ritual and Cosmology

ANTH6005 - Indigenous Australian Societies and Culture

ANTH6006 - Anthropology of New Guinea and Melanesia

ANTH6009 - Culture and Development

ANTH6010 - Anthropology of Art

ANTH6017 - Indigenous Australians and Australian Society Today

ANTH6025 - Gender and Cross-Cultural Perspective

ANTH6026 - Medical Anthropology

ANTH6033 - Religion and Society in India

ANTH6049 - Filming Cultures

ANTH6056 - Belonging, Identity and Nationalism

ANTH6057 - Culture and Person

ANTH6127 - Genes, memes and Cultural Difference

ANTH6514 - Anthropology of Media

ANTH6515 - Crossing Borders: Diasporas and Transnationalism

ANTH6516 - Violence and Terror

ANTH6518 - Food for Thought: Anthropological theories of food and eating

ANTH6519 - Social Animals: anthropological perspectives on animal-human relationships

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