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This double degree provides students with understanding and skills in
traditional, changing and current areas of knowledge and learning in the arts
and in the social and natural sciences. Graduates will be able to demonstrate
high levels of competence in complex information management and communication
skills. The course also offers core studies in which students compare and
contrast the traditions of the arts, social and natural sciences, covering such
areas scientific method, research methods and the social construction and
social impact of scientific and technological development. Students will
develop skills needed for research and policy making.
The mode of delivery will be principally on-campus, although modern high
technology delivery may be used in some areas and distance education may be
provided as a resource for some students.
Students
are required to complete a minimum of 192 points across four years of
equivalent full-time study to be eligible for this award. The 192 points must
be obtained by completing eighty points in arts and between eighty and
eighty-eight points in science, as outlined in (1) and (2) below.
1 Eíghty points in arts (social science). An arts (social
science) major comprising twelve points at first year, sixteen points at
second-year level, and twenty-four points at third-year level in one subject
area (eg sociology); and a minor comprising twelve points at first year and
sixteen points at second-year level in one subject area (eg politics).
2 Eighty to eighty-eight points in science. Subjects can be taken
as follows. Two discipline sequences consisting of either (i) 12+16+24
points in one discipline area across levels one, two and three and twenty-eight
points in a second discipline (including at least sixteen points from levels
two and three, or (ii) 12+16+16 points in one discipline and 12+16+16
points in a second discipline within a defined linked major package.
A psychology major requires twelve, sixteen and twenty-four points across the three year levels: twenty points in a sequence of interdisciplinary core studies and twelve points in elective studies of two six-point subjects (or, any second or third-year subjects totalling no more than sixteen points).
It would be normal for a student to progress through the arts and science requirements in a parallel fashion. The interdisciplinary core studies will commence in the third year of the degree when students have studied in both arts and science. The general elective studies are to be completed late in the course - giving the opportunity to develop either further breadth or depth of study. There is flexibility in the study program which allows for variation, subject to the completion of prerequisites and in consultation with a course adviser.
The Faculty of Arts offers majors and minors currently approved for the BA(SocSci) and available at the Peninsula campus. Students will choose their arts (social science) subjects from the discipline areas including anthropology and sociology, geography and environmental science, history, linguistics, philosophy and politics.
The Faculty of Science offers subjects on the Peninsula campus from the Department of Psychology and the School of Applied Sciences. Major and minor sequences are offered in biology, mathematics and psychology. In the double degree, psychology must be taken in the applied science degree.
From
1998 the following first-year applied science subjects may be offered at
Peninsula campus: ENV1616, ASC1637, ENV2626 and ENV2657.
For full details of biology and mathematics, refer to the Arts handbook
sequences.
A full psychology major is well established at the Peninsula campus. See
APY1010 and following entries in the Science handbook for full details of
psychology at Peninsula campus. Psychology subjects are approved by the
Australian Psychological Society. Students could also develop a career path in
psychology from the BA(SocSci)/BSc if they so wished.
Interdisciplinary
subjects will commence in 1999 when students are in the third year of their
BA(SocSci)/BSc.
The following subjects will be offered:
The prerequisite for IAS2001 and IAS2002 will be the completion of a minimum of twenty-four points in each of arts and science.
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