So one of the primary
things about anthropology
is that you can't understand
the sense people make
of their lives
without living as they
do, at least to some small
extent, walking in their shoes.
So from your first
introduction to anthropology,
you will be out there
doing practical exercises,
training your eyes
to see difference,
encouraging you to look at
things that are happening
around you and the assumptions
behind those things-- things
you've taken for granted.
So you will be actually out
there doing anthropology,
learning to see as
an anthropologist.
We also have lots of subjects
so you can then deal with
to explore those differences
in the area that's
most significant to you.
It might be politics or
economics or families or gender
and sexuality.
You'll find subjects on
each of those topics.
The University of Melbourne
has an exchange agreement
with anthropology at the
London School of Economics,
which is the best anthropology
program anywhere in the UK.
Enroll with us, and you can
go and spend a year in London.
What anthropology does
is to open your eyes
to the diversity that's out
there that, increasingly, we
all have to grapple with.
And you may end up working
for the public service
because you have to.
They have to work out how to
sell their policies to people
with different backgrounds.
You might end up working in
a third world country trying
to develop an intervention to
change infant mortality rates.
Marketing companies,
too, are increasingly
looking for anthropologists.
Anywhere where you are
negotiating, engaging
with people who come from
different backgrounds, who
have different cultural
understandings about what
matters, you will
find anthropologists.
It's hard to see
that anyone living
in our multicultural
society would not
be interested in those questions
of why do people think things
differently.
Why do people do
things differently?
If you're living in Australia,
you want to do anthropology.
