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Social Ecology – Interdisciplinary; (School of
Sociology and Social Work)
Social ecology is the study of how human populations organise themselves and their
world(s). The discipline focuses on the complex inter-relationships between population
change, spatial and physical environments and social organisation, including, for example,
the following:
•
the distribution of population attributes (social, economic, demographic, and
cultural) across and within particular social ecologies and communities;
•
the role of institutions and institutional arrangements (including policy) in the
formation and distribution of population attributes and behaviours;
•
the effects of population change on social institutions and institutional
arrangements;
•
the development and distribution of particular ‘social pathologies’ across
populations and communities such as crime, youth suicide, health and illness,
educational disadvantage, socio-economic disadvantage, ethnic and gender
disadvantage, and rural–urban differences;
•
the relationship between industrial reorganisation and redistribution on the one
hand, and population and social organisation on the other;
•
the distribution of goods and services across and between populations and the
effects of differential social characteristics and the physical environment on these
distributions and vice-versa; and
•
the formation, implementation and evaluation of a broad array of contemporary
public policies (eg with respect to the labour market, health, education, social
welfare and criminal justice) as implicit population policies centred on the
measurement, surveillance and governance of populations.
The Social Ecology major is a 3-year pass major in the Bachelor of Social Science and
Bachelor of Social Science (Police Studies) degree course in Launceston and the Bachelor
of Arts (BA) degree course in both Launceston and Hobart. The major is an
interdisciplinary, cross-school and cross-faculty program of study that includes units
taught by the Schools of Sociology and Social Work, Geography and Environmental
Studies, Medicine, Education, Government, Philosophy, Nursing and Commerce. The
major is offered in both internal and distance education mode, and for part-time and
full-time students.
Sociology major students are reminded that they may take Social Ecology units as part of their Sociology
major, and/or as electives.
Career outcomes
Studies in Social Ecology provide a developed understanding of an extensive array of
population issues and polices, as well as skills in research and in both written and oral
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communication. Graduates with a major in Social Ecology may be found employed in the
following areas: public sector (local, state and federal government); policy analysis, advice
and evaluation; teaching (primary school, high school, college and university); journalism;
lobbying and advocacy organisations; public interest organisations; marketing and public
opinion survey organisations; community service organisations.
Links with other degrees
Social Ecology is a major in the BA, BSocSc and BSocSc(PoliceStudies) degree courses.
Students in other programs, however, such as Commerce, Economics, and Science, are
eligible to undertake the Social Ecology major, subject to the rules applying to the
particular degree program.
Course structure
Bachelor of Arts students wishing to complete a major in Social Ecology are required to
pass Social Ecology units to a total value of at least 100%, consisting of 25% at level 100,
and 75% at levels 200/300. At least 25% of units must be from level 300.
Bachelor of Social Science and Bachelor of Social Science (Police Studies) students
complete a major in Social Ecology with a total of 125% Social Ecology units; of which 25%
are at level 100; 50% at level 200 and 50% at level 300.
Students who commenced prior to 2001
Students who began their BA degree course prior to 2001 and who wish to complete a
major in Social Ecology are reminded that a major consists of sequential study in one
discipline with a total HECS weighting of 100%, as detailed in ‘Course Structure’.
Refer to page B-xx for further information on the changes to the BA.
