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Social Sustainability (SOCI30016)
Undergraduate level 3Points: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Semester 2
Overview
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This capstone enables students to consolidate and build upon their Sociological knowledge specifically in relation to research into how sustainable societies are shaped, maintained or undermined. Extending their independent critical thinking and capacity for further studies, students will co-design a group project to apply a sociological lens to the creation of sustainable societies, the subject's central aim. Their group projects research into how sustainable societies are shaped, maintained or undermined, will culminate in students identifying future research and developing their abilities to communicate their investigations effectively to each other and the broader community. Students will develop their critical understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of sociological research, concepts and sociological literature to also identify possible solutions.
Intended learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this subject should be able to:
- Demonstrate independent critical thinking about sustainability in the topic area chosen
- Have the ability to apply sociological theory and research to a 'real world' social concern, for examples, people living without housing or climate change and its impacts for people living in cities
- Have the capacity to review literature (or equivalent) on what supports people living in societies for instance, and how societies can be sustained or undermined by social policy changes, to take another example, and develop a sociological research question
- Develop the skills required for working with peers and in groups, which build clear communication and extend students self-directed learning
- Demonstrate and effectively communicate an understanding of social, cultural, local and global elements of their chosen area of research required to support sustainable societies, for instance: poverty, housing shortage, workers' rights and underemployment and climate change.
Generic skills
Students who successfully complete this subject should be able to:
- Develop critical thinking skills
- Demonstrate collaborative learning: collegial problem solving
- Demonstrate communication skills: peer review, a presentation and group project.
Last updated: 27 April 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Admission into the Sociology major in the B-ARTS Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Arts students are required to have completed the Level One and Level Two requirements for the major before enrolling into this subject. Level Three subjects may be taken concurrently with this subject.
This subject is Capstone subject and only available to students undertaking a major in Sociology in the Bachelor of Arts. It is not available to students in the minor or as breadth.
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Recommended background knowledge
Bachelor of Arts students are expected that have completed the Level Two requirements for the major in Sociology and be completing the final year of the degree.
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 27 April 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Hurdle requirement: Students will identify and indicate two preferred topics in Assessments (CANVAS), one of which they will adapt and co-design with their group (10 words). | Friday 12pm prior to semester beginning | N/A |
Presentation Part A: Groups of four students conduct a 4-minute oral presentation of their topic and project plan: one slide per student, one minute each.
| Week 4 | 5% |
Presentation Part B: A written review of the sociological literature which has informed their groups topic and project thus far and their project plan
| Week 4 | 20% |
Project proposal or Literature review or Podcast or Policy brief
| Week 12, Monday | 60% |
Reflecting on the Group Project
| During the examination period | 15% |
Hurdle requirement: 1. Attendance hurdle requirement: This subject has a minimum requirement of 80% attendance at tutorials, seminars, or workshops. | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Hurdle requirement: 2. Late Penalty and Assessment hurdle requirement: Assessment submitted late without an approved extension will be penalised at five per cent (5%) of the possible marks available for the assessment task per day or part thereof. All pieces of assessment must be submitted to pass the subject. Each submitted assessment must be complete, constitute a genuine attempt to address the requirements of the task and will not be accepted after 20 University business days from the original assessment due date without written approval. | Throughout the semester | N/A |
Last updated: 27 April 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 2
Coordinator Liz Dean Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 30 contact hours: 3 hours seminar per week for 10 weeks of the semester. Total time commitment 170 hours Pre teaching requirements Students will choose two themes from those provided in Canvas, and will codesign and adapt one with their small group, one week before the semester commences Teaching period 22 July 2024 to 20 October 2024 Last self-enrol date 2 August 2024 Census date 2 September 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 20 September 2024 Assessment period ends 15 November 2024 Semester 2 contact information
Time commitment details
170 hours
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Last updated: 27 April 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Readings will be provided online through the subject's LMS site prior to the commencement of semester.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Minor Sociology minor Specialisation (formal) Sociology - Breadth options
This subject is available as breadth in the following courses:
- Bachelor of Biomedicine
- Bachelor of Commerce
- Bachelor of Design
- Bachelor of Environments
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Animation)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Film and Television)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Music Theatre)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Production)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Screenwriting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art)
- Bachelor of Music
- Bachelor of Science
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Last updated: 27 April 2024