Undergraduate - Area of Study Politics

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, and 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. The Monash politics program specialises in three broad areas:

• politics and governance: Australia and the world
• international relations and global politics
• political theory and philosophy.

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.

First-year level

Students studying a sequence in politics must complete two units (12 points) from the following:

• ATS1325 Contemporary worlds 1
• ATS1326 Contemporary worlds 2
• ATS1353 Australian politics and government
• ATS1873 Introduction to international relations
• ATS1354 Nature, law, revolution: Political ideas in context
• ATS1355 Fanatics and fundamentalists: The global politics of violence

Second/Third-year level

Students studying a minor or major in politics must have completed the first-year sequence. In addition:

• a minor requires completion of a further two units (12 points) from the units listed below
• a major requires completion of a further six units (36 points) from the units listed below. A minimum of three units must be taken at third year level.

Only a maximum of 12 points of electives may be studied.

Units include:

• ATS2624/ATS3624 Globalisation and its Discontents
• ATS2625/ATS3625 Mobile worlds: Migrants, refugees and the politics of belonging
• ATS2688/ATS3688 Foreign Policies of the Great & Emerging Powers
• ATS2689/ATS3689 Ideas and power
• ATS2690/ATS3690 Reflections on Humanity
• ATS2691/ATS3691 Politics, violence and memory
• ATS2692/ATS3692 Progress and despair: Modern political ideologies and theories
• ATS2693/ATS3693 Politics and the media in Australia
• ATS2694/ATS3694 International political economy
• ATS2695/ATS3695 Australian public policy
• ATS2696/ATS3696 America: Decay of the liberal dream
• ATS2697/ATS3697 Gender and politics
• ATS2698/ATS3698 Crisis zone: The international relations of the Middle East
• ATS2699/ATS3699 Parties and power in Australia
• ATS2701/ATS3701 Terrorism and violence in global politics
• ATS2703/ATS3703 Arms control and world politics
• ATS2704/ATS3704 Australian political economy
• ATS2705/ATS3705 Power and (in)justice in world politics
• ATS2706/ATS3706 Washington and world politics
• ATS2707/ATS3707 Australia and the world
• ATS2708/ATS3708 Issues in global politics (summer semester only)
• ATS2709/ATS3709 Politics of environmentalism
• ATS2719/ATS3719 Political and Social Theory
• ATS2853/ATS3853 Political Passions
• ATS2854/ATS3854 Unconventional Power: Conspiracy, Confrontational Politics and Controversial Religion
• ATS2903/ATS3903 Leaders, publics and power: Australian politics in an age of leadership centrality
• ATS2905/ATS3905 Democratic theory
• ATS3334 Southeast Asian politics
• ATS3835 Contemporary Russia: Identities, transformations and conflicts
• ATS3836 Victorian parliamentary internship

Elective units

• ATS2376/ATS3376 Political anthropology: Ethnic and national identities in the Modern World
• ATS2395/ATS3395 Australia in a globalising world
• ATS2560/ATS3560 Theorising sexed bodies: Contemporary feminist theory
• ATS2561/ATS3561 Sex and the media
• ATS2716/ATS3716 Multiculturalism, culture and social identities

Diplomas

• 2327 Diploma in Liberal Arts
• 2552 Diploma of Tertiary Studies

Bachelors

Single degrees

• 0002 Bachelor of Arts
• 3920 Bachelor of Arts - at Sunway
• 4073 Bachelor of Arts and Social Sciences
• 1638 Bachelor of Arts as a Participant in the Dean's Scholars Program
• 3914 Bachelor of Arts (Criminal Justice)
• 3907 Bachelor of Arts (English Language)
• 3910 Bachelor of Arts (Global)
• 4077 Bachelor of Arts (International)
• 2396 Bachelor of Arts (Journalism)
• 1366 Bachelor of Arts (Languages)
• 1708 Bachelor of Arts (Professional Communication)
• 1712 Bachelor of Arts (Psychology)
• 1719 Bachelor of Behavioural Science
• 2476 Bachelor of Communication - at Sunway
• 1731 Bachelor of Community Welfare and Counselling
• 4042 Bachelor of Journalism
• 0202 Bachelor of Letters
• 1144 Bachelor of Performing Arts
• 1275 Bachelor of Professional Communication
• 4086 Bachelor of Social Science

Double degrees

• 3277 Bachelor of Aerospace Engineering and Bachelor of Arts
• 0550 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Business (Accounting)
• 0553 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Business (Banking and Finance)
• 0555 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Business (Management)
• 0556 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Business (Marketing)
• 0542 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Commerce
• 0170 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Economics
• 1541 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education-primary
• 1641 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education-secondary
• 0080 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws
• 3054 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Music
• 0530 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science
• 3426 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Social Work
• 0002 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Theology
• 3779 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Visual Arts
• 1807 Bachelor of Arts and Social Sciences and Bachelor of Business and Commerce
• 1806 Bachelor of Arts and Social Sciences and Bachelor of Community Welfare and Counselling
• 4208 Bachelor of Arts and Social Sciences and Bachelor of Education
• 4089 Bachelor of Arts and Social Sciences and Bachelor of Visual and Media Arts
• 4403 Bachelor of Arts (Global) and Bachelor of Commerce
• 3537 Bachelor of Arts (Global) and Bachelor of Science
• 2131 Bachelor of Arts (Journalism) and Bachelor of Science
• 1798 Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) and Bachelor of Community Welfare and Counselling
• 1941 Bachelor of Business and Commerce and Bachelor of Communication
• 4423 Bachelor of Business and Commerce and Bachelor of Professional Communication
• 4075 Bachelor of Community Welfare and Counselling and Diploma of Community Services (Alcohol, Other Drugs and Mental Health)
• 4076 Bachelor of Community Welfare and Counselling and Diploma of Disability
• 0116 Bachelor of Engineering and Bachelor of Arts
• 3281 Bachelor of Mechatronics Engineering and Bachelor of Arts
• 1945 Bachelor of Professional Communication and Diploma of Professional Writing