Postgraduate Coursework in the Department of Anthropology

Dr Neil Maclean

Room 231 A26 RC Mills
+612 9351 2931

Requirements
Bachelor of Arts: Pass degree with a Major in Anthropology or equivalent qualification.

Rationale
Every year the Department of Anthropology receives enquiries regarding admission to PhD or MPhil candidature from students not sufficiently qualified in the discipline to be able to meet the current requirement for Australian Fourth Year honours or an equivalent for entry to a postgraduate research degree. The department offers a Graduate Certificate:

1. to provide them the necessary coursework foundation in the discipline to qualify for candidature
2. to enable the department to assess the quality of students as candidates
3. to enable the student to make a more informed decision about application for candidature.

For postgraduate coursework students with a grounding in anthropology the certificate could also be done as supplement to another social science degree (Development Studies, International Studies, International Public Health, Peace and Conflict Studies are the more obvious possibilities) to consolidate an understanding of anthropology at an honours level.

Postgraduate coursework students with a grounding in anthropology may also apply to take individual units of study as electives in other programmes subject to the approval of the directors of those programs

Structure
The Certificate consists of four units of study: two core units and two reading units of study addressing key disciplinary concepts and issues of method. These units of study will be taught separately on a supervised reading basis. As such their content is subject to some negotiation according to the background and specific research interests of the candidate.

Units of study 2008
Anth5901 Anthropology of the Nation State
ANTH5902 Structuralism & Anthropological Legacies
ANTH6910 Supervised Reading I
ANTH6911 Supervised Reading II
ANTH6912 Custom, Conflict and the State
ANTH6915 Ethnographic Method

Director:
Dr Neil Maclean

Room 231 A26 RC Mills
+612 9351 2931

The Department of Anthropology, in cooperation with the Department of Sociology, supports the coordination by ( and ) of the Development Studies Program (Masters, Diploma, Graduate Certificate).

Anthropology’s central role in Development Studies complements its commitment to the issues at the undergraduate level reflected in the Culture and Development Major.

Anthropology and the core units in Development Studies
Anthropology and Sociology combine to teach one of the foundational core units of study in the Development Studies Program:
DVST6901 Critical Perspectives on Development A

The other core units for 2008 are:
DVST6902 Development: Critical Perspectives B
GOVT6125 Politics of the World Economy

and a choice of:
SCLG6912 Rights in International Development or
SCLG6911 Human Rights Advocacy and Strategies

Anthropology Units and Development Studies
Anthropology offers further units of study designed to present a specifically anthropological perspective on the politics of the relationship of distinctively local forms of social organization to state and global processes. These units are explicitly appropriate for students enrolled in Development Studies and in other Social Science postgraduate programs concerned with the relationship between local organization and the state:

ANTH6915 Ethnographic Method
ANTH5901 Anthropology of the Nation State
ANTH6912 Custom Conflict and the State
DVST6903 Professional Practice in Development
DVST6904 Rethinking Poverty

Electives
For a list of electives, and other degree requirements, please see the degree pages.
Master of Development Studies
Graduate Diploma in Development Studies
Graduate Certificate in Development Studies

For full details on the Development Studies Program at the University of Sydney, please go to the
Development Studies Program Website