Master of Applied Anthropology and Participatory Development

Master

In Canberra (Australia)

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Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    Canberra (Australia)

  • Start date

    Different dates available

  • Credits

    96

If you’re a development practitioner, or aspiring to be one, the Master of Applied Anthropology and Participatory Development (MAAPD) will give you the practical and analytic skills you need to make a difference, and also the theory to assess your impact.The MAAPD is a highly-regarded qualification taught by leading academics with development work experience in the fieldThe MAAPD has a number of themes to guide your course choices according to your passions: conflict, development, environment, gender, health, humanitarian, and indigenous.

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Location

Start date

Canberra (Australia)
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The Australian National University, ACT 0200

Start date

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About this course

A Bachelor degree or international equivalent in a cognate discipline with a minimum GPA of 5.0/7.0
Applicants with a Bachelor Degree or Graduate Certificate in a cognate discipline may be eligible for up to 24 units (one semester) of credit.
Applicants with a Graduate Diploma or Bachelor degree with Honours in a cognate discipline may be eligible for up to 48 units (one year) of credit.
Cognate Disciplines sh Language Admission Requirements for Students
Assessments of qualifications
Unless otherwise indicated, ANU will accept all Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) qualifications or...

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Subjects

  • Conflict
  • Politics
  • International
  • IT Development
  • Skills and Training

Course programme

The Master of Applied Anthropology and Participatory Development requires the completion of 96 units, of which:

96 units must come from 6000-level, 7000-level and 8000-level courses

The 96 units must consist of:

24 units from completion of applied anthropology and participatory development disciplinary courses on any of the following lists:

Conflict
ANTH8106 Gender, Violence and Development
EMDV8009 Asia Pacific Environmental Conflicts: Causes and Solutions
EMDV8079 Water Conflicts

Development
ANTH6009 Culture and Development
ANTH8007 Key Concepts in the Anthropology of Development
ANTH8009 Development in Practice
ANTH8038 Critical Issues in Gender and Development
ANTH8049 Issues in the Design and Evaluation of Development Projects and Programs
ANTH8058 Inequality and Development
ANTH8107 The World Bank and the Organisation of Development
CHMD8006 Global Health and Development
SOCY6045 Third World Development

Environment
ANTH8047 Land Rights and Resource Development
ANTH8060 Exploring Gender, Resources and the Environment
EMDV8009 Asia Pacific Environmental Conflicts: Causes and Solutions
EMDV8079 Water Conflicts
EMDV8082 Food Wars: Food Security and Agricultural Policy
EMDV8101 State, Society and Natural Resources
EMDV8124 Disaster Risk Reduction and Management

Gender
ANTH6025 Gender and Cross-Cultural Perspective
ANTH8038 Critical Issues in Gender and Development
ANTH8060 Exploring Gender, Resources and the Environment
ANTH8106 Gender, Violence and Development
DEMO8048 Gender and Population

Health
CHMD8006 Global Health and Development
CHMD8008 Medicine and Society in History
CHMD8014 Perspectives on Culture, Health and Medicine
CHMD8021 Indigenous Medicines, Health, and Healing
CHMD8022 Biotechnologies in Biomedicine
EMDV8001 Environmental Sustainability, Health and Development
POPH8108 Social Determinants of Health
POPH8318 Human Health, Environment and Climate Change

Humanitarian
ANTH8042 Migration, Refugees and Development
ANTH8056 Introduction to Humanitarian Action
EMDV8124 Disaster Risk Reduction and Management
HUMN8023 Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

Indigenous
HIST8016 Settler Societies and Indigenous Encounters
INDG8001 Australian Indigenous Development
INDG8003 Understanding Indigenous Wellbeing: Demographic and Socioeconomic Change
INDG8004 Australian Indigenous Policy
INDG8006 International Indigenous Studies Research Project

Fieldwork and Internship courses
ANIP6503 Australian National Internships Program Internship A (Graduate)
ANTH6065 Indonesia Field School: Contemporary Change in Indonesia
ANTH6066 Indonesia Field School Extension
ANTH6135 Vietnam Field School
ANTH8016 MAAPD Internship
EMDV8015 Wet Tropics Cairns Applied Research Workshop
PASI6005 Pacific Islands Field School


12 units from the following compulsory research methods courses

ANTH8019 Social Analysis & Community Politics
ANTH8028 Social Impact Assessment: Theory and Methods

12 units from the completion of research project courses from the following list:

ANTH8007 Key Concepts in Anthropology of Development
ANTH8009 Development in Practice
ANTH8030 Critically Assessing Contemporary Development Practice
ANTH8038 Critical Issues in Gender and Development
ANTH8039 Critical Issues in Gender and Development (Advanced)
ANTH8058 Inequality and Development
ANTH8107 The World Bank and the Organisation of Development

Either:

24 units from completion of one of the following specialisations:

Indigenous Policy and Development
Society and Environment

Or

A further 24 units from completion of any courses on the above applied anthropology and participatory development disciplinary courses list.

24 units from completion of elective courses offered by ANU

Unless otherwise stated, a course used to satisfy the requirements of one list may not be double counted towards satisfying the requirements of another list

Master of Applied Anthropology and Participatory Development

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