Bachelor of Arts (Policy Studies)
Course code: 2303 · Coordinator: Professor Brian Costar
The BA (Policy Studies) is designed for students wishing to augment the
objectives of the general BA with an understanding of the theory and practice
of the policy-making process and an insight into the complexity of the
political and social contexts of policy making and application.
The
BA (Policy Studies) is similar in structure to the Bachelor of Arts, however it
includes a compulsory major in public policy. The course has 144 points of
subjects made up of the following:
- · compulsory public policy major (52 points)
- · compulsory arts discipline minor (28 points)
- · compulsory arts discipline first-year sequence (12 points)
- · subjects from arts or another faculty, 12 points at
first-year level (52 points)
Below is a year-by-year student progression
through the course.
- · PCY1001 The policy context: Australian polity and society (6
points)
- · PCY1002 Public policy: theories and issues (6 points)
- · first-year sequence in an arts discipline - discipline B (12
points)
- · first-year sequence in an arts discipline - discipline C (12
points)
- · first-year subjects from arts or another faculty (12 points)
- · PCY2001 Ministers, minders and bureaucrats: the policy
process (8 points)
one of PCY2002, PCY2003, PCY2004
- · PCY2002 Environmental management and policy (8 points)
- · PCY2003 Australian political economy (8 points)
- · PCY2004 Debating difference: gender, race and public policy
(8 points)
- · second-year studies in an arts discipline (discipline B) (16
points)
- · second-year studies from policy studies/arts/another faculty
(16 points)
- · PCY3001 Research methods for policy studies (4 points)
- · PCY3002 Policy internship (12 points)
- · policy studies subject - discipline A (8 points)
- · third-year studies from policy studies/arts/another faculty
(24 points)
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