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School of Archaeology and Anthropology · ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
The focus of this course is the examination of issues in anthropology and the social sciences, and the development of research skills. Students will explore the characteristics of a problem in anthropology, and how one can relate theory to empirical material, theory to ethnography, and the investigation of social issues. Students will be introduced to a range of commonly deployed ethnographic methods and will be invited to consider the relationship to those methods to theory and the carriage of argument, relative to their own questions and selected ethnographies.
130 hours of total student learning time made up from: a) 36 hours of contact over 12 weeks of seminars; and b) 94 hours of independent student research, reading and writing.