Courses
English
The English staff teach a variety of textual and contextual approaches to the study of writing. The foundation subject introduces several key critical frameworks through a study of classic and popular texts. Subsequent literary critical subjects focus variously on Australian lieterature, nineteenth-century literature and modernist literature. Creative Writing, offered on the Bathurst campus for the first time in 2005, may be taken as a single elective by Communication, Primary Education and Psychology students.
Subjects:
LIT111 Texts and Meanings
LIT214 Australian Literature
LIT218 The Woman Question in Nineteenth-Century England and America
LIT221 Creative Writing
LIT303 The English Novel from Austen to Lawrence
LIT315 Author in Context: Special Literary Studies
Politics
Politics is considered a relevant and valuable study for those seeking employment in the communication industry, business, and in the human and public services. The study of Politics deals with questions about government, who rules and what safeguards do the governed have? It covers different political systems and the political cultures that support them. Subjects in Australian, Comparative and International Politics, and Politics of Identity are currently offered. The politics subjects are designed to enable students to analyse and understand the politics of our country, other countries and of the global community.
Sociology
As a minor sociology is available in:
- Bachelor of Social Science (Psychology)
- Bachelor of Social Science (Criminal Justice)
- Bachelor of Psychology
Some of the sociology subjects available in the School are:
SOC101 Introduction to Sociology
SOC102 Social Inequality
SOC215 Family and Gender
SOC212 Class: Images and Reality
SOC203 Sociology of Youth
SOC314 Organisations, Culture and Society
Sociology subjects are available in many courses at the university.
Sociology studies social life through analysis of social structures and our responses to them. Many subjects focus on class, gender, ethnicity and many other social-structural divisions. Sociology minors are good additions to degrees in Psychology, Justice and Criminology Studies, Communication, Human Movement and Management Courses.