102-512 From Cosmopolitanism to Transnationalism

Admission to a coursework masters program. Fourth-year honours or postgraduate diploma students may take this subject with permission from the postgraduate coordinator.

The aim of this course is to offer an intellectual history of the ideas of cosmopolitanism, nationalism, internationalism, and globalism, and international studies, and to introduce students to current theoretical debates concerning these terms. The course will also discuss the application of these debates and their historical background to the current interest in the international and transnational as a thematic and analytical framework for research in the social sciences and humanities more generally, and, for Australian Studies students, in the Australian context. The assessment for this course offers students the opportunity to undertake original archival and textual, and or oral history research.

• be able to demonstrate that they can take responsibility for their own learning and academic endeavour;

• be able to think in theoretical and/or have strong foundation for empirical research;

• be able to demonstrate the time-management skills required for conducting a sustained and developmental piece of independent study;

• be able to demonstrate skills of information retrieval, management of ideas, and orchestration of diverse sources in the process of essay construction and presentation;

• be able to situate the significance of their research in the context of broader social, ethical and cultural contexts;

• be able to communicate their research findings in a clear and intelligible manner.

Each student will offer a formal presentation of a piece of original archival/textual/oral history research of 1000 words 10% (due during the semester), a 1000 word essay 40% (due during the semester) and an essay of 3000 words 50% (due at the end of semester). There is a hurdle requirement of 80% seminar attendance.

A subject reader will be available.