Community And Environment

(Available at the Shoalhaven and Moss Vale Campuses, Batemans Bay Library and Education Access Centre and Bega Education Access Centre)

The Community and Environment major is made up of 78 credit points, consisting of all five core subjects at 100-level (30 credit points), 3 core subjects at 200-level (24 credit points) and 24 credit points at 300-level made up of the two core subjects and one elective from the 300-level Arts offerings. The remainder of the degree consists of electives chosen from Arts or, with the approval of the appropriate Program/Faculty, electives from the other degrees offered at the South Coast and Southern Highlands campuses.

Moss Vale students please note: all 100-level subjects will be offered at Moss Vale in 2002. Upper level subjects will be added in subsequent years.

The BA is a coherent interdisciplinary degree based around a core and electives chosen from a range of subjects offered by the Faculties of Arts, Commerce, Informatics and Science. Some subjects that are also offered on the Wollongong campus will be available in a flexible delivery mode in Nowra, Batemans Bay and Bega.

Students gain a broad general education with an emphasis on gaining transferable skills in written and oral communication, research and computer applications. While the traditional humanities and social sciences skills of reading to understand, writing essays and making convincing oral presentations are central, so are the related skills of report and submission writing, understanding the use of statistics in arguments and using the new technologies to find and present information.

Students are able to study progressions of subjects with a strong Australian content in the areas of environment, social policy, cultural heritage (including Aboriginal studies, history and literature), and communication studies (including film and television).

Honours
At the end of a three year undergraduate degree, a fourth or Honours year will be available for eligible students.

Community and Environment Major

100-Level
Core
ARTS112	People and Place	6
ARTS113	Society and Representation	6
CCS105	Introduction to Communication and Cultural Studies	6
ELS161	English for Academic Purposes: a First Language Perspective	6
PHIL151	Practical Reasoning A	6
Electives*
ABST150	Introduction to Aboriginal Australia	6
GEOS142	The Human Environment: Problems and Change	6
200-Level
Core
ENGL260	Nineteenth Century Australian Literary Culture	8
HIST218	Consensus, Conflict and Culture: Australia, 1888-1988	8
SOC231	Introduction to Social Research	8
Electives*
ABST200	Aboriginal History Since Invasion	8
CCS219	Australian Screen	8
GEOS243	Rural Australia: Economy, Community and Environment	8
POL290	Women in Society: Productive and Reproductive Labour	8
STS218	Environment in Crisis: Technology and Society	8
300-Level
Core
SOC308	Social and Public Policy	8
STS300	The Environmental Context	8
Electives*
SOC306	Advanced Research Methods	8
ABST300	Indigenous Theories of De/Colonisation	8
ENGL337	Sex, Power and Chivalry: Medieval to Modern Literature	8
HIST334	Regional History
HIST380 / AUST300 / ENGL371	Twentieth Century Australian Literary Culture	8

* Electives may also be chosen from other Faculties' subjects offered at the South Coast and Moss Vale campuses, subject to meeting entry requirements.