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Sociology // Structure

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Structure

100 credit points

Duration: 1 year full-time / 2 years part-time

The Graduate Diploma in Arts in this area of specialisation requires:

  • two compulsory subjects (25 points)
  • two core subjects (25 points)
  • elective subjects (50 points)

Total 100 points

Please note: students can only take a maximum 12.5 points of Level 1 subjects

Subject Options

Compulsory Subjects

25 points

Code Name Study period Credit Points
MULT20003 Critical Analytical Skills
Semester 1
 12.5
SOCI30013 Survey Design and Analysis
Semester 1
 12.5

Core Subjects

25 points

Code Name Study period Credit Points
SOCI90018 Indigenous Policy Analysis
Semester 1
 12.5
SOCI40003 Understanding The Life Course
Semester 2
 12.5
SOTH40001 Relationships in Modernity
Semester 1
 12.5

Elective Subjects

50 points

Please note: students can only take a maximum 12.5 points of Level 1 subjects

Code Name Study period Credit Points
SOCI10001 Understanding Society
Semester 1
 12.5
SOCI10003 Inequalities: Future Challenges
Semester 2
 12.5
SOCI20017 Sexualising Society: Sociology of Sex
Semester 1
 12.5
SOCI20018 Families, Relationships and Society
Semester 1
 12.5
SOCI20019 Talking with People: Doing Interviews Not available in 2023 12.5
MULT20008 Australian Indigenous Politics
Semester 1
 12.5
SOTH20002 Classical Sociological Theory
Semester 2
 12.5
SOCI30001 Contemporary Sociological Theory
Semester 1
 12.5
SOCI30005 Sociology Internship
Semester 1
Semester 2
 25
SOCI30009 Living in a Risk Society
July
 12.5
SOCI30014 Race and Racism in Australia
Semester 1
 12.5
SOCI30015 Sociology of Work: The Future of Work?
Semester 2
 12.5

Links

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

Last updated: 23 January 2023