Units
The individual subjects inside each degree: what’s taught, how it’s assessed, and when it runs.
4,303 units
| Code | Unit | Faculty | Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOC20018 | Integrated Professional Placement A - Humanities This is a shellcode - refer to BUS20010 for detail | Business | 2 |
| SOC20019 | Integrated Professional Placement B - Humanities This is a shellcode - refer to BUS20011 | Business | 2 |
| SOC30013 | Global Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality This unit explores sociological and cross-cultural perspectives on gender and sexuality. In particular, it emphasises how the contexts of globalisation and colonialism influence the social, cultural, economic and political dimensions of gen… | Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences | 3 |
| SOC30020 | Changing our Climate This unit provides students with an appreciation of climate impacts, mitigation and adaptation challenges, and awareness of questions of international equity and responsibility. Critical examination of the relationship between government, b… | Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences | 3 |
| SOC30021 | Bodies, Health and Technology This unit introduces students to a selection of the most pressing ethical questions and concerns raised by developments in health technologies, especially in the sphere of body-modifying technologies and medicalisation. It prepares students… | Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences | 3 |
| SOCU1011 | Globalisation and our Global Futures This course is designed to introduce you to the concept of globalisation and key processes associated with it. These processes shape the world of today and tomorrow, and this course explores how they can be engaged with constructively to ad… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| SOCU1016 | Asia Pacific Futures This course introduces you to the large and diverse region of the Asia Pacific and how global and regional developments will affect its future. A specific focus of this course will be social, political and environmental trends, and how comm… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| SOCU1025 | Intercultural Communication This course is designed to equip you with the knowledge, skills and critical thinking to enable you to communicate, negotiate and continue to learn across diverse social and cultural settings and prepare you for work, study or research in i… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| SOCU1026 | Global History In this course you will explore the making of the modern world and of our global society. The course begins with the expansion of the Silk Road and the devastating impact of the Black Death on Europe and Asia. We will examine the developmen… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| SOCU1027 | Moving People, Changing Places: Migration, Mobility and Displacement This course aims to introduce students to multidisciplinary approaches to study historical and current migration/mobility challenges across diverse human populations through socio-economic, political, decolonial and cultural lenses. This co… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| SOCU1031 | Global Careers This course introduces you to the dynamic world of work, career development learning, including relevant theories. Emphasising the lifelong nature of career learning and management, the course supports you to critically reflect on career as… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| SOCU1036 | Global Governance and International Law Global Governance and International Law is designed to help you integrate your knowledge of globalisation and use that knowledge to analyse and plan for global governance and law across political, military, economic, technological, social a… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| SOCU1042 | Global Research Project Take your academic journey to new heights with the Global Research Project, a specialised elective for final-year students eager to elevate their degree. This challenging and rewarding course offers a unique opportunity to design and comple… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| SOCU1046 | Politics of Global Languages This course provides a general background to the socio-linguistic and political aspects of language use and language policy in the contemporary world, including the emergence of English as a global language. You will focus on a number of ca… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| SOCU1049 | Language in the Global Workplace In this course you will cover: • language and culture related issues which impact language in the workplace • strategies for language management and use in multinational and international organisations • case studies in global organisations… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| SOCU2064 | Foundations of Criminology In this course, you will examine foundational ideas in criminology. The course begins with an examination of the varying ways that crime is categorised and defined, before moving to an overview of the way crime data is collated and represen… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| SOCU2080 | Crisis Live: Critical Global Analysis in Real Time In this course, you will take a prevailing global issue of the moment and examine it from an array of academically informed perspectives to go beyond the headlines and sensationalist commentaries. Drawing on disciplines including political… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| SOCU2095 | Intersectional Criminology This course takes a critical intersectional lens to crime and law, examining the ways that experiences of indigeneity, race, gender and class intersect to produce very different perspectives on criminal justice. You will be introduced to a… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| SOCU2097 | Welfare Law This course considers the evolution of the welfare state and the major legislative and significant case developments that have contributed to this area of law. Social Security law and the role of Legal Aid are considered. There is a focus u… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| SOCU2108 | Global Leadership for Social Change This course explores the concept, theories and practices of leadership in the contemporary global context. You will discover how leadership principles, values and practices can be applied in diverse contexts to improve decision-making and o… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| SOCU2112 | Global Political Economy This course introduces students to the many ways in which politics and economics intersect and interlink, globally. Rather than understanding the global economy as being separate from political processes, the course examines the relationshi… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| SOCU2116 | Contemporary Criminology In this course, you will learn about the contemporary reality of crime and the problems posed for criminal justice agencies, criminologists and society at large. The course will bring together the current debates, research concepts, crimino… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| SOCU2119 | Criminological Theory In this course, you will consider a range of historical and contemporary theoretical explanations of crime and processes of criminalisation, which draw from a variety of disciplines including classical philosophy, positivist science, sociol… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| SOCU2225 | Culture and Politics in Latin America The course provides you with an introductory overview of culture and politics in Latin America, followed by more focused case studies of Cuba, Brazil, Mexico and Australia's relations with Latin America. You will critically engage with a di… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| SOCU2235 | Global Crime The globalisation of crime constitutes a major security challenge to individuals, communities and states that requires a coordinated response from state and international agencies. In this course you will investigate the contemporary transn… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| SOCU2237 | Humanitarian Interventions and Peace Transitions Military-Humanitarian interventions have become an integral part of the political make up of the post-cold war world, often situated at the intersection of the demands of humanitarianism, security, development and human rights. In this cour… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| SOCU2253 | Criminal Behaviour Analysis In this course you will learn about understanding criminal behaviour - the causes of offending, its effect and the ways in which society defines, understands and responds to violent crime and offenders. You will develop an understanding of… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| SOCU2276 | Wicked problems: innovative solutions Wicked problems are complicated, interconnected social issues, like poverty, political instability, sustainability and wellbeing. Solutions to wicked problems require innovation and multidisciplinary. In this course industry partners pose r… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| SOCU2301 | Fashion, Textiles, Place and Story This course focuses on stories of place and experiences of belonging. You will learn about Indigenous and local perspectives and practices as you begin to consider our shared futures within the fashion and textiles industry. Place and commu… | College of Design and Social Context | — |
| SOCU2314 | Many Ways of Knowing: Studies in Epistemological Diversity In this course, you will learn how different ways of knowing interact in the world: from megacities to arctic outposts, from export processing zones to cultural capitals, from reading on the page to human life online and artificial intellig… | College of Design and Social Context | — |