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Within
Anthropology and Sociology, students may study sociology (subjects coded SCY),
comparative societies (subjects coded COS) and anthropology (subjects coded
ANY). Minor and major sequences are available in each of these three areas and
students may take more than one major sequence. All subjects are listed in a
separate section in the handbook.
SCY subjects are offered on the Clayton, Caulfield and Peninsula campuses. ANY
and COS subjects are taught only at Clayton. In accordance with Regulation 9.3,
students may choose subjects taught within the disciplines up to the value of
two majors. For details of major and minor sequences in anthropology, sociology
and comparative societies, see below. Students may also compose a general major
in anthropology and sociology by choosing subjects restricted only by the
prerequisites and corequisites stipulated for particular subjects; this is
especially useful for students who wish to concentrate their studies in such
areas as Asian societies, women and gender studies, social theory, or cultural
studies.
Students wishing to do a double major in any two of the following:
anthropology, sociology, comparative societies or a general major in
Anthropology and Sociology should ensure that they complete an adequate number
of subjects in the relevant areas. No subject can be counted twice for the
acquisition of points or completion of any other requirement. Students who may
be considering a double major must take first-year sequences in both ANY and SCY.
1 To
provide the opportunity for students to develop a theoretically informed
critical understanding of human societies of all kinds (present and past,
Western and non-Western) and of the social organisation of the modern world
through a disciplinary-based program of study in anthropology and/or sociology,
and to develop an understanding of the different schools of thought and related
approaches to knowledge used by these disciplines.
2 To provide students with a range of pedagogical experiences -
including team taught and individually taught subjects, some more discursive,
some more didactic, some more technical - using different teaching and learning
methods, with a developmental logic from lectures and tutorial combinations in
earlier years through to seminars.
3 To provide subjects, from first year to fourth year, which build
on students' interests in their society and other societies and give students
the opportunity to pursue this interest to different levels and in different
ways within a structured program of study.
3.1 To provide through a structured sequence of two, three or four
years of study programs which enable students both to acquire more knowledge
and to develop progressively more critical and complex levels of understanding
of theoretical and empirical material regarding their own and other societies,
and to understand the roles of social research and researchers in the
production of knowledge.
3.2 To provide students taking a major sequence or honours with an
opportunity to pursue their own interests in choosing particular topics and
areas for study and to take some responsibility for their own intellectual
development with guidance and support from staff.
4 To provide courses organised in such a way that all students come
to an understanding of the central theoretical concepts and issues and main
bodies of substantive knowledge in anthropology and/or sociology through a
balance of core and optional subjects which allows both staff and students a
considerable degree of choice in the subjects they study.
5 To encourage students both within the disciplines (through a
third stream called comparative societies) and more generally in the faculty
(through centres) to pursue interdisciplinary studies in particular areas (such
as cultural studies, women's studies, critical and social theory, Asian
studies, Australian studies, development studies, studies of religion)
alongside their discipline-specific subjects.
6 To assist students to attain (to varying degrees) certain key
skills and capacities that are of value in themselves and useful for
employment, including capacities to handle abstract ideas and theoretical
arguments; select appropriate information for the investigation of a topic;
analyse, interpret and evaluate data; develop a reasoned argument and evaluate
evidence for a proposition; conduct quantitative and qualitative research;
prepare and present oral and written material.
7 The objective of a major sequence in anthropology, sociology or
comparative societies is to provide knowledge of the concepts, theories and
research methods relevant to each discipline and an opportunity for students to
reach an appropriate level of understanding of the structure, culture and
social practices of those societies they have chosen to study.
For postgraduate courses offered by thedisciplines, please refer to the Arts graduate handbook for 1999.
Anthropology
is the discipline within the university which is concerned with the study of
culture in general and of specific cultures and their social organisation in
particular. The specific cultures may be the cultures of other societies,
minority cultures within our own country, or the cultures of our own past. All
anthropology staff have deep and intensive research experience in other
societies and their cultures and bring to the subjects we offer, whether they
be about others or ourselves, a distinctly anthropological perspective, an
understanding of, and respect for, cultural difference. The ethnographic
expertise of the discipline ranges through South and Southeast Asia and
Melanesia to the study of minority communities and their cultures in Australia,
incorporating a range of theoretical perspectives. Anthropology staff provide
students with access to subjects which are crosscultural and comparative.
