Anthropology

The job of Anthropology at Western Sydney University offers students the possibility to look at social routines and methods across cultures, to discover similarities and differences between cultures, and also to know the procedures by which humans innovate and develop significance. Areas of attention include the development of anthropology as a discipline; globalisation and civilization; politics and power; sex and sexuality; identity and belonging; ethnography and ethnographic methods; native peoples and nation states. Specific attention is directed at cultures of Australasia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific, and also to cross cultural interactions, at both global and local levels. The degree will equip pupils with gymnastic knowledge and to supply a thorough grounding in research methods and ethics with utility in a variety of academic and professional contexts. Students have the possibility to further develop their own knowledge and training through a semester long field and study encounter, predicated either overseas or in Australia.

• Year 12 or equivalent
• Any Two units of English