166-004 Change & Conflict in Australian Society

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166-004 Change & Conflict in Australian Society
Note	Students who have completed 166-004 at first year cannot enrol in this subject.
Availability	2nd and 3rd year
Credit Points	12.5
HECS Band	1
Coordinator	Verity Burgmann
Prerequisites	Usually 25 points of first year politics.
Semester	2 (view timetable)
Contact	Thirty contact hours per semester. A 2-hour lecture per week for 10 weeks and a 1-hour tutorial per week for 10 weeks. The lecture and tutorial programs are staggered and cover the 12 weeks of semester
Subject Description	An introduction to the study of social movements and the general issues raised by the problem of social change and political conflict. How and why do political changes occur? If social movements did not exist, would societies need to invent them? The subject examines the development and political arguments of the principal Australian social movements in the past 30 years and the reactions to them: the green movement; indigenous rights' movements; the women's movement; the men's movement; the homosexual liberation movements; the peace movement; One Nation versus multiculturalism; the labour movement and anti-globalisation movements. Very recent debates and confrontations are discussed.
Assessment	Written work of 3000 words and a 1-hour open-notes class test of 1000 words.
Prescribed Texts	A subject reader will be available.

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