First-year level
On the Clayton campus in 1995 the department will offer four first-year subjects, two in first semester (PLT1020 and PLT1070) and two in second semester (PLT1040 and PLT1080). All students who wish to proceed to politics in second year must complete any two of these subjects. No previous knowledge of politics is assumed.
* PLT1020 Australian politics and government
* PLT1040 Introduction to international relations
* PLT1070 Modernity in crisis: race, gender and democracy
* PLT1080 Confucianism, capitalism and culture: politics of East Asia
Second-year level
Successful completion of an approved first-year politics sequence at any Monash campus. The following subjects will be offered in 1995.
First semester
* PLT2210 Political sociology
* PLT2240 East Asia and the politics of difference
* PLT2340 Russia since 1985: issues and institutions in conflict
* PLT2490 Politics of the Middle East
* PLT2630 China: revolution versus pragmatism
* PLT2770 Culture, politics and vision: aspects of European political thought
* PLT2870 Australian democracy
* PLT2910 Australian political economy
Second semester
* PLT2080 Europe today: problems of integration
* PLT2140 Progress and despair: modern political ideologies and theories
* PLT2170 Politics and the media in Australia
* PLT2290 Australia and Asia
* PLT2370 America: Decay of the liberal dream?
* PLT2470 Politics of development
* PLT2960 Seeking a new world order: the US and international relations
Third-year level
Pass
Successful completion of an approved first-year politics sequence at any Monash campus.
Honours
As well as fulfilling the requirements for the honours degree laid down by the Faculty of Arts (see the introduction to the politics entry), intending honours students in politics are advised to take extra work in politics. They are strongly advised to take at third-year level at least one of the following subjects: PLT3250 (East Asia and the politics of difference); PLT3410 (Politics and Australian culture); PLT3790 (Three conceptions of international relations); PLT3890 (Empirical research and analysis). These subjects should help students gain solid conceptual grounding in key areas of the discipline and in major theoretical debates.
The following subjects will be offered in 1995.
First semester
* PLT3210 Political sociology
* PLT3240 The impossible dream of European unity
* PLT3250 East Asia and the politics of difference
* PLT3340 Russia since 1985: issues and institutions in conflict
* PLT3490 Politics of the Middle East
* PLT3630 China: revolution versus pragmatism
* PLT3770 Culture, politics and vision: aspects of European political thought
* PLT3790 Three conceptions of international relations
* PLT3860 America, Japan and China: Asian-Pacific competitors?
* PLT3910 Australian political economy
* PLT3930 South East Asian politics
* PLT3970 Australia and the world
Second semester
* PLT3370 America: decay of the liberal dream?
* PLT3410 Politics and Australian culture
* PLT3440 Victorian parliamentary internship
* PLT3450 Revolution, the state and the individual
* PLT3470 Politics of development
* PLT3890 Empirical research and analysis
* PLT3950 International ethics in a divided world
* PLT3990 The politics of environmentalism
Fourth-year level
Fourth year comprises work to the value of forty-eight points made up as follows:
1. the honours thesis, PLT4049/0 (20 points), written under supervision (this must be shown on all enrolment forms);
2. two of the twelve-point seminar subjects chosen from the list of subjects below;
3. PLT4179/0 (Approaches to politics II) (4 points). This is compulsory and must also be shown on enrolment forms. There is no formal assessment during this course but all honours students are required to take a general paper in politics at the end of the year.
Fourth-year subjects
* PLT4139/0 Rethinking politics: gender and feminism (second semester)
* PLT4149/0 Grand theories of politics (first semester)
* PLT4179/0 Approaches to politics (II) (first semester)
* PLT4209/0 Electoral behaviour (second semester)
* PLT4289/0 Japan, Korea and China: development, authoritarianism and democracy (first semester)
* PLT4299/0 China: the quest for modernisation (second semester)
* PLT4319/0 Globalism and governance (second semester)
* PLT4329/0 Republicanism and constitutionalism in Australia (second semester)
* PLT4389/0 Capitalism, rationalisation and the evolution of East Asian identity (second semester)
* PLT4509 International relations and development (first semester)
* PLT4709/0 Green political theory (first semester)
* PLT4749/0 Politics of policy (first semester)
* PLT4809/0 Theorising the Australian polity (first semester)
* PLT4929 Knowledge and power (second semester)
* PLT4949/0 Language and politics: meaning, power and cultural conflict (first semester)
Fourth-year students enrolling for the BA (Hons) program must enrol in the subjects listed above with codes ending in 9, eg PLT4749 (Politics of policy). Those students taking politics subjects as part of a BEc(Hons) program must enrol in subjects ending in 0, eg PLT4740.
Full-time honours students are required to take the Thesis in both semesters, and are advised to take one 12-point seminar course in each semester.
Part-time honours students are required to take the Thesis and the `Approaches to politics' seminar in one year, and one seminar course in each semester of the other year.
Combined honours
Combined honours may be taken in politics and another discipline provided that all honours requirements have been met in both disciplines and subject or the approval of the heads of both departments/centres. This usually requires some discussion and negotiation between the two heads of department. Students who are interested should therefore discuss their plans with the latter, preferably at an early stage.