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The program for future changemakers. Develop the expertise to tackle today's most critical societal issues, guided by a solid ethical foundation.
Through the Bachelor of Social Science, you'll acquire versatile skills for careers focused on urgent social concerns – including economic disparity, racial equity, public health, and environmental justice – across local, national and global contexts.
You'll cultivate borderless critical thinking, integrating perspectives from sociology and policy analysis to geography, Indigenous studies, political science, global affairs and cultural anthropology.
You'll build expertise in social equity, research methodologies, and forge meaningful community and professional connections while developing practical competencies to solve complex social challenges. Marketable professional skills include policy analysis, impact evaluation, civic engagement, grassroots mobilization, urban development strategies and social science research techniques.
Queensland Year 12 (or equivalent) General English subject (Units 3 & 4, C)
English Proficiency
IELTS overall 6.5; reading 6; writing 6; speaking 6; listening 6. For other English Language Proficiency Tests and Scores approved for UQ TOEFL IBT - Overall 87, listening 19, reading 19, writing 21 and speaking 19. TOEFL PB - Overall 570, listening 54, reading 54, writing 59/5. Pearsons - Overall Score of 64 and 60 in all sub bands. BEP - A minimum overall grade of 4 plus a minimum grade of C in all macro skills. CES - Overall 176 and 169 in all sub bands. OET is not accepted.