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ANTH3604: The Anthropocene
2025 unit information
This unit explores the impacts of human activity on planetary ecosystems and societies. We approach the Anthropocene as an empirical and conceptual platform to consider the various ways in which humans and non-humans share environments, how social relations encompass but also transcend human beings and communities, and which humans are excluded, marginalised, exploited, or silenced under dominant economic, political, cultural, and ecological regimes. We consider the intersections of social, environmental, racial, and multispecies (in)justice in an age of planetary unmaking, when technoindustrial processes and the legacies of colonialism undermine conditions of life at a global scale.
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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Prerequisites:
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12 credit points at 2000 level in Anthropology |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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None |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Gain an expert understanding of recent disciplinary developments that inform environmental and social justice thinking and discourse in the Anthropocene.
- LO2. Evaluate complex ideas including understanding the contestation of ideas in the social sciences and humanities and being open to new ideas, methods, and ways of thinking.
- LO3. Reflect critically on theoretical and empirical knowledge and communicate these ideas in oral and written form.
- LO4. Develop the skills to design, apply, evaluate and theorize about scholarly developments that contribute to professional practice including problem-solving and interdisciplinary approaches.
- LO5. Develop collaboration and communication skills that enable the practical application of concepts, practices and policies studied within the course.
- LO6. Acquire research and research presentation skills to justify and interpret findings and conclusions to specialist and non-specialist audiences.
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Session 1 Early Census 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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