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Undergraduate Study Sociology at the University of Melbourne is a new and innovative program. It engages with central dimensions of social life, from transformations in the life course, contemporary families, gender relations, ethnic and sexual identity, to the urban experience, while engaging with emerging patterns of social inequality and new forms of social problems such as unemployment. Sociology also explores emerging questions of action and identity - from new social movements to subcultures to forms of action crisis evident in contemporary social problems.
The program aims at ensuring students have a solid grounding in the discipline of sociology while seeking to engage with social and cultural questions at the centre of contemporary life. Sociology is defined by its engagement with social actors, so the program emphasises field-work skills ranging from interviews, data collection and analysis. Majoring students can undertake an Internship in a work-place context. The program encourages students to make use of other research skill subjects in the Faculty of Arts. Undergraduate Program details can be viewed. This includes information about subjects available, prerequisites and requirements for the Sociology Major.