Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 151)
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1. Politics, Faculty of Arts (v3, p151) : Next:166-220 | Prev:166-217
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years
Coordinator: Verity Burgmann.
Prerequisite: Normally 25 points of first-year Politics; students with only 12.5 points in Politics may apply to the 2nd/3rd-year coordinator.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial a week.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject should:
- have an appreciation of the extraordinary range of political ideas that have motivated and expressed the needs of large groups of people since Athenian democracy;
- be familiar with the development and principal arguments of the major schools of political thought in the past 200 years;
- have improved their critical and analytical skills in the area of political theory and their ability to express their ideas in written form.
Content:
A survey of important schools of political ideas: liberalism, Marxism, anarchism, syndicalism, feminism, communism, nationalism, fascism, socialism, social democracy, conservatism, the New Right, green political theory, postmodernism.
Assessment:
One 3000 word essay and a 2-hour class test.
1. Politics, Faculty of Arts (v3, p151) : Next:166-220 | Prev:166-217
2. Politics, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p163) : Next:166-220 | Prev:166-217
Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Verity Burgmann.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial each week.
Timetable: First semester.
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject should:
- have an appreciation of the extraordinary range of political ideas that have motivated and expressed the needs of large groups of people since Athenian democracy;
- be familiar with the development and principal arguments of the major schools of political thought in the past 200 years;
- have improved their critical and analytical skills in the area of political theory and their ability to express their ideas in written form.
Content:
A survey of important schools of political ideas: liberalism, Marxism, anarchism, syndicalism, feminism, communism, nationalism, fascism, socialism, social democracy, conservatism, the New Right, green political theory, postmodernism.
Assessment:
One 3000 word essay and a 2-hour class test.
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2. Politics, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p163) : Next:166-220 | Prev:166-217
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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