The School of Social and Environmental Enquiry Anthropology

Undergraduate Major in Anthropology

 

The Anthropology program offers a Major in Anthropology which can be undertaken as part of a standard Bachelor of Arts degree. If you are planning a career in the fields of development or environmental issues, you would be well advised to combine this major with a major in Development or Environmental Studies with the School. Alternatively, you can combine this major with a major in another department of the Faculty of Arts.

To enrol in the Bachelor of Arts degree, you need to meet the relevant Faculty admission requirements (for details see the University of Melbourne Undergraduate Studies Handbook, the VTAC Guide, or the Faculty of Arts Office). There are no other prerequisites for Anthropology and you do not need to have studied Anthropology before.

If you wish, you can do just one or two Anthropology subjects to complement other areas of study within a Bachelor of Arts degree, or other degrees. Areas which recognise the value of a cross-cultural perspecive by including one or more anthropology subjects in their options for a major include: Sociology, Social Theory, Australian Indigenous Studies, Development Studies, Women's Studies, Asian Studies and Australian Studies.

 

Requirements for a major in Anthropology

A major in Anthropology usually consists of nine 12.5 point subjects, totalling 112.5 points. It comprises:

  • two first-year subjects in Anthropology: 121-107 Social Order and Social Change (semester two) and 121-108 Varieties of Human Experience (semester one); and
  • seven second/third-year subjects in Anthropology (97.5 points), with at least three chosen from the list of core subjects below and with the remaining subjects chosen from the list of elective subjects.

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    Second/third year subjects for the major

    Core subjects

    121-056 The Human Cosmos (sem 1)

    121-058 Sentiments and Structures (sem 1)

    121-060 Power, Ideology and Inequality (sem 2)

    121-065 Working with Value (sem 2)

     

    Elective subjects

    121-054 Applied Medical Anthropology (not offered)

    121-055 Keeping the Body in Mind (not offered)

    121-061 Applied Anthropology (not offered)

    121-062 Sorcery and the Anthropology of Evil (not offered)

    121-063 Culture Change and Protest Movements (not offered)

    121-066 Sexing the Self (sem 2)

    121-067 Cooperation and Conflict (not offered)

    121-068 Redefining Nature (sem 2)

    121-069 Evolution of Consciousness (sem 1)

     

    If you need more information, please contact Associate Professor Mary Patterson, the Anthropology Undergraduate Coordinator.

     

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