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Year 4 Politics.
Note: Special Entry Requirements Apply - See Departmental Handbook.
Credit points: 16.7 4th-year
Coordinator: Graham Little.
Prerequisite: Admission to fourth-year Political Science.
Contact: A 2-hour seminar per week.
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject should be able to:
- see a far wider range of options for communicating political knowledge;
- evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the observed options;
- begin establishing where their own interests and talents lie;
- adopt a critical-reflective attitude to professional/bureaucratic/privatised (eg. consultancies) modes of communicating politics, including academic writings.
Content:
How should politics be communicated? How good, and for what purposes, are the obvious modes of communicating politics - eg. research followed by publication in academic journal or book? Research and report-writing for government or public service committees? Political commentary from the Canberra Press Gallery? Four Corners? What are the alternatives to the obvious ones? Consider (a sample only) - theatre, sermon, speeches (parliamentary and other), cartoon, graffiti, feature films, television drama and docu-dramas, talk shows, radio talk-back and expert commentary, popular music, dance, poetry, demonstrations, lobbying, street theatre, parades, novels, biography, etc. ? What are the strengths and weaknesses in each? What different combinations of skills and talents - and motives/backgrounds - does each employ (and, darkly, what is the meaning of politics studied but never communicated)?.
Assessment:
Project work totalling 6,000 words.
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