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Year 1 Politics.
Credit points: 12.5 1st year
Coordinator: John Cash.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and a tutorial a week
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject should possess:
- an introductory knowledge of some major approaches to the study of political identities;
- a grasp of the ways in which the politics of identity is central to both the new social movements and resurgent ethnic and national politics;
- an awareness of some major approaches to the influence of gender on notions of justice and responsibility;
- an awareness of some major approaches to the formation and enactment of gender identities;
- an acquaintance with some major approaches to understanding the psychological, cultural and social dimensions of the politics of racial, ethnic and national identities;
- an expanded notion of what constitutes the political, ie. an understanding of the pervasiveness of politics beyond conventional political institutions;
- a background of relevant knowledge and skills on which to base further study of the psychological, cultural and social dimensions of political life.
Content:
This subject investigates the politics of identity by studying witchcraft accusations, Nazi doctors, Malcolm X, the bonds of love, ethnic and racial conflict, gender, new social movements and everyday life in high or post-modernity. It raises issues such as the following: how do cultures influence our individual identities? Why is identity to central to both the new social movements and resurgent ethnic and national politics? How are identities of gender and nation constructed and enacted?
Assessment:
One essay of 1,500 words and one essay of 2,500 words.
1. Politics, Faculty of Arts (v3, p148) : Next:166-106 | Prev:166-104
2. Politics, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p160) : Next:166-106 | Prev:166-123
Credit points: 12.5
Coordinator: John Cash.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and a tutorial each week
Timetable: Second semester.
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject should possess:
- an introductory knowledge of some major approaches to the study of political identities;
- a grasp of the ways in which the politics of identity is central to both the new social movements and resurgent ethnic and national politics;
- an awareness of some major approaches to the influence of gender on notions of justice and responsibility;
- an awareness of some major approaches to the formation and enactment of gender identities;
- an acquaintance with some major approaches to understanding the psychological, cultural and social dimensions of the politics of racial, ethnic and national identities;
- an expanded notion of what constitutes the political, ie. an understanding of the pervasiveness of politics beyond conventional political institutions;
- a background of relevant knowledge and skills on which to base further study of the psychological, cultural and social dimensions of political life.
Content:
This subject investigates the politics of identity by studying witchcraft accusations, Nazi doctors, Malcolm X, the bonds of love, ethnic and racial conflict, gender, new social movements and everyday life in high or post-modernity. It raises issues such as the following: how do cultures influence our individual identities? Why is identity to central to both the new social movements and resurgent ethnic and national politics? How are identities of gender and nation constructed and enacted?
Assessment:
One essay of 1,500 words and one essay of 2,500 words.
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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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