This course provides an opportunity to use specific concepts and methods necessary to develop a broad understanding of Australian society and its culture, particularly understanding of the diversity of Australian culture and the dynamic of its history. Students will have opportunities to investigate Australia’s geohistorical setting, demography of the Australian population, cultural diversity, communities, work and the welfare state, social inequalities, rural and urban life, employment, the Australian family, tradition and authority, social structures and sanctions, culture and leisure, spirituality, religion and belief, popular culture and globalization.
