Monash University Arts Undergraduate Handbook, 1997

Clayton campus

Second-year level

Prerequisite: Two subjects from ANY1010, ANY1020, SCY1010 or SCY1020, or one of these plus a subject from a cognate discipline.

COS2130 Culture and society: introduction to cultural theory
COS2160 Understanding prejudice and discrimination
COS2170 Visualising cultures: film and ethnography
COS2230 Race and sexual politics
COS2530 Culture, colonialism and modernity

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 societies, part I
COS3040 Advanced comparative societies, part II
COS3060 Japanese society and culture
COS3070 Bodily representations (proposed to be offered next in 1998)
COS3110 Cultural studies: the consumer society
COS3230 Culture and society: introduction to cultural theory
COS3350 Nationalism in anthropological perspective
COS3370 Comparative sociology of `development'
COS3430 The third world
COS3440 Civilisation and its malcontents
COS3480 Social theory and social history
COS3500 The social construction of disabilities (proposed to be offered next in 1998)
COS3630 Feminism cross-culturally
COS3710 Sexed media, media-ted sex
COS3810 Australia-Japan social relations (proposed to be offered next in 1998)

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 societies 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 societies
for twenty-four points plus either:
COS4209 Re-thinking human studies: after postmodernity

COS4540 Asia and the West

and an additional subject at honours level from among those offered by the department.

The due date for the submission of final coursework and the thesis by students to the department is the last day of the final semester of the honours program (Friday 6 June in first semester 1997 and Friday 24 October in second semester 1997). Requests for extensions beyond the final day of the examination period in each semester must be made formally through the Faculty of Arts undergraduate office to the Committee for Undergraduate Studies.

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