Faculty of Arts

Social Sciences

Unit Outline

Being Human: Culture, Identity and Society

ANTH1001
SEM-1, 2015
Campus: Crawley
Unit Coordinator: Dr Richard Davis

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Unit details
Unit title
Unit code
Availability
Location

Being Human: Culture, Identity and Society

ANTH1001
SEM-1, 2015 (23/02/2015 - 20/06/2015)
Crawley

Credit points

Mode

Multimode

Contact details
Faculty
School
School website
Unit coordinator
Email
Telephone
Consultation hours
Lecturers

Tutors

Unit contact hours

Lecture capture system
Online handbook
Unit website

Faculty of Arts
Social Sciences
http://www.ss.arts.uwa.edu.au/
Dr Richard Davis
richard.davis@uwa.edu.au
6488 2847
Monday 1-2, Tuesday 12-1

Name

Position

Email

Richard Davis
Debra McDougall
Martin Forsey
Katie Glaskin

Assistant Professor
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Associate Professor

richard.davis@uwa.edu.au
6488 2847
debra.mcdougall@uwa.edu.au 6488 2869
martin.forsey@uwa.edu.au
6488 3880
katie.glaskin@uwa.edu.au

Name

Email

Sean Martin-Iverson
Mitchell Low
Debra McDougall
Farida Iqbal
Richard Davis
Yann Toussaint

sean.martin-iverson@uwa.edu.au
mitchell.low@uwa.edu.au
debra.mcdougall@uwa.edu.au
farida.iqbal.mail@gmail.com
richard.davis@uwa.edu.au
yann.toussaint@uwa.edu.au

Telephone Number

Lectures: 2 hrs per week; Tutorials: 1 hr per week

LCS is implemented for this unit.
http://units.handbooks.uwa.edu.au/units/ANTH/ANTH1001
www.lms.uwa.edu.au

Unit rules
Incompatibility

ANTH1101 Being Human: Culture, Identity and Society

Unit description
We live in a multicultural world where there are many ways of 'being human'. At the same time, all people share some experiences in
commonall learn, share and communicate beliefs, create and maintain social relationships, adapt to local environments, and make a
living through particular modes of production. This unit explores the world's rich diversity of human experience and practice, looking at
cross-cultural examples of it in domains such as religion, identity, subsistence, social inequality and communication. It also considers
the variety of ways that anthropologists and sociologists conduct their research.

Learning outcomes
Students are able to (1) define and apply key concepts from the disciplines of Anthropology and Sociology including culture, society,
identity ethnocentrism, cultural relativism, the sociological imagination and social research; (2) outline and compare how anthropology
and sociology are used to explain human behaviour across time and across the world; (3) evaluate the advantages and disadvantages
of diverse anthropological and sociological concepts and theories for enhancing the understanding of social and cultural life; (4) apply
theoretical and conceptual tools to specific case study examples of social and cultural life; (5) discuss the utility of the concept human
universals; and (6) write, verbally articulate and present clear, coherent, well-documented arguments, drawing on both theory and
empirical or ethnographic material relevant to this unit.

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Unit structure
This unit takes place over twelve teaching weeks. Each two weeks comprises a Module organised around a theme. In week one of
each Module there is a lecture at the Octagon Theatre. In week two of each Module there is NOT a lecture at the Octagon theatre.
Instead, there is an online lecture made available on your unit website at http://www.lms.uwa.edu.au/. Altogether, there are twelve
lectures in this unit, six in the Octagon theatre and six online. The six Module themes are Humanity, Person, Society and Culture,
Anthropological Knowledge and Ethics, Gender, Race and Ethnicity.
Starting in Week 2, you will attend a tutorial each teaching week for 11 weeks.

