Anthropology at Macquarie
Anthropology at Macquarie offers students the opportunity for critical engagement with questions of culture, knowledge and social transformation as they are experienced in a variety of sites around the globe. Our program includes studies of traditional societies as well as contemporary cultural and social issues in a wide range of cultural contexts.
Staff members have a strong commitment to both teaching and research, and have years of first-hand field experience. Geographical areas of focus include East- South- and Southeast Asia, the Pacific, South America and Australia. Courses in the department cover the following key areas:
- culture, power and identity
- health and illness
- gender, sexuality and culture
- media and modernity/postmodernity
- development, international aid, and post-colonialism
- ethnicity, migration and diaspora
We also offer units on Australian indigenous cultures, Indian studies, drug use across cultures, myth and ritual, religion and spirituality, visual anthropology, human rights, and urban anthropology. (Full list of ANTH units).
A coherent study or major in Anthropology is offered within three main undergraduate degree structures, the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Social Science and, new in 2007, the Bachelor of Arts in Development Studies and Culture Change. Each of these offers possibilities for linking study in Anthropology with study in related disciplines such as Sociology, Human Geography, Critical and Cultural Studies, Aboriginal Studies, Linguistics or Politics. The Bachelor of Social Science gives a particular shape and coherence to programs of study in social science units. The Bachelor of Arts allows students to combine Anthropology with other units in a wide variety of disciplines from across the University. Honours programs in Anthropology in both BA and BSocSci are also offered.
Anthropology can also be included in a number of interdisciplinary degrees and as an elective in most other degrees offered by the University. Furthermore, all Anthropology units can be studied as non-award units, outside of a particular degree structure.
Our Department also offers several postgraduate options, including research programs at both the PhD and MPhil level. In addition coursework Masters, Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate in Applied Anthropology are offered, as well as the new Master of Development Studies and Culture Change, offered for the first time in 2007. PG Diploma and Certificate versions of this program are also offered.
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