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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Political Science
166-219/319 Modern Political Thought |
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Credit Points: | 16.7 2nd and 3rd year | |
Coordinator: | Verity Burgmann | |
Prerequisite/s: | Normally 25 points of first-year Politics; students with only 12.5 points in Politics may apply to the 2nd/3rd-year coordinator. | |
Timetable: | Semester 2 | |
Contact: | Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial a week | |
Content: | An accessible survey of the wide range of political ideas in western civilisation from Plato to postmodernism. In particular, the subject examines the development and principal arguments of the major schools of political thought in the past 250 years, especially those that have motivated and expressed the needs of large groups of people. The principal schools of political thought surveyed include: the Enlightenment, liberalism, Marxism, feminism, anarchism, syndicalism, communism, nationalism, fascism, socialism, social democracy, conservatism, the New Right, and environmentalism. Tutorial discussion centres on primary source documents for each school of thought, which are provided in the reading pack. | |
Assessment: | One 3000 word essay and a 2-hour open-notes class test. | |
Prescribed Texts: | None. A reading pack will be provided. | |
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