Minor Study Areas

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The Faculty of Social Sciences offers the following minors to students in any degree where their course rules allow:

• Criminology
• Human Geography
• Indigenous Education
• Introduction to Public Health
• Psychology
• Social Marketing
• Social Policy
• Work Health and Safety

Criminology

The Criminology minor provides students with a suite of skills to identify interpret and evaluate issues around crime, deviancy and justice from a social sciences perspective. Specific units are tailored to develop students' conceptual understanding of criminology and apply these to a range of topics of contemporary social concern.

 A minor in Criminology requires at least 24 credit points of subjects chosen in accordance with the table below.

Human Geography

The Human Geography minor provides students with an understanding of how cultural, economic, political and social forces are shaping our present and future lives. Human Geography with it unique focus on place pays attention to understanding the growing inequalities between different individuals and social groups and the uneven implications of present patterns of resource consumption on present and future lives. A Human Geography minor equips graduates to explain and analyse the importance of understanding place in various professional roles in addressing questions of social inequalities and/or environmental justice. 

 A minor in Human Geography requires at least 24 credit points of subjects chosen in accordance with the table below.

Indigenous Education

The Indigenous Education minor provides students with an opportunity to understand the oldest living cultural tradition on Earth. Participation in this minor will allow students to discuss wide ranging issues affecting Indigenous peoples in a respectful and informed manner.

Unique to this minor is the opportunity for students to take part in a field trip to a significant Aboriginal ‘place’. Students will experience Aboriginal Ways of Learning through ‘Country’ with an Elder. The excursion experience and the content of this minor will assist students to engage in and understand Aboriginal perspectives and utilising Aboriginal pedagogies.

A minor in Indigenous Education requires at least 24 credit points of subjects chosen in accordance with the table below.

Public Health

A minor in Public Health requires at least 24 credit credit points of subjects chosen in accordance with the table below.

Psychology

A minor in Psychology requires at least 24 credit points of subjects chosen in accordance with the table below.

Social Marketing

The Social Marketing minor presents students with a contemporary understanding of a strategic approach to social marketing to deliver positive social change and deliver social value. The minor considers contemporary discussion around what social marketing is and the key debates in the field. It considers the use of theory and research in social marketing programs; examines the broad toolkit of strategies that can be used in strategic social marketing; and considers the relevance of critical social marketing. 

A minor in Social Marketing requires the successful completion of at least 24 credit points of subjects chosen in accordance with the table below.

Note: MARK320 is best completed in Year 2. It is a pre-requisite for HAS 348.

Social Policy

Social policy refers to government action that addresses social problems and ensures that human needs are met. Utilising a multidisciplinary social sciences perspective, this major explores how social policy is developed, influenced, implemented, and evaluated, in Australian and global contexts. Students study major areas of social policy, including health, economic security, education, child and family well-being, and environmental protection.

Social Policy students learn to propose policy approaches to social problems and to analyse policies for their potential impacts on social and economic welfare, recognising tensions related to resource allocation, power and inequality, political ideologies, and government intervention.

 A minor in Social Policy requires the successful completion of at least 24 credit points of subjects chosen in accordance with the table below. 

Work Health and Safety

The Work Health and Safety minor provides students with a broad based understanding of the principles and practices of work health and safety for prevention of injury and disease in workplaces. The minor provides an understanding of WHS legislation, rights and responsibilities of the key stakeholders, and concepts and strategies in the management of work health and safety. This includes development of basic skills in WHS risk management including identification of common workplace hazards, risk assessment procedures and risk control strategies.

 A minor in Work Health and Safety requires 24 credit points of subjects chosen in accordance with the table below.