Macquarie University
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Courses included
In the Bachelor of Social Sciences – the only degree of its kind – you’ll build your competencies across all areas of the social sciences in a scaffolded way via a set of core units. You’ll then deepen and broaden your knowledge through your interdisciplinary major, which will focus on a grand challenge in an area such as health, wellbeing, climate change, sustainability, security, work or technology. In your final year, with input from academic, community and industry leaders, you’ll research, analyse and present solutions to a driving concern emerging from your major. You’ll do this in collaboration with peers from within your major, as well as with those undertaking one of the degree’s other three majors.
Australian politics, Indigenous policy, poverty and global justice, public and social policy, social research, social science, sociology, urban economies.
Academic, Advocate or lobbyist, Change agent or manager, Criminal justice and corrections consultant, Development assessor, Evaluator, Human resources professional, Journalist, Local council officer, Market analyst, Market or social researcher, Non-government worker, Policy analyst, Private sector consultant, Resource manager, Urban or regional planner, Welfare officer, Youth worker.
Opportunities for an internship with one of our research partners, which will provide on-the-job training and the opportunity to work on a research project before you graduate, are available.
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Guaranteed selection rank: 75.00
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Naming of awards
The degrees (awards) offered by Macquarie University are set out in the Macquarie University Handbook. Students who qualify for a degree that is structured around majors will have the name/s of the major/s included on their testamur.