Undergraduate - Area of study History-politics

Students who commenced study in 2014 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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This area of study entry applies to students commencing this course in 2014 and should be read in conjunction with the relevant course entry in the Handbook. Any units listed for this area of study relate only to the 'Requirements' outlined in the Faculty of Arts component of any bachelors double degrees.

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

Notes

Unit codes that are not linked to their entry in the Handbook are not available for study in the current year.
Also available via off-campus learning.

Description

History-politics units are designed to build up, in a systematic way, significant bodies of knowledge of the history and politics of Europe, Australia, Asia, the USA and international relations. Students are provided with a systematic development of learning skills - including skills in reading, information retrieval, critical analysis, oral and written communications and methodological approaches and research techniques.

Units

First-year level

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

ATS1312 Modern world events and issues
ATS1898 A changing world: Globalisation and social change*

* Students who have already completed this unit as part of a first-level sequence in sociologysociology (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2014handbooks/aos/sociology/ug-arts-sociology.html) must complete another first-level arts unit.

Second/Third-year level

Students studying a minorminor (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2014handbooks/undergrad/arts-07.html) or majormajor (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2014handbooks/undergrad/arts-07.html) in history-politics must have completed the first-year sequence. In addition:

a minorminor (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2014handbooks/undergrad/arts-07.html) requires completion of a further two units (12 points) from the units listed below
a majormajor (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2014handbooks/undergrad/arts-07.html) requires completion of a further six units (36 points) from the units listed below. A minimum of three units must be completed at third-year level.

Available units:

ATS2089/ATS3089 Social institutions and power in Asia
ATS2364/ATS3364 Indigenous Australian politics and activism
ATS2452/ATS3452 Courtesans, concubines and conquest
ATS2565/ATS3565 United States politics: Media and power
ATS2566/ATS3566 Researching the past: (Re)discovering the voiceless
ATS2567/ATS3567 Ideologies and philosophies of justice
ATS2568/ATS3568 Rights and justice in Australia
ATS2569/ATS3569 Australian history: Professional and political contexts
ATS2782 Alternative and mainstream communities
ATS2894/ATS3894 Accommodating minorities in Australia?
ATS2570/ATS3570 International relations
ATS3797 Truth, power and structure: Understanding history-politics
ATS3902 Geopolitics of climate change

Relevant courses

Single degrees

3914 Bachelor of Arts (Criminal Justice)
1708 Bachelor of Arts (Professional Communication)
1712 Bachelor of Arts (Psychology)
4073 Bachelor of Arts and Social Sciences
1719 Bachelor of Behavioural Science
1731 Bachelor of Community Welfare and Counselling

Double degrees

1807 Bachelor of Arts and Social Sciences and Bachelor of Business and Commerce
4208 Bachelor of Arts and Social Sciences and Bachelor of Education (Primary)
1798 Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) and Bachelor of Community Welfare and Counselling
4076 Bachelor of Community Welfare and Counselling and Diploma of Disability