Social Anthropology is the study of humans and the cultures they create. The Bachelor of Anthropology at Western Sydney University offers you the opportunity to discover similarities and differences between cultures, and to understand the processes by which humans organise and create meaning. 

Areas of focus include the development of anthropology as a discipline; globalisation and culture; power and politics; gender and sexuality; identity and belonging; ethnography and ethnographic methods; indigenous peoples and nation states.

Specific attention is given to cultures of Australasia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific, and to cross-cultural interactions, at both global and local levels.

The degree seeks will also equip you with multicultural knowledge as well as a thorough grounding in research methods and ethics for a variety of professional and academic contexts. 

Increasingly, graduates with expertise covered in anthropology courses are sought after in professional fields such as:

• Academia
• Corporate Sector
• Government
• Marketing and Advertising
• Non-for-profit and community work
• Social Research