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Anthropology

Unit of study table (Table A)

Major

A major in Anthropology requires 48 credit points from this table including:
(i) 12 credit points of 1000-level core units
(ii) 6 credit points of 2000-level core units
(iii) 6 credit points of 2000-level selective units
(iv) 6 credit points of 3000-level core units
(v) 12 credit points of 3000-level selective units
(vi) 6 credit points of 3000-level Interdisciplinary Project units

Minor

A minor in Anthropology requires 36 credit points from this table including:
(i) 12 credit points of 1000-level core units
(ii) 6 credit points of 2000-level core units
(iii) 6 credit points of 2000-level selective units
(iv) 6 credit points of 3000-level core units
(v) 6 credit points of 3000-level selective units
Unit of study Credit points A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites
C: Corequisites N: Prohibition

1000-level core units of study

ANTH1001
Becoming Anthropologists
6 N ANTH1003
ANTH1002
Anthropology for a Better World
6 N ANTH1004

2000-level core units of study

ANTH2700
Key Debates in Anthropology
6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Anthropology

2000-level selective units of study

ANTH2623
Genders and Sexualities
6  
ANTH2624
States, Peoples, and Power
6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Anthropology
ANTH2627
Medical Anthropology
6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Anthropology or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Gender Studies
N ANTH2027
ANTH2628
Migration, Transnationalism, Mobilities
6 P 12 credit points at the 1000 level in Anthropology
ANTH2629
Race, Racisms, and Antiracisms
6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Anthropology or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Diversity Studies
N ANTH2117
ANTH2635
Ghosts, Spirits, and Energies
6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Anthropology

3000 level core units of study

ANTH3700
Practicing Anthropology
6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Anthropology

3000 level selective units of study

ANTH3604
The Anthropocene
6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Anthropology
ANTH3608
Becoming Cyborgs: Technology and Society
6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Anthropology
ANTH3621
How We Connect, How We Communicate
6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Anthropology
ANTH3622
The Culture and Politics of Wellbeing
6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Anthropology
ANTH3623
Reconciling Justice with Anthropology
6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Anthropology
ANTH3653
Capitalism, Crisis and Care
6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Anthropology
N ANTH2653

Interdisciplinary project unit of study

If you are completing two majors and both of your majors are from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for your first major, and the Industry and Community Project unit of study for your second major.
If you are completing two majors but only one of your majors is from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for that major.
If you are completing one major only and that major is from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for your major.
FASS3333
Industry and Community Project
6 P 72 credit points
C Interdisciplinary Impact in any major
FASS3999
Interdisciplinary Impact
6 P Completion of at least 90 credit points