EPHUMA154
10 units
level
Course handbook
Description
Social Enquiry offers an introduction to the critical analysis of everyday life to engage students in the application of a wide range of academic skills, language, and literature through sociological and historical insights. This course begins by exploring historical changes in social, political, and economic arrangements of cultural groups. It will examine the impact of structure, roles, functioning and inequality, and awareness of this on people's lives. Students will learn to develop a critical imagination to enable them to view the world in a way that challenges the taken-for-granted, or common-sense, view of the world. This is an enabling course which provides students with techniques and strategies to prepare them for tertiary study by learning to take an analytical approach to examining contemporary society.
Availability2024 Course Timetables
Callaghan
- Semester 1 - 2024
Ourimbah
- Semester 1 - 2024
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Apply academic planning, research and referencing skills to academic writing.
2. Identify and evaluate social issues, institutions and social structures which exist in everyday life using a social scientific approach.
3. Use library research skills for academic research.
4. Critically analyse problems using theory in written forms.
Content
Topics include:
- The sociological imagination
- Essay writing for the Social Sciences
- Social conflict
- Social cohesion
- Social stratification
- Social interaction
- Discourse and power
- Surveillance
- Education
Requisite
If you have successfully completed EPHUMA310 you cannot enrol in this course.
Assessment items
Written Assignment: Written Assignment 1
Online Learning Activity: Online Learning Activity
Quiz: Online Quizzes
Written Assignment: Written Assignment 2
In Term Test: Take Home Exam
Contact hours
Semester 1 - 2024 - Callaghan
Lecture-1
- Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s) starting in week 1
Tutorial-1
- Face to Face On Campus 1 hour(s) per week(s) for 11 week(s) starting in week 1
Semester 1 - 2024 - Ourimbah
Lecture-1
- Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s) starting in week 1
Tutorial-1
- Face to Face On Campus 1 hour(s) per week(s) for 11 week(s) starting in week 1
Course outline
- EPHUMA154 - Semester 1, 2024 (Callaghan) (PDF, 326.1 KB)
- EPHUMA154 - Semester 1, 2024 (Centralcst) (PDF, 326.7 KB)
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