Specialisation

Major - Sociology

Western Sydney University Major Code: M1073.1


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Available to students in other Western Sydney University Courses : YES, if the specialisation is available on your Home campus. Please ensure your course structure allows space for enrolment in the units in this unit set. Students must also meet any pre-requisite requirements. Consult your Course Advisor for further advice.


The major in Sociology provides students with a thorough training in the methods, theories and select leading areas of contemporary sociology. As well as units in which methods and theories are taught, through the social science core, students enrolled in the Sociology major will have opportunities to study a number of particular themes from a sociological perspective, including inequalities, deviance, identities, gender, religion, medicine and health care, ethnicity and migration, and the family, among other possibilities. A Bachelor of Social Science (BSS) with a major in Sociology will prepare students for both employment and a research higher degree.


Major Structure

Students must complete 80 credit points with a minimum of 30 credit points at Level 3

Year 1

Autumn session

102787 Doing Sociology

Spring session

101886 Brave New World: Negotiating Social Change in the 21st Century

Year 2

Autumn session

101610 Health, Illness and Biomedicine: A Sociological Perspective
101612 Identity and Belonging

Spring session

102143 Families and Intimate Life
102788 Self and Society

Year 3

Autumn session

101611 Home and Away: Ethnicity and Migration in Australia
101359 Sociology of Religion

Spring session

102733 Genders and sexualities: beyond the binary

Please note: From Spring 2020, unit 101330 Self and Society replaced by unit 102788 Self and Society.

Please note: From Autumn 2021, unit 102039 Crime, Deviance and Society replaced by unit 102787 Doing Sociology.



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