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Part Three – Postgraduate Units of StudyDivision of Society,Culture, Media andPhilosophyANTH800 Issues in Applied Anthropology4 pg cpAn introductory unit examining issues of applied anthropology’sdefinition and scope; its methodologies; relationshipsbetween culture and development; medicalanthropology and primary health care; power inequalities;connections between the global and the local;Aboriginal land rights; approaches to poverty; studies oftourism, and the ethics of applied research.ANTH801 Methodology in Local andCommunity Studies4 pg cpThis unit introduces methodological strategies used incommunity research. Quantitative strategies, such asquestionnaire and survey methods, will be comparedwith qualitative ones, such as participant observation.The epistemological and ethical dimensions of methodology,and the effects of political imperatives on the conductof research will be discussed. It includes four weeksof community-based research.ANTH805 Migrant Communities inAustralia4 pg cpThis unit examines issues surrounding immigration andmigrant communities in Australia. The impact of labourmigration, understanding of ethnicity, and the impact ofmass immigration will be considered from both internationaland national perspectives. Cases will be used toevaluate government policy and approaches to migrantcommunities, and shifts in approaches will be considered.ANTH808 Urban Anthropology andCommunity Development4 pg cpStudies in urban anthropology, both in the West and inindustrialising societies, will be examined in the light ofthe emergence of community organisations against abackground of class and power differentials. The mechanismsappropriate to social action will be examinedthrough case studies drawn from both Western and“Third World” examples. Dilemmas of “communitydevelopment” will be considered.ANTH811 Culture, Media andDevelopment4 pg cpThe rapid introduction and spread of mass media hasbeen directly and indirectly implicated in the patternscurrently emerging, especially in the Asia-Pacific region.This unit will examine the theories of media influence,the present pattern of media flow, and the use of mediadirectly in the development process (ie in developmentcommunication).ANTH815 Issues in the Sociology ofDevelopment4 pg cpThis unit introduces development studies by examiningtheories and practices that have dictated the nature ofdevelopment assistance to the Third World over the pastfour decades. Using case studies, this unit considers keyissues such as NGOs and commercial program management,gender, sustainable development, human rights,globalisation and mass media, emergency relief andAustralia’s aid policies.ANTH821 Changing Australian IndigenousCommunities4 pg cpThis unit examines policies and practices in relation toAboriginal community development in both remote andurban areas. Current federal and state policies in relationto welfare, health, land and legal issues will be discussed.Aboriginal viewpoints and the interaction of Aboriginalorganisations with bureaucracies and welfare agencieswill be examined.ANTH823 Research Project16 pg cpThe research project may be carried out in a field settingor be based on documentary and policy materials. It maybe possible to arrange field placement for students intheir areas of interest (but note that all associated costswould have to be met by the candidate). A final report ofapproximately 20,000 words is required.ANTH824/ANTH825 Research Project (halfyear)8 pg cpA half-year unit for candidates who wish to begin theirResearch Project mid-year or who require more than oneyear to complete the Research Project.ANTH826 Intellectuals and ContestedKnowledge in Development andModernisation4 pg cpThis unit introduces the use of anthropology in understandingthe contested nature of knowledge in the projectof development and modernisation. Anthropologicalstudies of shamans, midwives and diviners will be usedto question the meaning of knowledge as defined bymodernising intellectuals.ANTH840 Refugees and Resettlement4 pg cpThis unit will explore some of the main contemporaryissues relating to forced migration. Through seminar discussions,presentations and students’ assignments, wewill examine the causes and consequences of forced311