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Offered subject to approval
6 points - One 2-hour lecture and one 1-hour tutorial per week - Second semester - Berwick, Peninsula
Objectives Students successfully completing this subject will have a knowledge of major recent political, social and cultural developments; a knowledge of key theoretical concepts such as 'modernity', 'nationalism', 'decolonisation', 'feminism', 'globalisation'. Skills in critically analysing primary and secondary documents and oral and verbal communication skills.
Synopsis This subject offers a thematic approach to a number of major political, social and intellectual developments since the end of World War II. Themes in the second semester will include: the new politics of the 1960s; women's liberation and its aftermath; oil politics and the Middle east; the end of the Cold War; the end of the Soviet Union; environmental politics; globalisation.
Assessment Tutorial paper (1,000 words): 20% - Essay (2,000 words): 40% - Tutorial presentation (10 minutes): 20% - Examination (1 hour): 20%
Recommended texts
Keep JLH Last of the empires: a history of the Soviet Union
1945-1991 Oxford University Press, 1995
Bulbeck C One world women's movement Pluto Press, 1988
Lewis B The shaping of the modern Middle east Oxford Univesity Press,
1994
Horsman M and Marshall A After the nation-state Harper Collins, 1994
Vincent A Modern political ideologies Blackwell, 1995
Offered subject to approval
6 points - One 2-hour lecture and one 1-hour tutorial per week - Second semester - Berwick
Objectives Students successfully completing this subject will have a knowledge of major recent political, social and cultural developments; a knowledge of key theoretical concepts such as 'modernity', 'nationalism', 'decolonisation', 'feminism', 'globalisation'. Skills in critically analysing primary and secondary documents and oral and verbal communication skills.
Synopsis This subject offers a thematic approach to a number of major political, social and intellectual developments since the end of World War II. Themes in the second semester will include: the new politics of the 1960s; women's liberation and its aftermath; oil politics and the Middle east; the end of the Cold War; the end of the Soviet Union; environmental politics; globalisation.
Assessment Tutorial paper (1,000 words): 20% - Essay (2,000 words): 40% - Tutorial presentation (10 minutes): 20% - Examination (1 hour): 20%
Recommended texts
Keep JLH Last of the empires: a history of the Soviet Union
1945-1991 Oxford University Press, 1995
Bulbeck C One world women's movement Pluto Press, 1988
Lewis B The shaping of the modern Middle east Oxford Univesity Press,
1994
Horsman M and Marshall A After the nation-state Harper Collins, 1994
Vincent A Modern political ideologies Blackwell, 1995
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