Honours Social Sciences Theory

This course is designed to provide students with the chance to encounter a broad range of theoretical and conceptual approaches used by the Social Sciences so that they can come to know the fundamental disciplinary paradigms within which they are working, appreciate the ways in which these differ from the foundational working assumptions of other disciplinary paradigms, and so they can come to know that, and how, various ideas, theories and concepts that have grown out of a specific discipline have been put to the productive service of other disciplines. The course is founded on the idea that students can come to know, concurrently, their own disciplinary homes better, and those of others, to emerge with both particular and broad knowledge of the suite of disciplinary approaches across the social sciences.