Sociology and Anthropology - SOCAA23704
Stream Summary
Faculty: ARTSC - Faculty of Arts&Social Science
School: School of Social Sciences
Contact: School of Social Sciences
Program: 3704 - Engineering / Arts
Award(s):
Bachelor of Arts (Minor)
Information valid for students commencing 2013.
Students who commenced prior to 2013 should go to the Handbook's Previous Editions
Stream Outline
Aims of the Minor Stream
• An understanding of key concepts and theoretical approaches that have developed and are developing within and between Sociology and Anthropology.
• An understanding of the nature and extent of diversity and commonality as seen from a variety of perspectives, for example, social, cultural, biological, ecological.
• An understanding of the value of analyses that consider relations between different times, different places and different cultures.
• An understanding of the social nature of the relationship between individuals, groups and social institutions.
• An understanding of the nature and appropriate use of research strategies and methods in gaining sociological knowledge
• An appreciation of the relationship between local, social and global forms, and global processes and broader temporal developments, with particular reference to Australia’s place in the world.
• An appreciation of the complexity of human experience, social situations and events, and an ability to assess the merits of competing explanations.
• An ability to question cultural assumptions, and think critically, imaginatively and creatively.
• An ability to undertake independent study.
• An ability to identify the ethical issues in social research.
• An ability to undertake and present scholarly work that values reasoned and open-minded discussion and debate.
• An ability to examine the relevance of sociological and anthropological work to issues in the community.
Stream Structure
- ARTS1870 Rethinking the Social (6 UOC)
- ARTS1871 Cultural Experience (6 UOC)
- ARTS2870 Global Citizens (6 UOC)
- ARTS2872 Living and dying (6 UOC)
- ARTS2873 People and Place (6 UOC)
- ARTS2874 Senses (6 UOC)
- ARTS2875 Society and Desire (6 UOC)
- ARTS2876 Understanding the Self (6 UOC)
- ARTS2877 Technologies, Culture, Society (6 UOC)
Sociology and Anthropology Courses:
- ARTS3871 Forensic Sociology (6 UOC)
- ARTS3872 Media Publics (6 UOC)
- ARTS3874 Culture and Human Rights (6 UOC)
- ARTS3875 Researching Culture & Society (6 UOC)
- ARTS3876 Experience, Illness, Healing (6 UOC)
- ARTS3212 Powerful India (6 UOC)
- ARTS3219 Japanese Society (6 UOC)