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166-123 "Introduction to Contemporary Europe: Politics, Identity, Culture B" appears differently in several places - choose the one you want:
1. Politics, Faculty of Arts (v3, p149) : Next:166-201 | Prev:126-123
3. [Not yet present] Politics, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p161) : Next:166-105 | Prev:166-109
Year 1 Politics.
Credit points: 12.5 1st year
Coordinator: Michael Dutton and Grant Parsons.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and a tutorial a week
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
Students who successfully complete this subject should be able to:
- demonstrate a knowledge of some of the issues raised by the attempt to study another culture;
- understand and assess a range of arguments which seek to expand the meaning of the political;
- understand how, and by whom, a culture is represented in a variety of texts, including novels, film and scholarly works;
- develop relevant knowledge and skills on which to base further studies in politics or cultural studies;
- demonstrate an improved facility in researching and writing essays and presenting arguments in class.
Content:
This subject addresses the problems posed in the attempt to understand cultures other than ones own; principally cultures within the non-west. The role played in historical and contemporary approaches to the study of other cultures by such categories as race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, progress and development, and notions of universal human rights. Specific reference will be made to literary texts, history and film.
Assessment:
Written work totalling 4,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
1. Politics, Faculty of Arts (v3, p149) : Next:166-201 | Prev:126-123
3. [Not yet present] Politics, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p161) : Next:166-105 | Prev:166-109
2. Politics, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p160) : Next:166-105 | Prev:166-109
Credit points: 12.5
Coordinator: Assoc Prof Christian Grawe.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial each week.
Timetable: Second semester.
Objectives:
Students completing this subject will:
- have acquired an integrated view of a number of national components of the EU by studying aspects of the recent histories, concerns and ambitions of some major European nations;
- have become familiar with aspects of the national character and the sense of identity and tradition of some EU countries by studying their cultural products;
- have studied the nature and origins of a supra-national concept of European identity and the cultural diversity of modern Europe.
Content:
The changing concept of Europe from 1945 to the present and the forces shaping it, through a survey of national and trans-national historical, political, intellectual and cultural concerns.
Assessment:
Written work of not more than 4,000 words.
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2. Politics, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p160) : Next:166-105 | Prev:166-109
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
Maintained by: Dept. of Political Science, Faculty of Arts.
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