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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.
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
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
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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 title
campus offered
weight
unit code
Level 100 (required)
BA, BSocSc(PoliceStudies) and BSocSc: 25%: two required units of 12.5% each
Hbt~3/1, Ltn~1,
Sociology A
12.5%
NWC~1, dist.ed~1,
Hbt~3/2, Ltn~2,
Sociology B
12.5%
NWC~2, dist.ed~2,
OR 25% from the following, if already enrolling in the above units for the Sociology major:
Hbt~1,
Community Health and Medicine 1
12.5%
Hbt~1&2,
Geography and Environmental Studies 1A
25%
Ltn~1
Health Care Where People Live and Work 1
12.5%
Ltn~1, NWC~1
Population and Urbanisation
12.5%
Ltn~2, Hbt~2, dist.ed~2 12.5%
Contemporary Indigenous Australia
Hbt~1, Ltn~1, NWC~1, 12.5%
Introduction to Government A
dist.ed~1w
Ltn~1, Hbt~1, dist.ed~1 12.5%
Historical Indigenous Australia
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HGA101
HGA102
CAM105
KGA101
CNA126
KGA121
HAB102
HSG101
HAB103
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Introduction to Government B
Asian Studies 1A
Asian Studies 1B
Hbt~2, Ltn~2, NWC~2,
dist.ed~2w
Hbt~1, Ltn~1v
Hbt~2, Ltn~2v
12.5%
HSG102
12.5%
12.5%
HMA101
HMA102
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
Social Ecology[a]
Population and Society[a]
Social and Political Research[b]
Hbt~2, Ltn~2v
Hbt~1, Ltn~1v
Ltn~1, Hbt~1
12.5%
12.5%
12.5%
HGE203/303
HGE204/304
HGA203/303
Hbt~1, Ltn~1v
Hbt~1&2,
Hbt~3/1/2, Ltn~3/1/2,
NWC~3/1/2
Ltn~2, dist.ed~2
Hbt~2
Hbt~2
Hbt~2, dist.ed~2w
Ltn~1, dist.ed~1
Hbt~3
[na]
Ltn~2w dist.ed~2
[na]
Hbt~1, Ltn~1v
[na]
[na]
[na]
[na]
Ltn~2
Hbt~3/1/2, Ltn~3/1/2,
NWC~3/1/2
[na]
Hbt~2, Ltn~2v
Hbt~1
Hbt~2
[na]
[na]
Hbt~1
Hbt~1,
12.5%
25%
37.5%
HSD206/306
CAM205
CNA316
12.5%
12.5%
12.5%
12.5%
12.5%
12.5%
12.5%
12.5%
12.5%
12.5%
12.5%
12.5%
12.5%
12.5%
12.5%
12.5%
HGA206/306
BEA306
BEA301
HPA277/377
HGA272/372
HGA239/339
HGA231/331
CNA246
HPA204/304
HSD205/305
HSD209/309
HSD223/323
HGA220/320
HGE350
HGE210/310
BFA207/307
12.5%
12.5%
12.5%
12.5%
12.5%
12.5%
12.5%
12.5%
HGA262/362
HSD231/331
HGA259/359
HGA261/361
HGA277/377
KGA254/354
KGA208/308
KGA253/353
Electives
Australian Public Policy
Community Health and Medicine 2
Community Practice
Crime and Criminal Justice
Economics of Human Resources
Environmental and Resource Economics
Environmental Ethics
Gender and Power
Health Sociology
Migrants in Australian Society
Perspectives on Ageing
Place and Environment
Policing and Governance
Policy Analysis
Regional Development Policy
Science, Technology and Contemporary Society
Social Ecology Internship
Social Ecology of the City
Social & Environmental Accounting
Social Inequality
Social Policy in Welfare States
Sociology of Deviance
Sociology of Nature
Sociology of Youth
Sustainable Communities
The Global Space Economy
Urban Planning: Space, Place and Society
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[a]
[b]
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.
Note: units with code number prefixes other than HGE will be found under the
appropriate discipline entry in this section of the handbook.
Students are advised to turn to the BA schedule (page B-xx) or the Index of Unit Codes on
page A-xx to find the page references to units referred to here.
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