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Year 1 Politics.
Credit points: 12.5 1st year
Coordinator: Philomena Murray and Leslie Holmes.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and one tutorial a week.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
Students completing this subject should:
- understand and be able to identify major issues confronting Europe today, at a time of great change, in the Post-Cold War, post-Maastricht, post-USSR era;
- be able to identify the problems related to issues of identity and nationalism in general and apply them to selected countries of Western and East/Central Europe as well as the threat of racism and neofascism;
- be able to discuss who has power and who abuses it in European countries, with examples of corruption in Italy and Eastern Europe;
- be able to research whether European citizenship is a myth of reality in the context of the European Community/European Union;
- demonstrate a knowledge of migration in Europe, a problem exacerbated by the refugees from Eastern Europe to Western Europe;
- have an enriched knowledge of the place of the study of identity in terms of how Europe is conceptualised, from both within Europe and beyond.
Content:
This subject introduces students to issues confronting contemporary Europe, East and West, in a time of rapid transformation and political change. Explores themes of identity, nationalism, racism, neofascism, corruption and inclusion and exclusion in European society.
Assessment:
Written work of not more than 4,000 words.
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2. Modern European Studies, Faculty of Arts (v3, p137) : Next:126-123
Credit points: 12.5 1st year
Coordinator: Philo Murray.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and one tutorial a week.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
Students completing this subject should:
- understand and be able to identify major issues confronting Europe today, at a time of great change, in the Post-Cold War, post-Maastricht, post-USSR era;
- be able to identify the problems related to issues of identity and nationalism in general and apply them to selected countries of Western and East/Central Europe as well as the threat of racism and neofascism;
- be able to discuss who has power and who abuses it in European countries, with examples of corruption in Italy and Eastern Europe;
- be able to research whether European citizenship is a myth of reality in the context of the European Community/European Union;
- demonstrate a knowledge of migration in Europe, a problem exacerbated by the refugees from Eastern Europe to Western Europe;
- have an enriched knowledge of the place of the study of identity in terms of how Europe is conceptualised, from both within Europe and beyond.
Content:
This subject introduces students to issues confronting contemporary Europe, East and West, in a time of rapid transformation and political change. Explores themes of identity, nationalism, racism, neofascism, corruption and inclusion and exclusion in European society.
Assessment:
Written work of not more than 4,000 words.
* Note that COORDINATOR differs from the maintainer's version above. A log of variations is available.
2. Modern European Studies, Faculty of Arts (v3, p137) : Next:126-123
3. Politics, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p161) : Next:166-123 | Prev:166-108
Credit points: 12.5
Coordinator: Philomena Murray and Leslie Holmes.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and one tutorial each week.
Timetable: First semester.
Objectives:
Students completing this subject should:
- understand and be able to identify major issues confronting Europe today, at a time of great change, in the Post-Cold War, post-Maastricht, post-USSR era;
- be able to identify the problems related to issues of identity and nationalism in general and apply them to selected countries of Western and East/Central Europe as well as the threat of racism and neofascism;
- be able to discuss who has power and who abuses it in European countries, with examples of corruption in Italy and Eastern Europe;
- be able to research whether European citizenship is a myth of reality in the context of the European Community/European Union;
- demonstrate a knowledge of migration in Europe, a problem exacerbated by the refugees from Eastern Europe to Western Europe;
- have an enriched knowledge of the place of the study of identity in terms of how Europe is conceptualised, from both within Europe and beyond.
Content:
This subject introduces students to issues confronting contemporary Europe, East and West, in a time of rapid transformation and political change. Explores themes of identity, nationalism, racism, neofascism, corruption and inclusion and exclusion in European society.
Assessment:
Written work of not more than 4,000 words.
* Note that CONTACT, POINTS differs from the maintainer's version above. A log of variations is available.
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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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