Bachelor of Arts - Anthropology

The Bachelor of Arts offers both diversity and focus, and builds informed, skilful and critically aware citizens of the world. The course is built around deeply enriching experiences, and via your elective units, offers you four Professional Futures domains through which to develop your unique graduate profile: Global immersion, Intercultural expertise, Professional experience or Innovation capability. You can choose from local and international internships, professional engagements and entrepreneurial opportunities, and the choice of more than 50 global immersion programs including access to the funded Monash Arts Global Immersion Guarantee, preparing you to live and work in complex and culturally diverse environments, while building a community of like-minded peers.

Anthropology is the comparative study of different ways of life. It seeks an 'insider' perspective on alternative ways of being in the world. To interpret human behaviour, anthropologists ask questions not just about what people do, but also about why they do it, what they mean by it, what motivates them, and what values guide them. In the past, anthropologists were invariably Westerners making observations of societies that visibly differed from their own. This image is no longer adequate for understanding anthropology. It is true that contemporary anthropologists are still interested in studying difference and the generation of difference, but they are playing an increasingly complex and important role in the modern world: wherever human diversity is an issue, anthropologists are called upon to provide their expertise. In fields including peace-building and dispute resolution, health and medicine, resource exploitation, social policy, indigenous issues, corporate management, mediatisation, religious radicalisation, development aid and policy, and curatingmuseum practice, anthropologists are called upon to contribute their specialised knowledge and understanding. You will explore anthropological issues across a range of areas and societies, and will be challenged to reflect on your own cultural world from perspectives that may differ radically from your own. In the process, you will gain skills in research methods distinctive to anthropology, and be given the opportunity to study and apply these methods in Malaysia (optional). You will have the opportunity to develop an understanding of the key concepts and debates in anthropology via detailed examination of topics including drugs and culture; human mobility; international development; human rights; religionmagic and indigenous matters.
Anthropology is the study of human cultural diversity, and the work of our anthropologists reflects that diversity.
Studying anthropology opens up career opportunities in: International development, Health and education, Social research
Curating and collecting work, Indigenous affairs, Multicultural affairs, Conservation and heritage work

At the time of enrolment in a course at Monash University, you must be at least 17 years of age.
All Monash undergraduate courses require you to have successfully completed a minimum of an Australian Year 12 qualification (or equivalent) and achieve the required academic entry score. Most Monash faculties generally use your most recent studies for admission however other guidelines may apply where your prior qualification may be considered.
GCE A Level 9
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme 28
IELTS - 6.5 (Reading - 6.0, Listening - 6.0, Writing - 6.0, Speaking- 6.0)
Paper-based TOEFL – 550 (Test of written English - 4.5)
TOEFL iBT -79 (Reading- 13, Listening- 12, Writing: 21, Speaking- 18)