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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 particularly on the complex inter-relationships between
population change, spatial 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 centre 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 course 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, Commerce, and History and Classics. 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
and evaluation; teaching (primary school, high school and college); university teaching;
journalism; lobbying and advocacy organisations; public interest organisations; marketing
and public opinion survey organisations; community service organisations.
Links with other degrees
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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 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.
Unit title
campus-sem
weight
code
Level 100 (required)
BA, BSocSc(PoliceStudies) and BSocSc: 25%: two required units of 12.5% each
HGA101
Sociology A
H.o31, L.1, B.1, D.1, 12.5%
HGA102
Sociology B
H.o32, L.2, B.2, D.2, 12.5%
if already enrolling in either of the above, substitute from the following:
CAM105
Community Health H.1,
12.5%
and Medicine 1
KGA101
Geography and
H.6,
25%
Environmental
Studies 1A
CNA126
Health Care Where H.1, L.1
12.5%
People Live and
Work 1
KGA121
Population and
L.1, B.1
12.5%
Urbanisation
HGA138
Society, Culture
L.1,
12.5%
and Health 1
HGA139
Society, Culture
L.2,
12.5%
and Health 2
Levels 200/300
BSocSc and BSocSc(PoliceStudies): 100% (two required units of 12.5% each and 75%
electives)
BA: 75% (two required units of 12.5% each and 50% electives)
The prerequisite for all units in the schedule below is 25% at level 100 from the units listed
above.
Required units
HGE203 or
Social Ecology
H.2, L.2<v>
12.5%
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HGE303
HGE204 or
HGE304
Population and
Society
Electives
Australian Public
Policy
Community Health
and Medicine 2
Community
Practice
Contemporary
Indigenous
Australia
Crime and Criminal
Justice
Economics of
Human Resources
Environmental and
Resource
Economics
Environmental
Ethics
Gender and Power
H.1, L.1<v>
12.5%
H.1, L.1<v>
12.5%
H.6,
25%
HSD206 or
HSD306
CAM205
H.o312, L.o312,
B.o312
L.1, H.1, D.1,
37.5%
CNA316
12.5%
HAB102
H.o31
12.5%
H.9,
12.5%
HGA206 or
HGA306
BEA306
H.9,
12.5%
BEA301
H.9
12.5%
HPA277 or HPA377
L.9
12.5%
Globalisation
Health Sociology
L.2
H.1, L.1, D.o12
25%
12.5%
Migrants in
Australian Society
Perspectives on
Ageing
Place and
Environment
Policing and
Governance
Policy Analysis
H.9
12.5%
L.2<w> D.2
12.5%
HGA272 or
HGA372
KJG302
HGA239 or
HGA339
HGA231 or
HGA331
CNA246
H.2
12.5%
HPA204 or HPA304
H.1, L.1<v>
12.5%
H.2, L.2<v>
12.5%
Regional
Development
Policy
Science,
Technology and
Contemporary
Society
Social and Political
Research
Social Ecology
H.1<v>, L.1,
12.5%
HSD205 or
HSD305
HSD209 or
HSD309
HSD223 or
HSD323
H.1
12.5%
HGA220 or
HGA320
L.1, H.1
12.5%
H.1 L.1
12.5%
HGA203 or
HGA303
HGE350
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Internship
Social &
Environmental
Accounting
Social Inequality
H.o312, L.o312,
B.o312
12.5%
BFA207 or BFA307
L.1, D.1
12.5%
HGA262 or
HGA362
HSD231 or
HSD331
HGA259 or
HGA359
HGA261 or
HGA361
HGA277 or
HGA377
KGA254 or
KGA354
KGA208 or
KGA308
KGA253 or
KGA353
Social Policy in
H.9, L.9<v>
Welfare States
Sociology of
L.2 D.2
Deviance
Sociology of Nature H.9,
12.5%
Sociology of Youth
12.5%
H.9,
12.5%
12.5%
Sustainable
H.2,
12.5%
Communities
The Global Space
L.2,
12.5%
Economy
Urban Planning:
H.1,
12.5%
Space, Place and
Society
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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