School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    Introduction to Social Analysis
  • Unit Code

    CSV1102
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Jane TUDOR-OWEN

Description

This unit aims to introduce students to the richness of sociology through analysing relationships between the individual and society using sociological thinking. It will introduce students to the history of sociology and the sociological perspectives that have influenced the discipline. It will encourage students to recognise the relevance of sociology to everyday questions about contemporary issues in the social world.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CBS1103, CBS4103, CSV4102, SAN1103

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Describe the difference between description and analysis.
  2. Explain theoretical approaches used to analyse modern industrial societies.
  3. Apply sociological perspectives to an analysis of changes occurring in families, social inequality, and the role of the State in Australian society.
  4. Describe the different sociological explanations that reflect the diversity of political positions found in Australian society.
  5. Discuss policy initiatives and empirical research addressing sociological issues from a socio-cultural perspective.

Unit Content

  1. Meaning and application of description and analysis in examining social issues.
  2. Deconstructing sociological theoretical approaches: Functionalism, Marxism, Interactionism, Feminism, Pluralism.
  3. Sociological perspectives to understand changes in family formation, social inequity and the role of the state in Australian society.
  4. Sociological explanations for the diverse political positions on issues occurring in Australian society.
  5. Policy initiatives and empirical research underpinning concepts of multiculturalism, identity, ethnicity, gender, globalisation and hegemony.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Guest speakers from the profession.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseMapping of readings to essay question 20%
EssayApplication of sociological perspectives40%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseMapping of readings to essay question20%
EssayApplication of sociological perspectives 40%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination 40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Introduction to Social Analysis
  • Unit Code

    CSV1102
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Jane TUDOR-OWEN

Description

This unit aims to introduce students to the richness of sociology through analysing relationships between the individual and society using sociological thinking. It will introduce students to the history of sociology and the sociological perspectives that have influenced the discipline. It will encourage students to recognise the relevance of sociology to everyday questions about contemporary issues in the social world.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CBS1103, CBS4103, CSV4102, SAN1103

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Describe the difference between description and analysis.
  2. Explain theoretical approaches used to analyse modern industrial societies.
  3. Apply sociological perspectives to an analysis of changes occurring in families, social inequality, and the role of the State in Australian society.
  4. Describe the different sociological explanations that reflect the diversity of political positions found in Australian society.
  5. Discuss policy initiatives and empirical research addressing sociological issues from a socio-cultural perspective.

Unit Content

  1. Meaning and application of description and analysis in examining social issues.
  2. Deconstructing sociological theoretical approaches: Functionalism, Marxism, Interactionism, Feminism, Pluralism.
  3. Sociological perspectives to understand changes in family formation, social inequity and the role of the state in Australian society.
  4. Sociological explanations for the diverse political positions on issues occurring in Australian society.
  5. Policy initiatives and empirical research underpinning concepts of multiculturalism, identity, ethnicity, gender, globalisation and hegemony.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Guest speakers from the profession.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Reflective PracticeReflection writing20%
ExerciseMapping of readings to essay question 30%
EssayApplication of sociological perspectives50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Reflective PracticeReflection writing20%
ExerciseMapping of readings to essay question30%
EssayApplication of sociological perspectives 50%

Core Reading(s)

  • Ballantine, J. H., Roberts, K. A., & Korgen, K. O. (2020). Our social world : introduction to sociology (Seventh edition.). Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications, Inc. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1050141905

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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