Department
of Human Geography
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Department
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Anthropology
Welcome to the Development Studies and Culture Change Program
From 2007 Macquarie University will offer study opportunities in Development Studies and Culture Change.
The impacts of development and cultural change in a globalising world are significant and felt at every level from local communities, to national policies, through to international institutions. The Development Studies and Cultural Change program offers students an opportunity to focus their studies on this important area, developing significant theoretical, practical and research skills that can be applied to employment in a range of development assistance and change management roles in communities, non-government organisations and government agencies. Drawing together studies in Anthropology and Human Geography, with options to study in other fields relevant to student interests, the Development Studies and Cultural Change program offers opportunities to contribute to significant work for human benefit.
Development has become a guiding framework through which people in many parts of the world understand themselves and their place in the global order. It means many different things to different people. Development inevitably brings change. At times, it has improved national economies and everyday living conditions for local communities. Development is also the framework by which agencies and institutional bodies are able to legitimize relations of unequal power between countries at both the national and local level. In so doing, development creates diverse arenas of struggle over the meaning and direction of social, economic and political change. Development, therefore, raises important academic and applied questions about targeted interventions and the relations between power, exchange, agency and identity that they entail.
The specific focus on culture change is an exciting innovation which responds to a real demand within the development field for qualitative understandings of development and the subjective experiences of socio-cultural transformation. This focus both expands the subject of development studies in productive ways, and distinguishes the degrees at Macquarie from other more orthodox degree programs.
Outstanding teachers in Human Geography and Anthropology offer students specialist studies on the impacts of development and cultural change in the context of key issues such as environment, health, human rights and international law, indigenous rights, displacement and forced resettlement, international relations, international communications and other relevant areas.
Undergraduate
The new BA in Development Studies and Culture Change offers unique opportunities for global education, including study abroad, internship and volunteer positions.
Postgraduate
Our postgraduate program in Development Studies includes qualifications at Certificate, Diploma and Masters levels designed to train graduates to work effectively within development-related contexts.
For more information contact: Dr Kate Lloyd, +61-2-9850-8405 Email: klloyd@els.mq.edu.au or Ms. Payel Ray Tel: +61-2-9850 8077; Email: anthropology@mq.edu.au