• Total units 24 Units
  • Areas of interest Sociology
  • Minor code SOCY-MIN
  • Academic career Undergraduate
Sociology Minor

Sociology analyses the processes that structure and transform social relations. It explores how identities and societies are formed by virtue of activity occurring in different social contexts. Sociologists examine a wide spectrum of behaviours and they evaluate how and why different social problems and inequalities emerge, how they are experienced, and how they are responded to. The discipline draws on a diverse range of theoretical perspectives and methodological techniques to study the social underpinnings of key concerns, including climate change, surveillance, local and global conflicts, and health and education inequalities.

Students develop a ‘sociological imagination’, a way of thinking that enables them to (a) problematise taken-for-granted assumptions; (b) ask critically informed questions; (c) engage in systematic research; and (d) formulate in-depth analytical understandings of social behaviour and relations. A sociology degree provides students with a cognitive and transferable skill set and it empowers them to participate in wider intellectual and policy debates about key social issues. It is therefore a recognised and valued qualification in a range of careers.

 

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
  1. Think in a sociologically informed manner and formulate sociologically literate questions.
  2. Understand key dimensions of social organisation and social experience as these are mediated by factors such as ethnicity, class, race, gender, age, sexual preference, disability, religion and nationality.
  3. Apply sociological concepts and knowledge to the analysis of real world social issues and inequalities.
  4. Evaluate the merits of competing methodological approaches and theoretical explanations.




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Requirements

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

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

Code Title Units
SOCY3124 Transforming Society: Towards a Public Sociology 6

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

Code Title Units
SOCY1002 Self and Society 6
SOCY1004 Analysing the Social World: An 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
GEND3001 Posthuman Bodies 6
DEMO2001 Population Studies 6
DEMO2002 Population Analysis 6
POLS2096 Genocide Studies 6
POLS2100 Genocide - Post 1945 6
SOCY2008 Risk in Everyday Life 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
SOCY2043 Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods 6
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
SOCY2101 Social Policy: Principles and Practice 6
SOCY2160 Cybercrime: An Introduction 6
SOCY2165 Public Sphere & Media 6
SOCY2157 Surveillance and Society 6
SOCY2162 Sociology of Health and Illness 6
SOCY2163 Identity, Difference and Racism 6
SOCY2166 Social Science of the Internet 6
SOCY3001 Research Internship 6
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