Graduate Certificate in Arts (Anthropology and Social Theory)

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• Objectives
  * Demonstrate an independent approach to knowledge that uses rigorous methods of inquiry and appropriate theories and methodologies that are applied with intellectual honesty and a respect for ethical values. * Apply critical and analytical skills and methods to the identification and resolution of problems within complex changing social contexts. * Act as informed and critically discriminating participants within the community of scholars, as citizens and in the work force. * Communicate effectively. * Commit to continuous learning. * Be proficient in the use of appropriate modern technologies, such as the computer and other information technology systems, for the acquisition, processing and interpretation of data.
• Academic title
  Graduate Certificate in Arts (Anthropology and Social Theory)
• Course description
  Specialisation Requirements:
  
      * 2 core subjects in Anthropology
  
      * 2 core subjects in Social Theory
  
  Anthropology subjects
  
  Subject     Semester     Credit Points
  121-015  Development and the Third World
  This subject is an introduction to a range of issues about development in the 'third world'. It will explore the basic concepts used in development literature in addition to the many ways that development is understood and applied. Concepts...     Semester 2     12.50
  
  121-056  The Human Cosmos
  This subject is an introduction to the anthropological study of religion by an examination of myth and/or ritual, with ethnographic examples drawn mainly from Pacific Rim cultures. Students who complete this subject will have acquired a grounding in ...     Semester 2     12.50
  
  121-060  Power, Ideology and Inequality
  This subject offers a comparative perspective on the distribution of inequalities in human societies over time and in contemporary cultures. The aim of the subject is to investigate the varied manifestations of interactions between power, ideologies ...     Semester 1     12.50
  
  121-065  Working with Value
  This subject examines the diverse ways people have gone about 'making a living', and the ways anthropologists have sought to explain them. The focus is on the social relations involved in production and reproduction of material life, and on...     Semester 1     12.50
  
  Social Theory subjects
  
  Subject     Semester     Credit Points
  136-073  Critical Theories
  The aim of this subject is to introduce students to and critically examine the major debates in contemporary critical theories from Western Marxism to postmodernism. These critical theories include the German Frankfurt School, French poststructuralis...     Semester 2     12.50
  
  136-074  Modernity Revolution to Social Movements
  This subject is primarily concerned with the ideas about society that have anchored the disciplines of sociology and social theory in the 19th and 20th centuries. It critically assesses these ideas through an examination of the works of key social th...     Semester 1     12.50
  
  136-076  Social Theory and Political Analysis
  This subject involves the study of theory and empirical research in social and political relations, culture and ideology, and human subjectivity and action. Students who complete this subject should possess an awareness of the ways in which social th...     Semester 1     12.50
  
  136-077  Psychoanalysis and Social Theory     
  This subject will not be available in 2009     12.50
  
  

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