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Graduate Certificate in Arts - Sociology

Graduate Certificate in ArtsSpecialisation (formal)Year: 2018

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Overview

A Graduate Certificate in Arts allows you to complete a comprehensive six-month course of study in Sociology. It is particularly useful if you are returning to tertiary study after time away from an academic environment.

Intended learning outcomes

Student who complete the Graduate Certificate in Arts in this specialisation should:

  • Demonstrate an independent approach to knowledge that uses rigorous methods of inquiry and appropriate theories and methodologies that are applied with intellectual honesty and a respect for ethical values;
  • Apply critical and analytical skills and methods to the identification and resolution of problems within complex changing social contexts;
  • Act as informed and critically discriminating participants within the community of scholars, as citizens and in the work force;
  • Communicate effectively;
  • Commit to continuous learning; and
  • Be proficient in the use of appropriate modern technologies, such as the computer and other information technology systems, for the acquisition, processing and interpretation of data.

Last updated: 31 January 2025

Structure

50 credit points

Duration: 6 months full-time / 1 year part-time

Program Requirements -

  • one core subject (12.5 points)
  • elective subjects (37.5 points)

Total 50 points

Please note: students can only take 12.5 points of elective subjects at first-year level

Subject Options

Core Subjects

12.5 points

Code Name Study period Credit Points
SOCI40003 Understanding The Life Course
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
SOTH40001 Relationships in Modernity
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
SOTH40002 Imagined Societies
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
SOTH40003 The Critical Imagination Not available in 2018 12.5

Elective Subjects

37.5 points

 

Please note: students can only take 12.5 points of elective subjects at first-year level

Code Name Study period Credit Points
ANTH20011 Ethnic Nationalism and the Modern World
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
ANTH30005 Power, Ideology and Inequality
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
CRIM10001 From Graffiti to Terrorism
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
CRIM20004 Order, Disorder, Crime, Deviance
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
CRIM30005 Crimes of the Powerful
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
GEND20008 Sex and Gender Present and Future
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
GEOG20001 Society and Environments
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
HPSC30023 Science and Society
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
INDO30003 Popular Cultures in Indonesia Not available in 2018 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
MULT20003 Critical Analytical Skills
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
MULT20008 Australian Indigenous Politics
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
MULT30017 Indigenous People and Social Control
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
SOCI10001 Understanding Society
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
SOCI20007 Terrorism: Shifting Paradigms
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
SOCI20014 Sociology of Youth
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
SOCI30001 Contemporary Sociological Theory
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
SOCI30005 Sociology Internship
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 25
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
SOCI30009 Living in a Risk Society
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
SOCI30010 Social Differences and Inequalities
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
SOLS10001 Law in Society
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
SOLS20001 Law, Justice and Social Change
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
SOTH20002 Modernity: Foundations of Sociology
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
SOTH20003 Social Theory and Political Analysis Not available in 2018 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
SOTH30001 Critical Theories
July (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
 
Code Name Study period Credit Points
SOTH30004 Psychoanalysis and Social Theory Not available in 2018 12.5

Links

http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/ssps

Last updated: 31 January 2025