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166-020 Modern Political Thought | |
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Note | Formerly available as 166-219/319. Students who have completed 166-219 or 166-319 are not eligible to 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 | This subject is an accessible survey of the development and principal arguments of the major schools of political thought in the past 200 years, especially those that have motivated and expressed the needs of large groups of people. The schools of political thought surveyed in the lectures include liberalism, Marxism, feminism, anarchism, syndicalism, communism, nationalism, fascism, socialism, social democracy, conservatism, the New Right, environmentalism, postmodernism and postcolonialism. Tutorial discussion centres on primary source documents for each school of thought, which include classical political essays such as Marx's Communist Manifesto and Mill's On Liberty. |
Assessment | An essay of 2000 words and a 2-hour open-notes examination. |
Prescribed Texts | A subject reader will be available.
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