166-090 Love, Family and Sexuality

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166-090 Love, Family and Sexuality
Note	Formerly available as 166-266. Students who have completed 166-266 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.
Availability	2nd and 3rd year
Credit Points	12.5
HECS Band	1
Coordinator	Jui-Shan Chang
Prerequisites	Usually two first-year sociology subjects.
Semester	1 (view timetable)
Contact	A 1.5-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial/workshop per week
Subject Description	This subject focuses on the impact of sociocultural change on, and cultural representations of love, family and sexuality in a variety of cultural contexts and social systems. The subject also explores a range of non-normative arrangements regarding family and sexuality. Projects enable students to analyse degrees of variation regarding the systems and the meanings of love, family and sexuality that occur between norms, representations and actual daily living. Specific sociocultural comparisons should enable students to develop sociological insights and arguments using a grounded theory approach.
Assessment	Written work totalling 4000 words.
Prescribed Texts	A subject reader will be available.

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