Anthropology: Understanding Societies and Cultures

This course provides an introduction to the study of societies and cultures with details on how the discipline has changed over time. It is offered by the University of Newcastle (Australia) through Future Learn, an online learning platform.

On this course, participants are exposed to diverse ways of living as they explore cultural differences and similarities. The course introduces a number of anthropological theories and insights into how the study of other cultures and societies can help address urgent problems confronting the societies and the modern world.

Some of the course contents are:

• Social and cultural anthropology
• Modern social and cultural anthropology
• Basic theoretical and analytic models applied in anthropology, including kinship theory