Sociological Foundations
Duration
- One Semester or Term
Contact hours
- 36 hours
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning. For Online unit delivery, learning is conducted exclusively online.
2022 teaching periods
| Swinburne Online Teaching Period 2 |
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|---|---|---|
Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Prerequisites
NilCorequisites
Aims and objectives
This unit provides students with an introduction to the foundations of the discipline of sociology. Successful completion of this unit will prepare students to undertake study in the discipline at more advanced levels through their understanding of the sociological imagination and central sociological theories as applied to a range of current events and issues.
1. Apply a sociological perspective to the social world around them
2. Identify and differentiate between the major theoretical perspectives employed by sociologists
3. Define and use a range of key sociological concepts to appraise the ways in which social processes and social structures shape individuals and groups in contemporary society
4. Discuss and critique published work and communicate this through informed written argument
5. Undertake successful library-based research
6. Identify and utilise the referencing style required by this discipline
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment, general skills outcomes and content.
Teaching methods
On Campus
| Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
| Face to Face Contact Lecture Tutorial |
1 2 |
12 12 |
12 24 |
| Online Contact | N/A |
|
|
| Specified Learning Activities Readings |
2 |
12 |
24 |
| Unspecified Learning Activities Independent study, assignment preparation, revision |
|
|
90 |
| TOTAL |
|
| 150 hours / 12.5cp |
OUA
| Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
| Face to Face Contact | N/A |
|
|
| Online Contact | 1 | 13 | 13 |
| Specified Learning Activities Readings |
3 |
12 |
36 |
| Unspecified Learning Activities Independent study Assignment preparation Revision |
|
| 100 |
| TOTAL |
|
| 149 hours / 12.5cp |
SOL
| Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
| Face to Face Contact | N/A |
|
|
| Online Contact Collaborate | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| Specified Learning Activities Discussion Board eLA-interactions Readings Videos Tests |
8 |
12 |
96 |
| Unspecified Learning Activities Independent study Assignment preparation Eevision |
|
|
50 |
| TOTAL |
|
| 150 hours / 12.5cp |
Assessment
| Types | Individual or Group task | Weighting | Assesses attainment of these ULOs |
| Academic Writing Skills Exercise | Individual | 20% | 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
| Test | Individual | 35% | 2, 3 |
| Essay | Individual | 45% | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
(OUA)
| Types | Individual or Group task | Weighting | Assesses attainment of these ULOs |
| Academic Writing Skills Exercise | Individual | 25% | 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
| Major Essay | Individual | 45% | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
| Reflective Essay | Individual | 30% | 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
| Types | Individual or Group task | Weighting | Assesses attainment of these ULOs |
| Academic Writing Skills Exercise | Individual | 20% | 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
| Test | Individual | 35% | 2, 3 |
| Essay | Individual | 45% | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
General skills outcomes
• Problem solving skills
• Analysis skills
• Communication skills
• Ability to tackle unfamiliar problems
• Ability to work independently
Content
• Sociology, the Sociological Imagination and Social Stratification
• Society and Culture
• Sociological Theory and Methods
• Class
• Ethnicity, Race and Racism
• Gender, Sex and Sexuality
• Family
• Health
• Environment
• Media
• Globalisation and Neoliberalism
• Putting Sociology into Practice
Study resources
- Reading materials.
Reading materials
A list of reference materials will be made available in the Unit Outline.