Courses Handbook 2010

312600 (v.1) Social Inequality: Possibilities for Change 212


Area: Department of Social Sciences
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: This unit examines the changing patterns and structures of social inequality in Australia and the Asian Region. Key themes include: what is meant by social inequality; social inequality in modern and non-modern societies; the nature of inequality in contemporary capitalist societies; gender, ethnicity, race and class; the politics of inequality; poverty, economic development and social inequality; inequality, justice and the good society. The unit will have a comparative focus with case studies from Australia and selected Asian countries.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 090303 Anthropology
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Supplemental
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2010 Bentley Campus Semester 1     Y    
2010 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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