Octagon Theatre Lectures: Tuesdays, Weeks 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 in the Octagon Theatre, 11:00 12.45
Online Learning, Tuesdays, Weeks 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 at http://www.lms.uwa.edu.au/
See dates below. Dates are for the beginning Monday of each week
Week 1 Module One/A, February 23 - Octagon
Humanity A (Assistant Professor Richard Davis)

Week 2 - Module One/B, March 2 - Online

Humanity B (Assistant Professor Richard Davis)

Week 3 Module Two/A, March 9 - Octagon

Person A (Assistant Professor Richard Davis)

Week 4 - Module Two/B March 16 - Online

Person B (Associate Professor Katie Glaskin)

Week 5 Module Three/A, March 23 - Octagon

Society and Culture A (Assistant Professor Richard Davis)
(Small Observational report due in this week, March 27, 4pm)

Week 6 Module Three/B, March 30 Online

Society and Culture B (Associate Professor Debra McDougall)

Two Week Study Break April 6 - April 17

Week 7 Module Four/A, April 20 - Octagon
Anthropological Knowledge and Ethics A (Assistant Professor Richard Davis)

Week 8 Module Four/B April 27 - Online

Anthropological Knowledge and Ethics B (Associate Professor Debra McDougall)

Week 9 Module Five/A, May 4 - Octagon

Gender A (Assistant Professor Richard Davis)

Week 10 Module Five/B, May 11 - Online

Gender B (Associate Professor Debra McDougall)

Week 11 - Module Six/A, May 18 - Octagon

Race and Ethnicity A (Assistant Professor Richard Davis)

Week 12 Module Six/B, May 25 - Online

Race and Ethnicity B (Associate Professor Martin Forsey)
(Large Essay due in this week, May 25 4pm)

Teaching and learning responsibilities

Teaching and learning strategies
1. Attend all lectures and tutorials, take notes in lectures and tutorials and review them on a weekly basis; do all reading assignments in
time for the tutorial discussion/debate; visit your tutor and/or the unit coordinator during their office hours to discuss unit material, think
about unit material as you go about your daily life.
2. Lectures are recorded and made available through LMS at the following website: www.lms.uwa.edu.a

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3. Tutorials: Starting in week 2, there are 11 weeks of tutorials spread through the semester. It is the responsibility of students to note
the dates of their tutorials and of tutorial-free weeks. Tutorial attendance is a course requirement. Students who are regularly absent
from tutorials without a satisfactory excuse may forfeit their right to sit the final examination. Students who attend all tutorials will receive
a mark of at least 50%. Higher marks are given on the basis of a students participation in the group discussion. In their remarks,
students should aim to demonstrate that they have read and thought about the tutorial material. Students are urged to take turns in any
discussion, allowing fellow students the opportunity to speak.

Charter of student rights and responsibilities

The Charter of Student Rights and Responsibilities upholds the fundamental rights of students who undertake their education at The
University of Western Australia.
The University's Charter of Student Rights and Responsibilities is available at
http://www.governance.uwa.edu.au/procedures/policies/policies-and-procedures?method=document&id=UP07/132

Student Guild contact details

Contact details for the University Student Guild can be found at http://www.guild.uwa.edu.au/welcome/contact

ACE/AISE/CARS
Academic Conduct Essentials (AACE1000/AACE7000)
Academic Conduct Essentials (ACE) is a compulsory online module for all students about ethical scholarship and the expectations of
correct academic conduct that UWA has of its students. All students at any level undergraduate, postgraduate, onshore, offshore
who are enrolled into a UWA course, are required to complete an online module which introduces you to the basic issues of ethical
scholarship and the expectations of correct academic conduct that UWA has of its students. The unit is called Academic Conduct
Essentials, or ACE for short, and is available through the Learning Management System (LMS) using your Pheme account. Those
students required to complete ACE are automatically enrolled in the unit. Information about ACE is available in the UWA Handbook.

Communication and Research Skills (CARS1000)

All commencing undergraduate students are required to complete CARS1000 within the first 10 weeks of their first semester.
CARS1000 is an online, self-paced unit that provides an introduction to the skills needed to find and use information effectively and
efficiently, to communicate effectively and to work in teams. Topics covered include how to locate and use library resources, the
search process and search strategies, how and why to reference work, evaluating online sources, writing, presenting and working in
teams. CARS1000 is a Moodle unit containing several modules. In order to pass the unit, the unit quiz must be completed with a mark
of 80% or greater. Multiple attempts at the quiz are allowed. Completion of the unit will be recorded as an Ungraded Pass (UP) or
Ungraded Fail (UF) on your academic record. Students can only access this unit via the Learning Management System (LMS).