Anthropology is offered only on the Clayton campus.
An honours year is available in anthropology and also an MQual and an MA by
coursework and research which allows for specialist interests in anthropology,
comparative societies, gender and feminism, as well as postgraduate research
degrees.
A major sequence consists of ANY1010 and ANY1020 or SCY1110 and ANY1020, sixteen points of ANY subjects at second-year level and twenty-four points of ANY subjects at third-year level. It should be noted that ANY1020 is also a 'free subject' which can be taken on its own with no prerequisites for those not wishing to proceed to minor or major sequences in anthropology.
A minor sequence in anthropology may consist of a first-year sequence plus appropriate subjects at second-year level worth sixteen points.
Students who started from 1996 and beyond may wish to do a major or minor sequence in anthropology and may enrol at second-year level. Students who have not completed a first-year sequence in ANY or ANY and SCY subjects should consult the school about what are considered appropriate alternative first-year sequences for entry to second-year level.
Coordinator:
Dawn Ryan
Combined honours may be taken in anthropology and another discipline provided
that all honours requirements have been met in both disciplines and subject to
the approval of the heads of both schools.
Honours is usually taken on a full-time basis but students may apply to enrol
part-time. Mid-year entry is not offered in anthropology.
Although no specific second or third-year subjects are prerequisites for
honours, prospective honours students may be advised to take additional
subjects in second and/or third year, and certain subjects may be particularly
recommended.
The due date for the submission of final coursework and the thesis by students
is the last day of the final semester of the honours program (Friday
4 June in first semester 1999, Friday 22 October in second semester
1999). Extensions may be granted for submission of the honours thesis or for
final coursework up to the last day of the examination period of the semester
in which the work is due. Applications for extensions beyond this date must be
made to the Committee for Undergraduate Studies.
Students may take combined honours in anthropology and either comparative societies or sociology. They will select a combination of subjects and a thesis topic covering both disciplines. In all cases the choice must be approved by the head of the school.
Prerequisite: A first year ANY sequence or SCY1010 and ANY1020
Prerequisite: Second-year COS and/or ANY subjects to a total of at least sixteen points or permission of head of school.
To
gain an honours degree in anthropology a student is required to complete
successfully ANY4380 (Thesis in anthropology), ANY4300 (Theorising culture) and
an additional subject at fourth-year level from among those offered by the
disciplines.
A student who is granted permission to complete fourth-year honours over two
years will take ANY4300 (Theorising culture) and an additional subject at
fourth-year level from among those offered by the disciplines in the first
year, and ANY4380 (Thesis in anthropology) in the second.
One of the following:
Comparative
societies (COS) subjects examine not just contemporary industrial societies but
the very varied ways in which human beings have organised their lives together,
now and in the past. COS subjects are crosscultural and historical, focusing on
processes of social development and comparing the ways of life found in
societies of all kinds: modern and premodern, agrarian and industrial,
capitalist and socialist, Eastern and Western. Interdisciplinary perspectives
are encouraged, and debates in this area cut across literary theory, history,
philosophy, psychology, anthropology and sociology.
Comparative societies begins its specialisation at second year. Students
normally use two first-year subjects in anthropology (see separate entry)
and/or sociology (see separate entry) as the basis for a minor or major in COS
but other subjects may be allowed. Second-year subjects deal with the rise of
capitalist societies, with the study of culture, with understanding prejudice
and discrimination in its many guises, and with the impact of scientific
rationality on our view of the world and our place in it. In the third year
students can choose among options including the sociology of literature; the
consumer society; bodily representations; media, gender and sexuality;
nationalism; the sociology of disabilities; Japanese society; Marxist,
critical, structuralist and post structuralist theories.
An honours program is also available for students wishing to specialise further
and who may want to proceed to postgraduate research. The school offers an
MQual and an MA by coursework and research within which specialised subjects
are available in social theory, comparative societies, gender and feminism, and
anthropology; postgraduate research degrees are also available.
A major sequence consists of a first-year sequence in either ANY or SCY, plus second-year COS or appropriate ANY or SCY subjects totalling a minimum of sixteen points and appropriate third-year COS, ANY or SCY subjects totalling a minimum of twenty-four points.
