Ecology, Culture, and Field Research (ANTH2060)
Information valid for Semester 1, 2025
Course level
Undergraduate
Faculty
Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
School
Social Science School
Units
2
Duration
One Semester
Attendance mode
In Person
Class hours
General contact hours 3 Hours/ Week
Incompatible
AY211
Assessment methods
Research Plan, Presentation, Peer Assessment, Essay
Course enquiries
Doctor Kim de Rijke (Semester 1, St Lucia, In person)
Study Abroad
This course is pre-approved for Study Abroad and Exchange students.
Current course offerings
| Course offerings | Location | Mode | Course Profile |
| Semester 1, 2025 (24/02/2025 - 21/06/2025) | St Lucia | In Person | Profile unavailable |
Please Note: Course profiles marked as not available may still be in development.
Course description
In much of traditional Western thinking, nature and culture have generally been treated as separate. Based on fieldwork in communities around the world, anthropologists were among the first social scientists to change this view and to consider nature and culture together. Students in this course explore issues relating to the way people know, interact with, and care about their environment. This includes human interactions with, and the meanings of, (urban) wildlife, climate change studies, biodiversity conservation, bush fire management, political ecology, and the societal questions¿surrounding¿resource developments. In addition, students will develop skills in one of the hallmarks of anthropological enquiry: ethnographic fieldwork.
