Undergraduate electives
Graduate electives
Subjects offered to students in other faculties

Undergraduate electives

Communication and Information
Cultural Studies
Information
Journalism
Media Arts and Production
Public Communication
Social Inquiry
Social, Political and Historical Studies
Writing
Other elective subjects

The subjects listed below are available as electives to undergraduate UTS students from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and students from other faculties who are able to select elective subjects as part of their course. These subjects are also available to students from other universities seeking to do cross-institutional study at UTS or to do single subjects on a non-award basis. Exchange and Study Abroad students can select from this list or the full list of subjects under Disciplinary and Professional Strands. For more information see International student programs.

Subjects are grouped according to academic areas and level. It is essential that students have completed any prerequisite subjects before enrolling in more advanced subjects. While in some areas it is necessary to complete introductory 100-level subjects before proceeding to 200-level subjects, other areas allow for students to enrol directly into 200-level subjects. Subjects that have prerequisites are indicated with (P).

For information on subject content, refer to the Subject Descriptions section. The Alphabetical List of Subjects provides an indication of whether or not a subject is graded.

Communication and Information

Students gain a comprehensive knowledge of significant issues relating to communication and information and develop a thorough understanding of the major debates in the field.

Cultural Studies

Students investigate new and alternative materials and methodologies, especially in culturally complex late capitalist societies like Australia. Students have the opportunity to understand various contemporary critical methodologies such as deconstruction, reading for ideology, textual analysis, discourse analysis, audience ethnography, empirical fieldwork, archival analysis, historical materialism, and the analysis of subjectivity.

Information

The purpose of these subjects is to equip students with a range of information-handling knowledge and skills for practice in a variety of social, organisational and technological contexts.

Journalism

Note: These subjects are only available as electives to students from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. A limited number of places are available as electives in Journalism1 and students from the Faculty may apply for a place through the Faculty Student Centre. These subjects are not available to students from other faculties.

Students are expected to engage critically with the intellectual, industrial, ethical and political issues of professional practice in journalism so that they can contribute to a democratic public life that gives voice to diverse communities, provides a forum for public discussion and asks questions of the powerful.

Media Arts and Production

Note: These subjects are only available as electives to students from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. A limited number of places are available as electives in Media Arts and Production 1 and students from the Faculty may apply for a place through the Faculty Student Centre. These subjects are not available to students from other faculties.

Subjects in Media Arts and Production provide students with technical and artistic roles relevant to media and cultural industries.

Public Communication

A sequence of these subjects should provide students with the expertise they need to practise in various areas of public communication. It complements their wider degree focus by combining an informed critical and analytical approach with the development of capabilities required by a professional communicator. Suggested sequences can be provided for students with an interest in developing skills in communication, advertising practice or public relations.

Social Inquiry

Students develop basic skills in researching in a wide range of disciplines. Some students opt to develop more specialist qualitative and quantitative research techniques that equip them for research positions with governments, media, community and private sector organisations including market researchers. Project work with community and other groups assists students to develop cross-cultural, international and indigenous perspectives.

Social, Political and Historical Studies

Social, Political and Historical Studies stimulates curiosity and develops analytical frameworks, providing students with ways of seeing, understanding and interpreting social and institutional lives. History, sociology, politics, anthropology, philosophy and international studies all contribute to multidisciplinary explorations of our past and present.