AN2107 - Australia Through Time and Place

Credit points:	03
Year:	2007
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	School of Arts & Social Sciences

This subject considers the development, practice and findings of anthropological and archaeological research on Australia. Following a critical overview of the evidence of human colonisation and settlement of Australia and its cultural and linguistic diversity, the subject provides an integrated exploration of a number of key areas of research in the two disciplines under the headings: ritual; cosmology beliefs in time and space; colonial encounters; authentic pasts/authentic presents; leadership and power; kinship and country.

Learning Outcomes

• to encourage critical analysis of anthropological and archaeological approaches to understanding Indigenous Australian societies;
• to promote an appreciation of the complexity and diversity of Indigenous Australian social and cultural life through time;
• to provide an understanding of the implications of current findings and theoretical perspectives in Australian anthropology and archaeology;
• to provide students with a framework in which they are able to assess the value of an interdisciplinary approach to a number of key areas of research on Australia.

Inadmissible Subject Combinations:

AN2003 and AN3003 and AN3107 and AR2411 and AR2414 and AR3411 and AR3414

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 31-Aug-2007
Coordinator:	Assoc. Professor Rosita Henry, Dr Marcus Barber
Lecturers:	Assoc. Professor Rosita Henry, Dr Shelley Greer.
Contact hours:	26 hours workshops/Seminars - Study materials will be provided through LearnJCU.
Assessment:	quizzes or tests (30%); presentations (20%); essays (50%).
External, Study Period 2
Census Date 31-Aug-2007
Coordinator:	Assoc. Professor Rosita Henry, Dr Marcus Barber
Lecturer:	jc155026.
Contact hours:	1 hours - Lectures delivered on-line through LearnJCU. Electronic communication via email and LearnJCU Discussion Board
Method of Delivery:	WWW - LearnJCU and Printed materials
Assessment:	quizzes or tests (50%); essays (50%).
Cairns, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 31-Aug-2007
Coordinator:	Assoc. Professor Rosita Henry, Dr Marcus Barber
Lecturer:	jc155026.
Contact hours:	26 hours workshops/Seminars - Lectures delivered on-line through LearnJCU. Students attend a weekly 2hour workshop on campus.
Assessment:	quizzes or tests (30%); presentations (20%); essays (50%).

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