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With our flexible Bachelor of Arts, you can choose from a wide range of majors and minors taught by La Trobe&#39;s passionate and committed staff. This flexible degree allows you to pursue your passion and your profession, while keeping your career options open.Shape your own future with this interdisciplinary course. You’ll specialise in at least one area by choosing a major from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HUSS), and then explore your interests or build an essential skill by choosing secondary majors, minors and electives from HUSS and select other areas of the University. You’ll graduate with your majors and minors listed on your academic transcript, so future employers can recognise your expertise.Create your own path. Want to major in Sociology, with a second major in Marketing, then take a Creative and Professional Writing subject as an elective? Go for it. Or perhaps you’d like to pair Politics and English? Or Crime, Justice and Legal Studies with Linguistics? Build your own future – we’re here to help you achieve your dream. No matter which path you choose, you’ll learn from world-class academics and leading researchers.In your first year, you’ll explore your interests and passions, trying out subjects from a range of different areas. In your second and third years, you’ll delve deeper while also choosing electives and minors that broaden your skills and knowledge. Studying online offers you the flexibility to complete the degree from wherever you’re based. Throughout your degree, you’ll be well supported by La Trobe’s passionate and committed academics, who are experts in their fields. Many of La Trobe’s online subjects in Humanities and Social Sciences also give you the opportunity to log in to live sessions and engage directly with academics and your fellow students in real time.Gain real-world experience and build valuable connections that will shape your career. Take on an industry placement at organisations like SBS Radio, the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre or the United Nations Association of Australia or travel overseas for an international sustainability experience.* Many of our exchange programs are financially supported.The world is waiting for you. Step into it. You’ll learn:<ul><li>Critical thinking<ul><li>Delve into complex problems. Experts say critical thinking will be a highly valued skill in the workforce of tomorrow.**</li></ul></li><li>Emotional intelligence<ul><li>Understand what drives our decisions. Learn how to connect to others with emotion and intelligence.</li></ul></li><li>Creativity<ul><li>Learn how to see new possibilities and turn them into reality.</li></ul></li><li>Communication<ul><li>﻿Learn how to connect, communicate and collaborate with your University peers and future colleagues.</li></ul></li></ul>*Please note: overseas programs may be impacted by travel restrictions.**Forbes, 2019, The 10 Vital Skills You Will Need For The Future Of Work; PwC, 2020, 10 skills you need for future employment

A flexible arts degree offering a large selection of humanities and social sciences majors. Mix it up with minors and electives in business, health, and science. Develop critical thinking, emotional intelligence, creativity, and communication skills.

Bachelor of Arts

Reflecting on Violence

Crime and Socio-Legal Research

Law, Justice and Power

Drugs, Governance and Modern Society

Law and (Dis)order

From Prisons to Detention Centres: Interrogating Containment

Police, Society and Democracy

Sentencing, Imprisonment and Social Inequality

This is a level one subject, which examines law and legal issues as sites of contest where conflicting interests, understandings and agendas come into play. The insights and methods of the social sciences are used to explore law&#39;s interconnection with cultural, economic and political contexts as well as its role in constituting social relations within and across communities. Attention is focused upon three key overarching areas: law, legal consciousness and social order; crime, criminalisation and justice; and global experiences of &#39;the rule of law.&#39; Included within each of these is consideration of key concepts and contemporary issues of local and global significance. This subject considers how citizens, states and the law advance and sometimes impede cross cultural understanding, equality and human rights. This subject includes lives sessions with the expectation of student attendance and participation.

This subject explores the processes, practices and complexities involved in sentencing and imprisoning people in contemporary Australia and how these reflect and reproduce forms of social inequality. The aims of sentencing, the technical processes involved, and public perceptions of them are considered and assessed, as well as technological innovations and human experiences in the courtroom. Varying types of sanctions are examined with particular attention paid to current issues in imprisonment, including high rates of remand, prison architecture, and private interests in prison operations and expansion. The subject places Australian penal cultures in international context, and assesses the extent to which imprisonment can reduce cycles of crime and social disadvantage, and enhance community safety.This is a level 2 subject. Please consider the subject pre-requisites before enrolling. This subject includes live sessions with the expectation of student attendance and participation.

This subject discusses the history, institutional configuration, role and performance of police in Australia&#39;s democratic political context, and offers points of comparisons to other countries (democratic or else) around the world. To these ends, we explore a variety of questions concerning the police and its role in our criminal justice system; the relevance of policing for a democratic society; police culture; the links between police and community; contemporary challenges of policing (including transnational policing),among other relevant aspects of police and policing. After completing this course, students should be able to understand fundamental facts about police and policing, and critically evaluate the police&#39;s role in Australia and beyond.This is a level 2 subject. Please consider the subject pre-requisites before enrolling. This subject includes live sessions with the expectation of student attendance and participation.

