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The CASS Student Blog is your opportunity to tell your peers what it’s like to be a humanities, creative arts and social sciences student at ANU. We want to hear about your experiences on campus and off, advice you have for other students, and recommendations for things to do and eat.
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26 May 2021
CW: Animal deaths Each year, ANU anthropology lecturer Dr Patrick Guinness, in partnership with the Duta Wacana Christian University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, runs the Indonesia Field...
30 September 2019
Studying overseas offers great opportunities, but it also means leaving behind your home, your family, your friends, your comfort zone. With all the effort of moving out and settling into a new...
30 September 2019
Master of Museum and Heritage Studies student Edmond Lai participated in the Culture and Heritage in China Field School just recently, conducted by the ANU and Sichuan University in China. Edmund...
26 May 2021
3rd year Laws/Arts student Aislinn Grimley travelled to Paris in December for the Global Paris 2018 course, led by ANU French Studies scholars Dr Gemma King and Dr Leslie Barnes. “How was...
26 May 2021
I’ve become that annoying person who won’t stop talking about their trip abroad. My constant reminiscences of my recent trip to Vietnam to study ‘Global Vietnam: Gender, Labour and Migration’, are...
17 December 2018
One of the more challenging aspects of my transition between school and university was learning to manage higher academic expectations. It became clear during the initial weeks of my first year at...
26 May 2021
Ever since I was little I wanted to come here. I used to look at the poster we had on the wall of one of Finland’s 187,888 lakes and tell myself one day I would see it with my own eyes. So...
26 May 2021
I’m the type of person whose heart-rate increases when I’m within arm’s length of a monumental painting. I prefer to have a guide when I’m visiting historical sites as I believe contextual knowledge...
09 May 2018
CASS ambassador Daniel Hellig-Smith likens the Australian National Internship Program (ANIP) to Roald Dahl’s classic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was always...
26 September 2018
Picture this. It’s a crisp winter morning; snow gently drifts from the heavens in flurries. You emerge from your brownstone townhouse clothed head to toe in your warmest gear, feeling almost as...
21 March 2018
Baffled by the terminology and don’t know where to start? Our explainer will help. Get fired up Choose what interests you. If you’ve been interested in a subject since year...
24 April 2019
To the surprise of everyone except Canberrans, Lonely Planet recently announced that Canberra is one of the top ten cities for tourists in the world. It's high time to revisit some of the things that...
