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This course introduces students to the subject by focusing on how anthropologists understand and explain social and cultural differences. We will explore a range of contemporary topics through a set of key questions that form the foundation of the di...

This course introduces students to the study of social and cultural diversity by exploring culture and its role in our lives. Topics include ritual, symbolism, the body, exchange, belief, inequality, globalisation, kinship, gender and class. Case stu...

This course examines anthropological approaches to kinship, sexuality and gender. It will explore the shifting social norms surrounding gender, sexuality, the family and relatedness across diverse cultural settings. It will reveal how practices of ge...

This course introduces topics in economic anthropology by examining the various. forms that capitalism takes within different cultural contexts, how it produces inequalities, and the varied ways that people and cultures respond to, appropriate and re...

This course will examine the cultural encounters and human experiences that emerge out of contemporary human rights regimes, humanitarian interventions, development projects, and global politics. Taking case studies from a range of different cultural...

This course explores human relationships with ecological and material environments. It will examine diverse cultural perceptions of and approaches to the environment, the relationship between nature and culture, and anthropology’s contribution to con...

This course explores how Anthropology might contribute to human emancipation from racism, gender inequality, class disparities, and other forms of oppression and exploitation. We will consider what it means to approach anthropology from a decolonisin...

This course explores what roles our cultural beliefs and practices play in shaping our understandings of health, wellbeing, illness and medicine. We ask how culture mediates our experiences of our bodies, our emotions and diseases, and how local and ...

This course offers an in-depth exploration of the cultural diversity in Oceania by analysing the complex interplay between colonial encounters, postcolonial impacts, Indigenous epistemologies, and identity formation. We will explore these themes thro...

Through visual artefacts, people across different cultures reproduce and imagine their worlds, at the same time contributing to shape those worlds. In this course, we will first investigate how anthropologists understand human imagination and percept...

Design anthropology is a form of applied anthropology that uses ethnographic, anthropological and design methodologies to foster positive social change. It is critical, collaborative, and interdisciplinary. This course uses the core principles and me...

This course critically examines culture, a concept central to anthropological thought that arguably shapes all aspects of social, economic, and political life worldwide. We will explore the relationship between culture and ethnography and interrogate...

In this course students will conduct an ethnographic field research project and write an extended essay. They will learn basic research methodologies and debates around methods in Anthropology through focused seminars and will then conduct field rese...

MA thesis in Anthropology.

PhD course.

This course explores the purposes and processes of, and debates around, social and cultural theorizing. Students will learn about conceptualization and about scholarly discussion of description, explanation, classification, evaluation in social and c...

This course reviews social and cultural research methods and analytical practices. Social and Cultural Studies staff members will draw on their disciplinary backgrounds to share a variety of methodologies and experiences of working with diverse commu...

Approved and supervised voluntary work placement of the student in a public sector agency, private sector establishment, or non-governmental organisation with a focus on any of research, policy or service provision issues.