Course of studies

MA part I

All students will complete four subjects

• ASM4005 Qualitative research strategies
• ASM4015 Secondary analysis in social research
• ASM4025 Survey research
• ASM4035 Theoretical and methodological issues in applied social research
• ASM4045 Applied statistics
• ASM4055 Application of computer techniques
• ASM4065 Issues in public policy
• ASM4070 Bodily representations
• ASM4110 Cultural studies: the consumer society
• ASM4200 Rethinking human studies: after postmodernity
• ASM4220 A prominent social theorist (subject to approval)
• ASM4230 Culture and conflict in Indonesia
• ASM4310 Population and migration
• ASM4330 Sociology of the family
• ASM4340 Religion in Australian society
• ASM4370 Women, gender and society
• ASM4380 Women, psychiatry and madness
• ASM4430 The third world
• ASM4440 Asia and the West
• ASM4450 Nationalism in anthropological perspective
• ASM4470 Comparative sociology of `development'
• ASM4490 Anthropology of South East Asia
• ASM4500 The social construction of disabilities
• ASM4510 A comparative examination of cultures in South and South East Asia
• ASM4630 Feminism cross-culturally
• ASM4651 The unconscious in social life: psychoanalytic and feminist perspectives
• ASM4710 Sexed media, media-ted sex
• ASM4800 Special ASM subject (other approved fourth-year level subjects)
• WSM4010 Feminist theory
• WSM4020 Issues in feminist research

Students will either complete four 12-point subjects or two 8-point subjects and a thesis of 24,000-30,000 words (66%)

• ASM5005 Qualitative research strategies
• ASM5015 Secondary analysis in social research
• ASM5025 Survey research
• ASM5030 Culture and the modern self
• ASM5035 Theoretical and methodological issues
• ASM5045 Applied statistics
• ASM5055 Application of computer techniques
• ASM5065 Issues in public policy
• ASM5070 The development of American sociological theory
• ASM5080 The theory and practice of research
• ASM5250 Marxist critical theory
• ASM5300 Theorising culture
• ASM5340 Religion in Australian society
• ASM5800 Special ASM subject (other approved fifth-year level subjects)
• PLM5140 Grand theories of politics
• SWM5140 Policy, program planning and evaluation I
• SWM5160 Child abuse, child protection and the state
• WSM5010 Feminist theory

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