High-achieving students can undertake additional challenging material to enable them to maximise their intellectual growth in the arts high achievers program. It gives you the opportunity to thrive in an environment where students with similar capabilities come together to pursue their studies, develop their interests and share ideas. Develop research skills to prepare you for academia and a range of professions. Sociology Sociology explores how living in a society shapes and is shaped by people’s actions and how they understand themselves, other people, and their world. Issues that might at first seem to be personal or private are linked to wider social forces such as social class, gender, race, or religion. Identifying and understanding these connections gives sociologists powerful tools to advocate for social change and social justice across an array of contexts including the media, popular culture, health and illness, families, crime and deviance, workplaces, and social policy. What you will study Sociology in everyday life Contemporary social problems Love, death and power Work and organisations Deviance, crime and the law Race, power and identity Intimacy, families and relationships Myth, ideology and utopia Gender and sexuality Social policy, economics and globalisation Research methods and ethics Your career With enhanced work-ready skills, graduates of the arts high achievers program are prepared to take on a variety of leadership roles. Arts gives you excellent training in clear rigorous thinking, which is highly valued in diverse professions including public service, education and business. Potential occupations include: graduate policy officer youth policy officer intelligence analyst academic administration officer industry analyst. Potential employers include: government agencies tourism businesses banks public and private companies universities community agencies arts organisations