Indigenous Studies Essentials (INDG1000)

This unit is a Welcome to Country that introduces students to the shared learning space at The University of Western Australia. This
learning space includes both Western and Indigenous knowledge systems. The unit looks at the local, national and global contexts of
Indigenous peoples. Students consider where The University is located and share in the Noongar story of the place. They explore
Aboriginal people in a national context and Indigenous people globally. Students are introduced to a range of protocols relevant to their
professional and disciplinary contexts. This comprises an online quiz (100 per cent). A database of questions addresses all sections of
the module. Students are permitted to attempt the quiz as often as they wish to achieve the required 80 per cent pass mark. This unit is
a mandatory and informational unit. Students can access this unit via the Learning Management System (LMS).

Information for students with disabilities

The University has a range of support services, equipment and facilities for students with a disability. If you would like to receive advice
on these services please email uniline@uwa.edu.au or visit http://www.student.uwa.edu.au/life/health/uniaccess

Assessment
Assessment overview
Typically this unit is assessed in the following way(s): (1) online quiz; (2) written work; (3) participation and oral presentation; and (4)
examination. Further information is available in the unit outline.

Small Observational Report, Large Essay and Exam

It is the responsibility of each student to ensure that their Small Observational Report and Large Essay is submitted on time (4pm
of the due dates), and that they get to their Exam on time.
If health or personal problems are affecting a students work, the student should seek the advice of the Allocated Advising Student
Office who will notify all course coordinators involved. To apply for an extension for the Observational Report, Large Essay or
Exam, a student should submit a Special Consideration application to their Allocated Advising Student Office through
StudentConnect. Please see http://www.student.uwa.edu.au/course/exams/consideration for guidelines on submitting an
extension.
Late submissions of the Observational Report or Large Essay without special consideration will incur a penalty of 2% per day for
a maximum of 20% for two weeks after the due date. The Report and Essay will not be accepted if they are more than two weeks
late after the due date, unless the Allocated Advising Student Office has made an extension approval. The Report and Essay will
not be accepted after the end of the exam period unless a student has been granted an extension by their Allocated Advising
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Student Office.

Multiple Choice Quizzes

The multiple choice quiz is open from 8am - 8pm of the due dates. No extensions will be granted for missed quizzes unless the
Allocated Advising Student Office has made an extension approval.

Tutorials
Tutorials start in Week 2 and are held each teaching week until Week 12 of the unit. It is the student's responsibility to make sure they
get to their tutorial on time. If students are unable to make their tutorial they cannot attend another tutorial to make up their missed
tutorial. If they attend another tutorial, no mark will be recorded for their attendance or participation. If students miss a tutorial they can
ask for special consideration to be applied to the missed tutorial. To do this they must hand in a written explanation of why they were
late for the exact date and time of their tutorial and attach supporting evidence (such as a medical certificate). The tutor will assess
their request and, if accepted, their tutorial mark for the unit will be adjusted to take account of their missed tutorial.

