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DEVS01 - Development Studies (Undergraduate Study Pattern)

Major: Development and Culture Change
Area of Study: Development Studies
Degrees: BA - Bachelor of Arts (UAC Preference 300119 CSP 310119 DFEE)
Offered By: Department of Anthropology,
Department of Human Geography,
ELS - Division of Environmental and Life Sciences,
SCMP - Division of Society, Culture, Media and Philosophy

General Requirements

Minimum number of credit points68
Maximum number of credit points at 100 level30
Maximum number of credit points at 300 level or above18
and completion of other specific requirements as set out below

Specific Requirements

100 level
Required ANTH150 Identity and Difference: Introduction to Anthropology (3) 3
Required GEOS111 Geographies of Global Change (3) 3
Required 12 cp fromABST100 Introduction to Australian Indigenous Studies (3)
ANTH106 Drugs Across Cultures (3)
CUL100 Text, Image, Culture (3)
DEM127 Demographic Fundamentals (3)
GEOS118 Foundations for Resource and Environmental Management (3)
MAS105 Media Cultures (3)
PHIL132 Philosophy, Morality and Society (3)
POL168 Introduction to Global Politics (3)
SOC175 Australian and Global Societies (3)
STAT170 Introductory Statistics (3) 12
200 level
Required ANTH275 Development Studies: The Anthropology of International Aid (4) 4
Required GEOS215 Geographies of Development (3) 3
Required 9 cp fromABST200 Contested Issues in Indigenous Studies (3)
ANTH272 Re-negotiating Identity: Ethnicity, Diaspora and Nationalism (4)
ANTH274 Illness and Healing (4)
ANTH277 Art and Culture (4)
ANTH278 Commodities, Consumption and Culture (4)
ECON235 Economic Development (3)
GEOS219 Geographical Perspectives on Population (3)
GEOS262 Australians and their Environment (3)
GEOS267 Resource and Environmental Management: Issues and Solutions (3)
HLTH200 Contemporary Health Issues (3)
POL270 International Relations (4) 9
300 level
Required eitherANTH385 Doing Ethnography (4)
orGEOS347 Research Applications in Human Geography (4) 4
Required 8 cp fromANTH377 Culture, Health and Sexuality in the Developing World (4)
ANTH380 Culture and Human Rights (4)
ANTH387 Anthropology of Forced Migration (4)
GEOS311 Asia-Pacific Development (4)
GEOS324 Economy, Place and Culture (4)
GEOS326 Urban Management: Issues and Solutions (4) 8
Required 7 cp fromANTH units
ABST300 Pathways for Indigenous Studies (4)
DEM355 Social and Applied Demography (3)
ECON349 South-East Asian Economies (3)
GEOS321 Resource Management (4)
GEOS322 Population, Health and the Environment (4)
HIST364 Travel, Tourism and Cultural Production (4)
LAW418 Indigenous Peoples and the Law (4)
LAW419 International Human Rights Law (4)
POL321 International Relations of the Middle East (4)
POL380 American Foreign Policy toward the Third World (4)
SOC390 Movements for Change (4)
SOC395 Global Actors, Global Spaces (4) 7
Electives
Balance of credit points required15
TOTAL CREDIT POINTS REQUIRED FOR THIS PROGRAM 68
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