Law, Justice and Power is the core subject for second year students undertaking a major in Crime, Justice and Legal Studies. This subject investigates how power works and the ways justice is experienced within and beyond the law. While you will be provided with a general understanding of a range of legal institutions and processes, you will also consider the limitations and possibilities of law as a practice. Case studies include trials and court buildings, restorative justice, sexual offence law, therapeutic jurisprudence, kaleidoscopic jurisprudence, riots, human rights and royal commissions. You are invited to explore how law, as a range of social, political and cultural systems, exercises and regulates power while it administers and inhibits justice.This is a level 2 subject. Please consider the subject pre-requisites before enrolling. This subject includes live sessions with the expectation of student attendance and participation.

In this online, level two subject, students will acquire an understanding of the complexities surrounding drugs and drug use in contemporary Australia. The subject addresses: the classification and effects of licit and illicit substances; the development and nature of contemporary drug distribution networks; major approaches to regulating drugs and drug use; and the key debates and challenges involved in formulating policy and practice in this area. Specific topics we will explore include: alcohol and other drug consumption patterns among young people; pill testing debates; the rise of online illicit drug markets; drug court models; drug education; decriminalisation and legalisation efforts; ongoing tensions around how to regulate vaping; performance and image-enhancing drugs, and contemporary debates around harm reduction strategies (e.g. medically supervised injecting facilities). No pre-existing knowledge is required, but students will be urged to examine any assumptions or moral judgements they hold about the &#39;right&#39; way to approach the &#39;drug problem&#39;. A key theme in this subject is exploring how the framing of such problems - through various social, political, cultural, and economic lenses - shapes how we then respond to them, and that even well-intentioned policies can have unintended adverse outcomes.Please note this Winter Term subject is entirely asynchronous (meaning no live lectures or tutorials). Students must have completed a minimum of 60 credit points of Level 1 subjects to enrol.In 2024, this subject will commence on June 10 and the final assessment will likely be due around July 21. However, it is possible to submit this before the deadline and thus complete the subject slightly earlier.

This subject examines competing accounts of violence in the academic research, mass media, and everyday conversation. It asks why the news media focuses on extreme cases of violence, and how this produces social panics around particular problems while concealing other more serious issues. It shows how patterns of everyday talk about violence cause people to worry about specific risks to their safety and not others, and why anxieties about violence often lead to demands for certain kinds of law enforcement. The subject explores how accounts of violence in even non-scholarly cultural forms like films and television series, are actually based on complex underlying theories of psychology and society. Even in apparently neutral and objective academic research, it reveals a range of unrecognised assumptions that shape how we understand the world. The subject includes a focus on violence and gender, examining changing ways of understanding sexual and intimate-partner violence, and exploring issues of masculinity and violence.This is a level 3 subject. Please consider the subject pre-requisites before enrolling. This subject includes live sessions with the expectation of student attendance and participation.

In this subject, you will become familiar with the basic principles and tools used to plan and carry out research focused on Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies. Objectives include: Learning what makes socio-legal and criminological research distinctive; how to write research proposals; how to create a literature review; how to critique scholarly work; how to create and develop an original argument; and how to select suitable research methods to test it (including a selection of qualitative and quantitative research methods typically used in socio-legal and criminological research). Examples used in class cover Australia and other regions in the world, including the U.S. and Latin America.This is a level 3 subject. Please consider the subject pre-requisites before enrolling. This subject includes live sessions with the expectation of student attendance and participation.

Students will analyse the concept of &#39;victim&#39; within domestic and international contexts, utilising practical and theoretical understandings of victimisation. Four key variables (gender, age, race and class) are investigated to expand student understandings of who and what constitutes an &quot;ideal victim&quot; within the media and the courtroom. The subject also examines the impact of victim&#39;s rights discourses in shaping traditional and alternative responses to crime and punishment. The concept of &#39;victim&#39; will be further explored to consider the ways in which some groups might be victimised by the law, including Indigenous Australians, injured workers, and asylum seekers. Students will also deconstruct the concept of &#39;victimhood&#39; and determine the extent to which it is useful in legal and social settings.This is a level 2 subject. Please consider the subject pre-requisites before enrolling. This subject includes live sessions with the expectation of student attendance and participation.

Victimology: Victims, Justice and the Law

Where did the modern prison and detention centre come from? In this subject you will explore how present day imprisonment practices are part of a long tradition that includes workhouses, asylums, missions and reserves, juvenile reformatories and internment camps. We investigate how, in varying domestic and international contexts, imprisonment and other forms of confinement have been justified and used as a response to social problems and political conflicts. We reflect upon the implications of this for the individuals and communities most affected, and how prisons and detention centres shape society more broadly. The relationship between borders, colonisation and imprisonment is also considered, raising questions about power, human rights and the role of states in a globalised world. This is a level 1 subject. This subject includes live sessions with the expectation of student attendance and participation.

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