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ATS2395

Faculty of Arts

18 September 2017 26 December 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

National Centre For Australian Studies

Coordinator(s)

Margaret Harris

Offered

Clayton

  • Second semester 2016 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit examines Australia's international contacts from the nineteenth century to the present day, focussing particularly on shifting relations with Britain, the United States and Asia across political, military, strategic, economic, cultural and personal levels. The unit examines how representations of foreigners and 'Others' have changed over time, and how these shaped Australian relations with the world. This will allow students to gain an understanding of how past issues continue to shape Australia's global relations, and how foreign, public and trade policy is developed.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit students will:

  1. demonstrate an understanding of the history of Australia's international contacts from the nineteenth century to the present day;
  2. have engaged with theoretical debates about the process and effects of Australia's experience of globalisation across political, military, strategic, economic and cultural levels;
  3. exhibit an understanding of how scientific and popular assumptions about foreigners and Others change over time, and how they relate to foreign affairs;
  4. have developed an understanding of how the history of Australia's international connections impact on contemporary situations;
  5. demonstrate an understanding of how governments construct policy to manage foreign relations;
  6. have built the capacity to research and critically evaluate topical debates regarding Australia's political, economic and cultural relations with the world;
  7. have developed skills in constructing evidence-based arguments using a variety of primary and secondary sources, and demonstrated their ability to reflect critically on what they have learnt;
  8. have developed skills in written and oral presentation and communication.

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)

Margaret Harris

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

Australia in the world
History
International studies

Prerequisites

Twelve credit points of first-year Arts units.

Prohibitions

ATS3395