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+ the intellectual and critical skills necessary for independent learning;
+ a broad and deep historical and political knowledge of their society, nation and Australia's place in the world;
+ an understanding of the ethical, methodological and theoretical issues and debates associated with the disciplines of history and politics;
+ sound foundations for a lifelong and critical interest in history and politics;
+ a range of skills which will equip them for employment and postgraduate opportunities;
+ the practical skills of citizenship and leadership that rest on their expert knowledge of history and politics
The application of knowledge of political systems and structures is developed in public and social policy studies for students in the Bachelor of Arts (Humanities and Social Sciences) and in other courses. The history-politics major provides a stimulating course which will give students a high level of academic competence in the study of continuity and change in human society and a deeper understanding of the nature of the past and the modern world. (Subjects with asterisks indicate those subjects are compulsory for a major sequence).
To meet the requirements of the major in history-politics, students should complete twelve points at first level, sixteen points at second level, and a further eight points at second or third level. A minor in history-politics should include either two subjects at first level and two subjects at second level, or two subjects at second level and two subjects at third level.
+ subject to approval
+ GSC1504 Global and regional studies II: modern world ideas*
+ GSC2502 United States politics: media and power
+ GSC2503 Russian politics
+ GSC2504 Public and social policy
+ GSC2505 Courtesans, concubines and conquest
+ GSC2506 Community history
+ GSC2507 Politics and society
+ GSC2508 Australian political institutions
+ GSC2509 Hearth and home
+ GSC2701 Community studies (subject outline found in community studies program)
Students may opt to enrol in GSC2806 Koorie archeology as a second-level subject.
+ GSC3502 Southeast Asian history
+ GSC3503 International relations
+ GSC3504 Theories and research in history and politics*
+ GSC4511 Reading regional history
+ GSC4000(H) Dissertation
+ GSC4521 Mechanisms for international governance
+ GSC4000(P) Dissertation
* Common for both history and politics honours