CLS2035

Intellectuals and power: a history of institutions (6 points)

(ARTS)

Leader: Axel Fliethmann

Offered:
Clayton Second semester 2004 (Day)

Synopsis:

Objectives: Upon successful completion of this subject students will have gained a basic knowledge of the social, political and theoretical conditions of the history of academic/intellectual culture. They will be able to apply critical categories in an analysis of any culture-related text and will have developed a more complex understanding of the university. Eventually students will have developed a critical understanding of how disciplines and paradigms in the academic world come up, develop or disappear.

Assessment: Exam (1 hour): 20% + Class Presentation (1000 words): 20% + Essay (2500 words): 60%

Contact Hours: 2.5 hours (1 x 2.5 hour seminar) per week

Prohibitions: CLS3035