Designing for Cultural Groups: Kin, Tribes & Communities
HDA653Z
Overview
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Level of study: What does Postgraduate mean?
Postgraduate
EFTSL: What does EFTSL mean?
0.125
Delivery Method: What does delivery method mean?
Fully Online
Prerequisites: What are the prerequisites?
Duration:
13 weeks
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Domestic student fee:
$2,300.00 (AUD)
International student fee:
$2,525.00 (AUD)
Description
This unit aims to provide you with the theories, methods, models and strategies for designing with small-level groups - the traditional unit of focus for anthropological inquiry. Understanding small groups is important for work with teams in corporations and firms and families, clans and tribes in communities. The unit will focus on how to model and diagram relationships of social cohesion in order to design the conditions for better socio-cultural systems of interaction.
Enrolment Restriction
In order to enrol in this unit, you must be accepted into one of the following courses:
If you wish to seek approval to enrol in this unit without being accepted in a course, please contact OUA regarding the process.
Prerequisites
Recommended prerequisites
You are recommended to have completed the following unit(s) or have equivalent knowledge before starting this unit:
- HDA650Z — Introduction to Design Anthropology
- HDA651Z — History & Theory in Design Anthropology
Assessment
- Essay 1 (25%)
- Essay 2 — Final Project (25%)
- Online Discussion 1 — Weekly Concept Blog (15%)
- Online Discussion 2 — Class Discussion Facilitation (10%)
- Paper — Letter of Self Commitment (25%)
Learning Outcomes
At the completion of this unit students will be able to:
- distinguish among social science theories and approaches to individuals (ie. psychology), the masses (ie. sociology) and small-level groups (ie. anthropology)
- appropriately select methodologies that support small-group inquiry
- create and interpret representations of kinship, communities and tribes
- design social processes that build group cohesion.
Topics
This unit addresses the following topics.
| Number | Topic |
|---|---|
| 1 | Kinship structures and meanings |
| 2 | Social cohesion among clans and tribes |
| 3 | Notions of community and communities |
| 4 | Modelling social cohesion; diagramming relationships |
| 5 | Designing systems for socio-cultural cohesion |
Study Resources
This unit is delivered using the following methods and materials:
Instructional Methods
- Blogs
- Chat rooms
- Discussion Forum/Discussion Board
- Embedded Multimedia
- Interactive Games
- Online Quizzes/Tests
- Online assignment submission
- Podcasting/Lecture capture
- Standard Media
- Streaming Multimedia
- Web links
- Wikis
Textbook information for this unit is currently being updated and will be available soon. Please check back regularly for updates. Alternatively, visit the Unibooks website and enter the unit details to search for available textbooks.
Relevant Courses
This unit is a core requirement in the following courses:
This unit may be eligible for credit towards other courses:
- Many undergraduate courses on offer through OUA include 'open elective' where any OUA unit can be credited to the course. You need to check the Award Requirements on the course page for the number of allowed open electives and any level limitations.
- In other cases, the content of this unit might be relevant to a course on offer through OUA or elsewhere. In order to receive credit for this unit in the course you will need to supply the provider institution with a copy of the Unit Profile in the approved format, which you can download here. Note that the Unit Profile is set at the start of the year, and if textbooks change this may not match the Unibooks textbook list.
