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CAREER OPPORTUNITIES Students who graduate with a BA in Sociology have found employment in a wide array of occupations within the fields of education, media, politics, local government, central government, community work, iwi organisations, health, social services and the not-for-profit sector. A Bachelor’s degree is a good general university qualification that will help you get a job in many differentSUPPORT occupational sectors. LINE GOESHowever, HERE if you are interested in working as a sociologist you will need to consider undertaking a postgraduate qualification in sociology. TITLE GOES HERE SOCIOLOGY PROGRAMME SCHOOL OF PEOPLE, ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING POSTGRADUATE STUDY IN SOCIOLOGY TITLE GOES HERE Postgraduate study will give you the opportunity to deepen your SUPPORT LINE GOES HERE knowledge of sociology. The Sociology Programme offers the following postgraduate degrees: • • • • Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Sociology): four, 30 credit, single semester papers. BA Hons: four, 30 credit, single semester papers, including a supervised research report. Master of Arts: two or three, 30 credit, single semester papers, plus a thesis to the value of either 90 or 120 credits. PhD: A research only degree comprising a thesis to the value of 360 credits. CONTACT For more information on undergraduate or postgraduate study contact: Dr Warwick Tie Coordinator, Sociology Programme School of People, Environment and Planning Massey University, Albany Campus Private Bag 102 904 North Shore Auckland 0745 New Zealand Email:[email protected] Phone: (09) 414 0800 ext 43477 Full details about papers in our undergraduate or postgraduate disciplines can be found at: http://pep.massey.ac.nz WHAT IS SOCIOLOGY? “Sociology acts as a meddlesome and often irritating stranger. It disturbs the comfortingly quiet way of life by asking questions no one among the ‘locals remembers being asked, let alone answered. Such questions make evident things into puzzles: they defamiliarize the familiar” (Zygmunt Bauman, 1990). Sociology seeks to understand and describe our own local society and the wider global setting in which it exists. Sociologists ask questions like: • • • • • • How is society structured? How is society changing? What divides or unites social groups? What causes the inequalities we see in society? How does power operate? What forces impact on our personal and cultural identities? In coming to understand these issues sociologists draw on both theory and research. They bring a critical eye to the things that are usually taken for granted. Staff in the Sociology Programme are active researchers working on a range of projects including agri-food, sustainability in the built environment, death and dying, animals, social values, urban ecology, family life, and cultural identity politics. POSSIBLE PROGRAMME OF STUDY To complete a BA you will need 360 credits (ie 24 papers. A major in Sociology consists of 135 credits in Sociology, including 176.101 Introductory Sociology; 30 credits at 200 level (including 176.206 Understanding Social Life); and 60 credits at 300 level (including 176.301 The Sociological Project). A further two Sociology papers may be taken at any level. Your course of full-time study might look like this: YEAR 1 YEAR 2 YEAR 3 176.101 Introductory 176.206 Sociology Understanding Social Life 176.301 The Sociological Project 176.102 New Zealand Society 176.205 Animals and Human Society 176.302 Advanced Social Research 230.121 Future State: NZ in the 21st Century 176.222 Cities in the 21st Century 176.322 The World at Work Eg. 179.102 Politics & Public Policy in NZ Albany: 176.207 176.308 Family, Intimacy and Sociology of Domestic Life Environment Eg. 145.111 Eg. 146.208 Society, Environment Political and Place Anthropology 176.318 Sociology of Death and Dying Eg. 200.161 Introduction to Politics Eg. 146.214 The Politics of Culture Eg.145.318 Geopolitics Eg. 146.101 Intro Social Anthropology Eg. 150.201 Treaty of Waitangi Eg.148.332 Politics of Protest Eg. 146.102 Eg.146.210 Endangered Cultures Ritual and Belief Eg.200.315 Contemporary Political Theory You must take each of these papers. You must take at least 4 of these papers (but may take more, or even all of them). These are examples of your elective papers. NB.A full list of papers available by distance mode or internally at the Albany and Manawatu campuses is available from the following url: http://pep.massey.ac.nz WHAT SKILLS CAN SOCIOLOGY GIVE YOU? You will learn to think critically about the world in which you live, and become accomplished in different ways of systematically investigating social issues and other aspects of society. More generally, you will learn to explore deeper aspects of social issues that lie behind “common sense” thinking, media representations and policy reforms. You will learn how knowledge is generated and, using a range of research skills, how to find out about aspects of society yourself. These are attributes that are extremely useful in a wide variety of occupations and professions. Sociology is not a narrow specialty that locks you into a limited career path. It is a broad area that can lead to many possibilities. In particular you can expect to learn some important academic skills around writing well, understanding concepts, learning how to read and understand research, and how to use the resources of the library and internet to find out about sociology and the world. Many of these, and other skills such as information skills, critical evaluation, and research skills, are highly regarded by employers.