A minor sequence in comparative societies may consist of either (i) appropriate subjects at first-year level worth twelve points plus appropriate COS, ANY or SCY subjects at second-year level worth sixteen points or (ii) appropriate sequences of COS, ANY or SCY subjects at second-year level worth sixteen points plus appropriate sequences of COS, ANY or SCY subjects at third-year level worth a minimum of twelve points.
Coordinator:
Dawn Ryan
Details of the fourth year are set out under 'Fourth-year level'. Honours is
usually taken on a full-time basis but students may apply to enrol part-time.
Mid-year entry is not offered in comparative societies.
Combined honours may be taken in comparative societies and another discipline,
provided that all honours requirements have been met in both disciplines and
subject to approval of the heads of both schools.
The due date for the submission of final coursework and the thesis by students
is the last day of the final semester of the honours program (Friday
4 June in first semester 1999 and Friday 22 October in second
semester 1999). Extensions may be granted for submission of the honours thesis
or for final coursework up to the last day of the examination period of the
semester in which the work is due. Applications for extensions beyond this date
must be made to the Committee for Undergraduate Studies.
Prerequisite: Two subjects from ANY1010, ANY1020, SCY1010 or SCY1020, or one of these plus a subject from a cognate discipline.
Prerequisite: Second-year level COS, or appropriate ANY or SCY subjects carrying a total of at least sixteen points.
Students are required to take:
and either
or
and one of the following:
The
focus of sociology (SCY subjects) teaching is on the study of industrial and
post-industrial societies. It involves the investigation of human groups,
communities, institutions and organisations, and the networks of meaning and
association which link individuals and groups to the broader social structures
of such societies. The wide range of subjects available is designed to provide
opportunities to explore broad theoretical and methodological issues, to
acquire research skills, and to develop an understanding of the institutions
and processes of industrial and post-industrial society. Emphasis is placed on
the research process (the careful description of human social order, the
development of theories and research strategies designed to test and apply
theories) as the means by which sociology as a discipline advances. Many of the
substantive subjects give students an understanding of Australian society in
its global context.
The introductory year sets the pattern for later years. It illustrates some of
the perspectives and methods of the discipline by examining their relevance to
some of the more important substantive areas of society, including the study of
social inequality, gender, the family, deviance, power, the state and
globalisation. The second year seeks to deepen this approach. Theories and
methods are examined in greater detail. In the third year a wide range of
options covering theory, methods and a variety of substantive areas are offered
from which students may choose.
An honours year is available in sociology and the school also offers an MQual
and an MA by coursework and research which allow for specialisation in a
variety of areas, as well as postgraduate research degrees.
Minor and major sequences in sociology are offered on all Monash campuses. While there is some variation in the nature and content of subjects offered, the essential structure of the program, the intellectual orientation and the skills acquired are the same on each campus.
A first year sequence consists of twelve points of first-year sociology subjects.
A minor sequence in sociology normally consists of a first-year sequence in sociology and a minimum of sixteen points. It is possible to take eight points of some comparative societies second-year subjects (COS subjects) as part of a sociology minor sequence.
A major sequence in sociology consists of: a first-year sequence in sociology, sixteen points at second-year level, followed by twenty-four points at third-year level. It is a requirement that students take a theory subject (see List A) and a research methods subject (see List B) in second or third-year. Some second and third-year subjects are dual-listed to add to the range of student choice. Students may, with the permission of the third-year coordinator, take the options required for a major from the cross-listed COS third-year subjects.
All second and third-year subjects are eight-point subjects. Students can take options on any of the campuses.
Coordinators:
Ulla Svensson
Honours subjects are taught only at the Clayton campus but supervision of
honours research theses is available on each campus. Details of the honours
course are set out under 'Fourth-year level'.
Honours is usually taken on a full-time basis but students may apply to enrol
part-time. Mid-year entry is also offered.
Full-time students normally complete their two seminar subjects in the first
semester whereas part-time students take one seminar in each semester of the
first year and work on their thesis in the second year. Full-time students are
expected to work on their thesis throughout the year under the supervision of
an academic staff member. The honours coordinator will run compulsory workshops
on such issues as: library search on thesis topic; application for ethics
clearance; development of a research proposal; thesis writing. Further,
students will be required to present work-in-progress at various stages of the
research process.
