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• +China's Two Social RevolutionsASIA90014

  Offered:MarchYear:2019

  This subject presents an overview of the patterns of social life in China and how these have changed since the revolution in 1949. The socialist transformations led by Mao Zedong after 1949 (the first social revolution) and the market and other reforms led  by Deng Xiaoping after 1978 (the second...

• +Indonesia Rising?ASIA90018

  Offered:Semester 2, NovemberYear:2019

  Indonesia’s emergence as a democratic and decentralized power and Southeast Asia’s only member of the G20 is transforming its relations with its ASEAN neighbours as well as the major regional powers. As a functioning democracy and the largest Muslim nation, Indonesia has a particular position in ...

• +International Relations Thesis Part 2ASIA90013

  Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2Year:2019

  Refer to ASIA90012 International RelationsThesis Part 1 for details

• +Gender at Work in The WorldGEND30003

  Offered:Semester 2Year:2019

  This subject explores diverse scenes, sites and spaces of gender as they occur in contemporary life and culture. It will draw on key theories and approaches to gender to study sexual difference and sexuality in relation to real world contexts including culture, home, education, media, politics, p...

• +LundU:Globalisation and Gender RelationsGEND20005

  Offered:SeptemberYear:2019

  The course focuses on globalisation and gender relations. The first part of the course focuses on main concepts and perspectives crucial to the understanding of changes in social institutions and gender relations in globalisation processes. Gender relations are studied on a structural as well as ...

• +Textual RevelationsAIND40005

  Offered:Semester 1Year:2019

  This subject is premised on the idea that certain key texts provide the means to gain insights and understanding of Aboriginal social realities and individual selves, in a manner qualitatively different to more empirically focused studies. Through deep and intensive readings, informed by appropri...

• +Indigenous Art and Changing the NationAIND20011

  Offered:Semester 2Year:2019

  This subject brings together a vast range of different arts practices to give an holistic view of Indigenous arts and their role in facilitating voice and its use as a tool for social change. Presented over 12 weeks, students will be given access to a broad range of Indigenous guest lecturers who...

• +Comparative Social PolicySOCI90003

  Offered:NovemberYear:2019

  This subject, which is taught in Indonesia, uses a comparative approach to analyse key areas of contemporary social policy, with a focus on the reform strategies that emerged over the 1990s. The subject examines the different social policy responses that have characterised these strategies, and c...

• +Researching Society and CultureARTS90010

  Offered:Semester 1Year:2019

  This subject aims to enable students to deepen and broaden their understanding of core and, whether perennial, resurgent or cutting-edge, contemporary concepts in the social sciences. The emphasis is on relating this to students' development of their own and their peers' doctoral theses.

• +Visiting Scholar: Advanced Seminar AARTS90020

  Offered:May, SeptemberYear:2019

  This subject will be taught by a Visiting Scholar in an area of their expertise. It will provide a graduate-level introduction to an important area of scholarship, including discussion of the visitor’s own work and the scholarly field to which it contributes. The subject will appeal both to stude...

• +Researching ImagesARTS90011

  Offered:Semester 1Year:2019

  This subject will introduce students to methodologies of researching images and to current issues in the research of images. The subject will be taught through active discussion and joint class readings of extracts from recent significant publications within or cognate to disciplines that work wi...

• +Social Inclusion Policy and PracticeSOTH90006

  Offered:MayYear:2019

  Do we live in a Big Society; a social investment state; a socially inclusive society or a global economy? How can we make sense of policy and programs in the context of seemingly ever-changing paradigms and politics? What is the role of social policy in the face of enduring inequalities and new s...

• +LundU: Globalisation and Social PolicySOTH20006

  Offered:MarchYear:2019

  The aim of this course is to analyse and discuss social policy and different social policy systems in a context of globalisation. The course is divided into two parts. In the first part we will introduce some basic concepts and typologies that have been used to characterise different systems of s...

• +Islamic Studies Thesis Part 2ISLM40012

  Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2Year:2019

  Refer to ISLM40011 Islamic Studies Thesis Part 1 for details.

• +Gender, Globalisation and DevelopmentGEND90006

  Offered:Semester 1Year:2019

  This subject examines the relationships between gender, globalisation and development, illustrated principally through case studies, policy documents, and ethnographic texts. It also draws theoretical perspectives and insights from a number of social science and humanities disciplines as well. On...

• +Gender Studies Reading CourseGEND40002

  Offered:Semester 1, Semester 2Year:2019

  This subject is for Gender Studies Honours students only, but is only available in special circumstances and must be organised in advance with the Honours convenor. This subject involves a supervised study of an area of scholarship chosen by the student in consultation with an appointed supervi...

• +Social Policy: Special Topics ASOCI90020

  Offered:Semester 1Year:2019

  Special Topic: Survey Research Methods This subject will give practical tips and hands-on experience for designing and implementing social surveys, for both academic purposes and the public/business sector. The structure of the subject will parallel the steps taken when executing a survey: compa...

• +Sociology of 'Race' and EthnicitiesSOCI30014

  Offered:Semester 2Year:2019

  This subject provides a sociological examination of the racialized underpinnings of Australian society. Focusing on how social forces such as colonisation, dispossession and the White Australia Policy have shaped understandings of racial difference, the subject will be concerned with the specific...

• +Sociology InternshipSOCI30005

  Offered:Semester 2Year:2019Quotas apply

  In this subject a student, under academic supervision, undertakes a sociological research project or prepares a portfolio of work in an organisation outside the university, such as a trade union, social movement, women's organisation, social service provider, government or non-government organisa...

• +Inclusive Policy DevelopmentSOCI90012

  Offered:Semester 2Year:2019

  This unit of study will provide students with an introduction to contemporary approaches to the development and evaluation of social policy. In particular, it will enable students to explore ways of involving those whose lives are to be affected by social policy, in the formulation, implementatio...