Sociology Major

Total units 48 Units

Areas of interest Sociology
Major code SOCY-MAJ

Academic career Undergraduate

Sociology is the systematic study of how society is organised and regulated. It also analyses the ways in which people experience and order social life. The discipline draws on diverse theoretical perspectives and research methods. Sociologists study a wide range of contemporary issues, including inequality and power, global environmental change and risk, embodiment and health, crime and surveillance, culture and identity, and citizenship and politics.

By studying sociology, students learn how individuals and groups influence and are influenced by their social world. Central to this sociological endeavour is a critical perspective which questions taken-for-granted assumptions about social reality. Sociology can prepare students to participate in wider intellectual debates about social issues, problems and injustices.

Completion of a sociology major will enable students to:

Understand key dimensions of social experience (such as ethnicity, class, race, gender, age, sexual preference, disability, religion, and nationality).
Use sociological theories and methods to analyse social issues.
Assess the merits of competing theoretical approaches to sociology.
Communicate sociological knowledge to specialist and non-specialist audiences.

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Requirements

This major requires the completion of 48 units, which must include:

A maximum of 12 units of courses at 1000 level
A minimum of 6 units of courses at 3000 level

A minimum of 6 units must come from completion of courses from the following list:

Code	Title	Units
SOCY1002	Self and Society	6
SOCY1004	Introduction to Social Psychology	6

A minimum of 6 units must come from completion of courses from the following list:

Code	Title	Units
SOCY2038	Introduction to Quantitative Research Methods	6
SOCY2043	Qualitative Research Methods	6
DEMO2002	Population Analysis	6

A minimum of 6 units must come from completion of courses from the following list:

Code	Title	Units
SOCY2040	Classical Sociological Theory	6
SOCY3014	Contemporary Social Theory	6
GEND2023	Gender, Sex and Sexuality: An Introduction to Feminist Theory	6

A maximum of 30 units may come from completion of courses from the following list:

Code	Title	Units
ANTH2067	Doing Ethnography: Practicum on Applied Anthropology	6
CRIM2001	Doing Criminology: Research Methods in Crime and Criminal Justice	6
CRIM2002	Organised Crime: Understanding the Underworld	6
CRIM2003	Controversies in Crime Control	6
CRIM2004	Dimensions of Crime: Identifying and Controlling Offenders	6
CRIM2005	Alcohol, Drugs and Crime: Promoting Health and Preventing Consequences	6
CRIM2006	Young People and Crime: Developmental Criminology and its Discontents	6
CRIM3001	Criminal Behaviour	6
DEMO2001	Population Studies	6
GEND2025	Gender, Health and Embodiment	6
GEND2026	Technoculture and the Body	6
POLS2096	Genocide Studies	6
POLS2100	Genocide - Post 1945	6
SOCY2008	Risks, Hazards and Disasters	6
SOCY2021	Education and Society	6
SOCY2022	Environmental Sociology	6
SOCY2026	Excessive Appetites: Sociocultural Perspectives on Addiction, Drug Use and Gender	6
SOCY2030	Sociology of Third World Development	6
	SOCY 2032: Population and Australia
	SOCY 2044: Sex, Gender and Society
SOCY2053	Imagining the Future: The Social Origins of Utopias and Science Fiction	6
SOCY2055	Social Inequality in Comparative Perspective	6
	SOCY 2056: Sociology of Work and Employ
SOCY2057	Relationships, Marriage and Family	6
SOCY2059	Sociology of Resistance	6
SOCY2060	Mobile Societies	6
SOCY2061	Contemporary Chinese Society	6
SOCY2063	Corruption in our world	6
SOCY2101	Social Policy: Principles and Practice	6
SOCY3021	Sociology of Health and Illness	6
SOCY3022	Identity, Difference and Ethnicity	6
	SOCY 3029: Food Environment & Development
SOCY3123	Research for Public Policy	6

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