Structure of the major
Unit code
unit title
weight
campus offered
Level 100 (required)
BA, BSocSc(PoliceStudies) and BSocSc: 25%: two required units of 12.5% each
HGA101
Sociology A
12.5%
HGA102
Sociology B
12.5%
Hbt~3/1,
Ltn~1,
NWC~1,
dist.ed~1,
Hbt~2, Ltn~2,
NWC~2,
dist.ed~2,
OR 25% from the following, if already enrolling in the above units for the Sociology major:
HAB102
Contemporary Indigenous Australia
12.5%
Ltn~2, Hbt~2,
dist.ed~2
HAB103
Historical Indigenous Australia
12.5%
Ltn~1, Hbt~1,
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HMA101
HMA102
HSG101
Asian Studies 1A
Asian Studies 1B
Introduction to Government A
12.5%
12.5%
12.5%
HSG102
Introduction to Government B
12.5%
KGA101
KGA121
Geography and Environmental Studies 1A
Population and Urbanisation
25%
12.5%
dist.ed~1
Hbt~1, Ltn~1v
Hbt~2, Ltn~2v
Hbt~1, Ltn~1,
dist.ed~3/1w
Hbt~2, Ltn~2,
dist.ed~2w
Hbt~1&2,
Ltn~1, NWC~1
OR where students have already completed 100% of level 1 units including HGA101 and HGA102, and plan to
complete majors in both Social Ecology and Sociology, they must complete 100% of Social Ecology units at the
200/300 level for the purposes of their Social Ecology major. The Sociology major would comprise HGA101
and HGA102 as the 25% level 100 units plus a further 75% of Sociology at the 200/300 levels.
Levels 200/300
BSocSc: 100% (three required units of 12.5% each and 62.5% electives)
BSocSc (Police Studies): 100% (two required units of 12.5% each and 75% electives)
BA: 75% (three required units of 12.5% each and 37.5% electives)
The prerequisite for all units in the schedule below is HGA101 and HGA102.
Required units
HGE203/303
HGE204/304
HGA203/303
Social Ecology[a]
Population and Society[a]
Social and Political Research[b]
12.5%
12.5%
12.5%
Hbt~2, Ltn~2v
Hbt~1, Ltn~1v
Ltn~1, Hbt~1
BEA301
BEA306
BFA207/307
Environmental and Resource Economics
Economics of Human Resources
Social & Environmental Accounting
12.5%
12.5%
12.5%
CAM205
CNA246
Community Health and Medicine 2
Perspectives on Ageing
25%
12.5%
CNA316
Community Practice
37.5%
HAB206/306
Contemporary Indigenous Tasmania
12.5%
HGA206/306
HGA220/320
HGA223/323
HGA231/331
HGA239/339
HGA259/359
Crime and Criminal Justice
Science, Technology and Contemporary Society
Social Problems and Social Policy
Migrants in Australian Society
Health Sociology
Sociology of Deviance
12.5%
12.5%
12.5%
12.5%
12.5%
12.5%
HGA261/361
HGA262/362
HGA272/372
HGA277/377
HGA297/397
Sociology of Nature
Social Inequality
Gender and Power
Sociology of Youth
Refugees and Australian Society
12.5%
12.5%
12.5%
12.5%
12.5%
[na]
[na]
Hbt~3/1,
Ltn~3/1,
NWC~3/1
Hbt~1&2,
Ltn~2w
dist.ed~2
Hbt~3/1/2,
Ltn~3/1/2,
NWC~3/1/2
Ltn~2, Hbt~2,
dist.ed~2
Hbt~1
[na]
Ltn~2, Hbt~2
[na]
Hbt~1, Ltn~1
dist.ed~1,
Ltn~1
[na]
dist.ed~2
[na]
Ltn~2
[na]
Electives
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HGE210/310
HGE211/311
HPA204/304
HPA277/377
HSD205/305
HSD223/323
HSD231/331
HSG207/307
KGA273/373
[a]
[b]
Social Ecology of the City
The Environment, Crime and Social Regulation
Place and Environment
Environmental Ethics
Policing and Governance
Regional Development Policy
Social Policy in Welfare States
Third World Development Politics
Urban Environments and Sustainable Communities
HGE203/303 Social Ecology and HGE204/304
Population and Society are offered in Launceston in
alternate years only.
Not required for students in the BSocSc(Police
Studies) as the unit is taken as part of the Police
Studies major. BA students majoring in Sociology and
Social Ecology may not count the unit twice. In both
these cases, students must substitute another Social
Ecology elective unit in place of HGA203/303.
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12.5%
12.5%
12.5%
12.5%
12.5%
12.5%
12.5%
12.5%
12.5%
[na]
Hbt~2
Hbt~1
[na]
Hbt~1, Ltn~1v
Hbt~2v, Ltn~2
[na]
Hbt~2v, Ltn~2
Hbt~1
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