Caution
Copyright © Monash University 1996
ISBN 1320-6222
Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
+ PLT1020 Australian politics and government
+ PLT1040 Introduction to international relations
+ PLT1050 Nature, law, revolution: political ideas in context
+ PLT1070 Modernity in crisis: race, gender and democracy
+ PLT1120 Power and resistance in contemporary culture: sex, drugs and rock n' roll
+ PLT1150 Australia and Asia
+ PLT2180 Theory of representative democracy
+ PLT2210 Political sociology
+ PLT2340 Russia since 1985: issues and institutions in conflict
+ PLT2630 China: revolution versus pragmatism
+ PLT2750 Gender in Asian politics
+ PLT2910 Australian political economy
+ PLT2960 Seeking a new world order: the US and international relations
+ PLT2170 Politics and the media in Australia
+ PLT2230 International political economy
+ PLT2250 East Asia and the politics of difference
+ PLT2370 America: Decay of the liberal dream?
+ PLT2470 Politics of development
+ PLT2490 Politics of the Middle East
+ PLT2700 Australian state politics
+ PLT2870 Power in Australia
The following subjects will be offered in 1996.
+ PLT3210 Political sociology
+ PLT3240 The impossible dream of European unity
+ PLT3320 Australian constitutional democracy
+ PLT3330 Political action and political sense
+ PLT3340 Russia since 1985: issues and institutions in conflict
+ PLT3350 Post-industrial policies and politics
+ PLT3630 China: revolution versus pragmatism
+ PLT3750 Gender in Asian politics
+ PLT3790 Three conceptions of international relations
+ PLT3860 America, Japan and China: Asian-Pacific competitors?
+ PLT3910 Australian political economy
+ PLT3970 Australia and the world
+ PLT3260 The politics of work in Europe
+ PLT3370 America: decay of the liberal dream?
+ PLT3410 Politics and Australian culture
+ PLT3440 Victorian parliamentary internship
+ PLT3450 Revolution, the state and the individual
+ PLT3470 Politics of development
+ PLT3490 Politics of the Middle East
+ PLT3700 Australian state politics
+ PLT3850 Curbing the arms race: arms control and world politics
+ PLT3930 Southeast Asian politics
+ PLT3950 International ethics in a divided world
1. the honours thesis, PLT4049/0 (20 points), written under supervision (this must be shown on all enrolment forms);
2. two of the ten-point seminar subjects chosen from the list of subjects below;
3. PLT4179/0 Approaches to politics (8 points). This is compulsory and must also be shown on enrolment forms. There is no formal assessment during this course but all honours students are required to take a general paper in politics at the end of the year.
The deadline for the submission of final coursework is the last day of the final semester of the honours program. The deadline for the submission of the thesis to the department is the last teaching day of the second semester. Any request for extension of time of more than one week must be submitted to the Committee for Undergraduate Studies no later than two weeks before the end of the final semester.
+ PLT4149/0 Grand theories of politics (first semester)
+ PLT4179/0 Approaches to politics (first semester)
+ PLT4189 The left in postwar Europe (first semester)
+ PLT4239 Culture, norms and ideas in international politics (first semester)
+ PLT4289/0 Japan, Korea and China: development, authoritarianism and democracy (first semester)
+ PLT4299/0 China: the quest for modernisation (second semester)
+ PLT4319/0 Globalism and governance (first semester)
+ PLT4329/0 Republicanism and constitutionalism in Australia (second semester)
+ PLT4509 International relations and development (second semester)
+ PLT4529 Perspectives on world politics (second semester)
+ PLT4749/0 Politics of policy (second semester)
+ PLT4929 Knowledge and power (second semester)
Fourth-year students enrolling for the BA(Hons) program must enrol in the subjects listed above with codes ending in 9, eg PLT4749 (Politics of policy). Those students taking politics subjects as part of a BEc(Hons) program must enrol in subjects ending in 0, eg PLT4740.
Full-time honours students are required to take the Thesis in both semesters, and are advised to take one ten-point seminar course in each semester.
Part-time honours students are required to take the thesis and the `Approaches to politics' seminar in one year, and one seminar course in each semester of the other year.