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Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years
Coordinator: Anthony Elliott.
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:
On completion of this subject the student will have:
- knowledge of the major traditions of social theory prominent today;
- developed a critical appreciation of institutional changes affecting personal, political and cultural life in the late modern age;
- explored problems concerning relations between self and society, subjecthood and culture, sexuality and gender.
Content:
Provides an introduction to various perspectives and debates in contemporary social and political theory. The following issues will be of core importance: relations between self and society, the trajectory of development and modernity, and the methodological transformations affecting the social sciences today.
Assessment:
Essay work totalling 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
1. Politics, Faculty of Arts (v3, p154) : Next:166-245 | Prev:166-243
2. Politics, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p165) : Next:166-245 | Prev:166-243
Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Anthony Elliott.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial each week.
Timetable: First semester.
Objectives:
On completion of this subject the student will have:
- knowledge of the major traditions of social theory prominent today;
- developed a critical appreciation of institutional changes affecting personal, political and cultural life in the late modern age;
- explored problems concerning relations between self and society, subjecthood and culture, sexuality and gender.
Content:
Provides an introduction to various perspectives and debates in contemporary social and political theory. The following issues will be of core importance: relations between self and society, the trajectory of development and modernity, and the methodological transformations affecting the social sciences today.
Assessment:
Essay work totalling 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
* Note that CONTACT, POINTS, PRESCRIBEDTEXTS differs from the maintainer's version above. A log of variations is available.
2. Politics, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p165) : Next:166-245 | Prev:166-243
3. Sociology, Faculty of Arts (v3, p166) : Next:166-245 | Prev:166-239
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years
Coordinator: Anthony Elliott.
Prerequisite: Normally, 25 points of first-year Sociology.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial a week.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
On completion of this subject the student will have:
- knowledge of the major traditions of social theory prominent today;
- developed a critical appreciation of institutional changes affecting personal, political and cultural life in the late modern age;
- explored problems concerning relations between self and society, subjecthood and culture, sexuality and gender.
Content:
Provides an introduction to various perspectives and debates in contemporary social and political theory. The following issues will be of core importance: relations between self and society, the trajectory of development and modernity, and the methodological transformations affecting the social sciences today.
Assessment:
Essay work totalling 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
* Note that PREREQUISITES 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
Maintained by: Dept. of Political Science, Faculty of Arts.
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