Compulsory Law Units

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies draws upon a diverse range of disciplines including history, literature, anthropology, philosophy, politics, education and sociology. It is designed to provide students with an understanding of Australia's Indigenous past, the major issues faced by Indigenous people today, and what all this means for Australia's future. In so doing, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies promotes respect for Indigenous cultures, encourages responsible custodianship of the land, enhances community spirit and advances reconciliation. Students who complete an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies plan often go on to enjoy careers in such areas as education, government, health care, social work or community development.

Level 1

Advanced

The Geography and Environmental Studies major offers a diverse set of units that range from a more traditional liberal studies focus to units that concentrate on developing industry-specific knowledge and skills. Geography is a broadly based, integrative discipline where units may have humanities, social science or natural science foci, or some combination of these approaches. This major includes Environmental Geography units because Geography discipline also deals with environmental issues that are more contemporary in nature and are aimed at improving our ability to manage the environment more effectively. Geography students will develop a unique set of knowledge and skills that re not only useful in a wide range of careers, but can play important roles in helping students to make sense of the world around them, including current events and future trends.

Students wishing to complete a Geography and Environmental Studies major are required to complete eight units (two of the three level 1 units plus six advanced level units) from those listed. Students studying to be a Geography teacher as part of an education degree will choose units as per the advice given as part of the structure of those courses. Students from all other courses are welcome to enrol in any unit in the major provided they meet the pre-requisite for that unit. Students who wish to include a research topic as part of their study should consult with a course advisor. Geography staff can also advise students about their choice of units for various career interests.

Level 1

Advanced

History is both a body of knowledge and a method of inquiry, a way of understanding ourselves and the world around us. It strives to comprhend complex processes of continuity and change and provides insights into how the past influences the present and the future. Historians draw on the largest storehouse of information that exists about how human beings actually behave: the past. Doing History, students learn to identify, evaluate and interpret evidence, make informed judgements about its signifance, debate their findings and clearly and cogently communicate their informed opinions, all while studying a subject they enjoy!

Students wishing to complete a History major are required to complete eight units (normally two level 1 and 6 advanced) from those listed. Those studying to be History teachers as part of an education course will choose units from the major as per the advice given as part of the structure of those courses. Students from all other courses are welcome to enrol in any unit in the major provided they meet the pre-requisite for that unit. Those who wish to include a research topic as part of their study should consult with the Course Advisor.

Level 1

Advanced

Liberal Arts provides students with an opportunity to design their own major by selected 48 units of credit normally including no less than six advanced level units from the Arts majors available in the Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts degree. This will allow students the flexibility to pursue a study stream that suits their interests. Students must meet the usual pre and co-requisites for units. Please note that the units selected must be from the Arts majors in the Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts degree. Units selected for the Liberal Arts major may not be selected from any other major or minor.

The Literary and Cultural Studies major brings together two distinct but complementary disciplinary approaches: literary studies where literature is read for its own sake and for the values it reveals in stores, poems and plays about our lived and imaginary experiences; and cultural studies where ideas and concepts derived from a broad study of culture are explored through a variety of texts including, film, media, television, advertising and the like. Both disciplines examine the assumptions used to support the way that meaning is made across a range of texts and in a variety of contexts.

Literary Studies students will be able to demonstrate advanced reading and writing skills; to apply critical thinking and advanced modes of textual analysis to a broad range of texts, genres and media; to communicate using cogent, discipline-based and context-relevant research; and to participate, both self-reflexively and ethically, in discipline critical debates.

Students wishing to complete a Literary Studies major are required to complete eight units (normally two level 1 and six advanced) from those listed. Students studying to be English teachers as part of an education degree need to consult the advice given to students studying for these courses BEFORE they choose their 'English' units. Students from all other courses are welcome to enrol in any unit in the major provided they meet the pre-requisite for that unit. Students who wish to include a research topic as part of their study should consult with the Course Advisor.

Level 1

Advanced

Note

Students interested in pursuing honours in Sociology need to complete the following units.

• SOCL11055
• SOCL11056
• SOCL19064
• SOCL19069

Sociology is a social science that uses various empirical and critically analytic techniques to develop an understanding of human social activity. Sociology is the study of social life in all its forms including political economy, criminality, deviance, the environment, health and medicine, tourism, rurality, Indigenous issues, gender, consumption, leisure and social ecology. Sociology helps us understand how we came to be who we are by placing individuality in a social context. Sociology is multi-disciplinary. Sociology helps prepare graduates to create a role for themselves in the globalised, multicultural world of the twenty-first century. Students wishing to complete a Sociology major are required to complete the eight units (two level 1 and six advanced) listed below.

Level 1

Advanced

Writing across a range of genres requires understanding and appreciation of established and emerging writing techniques and an ability to apply different writing strateegies depending on audience, prurpose, and genre context. Students undertaking a Writing major will be exposed to the divergent genres of media and literary/creative writing, and will be required to explore different writing styles through critique and review. Students will learn to identify the differing requirements of media and creative writing, and will develop writing skills that will enable them to apply different techniques as required for different writing purposes. Upon completion of this major, students will be able to write, as a minimum, effective media releases, new stories, feature articles, blogs, and pieces for social media, and will also be able to exercise creativity through more diverse forms such as poetry, literary prose, creative non-fiction, and experimental writing.

Students are required to complete two level one and six advanced level units as detailed.

Level 1

Advanced

NOTE

Students wishing to complete WRIT13013 Writing Project are required to have completed at least WRIT11023, COMM11007 OR JOUR11005, WRIT11025, WRIT12010 and JOUR12010

Students will be able to undertake a creative writing project (WRIT13013) in terms 1 and 2, but those undertaking a media/professional writing project will only be able to do so in term 1.

Students who select MMST11010 in the writing plan need to remember that in the Bachelor of Arts students can only take 10 level 1 units.