The due date for the submission of the thesis is the third week of October, or
the first week of June if mid-year entry into honours. An extension of time may
be granted up to the last day of the examination period of the semester in
which the work is due. Applications for extensions beyond this date must be
made to the Committee for Undergraduate Studies.
Combined honours may be taken in sociology and another discipline provided that
all honours requirements have been met in both disciplines and subject to the
approval of the heads of both schools.
Prerequisite: Second-year COS and/or SCY subjects carrying a total of at least sixteen points.
The honours year consists of two seminar subjects (twelve points each) and a thesis (worth twenty-four points). The thesis (SCY4580) should be approximately 15,000-18,000 words. All students are expected to complete SCY4540 (Theory and practice of sociology) and another subject selected from the SCY4500 list (first-semester subjects) or the SCY4520 list (second-semester subjects). Subject lists are available from the school.
The
study of our own country is central to an appreciation of Australia's place in
the world and, as the centenary of federation approaches, there is a growing
interest in both the past and the future of our society. By undertaking an
integrated program of Australian studies, students will gain the knowledge and
skills which will equip them to understand and interpret the culture we
inhabit. The interdisciplinary focus of the degree will enrich this process of
identification and representation, while students will receive the specific
benefits of vocationally oriented knowledge in areas such as cultural tourism,
heritage and the environment.
Within the Faculty of Arts, there is a wide range of courses in both humanities
and social science areas which contain material on Australia. Students enrolled
in the BA can pursue an interest in Australian studies by choosing subjects
with an Australian focus or content.
Students may also undertake two summer school courses, AUS1010S (Out of empire)
and AUS1020S (Democracy and nation).
For postgraduate courses, please refer to the entry under National Centre for
Australian Studies in the 1999 Arts graduate handbook.
Subjects with specific Australian focus offered within the faculty are listed below. Full details are to be found in the entries for relevant departments. Some listings are subject to change and not offered every year. Students should consult the appropriate offering departments.
The
Department of Politics teaches courses on the Caulfield, Clayton and Peninsula
campuses. The department specialises in four broad areas: Australian culture
and politics, international relations and global politics, culture and identity
politics, and social and political theory. Students may specialise in one or
more of these areas, but are encouraged to choose their subjects so as to
explore the different approaches to political studies.
Politics is a very broad discipline which tends to overlap continually with all
the other major humanities and social science subjects. It is, therefore, an
excellent subject for learning about the interrelationships which exist in the
human world, and for acquiring a diverse range of interpretive, analytic, and
synthetic (especially conceptual) skills. The discipline is not just concerned
with the study of government, policy or political institutions; it also studies
resource allocation, decision making, social behaviour and political action,
the management or resolution of conflict, power struggles, the struggle for
political freedom, ideologies and political movements, the nature of the state
and relations between states. It is especially concerned with the nature of
power and authority, with 'practical understanding', with the relations between
theory and practice and with the series of arguments which are created by the
continual struggle by human beings to maintain their social existence and to
devise more desirable and more satisfactory forms of human community.
Politics at Monash aims to offer students up-to-date coverage and explanation
of many aspects of the contemporary world, developed and underdeveloped,
coupled with a solid intellectual grounding in the key debates, texts and
traditions of inquiry which one finds in the humanities and social sciences.
1 To
instruct students in the discipline of politics and to foster in them a
critical and imaginative understanding of the nature of political life and
human community; to develop in them capacities for intelligent reading and
communication, a theoretically informed understanding of the general nature,
grounds, and purposes of political organisation and culture, and a practical
understanding of government, political institutions, and political activity.
2 To offer students a comprehensive range of high-quality courses;
to encourage as many as possible to pursue a systematic education in politics,
preferably by taking a major sequence leading to a full honours degree.
3 Through the major sequence and the honours degree, to seek to
develop in students:
4 First-year subjects seek to reach the foundational level of these objectives; second and third-year subjects (the nature of the discipline generally does not allow their separation) seek to reach them on fuller and broader levels, especially conceptually; Honours subjects seek to reach them on a level of critical and imaginative sophistication and self-reflection.
