Bachelor of Arts (Sociology)

With our flexible Bachelor of Arts, you can choose from an incredible array of majors and minors. You'll have access to around 50 majors and minors from humanities, social sciences, business, health and science, keeping your career options open. Pursue your passion and your profession. Shape your own future with this interdisciplinary degree. You'll choose one arts major, then explore your interests or build an essential skill when you choose secondary majors, minors and electives from across the university. You'll graduate with your primary major on your academic transcript, so future employers can recognise your expertise.

About the Sociology major
Discover what unites and divides us, how we shape and navigate our shared social worlds, and how we can meaningfully change society for the better. Gain the analytical and conceptual skills needed to diagnose today’s complex social problems from a range of perspectives. See the world in new ways by exploring topics like contemporary Australian society and popular culture, gender and sexuality, inequality and conflict, migration and multiculturalism, relationships and emotions, health and mental illness, education and work, sport and gaming, social media and technology. Examine social relationships and institutions, while learning how to conduct research, interpret policy and address urgent societal challenges.

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About La Trobe University

La Trobe is a university known for making a positive difference in the lives of our students, partners and communities. We will become an even more valued and relevant university because of the way we respond to their needs in this time of great local and national crisis.

Our aim is to emerge as a more resilient, future-focused and necessarily more efficient institution that will thrive in a post-COVID world by being more sharply focused on the needs of our community, and by playing to our strengths in teaching and research.