166-089 Sociology Internship

Formerly available as 166-265/365. Students who have completed 166-265/365 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. Entry to this subject is by quota, with a maximum of 15 students enrolled at any one time. Students are advised to complete the Professional Skills Program offered by the Careers and Liaison Unit prior to undertaking this subject.

Students wishing to enrol in this subject must have completed two first year sociology subjects in addition to 166-086 Qualitative Research Strategies and 166-081 Quantitative Social Research.

In this subject a student, under academic supervision from the sociology program, undertakes a sociological research project in an organisation outside the university, such as a trade union, social movement, women's organisation, welfare service provider, government or non-government organisation or business organisation. The project will be determined jointly by the student and the organisation concerned.

A research report of 8000 words.

• Y Wadsworth, Do it Yourself Social Research. 2nd edn, Allen & Unwin, 1997.
• C Hakim, Research Design: Strategies and Choices in the Design of Social Research. Allen & Unwin, 1987.
• T Sullivan, Applied Sociology: Research and Critical Thinking. Macmillan, 1992.
• J Gubrium & D Silverman (eds), The Politics of Field Research: Sociology Beyond Enlightenment. Sage, 1989.