Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 152)
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Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years
Coordinator: Mark Considine.
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: One 2-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial a week.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
Upon completion of this subject students will:
- have a thorough grasp of the political economy of policy making;
- understand the formation and role of policy institutions;
- have skills in policy research;
- have a thorough understanding of structure and agency in policy theory.
Content:
This subject explores the means by which Australian society is steered, reproduced and reorganised through policy making. The key structures of policy making - political economy and culture - are mapped through a direct engagement in critical case studies from the Australian context. Analysis will focus upon the role of the actor in securing change or resistance in policy engagements and students will be encouraged to undertake their own case studies.
Assessment:
Essay work or equivalent totalling 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
1. Politics, Faculty of Arts (v3, p152) : Next:166-226 | Prev:166-223
2. Politics, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p163) : Next:166-226 | Prev:166-223
Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Mark Considine.
Contact: One 2-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial each week.
Timetable: First semester.
Objectives:
Upon completion of this subject students will:
- have a thorough grasp of the political economy of policy making;
- understand the formation and role of policy institutions;
- have skills in policy research;
- have a thorough understanding of structure and agency in policy theory.
Content:
This subject explores the means by which Australian society is steered, reproduced and reorganised through policy making. The key structures of policy making - political economy and culture - are mapped through a direct engagement in critical case studies from the Australian context. Analysis will focus upon the role of the actor in securing change or resistance in policy engagements and students will be encouraged to undertake their own case studies.
Assessment:
Essay work or equivalent totalling 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
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2. Politics, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p163) : Next:166-226 | Prev:166-223
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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