Units that can count toward Sociology
Caulfield and Clayton
1st year sequence:
A first-year sequence consists of SCY1100 and SCY1200.
Minor sequence:
A minor sequence in sociology normally consists of a first-year sequence in sociology and a minimum of 12 points at second year level.
Major sequence:
Students complete a standard major chosen from units listed below, and including at least one theory unit (see List A) and one research methods unit (see List B). Students are encouraged to take these core units in second year, but they may also be taken as third year units.
Students may, with the permission of the Head of Sociology, take two options required for a sociology major from second or third-year level Comparative Cultures units.
Students may choose a maximum of 12 points from the electives listed.
List A: Theory options
- SCY2100 / SCY3100 Social Theory
- GND2010 / GND3010 Contemporary feminist theory
List B: Methods options
- SCY2150 / SCY3150 Sociological Research
- SCY2261 / SCY3261 Social research methods
Units that can be counted towards the Sociology - Caulfield and Clayton:
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First-year level
- SCY1100 Introduction to sociology
- SCY1200 Introduction to sociology
Second/Third-year level
- SCY2021 / SCY3021 Media, Communications and Societies
- SCY2031 / SCY3031 Sexuality, gender and social relations
- SCY2041 / SCY3041 Multiculturalism, culture and social identities
- SCY2070 / SCY3070 Families, Labour and Intimacy
- SCY2100 / SCY3100 Sociological perspectives
- SCY2121 / SCY3121 Youth, Culture and Social Change
- SCY2142 / SCY3142 Sociology of education
- SCY2150 / SCY3150 Sociological research
- SCY2181 / SCY3181 Sociology of prisons
- SCY2191 / SCY3191 Sociology of Community Corrections
- SCY2251 / SCY3251 Children and society
- SCY2261 / SCY3261 Social research methods
- SCY2272 / SCY3272 Sociology of popular music
- SCY2290 / SCY3290 Spiritualities, faiths and religions: society and the transcendent
- SCY2310 / SCY3310 Population and migration
- SCY2400 / SCY3400 Social psychology
- SCY2460 / SCY3460 Sociology of men and masculinity
- SCY2470 / SCY3470 Women, gender and society
- SCY2560 / SCY3560 Work and Social change
- SCY2570 / SCY3570 Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences
- SCY2651 / SCY3651 The unconscious in social life
- SCY3380 Women, psychiatry and madness (12 points)
Students may choose a maximum of 12 points from the following elective list:
- ANY2350 / ANY3350 Questions of Identity: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Globalisation
- ANY3480 The Third World
- ANY2110 / ANY3120 Magic, Science and Religion
- AUS2015 / AUS3015 A World of Sport
- BHS2490 / BHS3490 The self and others: identity and the experience of difference in the 21st century
- CRI2270 / CRI3270 Victimology
- GND2010 / GND3010 Contemporary Feminist Theory
- GND2030 / GND3030 Gender, Media and Consumption
- GND2070 / GND2070 Rethinking Global Culture: Sex, Race, Consumption
- PLT2070 / PLT3070 Ideas and Power
- PLT2140 / PLT3140 Progress and Despair
- PLT2380 / PLT3380 Gender Politics and Policy