Overview
Program structure
Articulation and progression

Overview

Since the late 1990s, social questions have risen on the political agenda and returned to the centre of policy making. Facing new uncertainties in the context of globalised governance, policy-making institutions have rediscovered the social. Concepts of social inclusion, social responsibility, social partnership, social accountability, social capital and social justice have re-emerged as key issues in policy making. Often such concepts are employed uncritically, with no attention to their ideological or intellectual roots, and little regard to how they may be manipulated in the contemporary context. Critical engagement with the new agenda is urgently required. The new Graduate Program in Social Inquiry at UTS aims to do this, combining theory and practice and deliberately crossing disciplinary divides.

Program structure

The program consists of a Graduate Certificate (24 credit points), Graduate Diploma (48 credit points) and Master of Arts (72 credit points). Students select from a range of coursework, supervised and elective subjects.

Social Inquiry electives

Students in the Graduate Diploma in Social Inquiry and Master of Arts in Social Inquiry select Social Inquiry electives from the following list:

50184 Interrogating Globalisation 8cp
50163 Intercultural Interventions 8cp
57025 Cross-cultural and International Communication 8cp
50484 The New World Politics 8cp
50485 Gender, Culture and Power 8cp
50653 New Media and Social Change 8cp
50183 Inequality and Power 8cp
50187 Comparative Belief Systems 8cp
50186 Utopias and Dystopias 8cp

Articulation and progression

Students who successfully complete the Graduate Certificate or Graduate Diploma and who are admitted to a more advanced level course in the program are eligible for exemptions for completed subjects in the more advanced course.