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2024 unit information
Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online, Community Based Delivery (CBD)*
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Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.
1 x 1-hour lecture per week, 1 x 1-hour seminar per week
1 x 1-hour lecture per week (recordings provided), 1 x 1-hour online seminar per week
*Community Based Delivery (CBD) is for National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation NIKERI Institute students only.
In the last quarter of the 20th century, major shifts in the structure of families have occurred in Australia and other Western countries. A number of trends such as changes to fertility rates, rates of marriage, remarriage and divorce and the growth of single households have had a major impact on the composition of families and the recasting of intimate relationships.
As a consequence, there is now a great deal of diversity in people's living arrangements.
The unit comprises four modules which focus upon unheralded changes in the definitions of families, sexuality and caring relationships in the context of the sociological imagination, sociological theories of gender and relationships, sexuality and emotion and the blurring of public/private boundaries in everyday life.
Define important concepts relevant to modern understandings of family and kinship in their diverse forms
GLO6: Self-management
Analyse and explain leading sociologists' texts on families and kinship networks
GLO3: Digital literacy
Argue the strengths and weaknesses of traditional and contemporary understandings of human intimacy
GLO4: Critical thinking
Apply social theories to understand evolving forms of human relationships
GLO5: Problem solving
Argue the value of sociological ideas and insights in deepening our understanding of changing attitudes to sex, love and other forms of human intimacy
GLO2: Communication
Use the "sociological imagination" to situate the personal dimension of our lives in its wider social-cultural context
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link ASC287 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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