Bachelor of Arts (Honours)- Anthropology

The University of Western Australia

Honours in Anthropology encourages independent critical thinking and teaches you to investigate social questions empirically. These capacities are critical for making sense of culture, society, everyday life and politics in the contemporary globalised world. You will gain an intercultural understanding through an engagement with cross-cultural analysis and sociocultural difference. There is an emphasis on an understanding of human experience in its social context at various levels-local, regional and global. Globalisation brings about new kinds of interconnection among the world's peoples that can best be understood through local ethnographic realities. At the same time, differences in values, politics, and cultures are accentuated by global interconnection. The focus on human interconnections encourages students to consider areas of shared responsibility and to consider critically the human costs of globalisation. At Honours level you will engage with these issues intensively and experientially through theory, methods and ethics.

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