Sociology Minor

Total units 24 Units

Areas of interest Sociology
Minor code SOCY-MIN

Academic career Undergraduate

Sociology is the study of social relationships in their various forms and of the social institutions and organisations that make up society. Sociologists study significant changes in the contemporary world including transformations in work arrangements, family life, growing inequalities between groups of people, and the impacts of global environmental change on everyday life. Emphasis is placed on the social forces and constraints which influence the way both small groups and large institutions work. By studying sociology, students learn to understand how individuals and groups shape and are shaped by their social world. Additionally, students learn methodologies and techniques that help them, as independent researchers, in developing skills necessary to study social change.

Learning outcomes

Completion of this minor will enable students to:

Understand key dimensions of social experience such as ethnicity, class, gender, age, sexual preference, religion, and nationality.
Use sociological concepts to understand and interpret social issues.
Develop more advanced reading, information literacy, research, presentation and writing skills.

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Requirements

This minor requires the completion of 24 units, which must include:

12 units from completion of the following course(s):

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

12 units from completion of the following course(s):

Code	Title	Units
GEND2023	Gender, Sex and Sexuality: An Introduction to Feminist Theory	6
GEND2025	Gender, Health and Embodiment	6
GEND2026	Technoculture and the Body	6
POLS2096	Genocide Studies	6
POLS2100	Genocide - Post 1945	6
DEMO2001	Population Studies	6
DEMO2002	Population Analysis	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
SOCY2038	Introduction to Quantitative Research Methods	6
SOCY2040	Classical Sociological Theory	6
SOCY2043	Qualitative Research Methods	6
SOCY2053	Imagining the Future: The Social Origins of Utopias and Science Fiction	6
SOCY2055	Social Inequality in Comparative Perspective	6
SOCY2057	Relationships, Marriage and Family	6
CRIM2001	Doing Criminology: Research Methods in Crime and Criminal Justice	6
SOCY2059	Sociology of Resistance	6
SOCY2060	Mobile Societies	6
SOCY2061	Contemporary Chinese Society	6
CRIM2004	Dimensions of Crime: Identifying and Controlling Offenders	6
SOCY2063	Corruption in our world	6

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