12.5 1st year Successful completion of 131-114 The World Since World War Two: From the Free World to the Liberated World 1942-1973. Dr A Finnane, Professor S. Macintyre. Second semester Two lectures and a one-hour tutorial (three hours per week) As a result of this subject, students will have an understanding of post-war world history. They will have a particular understanding the post-war history of the Asia- Pacific region, and Australia's place within it, as well as of the major emancipatory programmes of the modern era. They will have learned how a historical perspective illuminates large-scale recent change. A study of world history from 1973 to the present. Its principal theme is human rights: the different meanings allocated to human rights in different cultures and the use of human rights as a weapon in domestic and international power struggles. The contradictory uses of human rights in areas ranging from fertility control to trade tariffs will be explored, in a development of the theme of freedom considered in the first semester. The subject considers world history from an Australian perspective and will pay particular attention to the Australian manifestation of a number of global developments, including the growth of new social movements, the development of regional trading blocs, and the rearticulation of nationalism. Major nationalist struggles such as in Ireland, Palestine, South Africa and the former Yugoslavia will be covered, with attention to both their internal and international dynamics. Assessment will consist of one research essay of 2,500 words (45%), one reflective essay of 1,500 words (30%), tutorial assessment (10%). Gilbert F The End of the European Era, 1850 to the Present, 4th ed. , New York Kennedy P The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, New York, 1989 Keylor W R The Twentieth Century World, 2nd ed. , Oxford, 1992 12.5 131-114 The World Since World War Two: From the Free World to the Liberated World 1942-1973. Dr A Finnane, Professor S. Macintyre. Second semester. Two 1-hour lectures and a one-hour tutorial each week. As a result of this subject, students will have an understanding of post-war world history. They will have a particular understanding the post-war history of the Asia- Pacific region, and Australia's place within it, as well as of the major emancipatory programmes of the modern era. They will have learned how a historical perspective illuminates large-scale recent change. A study of world history from 1973 to the present. Its principal theme is human rights: the different meanings allocated to human rights in different cultures and the use of human rights as a weapon in domestic and international power struggles. The contradictory uses of human rights in areas ranging from fertility control to trade tariffs will be explored, in a development of the theme of freedom considered in the first semester. The subject considers world history from an Australian perspective and will pay particular attention to the Australian manifestation of a number of global developments, including the growth of new social movements, the development of regional trading blocs, and the rearticulation of nationalism. Major nationalist struggles such as in Ireland, Palestine, South Africa and the former Yugoslavia will be covered, with attention to both their internal and international dynamics. Assessment will consist of one research essay of 2,500 words (45 per cent); one reflective essay of 1,500 words (30 per cent); tutorial assessment (10 per cent). Gilbert F The End of the European Era, 1850 to the Present, 4th ed. , New York Kennedy P The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, New York, 1989 Keylor W R The Twentieth Century World, 2nd ed. , Oxford, 1992