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166-004 Change & Conflict in Australian Society | |
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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 homosexual liberation movements; the peace movement; multiculturalism and refugee action groups; the labour movement and the anti-corporate globalisation movement. |
Assessment | Written work totalling 4000 words. |
Prescribed Texts | A subject reader will be available. |
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