Undergraduate Study in Anthropology
A degree in anthropology gives students an understanding of theoretical and practical problems involved in the study of culture and society and policy issues concerning how diverse peoples of this nation and planet can find sustainable ways of living together.
Anthropology at Macquarie offers a stimulating education based on a critical engagement with questions of culture, knowledge and social transformation as they are experienced in a variety of sites around the globe. Our program includes studies of traditional societies as well as contemporary cultural and social issues in a wide range of cultural contexts.
Staff members have a strong commitment to both teaching and research and years of first-hand field experience, particularly within Asia, the Pacific and Australia. Courses in the department cover a broad range of areas such as:
- culture, power and identity
- health and illness
- gender, sexuality and culture
- media and modernity/postmodernity
- development, international aid, and post-colonialism
- ethnicity, migration and diaspora
We also offer units on Australian indigenous cultures, Indian studies, drug use across cultures, myth and ritual, religion and spirituality, visual anthropology, human rights, and urban anthropology.
A coherent study or major in Anthropology is offered within two degree structures, a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Social Science. Each of these offers possibilities for linking study in Anthropology with study in related disciplines such as Critical and Cultural Studies, Aboriginal Studies or Sociology. The Bachelor of Social Science gives a particular shape and coherence to programs of study in social science units. The Bachelor of Arts allows students to combine Anthropology with other units in a wide variety of disciplines.
Anthropology can also be included in a number of interdisciplinary degrees and as an elective in most other degrees offered by the University.
Our Department also offers postgraduate research programs at both the PhD and the Masters level, in addition we offer a Masters coursework program, the Master of Arts in Applied Anthropology.