ANTH2002

ANTH2002: Private Lives and Public Issues

Student reviews for ANTH2002 at Curtin University. See ratings, workload, grades, and honest feedback from Curtin students.

View in Curtin Handbook

ANTH2002 student reviews

No reviews of ANTH2002 yet. Be the first: the workload it really took, how it was assessed, and whether you would take it again.

Which units require ANTH2002?

No other unit in the catalogue lists ANTH2002 as a prerequisite, so it is not a gateway to anything further.

What is ANTH2002 about?

Notions about private and public spheres have played an important part in the development of public discourse and understandings of human rights and citizenship. Recent scholarship, however, has discussed where these two overlap, and where they raise problems. This unit will investigate current debates on what constitutes the private and the public, and will examine case histories that challenge our ability to distinguish between them. Topics discussed may include some of the following: public policy, public opinion, law, censorship, violence, ethics, celebrity, memoir, disability, gender, sexual and racial identity and affirmative action. We will aim to take events that are capturing attention in the media of the day and analyse how they relate to the theoretical issues we discuss in the unit.

Quick tips

One-line things worth knowing. No full review required.

Be the first. One line on the assessments, the pace, or what to start early.

Unit details

Credits25

Contact Hours2 Weekly

Result TypeGrade/Mark

AreaSchool of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry (1081)

Field of Education090303 Anthropology

Handbook View Official Handbook Page →

How this unit is taught

Online Lecture1 x 1 hour weekly
Tutorial1 x 2 hours weekly