Program Overview

The Bachelor of Social Sciences is for those who have a strong connection to purpose and who wish to create meaningful change in the world. You’ll build your skills across all areas of the social sciences via a set of core units. You’ll then deepen and broaden your knowledge through your interdisciplinary major, which will focus on a grand challenge in an area such as health, climate, sustainability, global development or work. In your final year, you’ll collaborate with peers from across the degree’s four majors to research, analyse and present solutions to a driving concern pitched by an industry advisory group. With a unique skill set that bridges the disciplines of the arts and sciences, you’ll graduate with the capabilities to manage complex stakeholders, bring diverse technical experts together and progress multifaceted policy debates.

Major: Work, Life and Technology
In the Work, Life and Technology major, you’ll investigate the social, economic, ideological and organisational dimensions of technological and occupational interplays, and the way each of these impact people, places and structures. To then deepen and broaden your knowledge, you’ll examine work through the lens of a range of social science disciplines, including sociology, economics, philosophy, geography, computing, politics and international relations. As a graduate, you’ll be able to apply social scientific tools and concepts to better understand the complex interconnections between work, technology and life, and apply these to current examples of social change, conflict, hierarchy and development in diverse settings.