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Politics - Faculty of ArtsOffered by the School of Political and Social Inquiry The politics program offers courses on the Caulfield and Clayton campuses, specialising in four broad areas: Australian politics and governance, international relations and global politics, political theory and philosophy, and comparative politics: Asia and the world. Students may specialise in one or more of these areas, but are encouraged to choose their units so as to explore the different approaches to political studies. Politics is a very broad discipline, which tends to overlap continually with all the other major humanities and social science disciplines. It is, therefore, an excellent discipline for learning about the interrelationships that exist in the human world, and for acquiring a diverse range of interpretive, analytic and synthetic (especially conceptual) skills. The discipline is not just concerned with the study of government, policy or political institutions; it also studies resource allocation, decision making, social behaviour and political action, the management or resolution of conflict, power struggles, the struggle for political freedom, ideologies and political movements, the nature of the state and relations between states. It is especially concerned with the nature of power and authority, with `practical understanding', with the relations between theory and practice and with the series of arguments which are created by the continual struggle by human beings to maintain their social existence and to devise more desirable and more satisfactory forms of human community. Politics at Monash aims to offer students up-to-date coverage and explanation of many aspects of the contemporary world, developed and underdeveloped, coupled with a solid intellectual grounding in the key debates, texts and traditions of inquiry that one finds in the humanities and social sciences. For information on the units required for a major or minor in politics, refer to the `Areas of study' section on the Arts faculty website at http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/current/coursework/study-areas/. Relevant courses
Contact detailsEmail psi@arts.monash.edu.au or visit http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/schools/psi/; inquiries (Clayton): room W1017, West Wing, Menzies building; +61 3 9905 2443; inquiries (Caulfield): room H5.31, building H; Telephone +61 3 9903 2378. |