Description

Anthropology is the study of what it means to be human through the lens of cultural diversity. Anthropologists are interested in all peoples and societies, from small-scale farming communities to large-scale industrial urban societies. Sociology studies how human actions in modern societies are shaped by membership in social groups and by wider social, economic and political processes. Both fields share a common interest in the comparative study of human societies in all their historical and contemporary variation. This major brings both fields together to broaden your scope for interdisciplinary research and professional practice.

Your sociology studies will challenge you to see human behaviour as a product of social influences through membership in small groups and communities, and in wider networks of relationships extending to the global level. Both fields will encourage you to examine and question your everyday assumptions and beliefs about how societies work and your place within them. You'll be encouraged to look behind the surface facts of social and cultural life to uncover the major forces which have shaped, and are shaping, our world. You'll seek to link private concerns to public issues and acquire analytical and practical skills to deal with the many challenges of living in a globalised world. You'll be encouraged to find the 'general' in society and social change through the 'particular' of historical events and everyday life.

Highlights

Why Anthropology and Sociology?

* Our staff are research-active, working in many parts of the world, including Australia, and have won a range of state and national teaching awards. You can be sure you are learning from the best.

* We provide a friendly, supportive and lively learning environment in which the skills you acquire will allow you to engage critically and constructively with the major social issues of the day such as economic and technological change, unemployment, political instability, environmental transformation, and the accelerating pace of change.

Subject Areas

• Anthropology
• Sociology

Cost in US$:

Total indicative course fee: USD 74,000

This Program is open to

Worldwide Participants.

Participants Travel

Independently

Application Process Involves

• Other
• Transcript
• Written Application

Typically The Application Process Time is

4-6 weeks

Curtin University's Mission Statement

Curtin is committed to innovation and excellence in teaching and research, for the benefit of our students and the wider community.

Year Founded

1966