Socio-legal Studies
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| Unit of study | Credit points | A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition | Session |
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Socio-Legal Studies |
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Major |
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| A major in Socio-Legal Studies requires 48 credit points from this table including: | |||
| (i) 12 credit points of 1000-level core units | |||
| (ii) 6 credit points of 2000-level core unit | |||
| (iii) 6 credit points of 2000-level selective units | |||
| (iv) 6 credit points of 3000-level core unit | |||
| (v) 12 credit points of 3000-level selective units | |||
| (vi) 6 credit points of 3000-level Interdisciplinary Project units | |||
Minor |
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| A minor in Socio-Legal Studies requires 36 credit points from this table including: | |||
| (i) 12 credit points of 1000-level core units | |||
| (ii) 6 credit points of 2000-level core unit | |||
| (iii) 6 credit points of 2000-level selective units | |||
| (iv) 12 credit points of 3000-level units | |||
1000-level core units of study |
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| SLSS1001 Introduction to Socio-Legal Studies |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| SLSS1003 Law and Contemporary Society |
6 | Semester 2 |
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2000-level units of study |
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Core |
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| SLSS2606 Socio-Legal Theory |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Socio-Legal Studies N SCLG2615 |
Semester 2 |
Selective |
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| SLSS2604 Indigenous Social and Legal Justice |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Socio-legal Studies |
Semester 2 |
| CRIM2601 Studying Crime and Criminology This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Criminology or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Socio-Legal Studies or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Sociology |
Semester 1 |
| CRIM2602 Crime, Punishment and Society |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Criminology or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Social Policy or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Socio-legal Studies or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Sociology N SCLG2634 or SCLG2566 |
Semester 2 |
| SCLG2623 Sociology of Terror |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Sociology or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Socio-Legal Studies or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Criminology |
Semester 2 |
| SCLG2638 Sociology of the Other |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Sociology N SCLG2604 or SCLG2635 or SCLG3606 |
Semester 1 |
| SCPL2601 Australian Social Policy |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Sociology or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Social Policy or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Socio-legal Studies N SCPL3001 |
Semester 1 |
3000-level units of study |
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Core |
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| SLSS3601 Doing Socio-Legal Research |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Socio-legal Studies N SLSS2601 |
Semester 1 |
Selective |
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| SLSS3602 Human Rights, Laws and Social Protest |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Socio-Legal Studies or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Criminology N SCLG2624 |
Semester 2 |
| SLSS3603 Social Justice, Law and Society |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Socio-Legal Studies or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Social Policy N SCLG2605 or SCLG2017 or SCLG2536 |
Semester 1 |
| CRIM3601 Medico-Legal and Forensic Criminology |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Criminology or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Socio-legal Studies N SLSS2603 |
Semester 1 |
| CRIM3602 Crime, Media and Culture |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Criminology or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Socio-legal Studies N SLSS2605 |
Semester 2 |
Interdisciplinary Project unit of study |
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| If you are completing two majors and both of your majors are from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for your first major, and the Industry and Community Project unit of study for your second major. | |||
| If you are completing two majors but only one of your majors is from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for that major. | |||
| If you are completing one major only and that major is from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for your major. | |||
| SLSS3999 Interdisciplinary Impact |
6 | P Completion of at least 90 credit points N Interdisciplinary Impact in another major Note: Department permission required for enrolment in the following sessions:Intensive December |
Intensive December Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| SLSS3998 Industry and Community Project |
6 | C Interdisciplinary Impact in any major. |
Intensive February Intensive July Semester 1 Semester 2 |