Postgraduate - Area of study Politics

Students who commenced study in 2013 should refer to this area of study entry for direction on the requirments; to check which units are currently available for enrolment, refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your area of study.

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Managing faculty	Faculty of Arts
Offered by	School of Applied Media and Social Sciences School of Political and Social Inquiry
Campus(es)	Clayton, Gippsland

Notes

Unit codes that are not linked to their entry in the Handbook are not available for study in the current year.

Description

Politics is a field of study that focuses on the way people live in association, addressing in particular the institutions, practices and cultural meanings of public and private expressions of power. It examines basic questions about the nature of politics and communities, and how they are organised. The politics discipline takes an analytical-critical rather than simply descriptive approach to the area, attempting to explain why and how things happen politically.

Politics staff are active researchers. Supervision of research candidates is available in a wide range of sub-fields, including specialisations in the nature and implications of globalisation, social and political theory, contemporary political cultures and Australian politics.

Units

Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Research)

Offered by the School of Political and Social Inquiry

Students complete 48 points including a 24 point dissertation unit and two electives chosen from the list below.

Core unit

Students complete one of:

APG4027 Research Dissertation (24 points)
APG4028 PSI Research Dissertation - Part A (12 points) and APG4029 PSI Research Dissertation - Part B (12 points)

Electives

APG4324 Advanced seminar in international political economy
APG4327 Wars of recognition: Terrorism and political violence
APG4328 Grand theories of politics
APG4329 Political Islam
APG4330 Global soul: Consumers, citizens and rebels
APG4332 Strategic studies
APG4333 Australian national government
APG4334 Southeast Asian politics
APG4336 Islam and modernity
APG4337 Conflict resolution and Islam in the Middle East
APG4667 Fringe politics and extremist violence: An introduction to terrorism
APG4668 Perspectives on world politics

Offered by the School of Applied Media and Social Sciences

Students are complete 48 comprising the following units:

ATS4794 Research writing in history and politics
ATS4805 SAMMS honours dissertation part 1
ATS4806 SAMMS honours dissertation part 2
ATS4807 SAMMS selected topics in theory and practice

Course coordinator

Dr Keith Wilson

Further courses

For a list of units studied or course outlines, refer to the relevant courses

Related areas of study

Refer also to the postgraduate area of study entries for:

counter-terrorism studies

Relevant courses

3937 Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Research)
2695 Master of Arts*
0020 Doctor of Philosophy*

* By research.