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AMU2625

Faculty of Arts

18 September 2017 19 April 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Arts

Organisational Unit

School of Arts and Social Sciences, Malaysia

Coordinator(s)

Ms Petra Gimbad

Offered

Malaysia

  • First semester 2016 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit explores the political, economic and social determinants of national migration policies and the impact that these policies have on a wide variety of migrants around the world. We will investigate the roles that states, intergovernmental organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and human traffickers play in facilitating or preventing the ever increasing movement of peoples across borders.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the unit, students should be able to:

  1. Identify the diverse factors that motivate people to cross borders;
  2. Evaluate alternatives to current migration policies;
  3. Identify the political factors that determine a country's migration policies;
  4. Explain the relationship between host country migration policies and acculturation strategies among immigrants;
  5. Analyse the role of international organizations in resolving refugee crises;
  6. Interpret primary and secondary documents through developing critical reading skills;
  7. Communicate ideas and arguments in verbal form;
  8. Write research reports and essays.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 100%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

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Chief examiner(s)

Dr Joel D Moore

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Global studies
Global studies in communication and media

Prerequisites

Twelve credit points of first-year Arts units.

Prohibitions

ATS2625, ATS3625