Course results for Undergraduate Sociology Subjects

Uncover the effects legal, illicit and medicinal drugs have on society. Follow the steps in a drug's development, from discovery to clinical testing and marketing. Analyse the ethical and economic features. Look into herbal medicines and homoeopathy.

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.

Improve your understanding of whether society helps construct gender and sexuality. Look back at the rise of the feminist and sexual liberation movements. Contemplate the ways in which sex and gender are linked to life, happiness and justice.

Unwrap the rich relationship people have with food and what influences food use, choice and preferences. Learn how the role of food has transformed in society. Understand why people are impacted by trends, and need to know where their food comes from.

What determines whether a person is healthy? Study the common measurements of health used today. Consider what affects these measurements, including risks, culture, the environment and disadvantage. Focus on the health of Indigenous peoples.

Think about how modern society was formed, and why it has become the way it has. Look at social change with a critical lens. Analyse contemporary issues around globalisation and post-industrialisation. Rethink gender, race and education.

Study the works of sociological theorists such as Marx, Durkheim, Weber, the Frankfurt School, Bauman, and Butler. Think critically about issues in their theories. Think about how theories apply in modern life.