Assessment mechanism
# Component

Weight Due Date

Relates To Extra Column 1

Outcomes

1 Tutorial
participation

15%

1-4

2 Fortnightly
25%
Multiple Choice

March 6, March 20, April 2,

May 1, May 15, May 29

1-4

3 Small
Observational
Report

10%

March 27, 4pm

1-4

4 Large Essay

25%

May 25, 4pm

1-4

5 Exam

25%

TBA

1-4

Tutorials start in Week 2 and are held each teaching

week until Week 12 of the unit
There will be 6 fortnightly quizzes for this unit. Each quiz
takes place at the end of every two-week module on a
Friday. There are ten questions for each quiz. Each quiz
is done online through your ANTH1001 unit on LMS
(www.lms.uwa.edu.au. The quiz opens at 8m and closes
at 8pm on the day it is set.
Submission of your Observational Report will be online
via LMS through the Turnitin dropbox. Essays must be
typed and submitted in Word format. You must insert the
cover sheet as the first page of your essay before you
submit it (this is available on LMS www.lms.uwa.edu.au).
Submission of your Large Essay will be online via LMS
through the Turnitin dropbox. Essays must be typed and
submitted in Word format. You must insert the cover
sheet as the first page of your essay before you submit it
(this is available on LMS - www.lms.uwa.edu.au).
Exam date and location to be announced. It will occur
sometime during the Semester 1 exam period of June 620.

Assessment items
Item Title

Description

Submission Procedure for Assignments

Tutorials
Small
Observational
Report
Fortnightly
Multiple Choice
Test

Prepared discussion
An 500 word report

Attendance to tutorials required

Turnitin (online submission through LMS)

10 multiple choice questions based on the preceding

two weeks of teaching and learning

Essay

1200 word essay based on the unit ethnography 'A

Faraway, Familiar Place'. Questions to be released.
Will take the form of short answers to questions from
unit teaching material (but not from unit ethnography)

This will be made available every second Friday from

8am to 8pm on LMS. You will do your multiple choice
and when the time period is over your mark will
become available to you.
Turnitin (online submission through LMS)

Exam

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Set as a formal exam in end of semester exam period

Academic literacy and academic misconduct

Plagiarism
Be aware that the work you submit must be your own with no unacknowledged debt to some other writer or source. To pass off written
work as your own, whether you have copied it from someone else or from somewhere else (be it a published writer, another person, a
TV program, a library anthology, a lecture, a website or whatever) is to deprive yourself of the real benefits of this unit and to be guilty of
plagiarism. Plagiarism is a serious offence! University policy is that plagiarism, the unacknowledged quotation of material from other
people's work, is a ground for failure. Moreover, your name is placed on a central plagiarism register. If you take notes from other
sources (critical articles, background works, etc.) you must quote carefully and accurately, and acknowledge the quotation. Even if you
paraphrase, you must still acknowledge that you are paraphrasing.
Please refer to the University's policy document for further information
http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/students/policies/dishonesty

Appeals against academic assessment

In the first instance, students are strongly advised to talk informally to the lecturer about the grade awarded. The University provides the
opportunity for students to lodge an appeal against any mark which he or she feels is unfair. Any student making an appeal is under an
obligation to establish a prima facie case by providing particular and substantial reasons for the appeal. Students may wish to contact
the Guild Education Officers to aid them in the appeals process. There is a 20 working day time limit for making any such appeal. An
appeal against academic assessment may result, as appropriate, in an increase or decrease in the mark originally awarded.
The University regulations relating to appeals and the form on which the appeal should be lodged can be found at
http://www.student.uwa.edu.au/life/complaints

Textbooks and resources

Recommended texts
WEEKLY TUTORIAL READINGS
All weekly tutorial readings will be made available on the LMS website for this unit. Go to the LMS website (www.lms.uwa.edu.au) to
access each week's reading. There is no book that compiles these readings.
UNIT ETHNOGRAPHY
A Faraway Familiar Place: An Anthropologist Returns to Papua New Guineaby Michael French Smith. University of Hawaii Press.
2013.
This book is available at the UWA Campus Coop Bookshop. Also, an online version is available for reading through the UWA Library
online website. To access, go to http://www.is.uwa.edu.au/ and type in ' A Faraway Familiar Place: An Anthropologist Returns to Papua
New Guinea' in the OneSearch Box
This book is the basis of the essay due on May 25

Other important information

If you have technical difficulties with the LMS, please contact the Student Internet Support Office on 6488 3814.
PROSH takes place on 1st April (no, this is not an April Fool's Day event). What this means is that there are no classes up until 12pm.
As there are no tutorials in the morning of April 1, PROSH does not students attending theor Wednesday tutorials.

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