CONCEPTUALISING SOCIAL SCIENCES: KEY CONCEPTS AND DEBATES
SSC4CSS
2015
Credit points: 30
Subject outline
Designed as an advanced, interdisciplinary 'key concepts' subject for students in the social sciences, students will engage with key concepts common and central to the social sciences from a variety of disciplinary approaches. In addition to engaging with the classic texts associated with each concept (e.g. Foucault on power), students will consider examples of the concepts' application in their own and other disciplines. In this way students will explore both common and specific discipline-based uses of concepts. To successfully complete the subject, students must demonstrate familiarity with the classic conception of each concept and a range of different discipline-inflected approaches.
School: School of Humanities & Social Sciences
Credit points: 30
Subject Co-ordinator: Nicola Henry
Available to Study Abroad Students: Yes
Subject year level: Year Level 4 - UG/Hons/1st Yr PG
Exchange Students: Yes
Subject particulars
Subject rules
Prerequisites: Enrolment in AHA or AHIR or coordinator's approval
Co-requisites: N/A
Incompatible subjects: N/A
Equivalent subjects: N/A
Special conditions: Must be enrolled in an honours level course
Graduate capabilities & intended learning outcomes
01. Be able to recognise and critically assess the application of key concepts in other social science disciplines.
- Activities:
- Seminars, essays, annotated bibliography
02. Demonstrate a sophisticated, interdisciplinary understanding of the historical origins and contemporary application of key concepts in the social sciences.
- Activities:
- Essay
03. Demonstrate excellent research skills, the ability to work independently and exemplary writing skills to a publishable or near publishable standard.
- Activities:
- Essay, annotated bibliography
04. Demonstrate good team-work skills.
- Activities:
- Seminars, small group work
05. Have highly developed analytic and problem-solving skills.
- Activities:
- Seminar-based small group work, essay, annotated bibliography
06. Have highly developed communication skills, demonstrating initiative in raising ideas and questions during seminars and contribute thoughtfully to group discussion.
- Activities:
- Seminars, small group work, oral presentation
07. Have the ability to critically assess the relevance of specific disciplinary approaches in relation to different context and case-studies.
- Activities:
- Seminars, essay, oral presentation
08. Have the capacity to think and write critically about key concepts within the social sciences from a range of disciplinary perspectives.
- Activities:
- Seminars, essay, oral presentation
Melbourne, 2015, Semester 2, Day
Overview
Online enrolment: Yes
Maximum enrolment size: N/A
Enrolment information:
Subject Instance Co-ordinator: Nicola Henry
Class requirements
SeminarWeek: 31 - 43
One 3.0 hours seminar per week on weekdays during the day from week 31 to week 43 and delivered via blended.
Assessments
| Assessment element | Comments | % | ILO* |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1000-word annotated bibliography | 10 | 01, 05 | |
| 5,000-word essay | 65 | 03, 02, 01, 05, 08, 07 | |
| Oral presentation (2000-word equivalent) | 25 | 07, 06, 08 |