PLT3140

Progress and despair: modern political ideologies and theories

Michael Janover

8 points
* 3 hours per week
* First semester
* Clayton

Objectives As for PLT2140 with the additional objectives that upon successful completion of the subject students should be able to identify and analyse political and philosophical assumptions in various enlightenment and post-Enlightenment theories of society; and to critically locate and discuss relations among political, cultural, philosophical and moral conceptualisations of modernity.

Synopsis As for PLT2140.

Assessment Tutorial presentation (15- 20 minutes) and participation: 10%
* Essay (3000 words): 50%
* Examination (3 hours): 40%
* Students enrolled in the subject at third-year level will be required to answer a question, in the examination, drawn from a section devoted to more complex and/or comparative questions.