Second-year level
Prerequisite: Two subjects from ANY1010, ANY1020, SCY1010 or SCY1020, or one of these plus a subject from a cognate discipline.
* COS2110 Comparative social structures (proposed to be offered next in 1996)
* COS2130 Culture and society: introduction to cultural theory
* COS2160 Understanding prejudice and discrimination
* COS2230 Race and sexual politics
Third-year level
Prerequisite: Second-year level COS, or appropriate ANY or SCY subjects carrying a total of at least sixteen points.
Options available
* COS3030 Advanced comparative sociology, part I
* COS3040 Advanced comparative sociology, part II
* COS3070 Bodily representations (proposed to be offered next in 1996)
* COS3080 Literature and society (proposed to be offered next in 1996)
* COS3110 Cultural studies: the consumer society (proposed to be offered next in 1996)
* COS3350 Nationalism in non-Western societies (proposed to be offered next in 1996)
* COS3370 Comparative sociology of `development' (proposed to be offered next in 1996)
* COS3430 The third world
* COS3440 Civilisation and its malcontents
* COS3470 Structuralisms and poststructuralisms (proposed to be offered next in 1996)
* COS3480 Social theory and social history
* COS3490 State, society and nation (proposed to be offered next in 1996)
* COS3500 The social construction of disabilities (proposed to be offered next in 1996)
* COS3630 Feminism crossculturally
* COS3710 Sexed media, media-ted sex
* COS3810 Australia-Japan social relations
Fourth-year level
Prerequisite: Students are admitted to honours at the end of third year and must have obtained at least credit grades in comparative sociology subjects (or other appropriate subjects in anthropology or sociology) to the value of twenty-four points at second and third-year level combined of which sixteen points must be at third-year level. Students are required to take:
* COS4010 Thesis in comparative sociology
for twenty-four points plus two other subjects of twelve points each including one or both of the following alternative core subjects:
* COS4209 Re-thinking human studies: after postmodernity
* COS4540 Asia and the West
For students electing to take only one of these, another subject must be selected from those available in the department at the third-year level. This subject can be taken in either first or second semester using the following codes:
* COS4500 Comparative sociology honours A
* COS4520 Comparative sociology honours B