James Cook University

Bachelor of Arts (Anthropology)

When you study Anthropology with the Bachelor of Arts at JCU, you’ll gain critical awareness of what it means to be human in the light of the big issues facing our planet today. You will develop the knowledge and skills to work with diverse cultural and social groups in Australia, the Asia-Pacific and across the globe.

Anthropologists use research, observation, and human engagement to understand cultural and ethnic difference and social inequalities. This includes the historical rise and fall of societies, through to the current interrelationships between humans from different social, ethnic or cultural groups. Current issues such as environmental governance and sustainability in conditions of climate change; global inequalities in wealth and power; cultural diversity, ethnicity and nationalism; war and peace and the role of religion in the state and daily life also form a key focus for anthropologists. They have strong interdisciplinary links to fields such as archaeology, human geography, indigenous studies, politics and international relations, global development, sociology and linguistics.