Units that can be counted towards Behavioural Studies
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Important - pre 2005 information
Note: Students who started Behavioural Studies prior to first semester 2005 can count toward a behavioural studies minor or major:
Minor
BHS1711, BHS1712 plus any two BHS coded second or third year level units
Major
BHS1711, BHS1712 plus any two BHS coded second or third year level units and any four of the elective units listed below.
First-year level
- BHS1711 Understanding Human Behaviour
- BHS1712 Introduction to Social Behaviour
Second/Third-year level
Remember: students completing a major in Behavioural Studies must complete at least three units at a third-year level.Core units
- BHS2490 / BHS3490 The Self and Others: Identity and the Experience of Difference in the 21st Century (previously: Relationships: You, Me, Us and Them)
- BHS2110 / BHS3110 Researching Behaviour: Principles and Practice
Elective units
Plus four of the following
- BHS2340 / BHS3340 Criminal Behaviour: Biopsychosocial Perspectives
- BH2711 / BHS3711 Personality: Beyond the Persona
- BHS3130 Contemporary Issues in Behavioural Studies
- CRI2020 / CRI3020 Punishment, Power and Justice
- CRI2140 / CRI3140 Sex and crime
- CRI2270 / CRI3270 Victimology
- GND2010 / GND3010 Contemporary Feminist Theory
- GND2040 / GND3040 Sex and Gender in Australian Society
- GSC3001 Cooperative Placement (Gippsland Only) (for BA and associated studies)
- PLT2120 / PLT3120 Politics and violence: conquest, exclusion and reconciliation
- PLT2280 / PLT3280 Order and Violence in International Society
- PLT2950 / PLT3950 International Ethics in a Divided World
- SCY2031 / SCY3031 Sexuality, Gender and Social Relations
- SCY2041 / SCY3041 Sociology of Ethnicity and Minority Relations
- SCY2070 / SCY 3070 Families, Labour and Intimacy
- SCY2121 / SCY3121 Youth, Culture and Social Change
- SCY2251 / SCY3251 Children and Society
- SCY2400 / SCY3400 Social Psychology
- SCY2460 / SCY3460 Sociology of Men and Masculinity
- SCY2651 / SCY3651 The Unconscious in Social Life