Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Course Coordinator
Chris Houston
Contact via 9850 8471
B513
By appointment
Tutor
Roberto Costa
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By appointment
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Credit points |
Credit points
10
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
130cp at 1000 level or above
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
Mass communications, technological advances, and the transnational mobility of individuals are powerful forces for cultural change in the contemporary world. For anthropology, the globalisation thesis raises important questions about culture, religion and about the question of how violence and its control has changed in a global world. How are we to understand cultures, religious movements and ideologies, previously understood as bounded entities? How might we theorise the relationship between local and global events, such as conflicts, terrorism and violence? This course will introduce students to the field of anthropology and its sub-disciplines through the discussion of these questions that anthropologists investigate in contemporary and past societies. Some of the issues explored in this course include; religion and worldview, religion in relation to globalisation, power and inequality, violence and conflict, and the formation of new religious movements. We will look at the 'speeding-up' of the world in terms of our experience of time and space, and we will consider the possibility of alternative or parallel modernities. |
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Late Penalty Information:
Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, (a) a penalty for lateness will apply – 10 marks out of 100 credit will be deducted per day for assignments submitted after the due date – and (b) no assignment will be accepted more than seven (7) days (incl. weekends) after the original submission deadline. No late submissions will be accepted for timed assessments – e.g. quizzes, online tests.
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Participation | 20% | No | Weekly |
Essay Plan | 10% | No | April 8th |
Final Essay | 40% | No | May 20th |
Take-home exam | 30% | No | May 27-June 3rd |
Assessment Type 1: Participatory task
Indicative Time on Task 2: 10 hours
Due: Weekly
Weighting: 20%
Student’s participation in the tutorial discussions
Assessment Type 1: Plan
Indicative Time on Task 2: 15 hours
Due: April 8th
Weighting: 10%
Essay plan sketching out the themes of the Final essay
Assessment Type 1: Essay
Indicative Time on Task 2: 25 hours
Due: May 20th
Weighting: 40%
Students will write an essay of approximately 2000 words on a self-select topic.
Assessment Type 1: Quiz/Test
Indicative Time on Task 2: 20 hours
Due: May 27-June 3rd
Weighting: 30%
Take-home exam testing understanding of the unit material. Students will be given 4-6 questions and asked to provide 200-250 word responses to each question.
1 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:
2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation
Anth3021 operates with a two-hour lecture, and a one-hour tutorial each week. The lectures are recorded on Echo. Tutorial readings are found on the unit iLearn page
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Unit information based on version 2022.02 of the Handbook