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Availability: Not offered in 1996.
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years
Coordinator: Graham Little.
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: Three hours a week of lectures, seminars and tutorials.
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students will have an understanding of:
- the personal qualities, skills and ideas, passions, fantasies and defences of great leaders (great means significant, not necessarily ethnically admirable leaders);
- the childhood antecedents, personal development and personal influences on the great leader;
- the influences of various types of colleagues and partners on a leader (eg. President Sukarnos attachment to his American biographer, Cindy Adams, Gough Whitlams relationship with Graham Freudenberg his speech writer);
- the groups leaders work in (is there groupthink? too much flattery? isolation from reality? or group work that actually enhances the leaders efforts?);
- what people get from being followers of great leaders, what they are looking for in their own lives, what happens to them when leaders fail or die?;
- leading and following in different settings and cultures - are they different in Asian countries? are they different from the Koori? are there differences in leadership in business, the public services, intellectual and cultural establishments, etc (is Madonna a leader?);
- women and leadership, as leaders and as followers - from Joan of Arc to Baroness Thatcher, from Bronwyn Bishop to Carmen Lawrence.
Content:
The emphasis is on political leadership and workings of groups in politics. We do not limit ourselves to already established leaders, or to strictly political leaders.
Assessment:
Essay work or equivalent totalling 5,000 words.
1. Politics, Faculty of Arts (v3, p153) : Next:166-234 | Prev:166-232
2. Politics, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p164) : Next:166-234 | Prev:166-232
Availability: Not offered in 1996.
Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Graham Little.
Contact: Three hours of lectures, seminars and tutorials each week.
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students will have an understanding of:
- the personal qualities, skills and ideas, passions, fantasies and defences of great leaders (great means significant, not necessarily ethnically admirable leaders);
- the childhood antecedents, personal development and personal influences on the great leader;
- the influences of various types of colleagues and partners on a leader (eg. President Sukarno's attachment to his American biographer, Cindy Adams, Gough Whitlam's relationship with Graham Freudenberg his speech writer);
- the groups leaders work in (is there groupthink? too much flattery? isolation from reality? or group work that actually enhances the leaders efforts?);
- what people get from being followers of great leaders, what they are looking for in their own lives, what happens to them when leaders fail or die?;
- leading and following in different settings and cultures - are they different in Asian countries? are they different from the Koori? are there differences in leadership in business, the public services, intellectual and cultural establishments, etc (is Madonna a leader?);
- women and leadership, as leaders and as followers - from Joan of Arc to Baroness Thatcher, from Bronwyn Bishop to Carmen Lawrence.
Content:
The emphasis is on political leadership and workings of groups in politics. It is not limited to already established leaders, or to strictly political leaders.
Assessment:
Essay work or equivalent totalling 5,000 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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