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Study humanities & social science online with La Trobe University through Open Universities Australia. Explore all degrees, subjects and short courses now.

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</li></ul>Delve into complex problems. Experts say critical thinking will be a highly valued skill in the workforce of tomorrow.**<ul><li>Emotional intelligence</li></ul>Understand what drives our decisions. Learn how to connect to others with emotion and intelligence.<ul><li>Creativity</li></ul>Learn how to see new possibilities and turn them into reality.<ul><li>Communication</li></ul>﻿Learn how to connect, communicate and collaborate with your University peers and future colleagues.*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

Archaeology of Ancient Civilisations

Mapping, Analysing and Visualising Data

Mind, "Madness" and Society: An Introduction to the Sociology of Mental Illness

Classical Mythology

The Human Journey: Archaeology and Evolution

Writing, Culture and Ecology

Making Meaning

Culture, Health and Healing

Climate Change Economics and Policy

Romanticism

This subject is available to students who have no knowledge of Japanese. It is an introductory subject focusing on elementary spoken and written Japanese. Students learn to read hiragana and katakana syllabic scripts as well as approximately 30 kanji characters. Students will also be introduced to Japanese culture. Those who have prior learning of Japanese should contact the Japanese Program coordinator for a placement test (k.okano@latrobe.edu.au). Students may be asked to move to another level by the subject coordinator prior to the university census date (usually in week 3 or 4). JPN1001 is offered as a semester one and semester two subject. The follow-on subject, JPN1002, is only offered in semester two or in the summer. For those who wish to undertake JPN1002 as a follow-on subject, your options are to take JPN1001 in semester one and JPN 1002 in semester two OR to take JPN1001 in semester two and JPN1002 as a summer three week intensive starting in late Jan or early Feb.

Japanese 1

In this subject, you will develop practical abilities in both receptive and production skills in Auslan to a level of basic communicative competence. You will be introduced to the key grammatical structures of Auslan and the use of the language in its appropriate cultural and social context.

Australian Sign Language 1A

Every society has its own norms, expectations and common-sense ideas about everyday life. In Society and Culture, students are asked to question these accepted norms and ideas. Using examples from Australian society and culture, we explore how colonisation and migration, social change and new technologies shape everyday life. Sociological concepts such as social class and status, power and intersectionality, social cohesion and belonging are used to examine deeply rooted social inequalities, and also to explore the ways in which individuals and groups rise above and challenge the status quo.

Society and Culture: Introduction to Sociology

This subject provides students with the knowledge and critical thinking skills required to analyse and address questions concerning how humans interact with animals (anthrozoology) and how they interact with the natural environment (ecopsychology). Throughout the subject, students are provided with a broad overview of relevant theories and methods of scientific inquiry. There is an emphasis on developing practical solutions to challenging social issues such as the use of animals, land and water in food production, conservation of endangered species and companion animal breeding and training. Online learning materials are used to provide information about contemporary issues, with tutorials providing many opportunities for students to engage in discussion, debate and further analysis.

Human Relationships with Animals and the Environment

How and why did people start to compose stories about the past? Why are some of these stories referred to as ‘history,’ when others are classified as ‘myth’ or ‘legend’?  How are history and the nation connected? The history we study at school and university is the product of a particular western European tradition, but there are different ways of knowing about the past, and complex reasons why some stories survive over centuries. The discipline of history itself has also changed over time.In this subject you will explore how diverse peoples have constructed stories about their pasts, and how these stories have made an impact over time. You’ll hear from experts in the disciplines of History, Classics, and Archaeology who share an interest in the past but who use different types of evidence and ask different questions of that evidence. Our examination will range from the myths of Classical Greece and Rome; through the ancient texts, oral traditions and archaeology of South Asia, Early Medieval Britain and the Viking world; to uses of the past in the settler colonial worlds of America and Australia from the 19th century, in twentieth-century Nazi Germany, and in contemporary South Asia.You will gain expertise in using a variety of historical sources including written stories, documents, objects, and visual materials such as paintings and film. You will have the opportunity to reflect on what it really means to study &#39;history’ and why history continues to play both an important and controversial role in politics, culture and in our understandings of ourselves.

Myth, Legend and History

This subject reviews what archaeology has discovered about the world&#39;s great civilisations. We investigate how civilisations developed and the implications of this knowledge for our own survival. We embark on a survey of the variety of complex human societies that have arisen in the last 6,000 years: in Egypt and the Middle East, the Mediterranean and Western Europe, China, South and Southeast Asia, Mesoamerica and South America.

Unearth ancient history. You’ll explore the powerful civilisations of ancient Egypt, China, South America, and others. Trace the rise and fall of ancient cultures, thinking about how their stories relate to today’s society.

This subject aims to introduce you to some of the major ideas and ideologies that shape contemporary politics. We consider a wide range of topics throughout the semester, structured around broader themes related to individual freedom and state authority, democracy and its critics, the politics of distributive justice, and the politics of recognition. In addressing these themes we examine a variety of the major ideologies, including liberalism, neo-liberalism, conservatism, socialism, and fascism, along with central concepts and values such as democracy, social justice, individual liberty, the social contract, race, and gender. By the end of the subject, you should have an understanding of these core ideas and ideologies, the historical context in which they emerged, and their on-going influence on politics today. Throughout the semester, you will also be encouraged to develop your capacity to analyse, evaluate and engage in normative debates about politics.

Political Ideas and Ideologies

In this subject, you will examine the ways health, well-being and illness are experienced, understood, and responded to by people as social beings who participate in various groups, organisations, communities, and societies. Critical factors such as education, social class, gender, ethnicity and culture will be explored to examine how social practices, positions, and processes influence access to and use of resources supportive of health and well-being. Theories and frameworks will be examined and assessed so that you can develop an ability to become aware of and interpret various life concerns, both personally and professionally, and gain a more nuanced awareness of the dynamics operating between the personal and public domains.

Explore how access to healthcare influences how people interpret, understand and respond to health, wellbeing and illness. Examine how education, race, class, gender and culture guides people’s decision making and expectations of well-being.

Social Determinants of Health

In this subject complete beginners acquire practical skills in understanding and expressing basic information, such as personal details, needs, wishes, likes and dislikes in speech and writing. Relevant aspects of contemporary Greek society and culture are also introduced. The emphasis throughout is on practice at listening, reading, speaking and writing Greek in everyday situations, with various audio-visual aids being used.

Greek 1

This subject offers you an introduction to the historical contexts and form of the gothic. Beginning with the key 18th century novels of Lewis and Radcliffe and ending with various 21st century incarnations of the gothic, you will explore the way in which key elements and conventions of the gothic (such as the uncanny, the vampire, masculine and feminine gothic, and the monstrous) develop over the history of the genre. You will study key works of gothic fiction alongside of their literary, televisual and filmatic, &quot;children&quot;.

The Gothic and its Children

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