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GSC1504

Global and regional studies II: modern world ideas

Peter Farago, Elizabeth Russell, David Schmitt and Keith Wilson

6 points
* 3 hours per week
* Second semester
* Gippsland/Distance

Objectives On successful completion of this subject students should be familiar with the ideas that form the basis of the major religions, economic, political and social theories that have been the focus of social transformation and conflict in the twentieth century.

Synopsis This is the second subject in the global and regional studies core of subjects offered as the interdisciplinary first year in the history and politics major. This subject revolves around key ideas of social organisation, change and conflict in the late twentieth century. It entails a detailed exploration of the conflict between tradition and change in particular locations as well as their dynamic roles in determining globalising and regionalising forces. In particular, ideas about rights, responsibilities and rewards which are central to the formation and maintenance of governments and world order will be examined. In addition, it considers the roles of moral and ethical values in shaping political, economic and social ideas and the debates to which they contribute.

Assessment Tutorial paper (1000 words): 20%
* Essay (1500 words): 40%
* Examination (2 hours): 40%

Prescribed texts

Crook S, Pakulski J and Waters, M Postmodernisation: Change in advanced society Sage, 1992

Kennedy P Preparations for the twenty-first century Fontana, 1994

McGrew A and Lewis P and others Global politics: Globalisation and the nation-state Polity, 1992


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