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Year 1 Politics.
Availability: Not offered in 1996.
Credit points: 12.5 1st year
Coordinator: Verity Burgmann.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and a tutorial per week.
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject should be able to:
- understand the major theoretical approaches to the study of social movements;
- express familiarity with the development and political arguments of the principal movements for change within Australian society and of the opposition to them;
- think critically about the problem of social change in the study of political science.
Content:
The various theoretical approaches to the study of social movements and the general issues raised by the problem of social change in the study of political science. The movements studied in their Australian context, and their reactions, include: the Green movement and the development lobby; the Black movement and racism; the Womens movement and Antifeminism; the Lesbian and Gay movements and Homophobia; Republicanism and Monarchism; Labour and anti-Labour forces, and Multiculturalism and its critics.
Assessment:
One critical review of 500 words, a 1-hour class test and an essay of 2,500 words.
Prescribed texts:
1. Politics, Faculty of Arts (v3, p148) : Next:166-105 | Prev:166-103
2. Politics, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p160) : Next:166-109 | Prev:166-103
Availability: Not offered in 1996.
Credit points: 12.5
Coordinator: Verity Burgmann.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and a tutorial each week.
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject should be able to:
- understand the major theoretical approaches to the study of social movements;
- express familiarity with the development and political arguments of the principal movements for change within Australian society and of the opposition to them;
- think critically about the problem of social change in the study of political science.
Content:
The various theoretical approaches to the study of social movements and the general issues raised by the problem of social change in the study of political science. The movements studied in their Australian context, and their reactions, include: the Green movement and the development lobby; the Black movement and racism; the Womens movement and Antifeminism; the Lesbian and Gay movements and Homophobia; Republicanism and Monarchism; Labour and anti-Labour forces, and Multiculturalism and its critics.
Assessment:
One critical review of 500 words, a 1-hour class test and an essay of 2,500 words.
Prescribed texts:
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2. Politics, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p160) : Next:166-109 | Prev:166-103
Status: Official 1996 Date created: Oct 9 1995 Last modified: Oct 9 1995 Authorised by: Academic Registrar Email enquiries: Course_Information@registrar.unimelb.edu.au
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