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 humanitarian disaster situations and be able to assess the role of specific interventions  in ongoing development work.

Learning Outcomes

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.

Course offerings

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

Requirements

These requirements are for students commencing in Semester 2 2013.

The Master of Applied Anthropology and Participatory Development (Humanitarian Action) requires the completion of 48 units. See Summary of Courses for course details.

• 18 units from the completion of compulsory courses.
• A minimum of 18 units from the completion of core courses.
• A maximum of 12 units from the completion of elective courses.

The information published on the Study at ANU 2013 website applies to the 2013 academic year only. All information provided on this website replaces the information contained in the Study at ANU 2012 website.