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Graduate Certificate in ArtsSpecialisation (formal)Year: 2025
Sociology
Contact information
Coordinator
Dr Ashley Barnwell
Email: ashley.barnwell@unimelb.edu.au
Currently enrolled students:
Contact Stop 1
Future students:
https://study.unimelb.edu.au
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
On completion of this specialisation, students should be able to:
- 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
- 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: 3 February 2025
Structure
50 credit points
Duration: 6 months full-time / 1 year part-time
Program Requirements -
- core subject (12.5 points)
- elective subjects (12.5 points)
Total 50 points
Please note: students can only take 12.5 points of elective subjects at first-year level
Subject Options
Core Subjects
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
SOCI40003 | Understanding The Life Course | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
SOTH40001 | Emotions in Society | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Elective Subjects
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
MULT20003 | Critical Analytical Skills | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
MULT20008 | Australian Indigenous Politics | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SOCI10001 | Understanding Society | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SOCI10003 | Inequalities: Future Challenges | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SOCI20014 | Sociology of Youth | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SOCI20017 | Sex in Society | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SOCI20018 | Families, Relationships and Society | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
SOCI20020 | Environmental Sociology: Warming Planet | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SOCI30001 | Contemporary Sociological Theory | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SOCI30009 | Living in a Risk Society | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SOCI30013 | Survey Design and Analysis | Not available in 2025 | 12.5 |
SOCI30014 | Race and Racism in Australia | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SOCI30015 | Work, Labour and Society | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SOTH20002 | Classical Sociological Theory | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
SOCI30017 | Medicine, Sickness and Society | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Links
http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/ssps
Last updated: 3 February 2025