If English is not your first language or was not the medium of instruction in your secondary or tertiary studies, you are required to demonstrate your proficiency in the English language by achieving a prescribed level in an approved English examination or test before you can receive a full offer of a place.
IELTS (Academic version): 6.5 overall score, minimum 6.0 in each subtest
TOEFL internet-based score: Total score 82 (Writing 21, Speaking 18, Reading 13, Listening 13)
Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE): 58 overall; No communication skills less than 50
Your English language proficiency test must be no more than two years old at the time of your commencement at Western Sydney University.
With a Bachelor of Social Science from Western, you will have the ability to help shape the world we live in. This degree expands your knowledge through theory, research and practical application and offers you a deep understanding of our complex, culturally diverse and dynamic world. You will gain access to industry-based projects and placements, local and international work experience and build the practical skills that will get you ready to apply your knowledge to the workforce.
The Bachelor of Social Science degree is a broadly based, inter-disciplinary program offered for flexibility and choice within a range of offerings in the social sciences. The degree seeks to equip students with the interdisciplinary and specialist skills and knowledge that a new graduate would need on entering the workforce or on proceeding to advanced study. The degree aims to expand understanding of the social world in three ways: through social theory, social research and the applications of these ideas and knowledge to practice through social engagement. It provides a wide base for understanding issues in the complex, culturally diverse and ever-changing social environment of the 21st century.
Western’s Bachelor of Social Science allows you to choose your own majors and sub-majors, including Child and Community, Geography and Urban Studies, Heritage and Tourism, Peace & Development Studies, Sociology, and Criminology & Criminal Justice.
You will gain a greater understanding of the social world in three ways: through social theory, social research and the applications of these ideas and knowledge to practice through social engagement.
Emerge with a wide base for understanding issues in the complex, culturally diverse and ever-changing social environment of the 21st century.
Create a degree as specialised or as broad as your desired career path.
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Graduates of this degree find career opportunities in areas including:
Cultural tourism
Community work
Teaching (with further study)
International development agencies
Government agencies
Travel planning and tour directing
OSHC: 530 ($) AUD per year
