麻豆传媒

Missions and Learning Outcomes

Anthropology and International Development

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Our Mission

Our mission is to foster a dynamic and inclusive academic environment where Bachelor students are empowered to explore the richness and complexity of human societies - past and present. We encourage curiosity about the world, nurtured through empathy, ethical engagement, and critical thinking. By integrating anthropology, archaeology, international development, and heritage studies, our program equips students with the analytical tools, fieldwork skills, and theoretical foundations needed to understand cultural diversity, historical processes, and contemporary global challenges. We prepare students to engage constructively with issues of social justice, cultural preservation, and sustainable development, both locally and globally

Learning Outcomes

Graduates of the program will demonstrate:

• A comprehensive understanding of the history of anthropology as a discipline, including its intellectual traditions, key debates, and evolving relationship with international development.
• Mastery of essential anthropological concepts 鈥� such as culture, identity, kinship, power, globalization鈥攁nd familiarity with fundamental theoretical frameworks used to interpret human behavior and social organization.
• The ability to articulate ideas clearly and persuasively in both written and oral forms, tailored to academic, professional, and public audiences.
• Demonstrated competence in both ethnographic and archaeological field methodologies. This includes, for ethnography: participant observation, in-depth interviewing, and systematic documentation of social practices and narratives. For archaeology: excavation techniques, site surveying, stratigraphic recording, and artifact analysis. Students will be able to design and carry out field research projects, critically evaluate qualitative and quantitative data, and integrate their findings with relevant theoretical frameworks to generate insightful interpretations of human behavior, cultural systems, and historical processes.听
• Understanding of key debates in heritage studies, including cultural memory, preservation practices, heritage politics, and community engagement; ability to critically assess how heritage is constructed, managed, and contested in different contexts including reflections on the ethical dimensions of heritage work and the roles that local communities, institutions, and global frameworks play in shaping heritage narratives and practices.
• A commitment to ethical research and professional conduct, including awareness of positionality, power dynamics, and the responsibilities of representing others.
• The capacity to integrate insights from related fields such as sociology, political science, economics, and environmental studies to enrich anthropological perspectives on development.