Clayton campus

First-year level

• SCY1010 Introduction to sociology I
• SCY1020 Introduction to sociology II

Prerequisite: A first-year SCY sequence.

• SCY2100 Marx, Weber and Durkheim: sociological perspectives
• SCY2150 Sociological research techniques
• SCY2210 Gender and sociology
• SCY2230 Australian society: a developmental perspective
• COS2130 Culture and society: introduction to cultural theory
• SCY2010 Second year sociology options - A (proposed to be offered next in 1998)
• SCY2020 Second year sociology options - B
• Living in suburbs: the economics of everyday life
• Spirituality, faith and religion: society and the transcendent

Prerequisite: Second-year COS and/or SCY subjects carrying a total of at least sixteen points.

SCY third-year options: Students enrol for SCY third-year options under the following classification:

First semester

• SCY3000 Advanced sociology A.1
• SCY3001 Advanced sociology A.2
• SCY3002 Advanced sociology A.3
• SCY3006 Advanced sociology C.1 (first semester)

First-semester options

• Bodily representations (proposed to be offered next in 1998)
• Data appreciation
• Population and migration
• Sexed media, media-ted sex
• Social psychology
• Sociology of the family
• Sociology of self
• Women, gender and society

• SCY3003 Advanced sociology B.1
• SCY3004 Advanced sociology B.2
• SCY3005 Advanced sociology B.3
• SCY3007 Advanced sociology C.2 (second semester)

Second-semester options

• Gender and sociology
• Living in suburbs: the economics of everyday life
• Money, magic, morals and markets (proposed to be offered next in 1998)
• Political sociology (proposed to be offered next in 1998)
• Society and environment
• Spirituality, faith and religion: society and the transcendent
• The joy of `X': computer data processing and analysis using SPSS-X
• The research process
• The sociology of men and masculinity
• Women, psychiatry and madness

Prerequisite: A major sequence in sociology with credit-level (or better) work in twenty-four points of second and third-year sociology of which at least sixteen points must be at third-year level. Students will enrol in two one-semester seminar subjects from among those listed below (or others approved by the department). Under normal circumstances, all students will enrol in the core subject, SCY4540 (Theory and practice of sociology). All students will be allocated supervisors with whom they should consult regularly as they prepare a dissertation to be submitted by the end of October. The dissertation should not exceed 15,000 words. Normally the seminar grades will count for 40 per cent and the dissertation for 60 per cent of the final assessment.

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 1996). 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.

• SCY4500 Sociology honours seminar A
• SCY4520 Sociology honours seminar B
• SCY4540 Theory and practice of sociology
• SCY4580 Thesis in sociology

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