This course is not currently offered, please contact the school or faculty of your program.

Course description

This course will not be offered at the Ipswich campus in 2010.

Students who need to complete this course as a program requirement in the Bachelor of Arts (Behavioural Studies major) or the Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Education (Middle Years of Schooling) Behavioural Studies, should enrol in SWSP1011 The Welfare of Australians.

This course examines a variety of social science perspectives on identity and its influences in social contexts. Emphases will include various phenomena that impact on the formation of identity such as culture, ethnicity and institutions. Concepts will be studied thematically via relevant social and cultural issues. Students will be introduced to reading and understanding social science theory and research data and working in groups.