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ANTH1001: Becoming Anthropologists
2025 unit information
Anthropology is the study of what it means to be human. It begins with the assumption that our capacity to change, learn, and adapt is the defining characteristic of humanity. Hence, as anthropologists, we assume that (1) there is no normal way for people to live or to create a community, and (2) by looking at humanity in a global frame, each of us can gain critical insight into our own life. If there are so many possible ways of life, then as anthropologists we ask: Why do we have to be this way? Isn’t there some alternative way to be? In this unit of study, we use imagination and curiosity to challenge ideas of power, resistance, race, gender, religion, ritual, and capitalism.
Unit details and rules
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| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Anthropology |
| Credit points | 6 |
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ANTH1003 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. understand the aims and scope of cultural anthropology
- LO2. demonstrate an appreciation of the ethical importance of understanding other cultures
- LO3. demonstrate an understanding of participant observation as a fieldwork based research method
- LO4. demonstrate an understanding of the symbolic foundations of social relationships
- LO5. demonstrate critical reading skills
- LO6. demonstrate skills reading empirically-based analyses of different cultures
- LO7. use empirical accounts of different cultures to make arguments
- LO8. demonstrate an understanding of social science concepts and how they are used and debated in making arguments
- LO9. demonstrate an understanding of the background and key conceptual frameworks of the field of cultural anthropology
- LO10. Demonstrate an understanding of the livelihoods that different peoples must pursue to survive
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Semester 1 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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