Course description
Specialisation Requirements:
* one core subject
* minimum of three elective subjects from List A
* List B subjects to total 100 points
Core subject
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
List A Elective subjects
121-023 China in Transition
This subject is about the changing geography of 'Red Capitalist' China. The focus of the subject is the ongoing social, economic and political transformation and the impacts of the reforms on China's people and environment. The subject... Semester 1 12.50
121-026 Mobile Worlds
This subject takes as its starting point the recognition that contemporary forms of human mobility are reshaping lives, cultures and economies across the globe. The subject explores the ways in which these mobile flows are creating new places and typ... Semester 1 12.50
121-028 Sustainable Development
The term "sustainable development" is widely recognised but little understood, with over 50 definitions reflecting the different understandings of environmental theorists and practitioners. This subject discusses and interprets these key cu... Semester 1 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
121-063 Culture Change and Protest Movements
This subject addresses problems of culture change and the ways that people respond to the experience of change, including cultural protest. While a major focus will be on the ways that non-Western societies have responded to encounters with the Weste... Semester 2 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
121-209 Inside the City of Diversity
This subject examines how the spaces inside cities, the qualities and resources of their built environments, and the features of their neighbourhoods and communities, enhance or limit the opportunities of different groups of city dwellers. Starting f... Semester 2 12.50
121-210 Ethnic Nationalism and the Modern World
Ethnicity and nationalism are of special concern to anthropologists, especially in instances where anthropology becomes part of nationalist discourse. This subject considers ethnicity and nationalism through the in-depth analysis of a case study from... Semester 1 12.50
121-317 Africa: Environment, Development, People
This subject introduces students to the physical environment, history, and development challenges facing contemporary sub-Saharan Africa. Students will examine in detail intellectual and ethical debates surrounding the strategies undertaken by postco... Semester 2 12.50
List B Elective subjects
Subject Semester Credit Points
121-017 Society and Environments
This subject aims to think critically and rigorously about the relationship between social and natural worlds. Its primary purpose is to question the idea that the environment exists outside of, and independent from, the realms of science, culture, p... Semester 1 12.50
121-021 Environmental Politics and Management
This subject explores a range of contemporary environmental issues in Australia and other postcolonial states and the ways in which people in these places engage with and manage these issues. Examining the history of the emergence and management of ... Semester 2 12.50
121-055 Keeping the Body in Mind
This subject introduces a wide range of anthropological interests in the human body from a comparative ethnographic perspective. It considers topics such as body image and eating disorders, body arts and practices, body modifications and decorations,... Semester 2 12.50
121-066 Sexing the Self
This subject explores the construction of gender and sex in a variety of the world's societies. On completion of the subject students should have gained a knowledge of gender-based systems of social classification in non-Western societies; have ... Semester 2 12.50
121-068 Redefining Nature
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
166-212 Global Environmental Politics
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
316-302 Economic Development
This subject will address economy-wide issues in economic development. The main objectives of the subject are to examine the key determinants of economic growth and the actual development experience of selected countries. Special emphasis will be pla... Semester 1 12.50
110-231 Women in Arabic and Islamic Literature
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
