Best University in Australia for development studies
1930
Canberra University College enrolls its first students
Canberra University College, which later amalgamated with The Australian National University, enrolled its first students. Canberra University College was established with a loose association with the University of Melbourne.
The School of Archaeology and Anthropology combines five streams of social research and teaching: anthropology, archaeology, biological anthropology and the interdisciplinary fields of development studies and heritage and museum studies. Collectively we are engaged with understanding past and present human experience in diverse and transforming social contexts.
Our school offers an innovative range of programs at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, with particular strengths in archaeological science, biological anthropology, forensic anthropology, Australian Indigenous studies, medical anthropology, visual anthropology, applied and participatory development, and heritage studies.
ANU is the most research-intensive university in Australia and our staff are energetic teachers as well as active researchers working on projects across remote and metropolitan Australia, Africa, Asia, the Pacific, Europe, South America and India.
Development Studies
The School of Archaeology and Anthropology contributes to the teaching of Develoment Studies across the ANU through an undergraduate program offering a specialist Bachelor of Development Studies degree. The core courses are taught within the disciplines of political science, sociology and anthropology, but the program includes courses taught within the School of Resources, Environmental and Society, the College of Business and Economics, the College of Asia and the Pacific, and the Centre for Arabic and Islamic Studies. This program is convened from the School of Archaeology and Anthropology. An Honours program in Development Studies is also offered.
The School also administers and teaches into the Master of Applied Anthropology & Participatory Development (MAAPD) program taught jointly with Crawford School aimed at providing an understanding of the principal ways in which critical social inquiry and participatory processes can be applied to the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development activities.
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