Debates and Controversies in SOCA - ARTS3870
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
School: School of Social Sciences
Course Outline: School of Social Sciences
Campus: Sydney
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: 120uoc overall, enrolment in a Sociology & Anthropology major, and in the final semester of a single Arts & Social Sciences program or the final semester of the Arts & Social Sciences component of a dual degree program
CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
Subject Area: Sociology and Anthropology
This capstone course gives students an opportunity to reflect upon key recent and classical debates in sociology and anthropology, drawing on a range of contemporary social problems as critical case studies. The course canvasses a range of perspectives and problems to show how the dynamism of these disciplines is created through a diversity of approaches. Topics to be addressed may include key debates, conflicts and perspectives regarding such things as: structure and agency; identity and difference; objectivity and subjectivity; place and globalisation; and, power and marginality. The course will also integrate discussion around the range of ways of producing knowledge within these disciplines including, but not limited to, genealogy, ethnography, phenomenology, grounded theory and ethnomethdology.