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Students who commenced study in 2013 should refer to this area of study entry for direction on the requirments; to check which units are currently available for enrolment, refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your area of study.
This area of study entry applies to students commencing this course in 2013 and should be read in conjunction with the relevant course entry in the Handbook. Any units listed for this area of study relate only to the 'Requirements' outlined in the Faculty of Arts component of any bachelors double degrees.
| Managing faculty | Faculty of Arts |
|---|---|
| Offered by | School of Political and Social Inquiry |
| Campus(es) | Caulfield, Clayton |
Notes
- Unit codes that are not linked to their entry in the Handbook are not available for study in the current year.
Description
Behavioural studies is a field that is concerned with an exploration of human behaviour in the rapidly changing, and challenging environments of the 21st century. The major draws on historical and emerging insights from sociological, cultural, philosophical, biological and psychological explanations of human behaviours. Behavioural studies promotes a multi-disciplinary orientation to the study of a range of issues including the following: the relationships between the individual and the social; human relationships; theories of personality, identity, self and others; explanations of criminal behaviours; individual development across the life course; conflict and difference; health and wellbeing; behaviour change; and the self in digital environments.
The discipline offers an undergraduate program (minor and major) at the Clayton and Caulfield campuses and an honours program at the Caulfield campus.
A major in behavioural studies can play a vital part in preparing students for employment in most areas that involve the understanding, management and direction of human behaviours and relations, particularly in private and public sector areas such as the human services field, management, marketing, communications and media. It can also provide a basis for further studies in social work, education, mind and society, counselling and law.
Units
First-year level
Students studying a sequence in behavioural studies must complete two units (12 points) from the following:
For the purposes of a major or minor in behavioural studies the following first-year level combinations may also be counted as a first-year level sequence in behavioural studies:
- PSY1011 Psychology 1A and PSY1022 Psychology 1B
- PSY1022 Psychology 1B and ATS1261 Understanding human behaviour
- PSY1011 Psychology 1A and ATS1262 Introduction to social behaviour
Note: Students are not permitted to study both ATS1261/ATS1262 and PSY1011/PSY1022.
Second/Third-year level
Students studying a minor or major in behavioural studies must have completed the first-year sequence. In addition:
- a minor requires completion of a further two units (12 points) from the units listed below, including all compulsory units
- a major requires completion of a further six units (36 points) from the units listed below, including the compulsory unit. A minimum of three units must be taken at third-year level.
Compulsory unit
(or prior to 2011 ATS2397/ATS3397 Researching behaviour: Principles and practice)
* This unit is also a compulsory unit for sociology. Students doing minors/majors in both behavioural studies and sociology would need to choose another unit to make up credit points for both. A unit cannot be counted twice towards different minors/majors.
Elective units
- ATS2398/ATS3398 The criminal mind
- ATS2399/ATS3399 The self and others: Identity and the experience of difference in the 21st Century
- ATS2400/ATS3400 Personality: Beyond the persona
- ATS2715/ATS3715 Sexuality, and society
- ATS2716/ATS3716 Multiculturalism, citizenship and identity
- ATS2875/ATS3875 The moral psychology of evil
- ATS3748 Digital selves
- ATS3852 Contemporary issues in social science research
Further elective units
Students completing a major in behavioural studies can also undertake a maximum of 12 points of the following units:
- ATS2459/ATS3459 Prisons, power and justice
- ATS2466/ATS3466 Sex and crime
- ATS2469/ATS3469 Victimology
- ATS2560/ATS3560 Theorising sexed bodies: Contemporary feminist theory
- ATS2691/ATS3691 Politics, violence and memory
- ATS2718/ATS3718 Families, relationships and intimate life
- ATS2720/ATS3720 Youth, culture and social change
- ATS2726/ATS3726 Critical social psychology
- ATS2727/ATS3727 Men, masculinity, society
Relevant courses
Diplomas
- 2327 Diploma in Liberal Arts
Bachelors
Single degrees
- 0002 Bachelor of Arts
- 3914 Bachelor of Arts (Criminal Justice)
- 3907 Bachelor of Arts (English Language)
- 3910 Bachelor of Arts (Global)
- 4077 Bachelor of Arts (International)
- 1366 Bachelor of Arts (Languages)
- 1708 Bachelor of Arts (Professional Communication)
- 1712 Bachelor of Arts (Psychology)
- 3920 Bachelor of Arts (Social Sciences)
- 1638 Bachelor of Arts Scholars Program
- 4073 Bachelor of Arts and Social Sciences
- 1719 Bachelor of Behavioural Science
- 2476 Bachelor of Communication
- 1731 Bachelor of Community Welfare and Counselling
- 4042 Bachelor of Journalism
- 0202 Bachelor of Letters
- 1144 Bachelor of Performing Arts
- 1275 Bachelor of Professional Communication
- 4086 Bachelor of Social Science
Double degrees
- 3277 Bachelor of Aerospace Engineering and Bachelor of Arts
- 4098 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Business
- 0550 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Business (Accounting)
- 0553 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Business (Banking and Finance)
- 0555 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Business (Management)
- 0556 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Business (Marketing)
- 0542 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Commerce
- 0170 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Economics
- 1541 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education (Primary)
- 1641 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education (Secondary)
- 0080 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws
- 3054 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Music
- 0530 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science
- 3426 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Social Work
- 0002 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Theology
- 3779 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Visual Arts
- 4097 Bachelor of Arts Scholars Program and Bachelor of Commerce Scholars Program
- 1807 Bachelor of Arts and Social Sciences and Bachelor of Business and Commerce
- 1806 Bachelor of Arts and Social Sciences and Bachelor of Community Welfare and Counselling
- 4208 Bachelor of Arts and Social Sciences and Bachelor of Education
- 4089 Bachelor of Arts and Social Sciences and Bachelor of Visual and Media Arts
- 4403 Bachelor of Arts (Global) and Bachelor of Commerce
- 3537 Bachelor of Arts (Global) and Bachelor of Science
- 1798 Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) and Bachelor of Community Welfare and Counselling
- 1941 Bachelor of Business and Commerce and Bachelor of Communication
- 4075 Bachelor of Community Welfare and Counselling and Diploma of Community Services (Alcohol, Other Drugs and Mental Health)
- 4076 Bachelor of Community Welfare and Counselling and Diploma of Disability
- 0116 Bachelor of Engineering and Bachelor of Arts
- 4616 Bachelor of Environmental Engineering and Bachelor of Arts
- 4426 Bachelor of Journalism and Bachelor of Business
- 4425 Bachelor of Journalism and Bachelor of Commerce
- 4069 Bachelor of Journalism and Bachelor of Science
- 3281 Bachelor of Mechatronics Engineering and Bachelor of Arts
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