The
student with the best overall result in first-year politics will receive $100
worth of books through the Monash University bookshop. The second-best and
third-best students will receive $75 and $50 worth of books respectively.
(Results will be derived by averaging the final marks obtained in politics
subjects. If a student completes three politics subjects, then the best two
results will be averaged.)
The student who heads the honours class list for the year will receive books to
the value of $150 through the Monash University bookshop. The second-placed
student will receive books worth $100. (Honours results and the class lists are
decided by the fourth-year examiners' meeting.)
A student who wishes to proceed to politics in second year on the Clayton campus must complete a first-year sequence in politics. This comprises any two of the options available in first and second semesters. On the Caulfield campus a first-year sequence consists of PLT1531 and PLT1031. A minor sequence in politics comprises the first-year sequence of twelve points and sixteen points of second-year politics. A major sequence requires an additional twenty-four points of politics at the third-year level.
A
fourth or honours year is available on the Clayton campus only, offering an
opportunity for more specialised or advanced work in politics and leading to
the degree of BA(Hons). The department strongly recommends that the Arts
faculty honours entry requirements be seen very much as minimum
requirements only and that intending honours students complete a further
eight points of work in politics at either second or third-year level. Further
advice for honours students is included with the course outlines at second and
third years and in the department's honours booklet.
Fourth-year honours students take twenty-four points of coursework in politics,
do a general paper, and write a thesis. They may do fewer politics seminars if
they are taking a combined honours degree. All are strongly advised to begin
thesis work during the long vacation preceding their entry into the fourth
year. Mid-year entry is not normally offered by this department.
Departments may grant an extension of time for submission of the honours thesis
or for final coursework up to the last day of the examination period of the
semester in which the work is due. Applications for extensions beyond this date
must be made to the Committee for Undergraduate Studies.
On the Clayton campus in 1999 the department will offer four first-year subjects, two in first semester (PLT1020, PLT1070) and two in second semester (PLT1040, PLT1120). All students who wish to proceed to politics in second year must complete any two of these subjects. No previous knowledge of politics is assumed.
The prerequisite is successful completion of an approved first-year politics sequence at any Monash campus. The following subjects will be offered in 1999.
The normal prerequisite for a third-year level subject is successful completion of an approved first-year politics sequence and any two second-year level subjects at any Monash campus.
As
well as fulfilling the requirements for the honours degree laid down by the
Faculty of Arts, intending honours students in politics are expected to take
extra work in politics (see the introduction to the politics entry). They are
expected to take PLT3420 (Political Imagination). This subject should help
students gain solid conceptual grounding in key areas of the discipline and in
major theoretical debates.
The following subjects will be offered in 1999.
Fourth
year comprises work to the value of forty-eight points made up as follows:
1 the honours thesis, PLT4049 (20 points), written under
supervision (this must be shown on all enrolment forms);
2 two of the twelve-point seminar subjects chosen from the list of
subjects below;
3 PLT4179 Approaches to politics (4 points). This is compulsory and
must also be shown on enrolment forms.
The deadline for the submission of final coursework is the last day of the
final semester of the honours program. The deadline for the submission of the
thesis to the department is the last teaching day of the second semester. Any
request for extension of time must be made in advance to the department honours
coordinator and, for lengthy extensions, also to the Committee for
Undergraduate Studies no later than two weeks before the end of the final
semester.
Full-time honours students are required to take the thesis in
both semesters, and are advised to take one twelve-point seminar course in each
semester.
Part-time honours students are required to take one seminar course in each
semester of their first year, and the thesis and the 'Approaches to politics'
seminar in their second year.
Combined honours may be taken in politics and another discipline provided that all honours requirements have been met in both disciplines and subject or the approval of the heads of both departments/centres. This usually requires some discussion and negotiation between the two heads of department. Students who are interested should therefore discuss their plans with the heads of departments, preferably at an early stage.
The following subjects will be offered in 1999.
The following subjects will be offered in 1999.
Students who intend majoring in politics on these campuses with a view to entry into fourth-year honours in politics on the Clayton campus are expected to enrol in PLT3420 (Political imagination) on the Clayton campus. They must also discuss their choice of third-year subjects with the honours coordinator at the Clayton campus.
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