奧塔哥大學(xué)

The Bachelor of Arts (BA) is Otago's most flexible undergraduate degree programme, enabling students to study from a selection of more than 40 arts and social science subjects, as well as papers offered elsewhere in the University. Academic breadth is complemented by in-depth knowledge gained through majoring in one or two subjects with the option of minors in one or two others.

Students are taught by research-active scholars, are expected to undertake a diverse range of learning tasks and are challenged to develop their intellectual independence. Graduates of the programme are well-informed, versatile, independent thinkers with the information literacy, communication, research and interpersonal skills necessary for a career or further academic study. The completed BA is an entry qualification for the PGDipArts in the major subject of the degree.

Anthropology

Anthropology combines the study of the cultural grounding of social life with the material evidence of the human past.

In Social Anthropology we study the relationships between and within groups of people who are ‘not like us’ – from whichever group of people it is that ‘we’ as researchers might belong. Through comparison we discover the surprising differences in everyday living around the world.

In Archaeology we study the material evidence of the human past – from monument structures like the ceremonial statues of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) to smaller portable artefacts such as posts and stone tools – to better understand our human origins, and societies and environments of the past. Students who wish to specialise in Archaeology major in Anthropology.

Programme Requirements

100-level

• Two 100-level ANTH papers

200-level

• One of ANTH 208, ANTH 210 or ANTH 211
• Two further 200-level ANTH papers

BIOA 201 Biocultural Human Skeletal Biology, may be substituted for one 200-level ANTH paper.

300-level

• Four 300-level ANTH papers

BIOA 301 Biological Anthropology of the Human Skeleton, may be substituted for one 300-level ANTH paper.

Plus

• 198 further points; must include 54 points at 200-level or above.
• Up to 90 points may be taken from outside Arts