Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Noah Bassil
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Credit points |
Credit points
4
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
Admission to GradCertPP or GradCertIntRel
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
Old ways of examining international politics may need rethinking. This unit introduces students to the key issues, institutions, ideas and structures that are at the forefront of the changes reshaping the world we live in. Knowledge, power, interests, centre-periphery, resistance and reaction are key concepts covered in this unit, with the aim of giving students the foundations for understanding global politics and the tools necessary for undertaking postgraduate study in politics and international relations and in public policy.
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Name | Weighting | Due |
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Class Participation | 10% | Ongoing |
Case Study | 25% | Varies |
Essay Plan | 15% | End of Week 6 |
Major Research Essay | 50% | Essay is due Monday May 18 |
Due: Ongoing
Weighting: 10%
Each week you will have consulted the relevant information on i-learn before reading and attending/listening to the lectures in preparation for posting on the on-line discussion board.
Marks are only awarded to those who demonstrate an awareness of the course materials by actively participating in the on-line discussions.
Due: Varies
Weighting: 25%
You will choose or be assigned a topic that you will research and write an 1000 word essay or report on. Each if you will look for a contemporary issue and analyse it from the perspective of the topic you are assigned such as security or development or multilateralism. You will also be assigned a particular angle from which to analyse it and present in a paper outlining your position to the group on-line and engage in on-line discussion if it transpires.
Due: End of Week 6
Weighting: 15%
This assessment is intended to inform and prepare you for the submission of the major essay. In this task, you select the topic for their major essay and then set about doing the preliminary research and planning for the essay. in doing so, you are asked to provide an annotated bibliography with three entries of key works you will use in their major essay. Also, you will submit an essay plan. Extensive instructions on both the format and detail of the annotated bibliography and essay plan will be provided in class.
Due: Essay is due Monday May 18
Weighting: 50%
Essay of maximum 3000 words. Questions will be made available on ilearn.
2 x 1 hr Lecture (Wednesdays 10-11am in C5C T1 and Fridays 2-3pm in C5C T1)
1 x 1 hr Tutorial (TBA)
REQUIRED READING
Textbook:
Lawson, S. (2012). International Relations. 2nd Edition. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. Available from the Co-op Bookshop.
All other readings will be available from ilearn.
Week 1 |
Lecture 1: Welcome and Course Information Lecture 2: An introduction to theories of Global Politics |
Week 2 |
Lecture 1: Theory and History of International Relations (1648-1918) Lecture 2:Theory and History of International Relations (1918-1990) |
Week 3 |
Lecture 1:Theory and History of International Relations/Global Politics (1990-2015) Lecture 2: Essay Writing and Referencing with Practical Examples |
Week 4 |
Lecture 1:Knowledge/Power: International Relations as an American Social Science Lecture 2: International Relations from the Peripheries: Contesting Anglo-American IR |
Week 5 |
Lecture 1: Security: state security and the monopoly of violence Lecture 2: Human Security, intervention and R2P |
Week 6 |
Lecture 1:Essay Writing and Research skills Lecture 2: No lecture: end of first half of S1 |
Week 7 |
Lecture 1: The global politics of the rise of China Lecture 2: The global politics of environmental crisis |
Week 8 |
Lecture 1:Introducing International/Global Political Economy (IPE/GPE) Lecture 2:International Institutions: Explaining the Bretton Woods System |
Week 9 |
Lecture 1: Neoliberalism, the GFC and Global Politics Lecture 2: Culture and Global Politics |
Week 10 |
No Lectures or Tutorials Essay Due Monday May 18 (Monday Week 11)
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Week 11 |
Lecture 1: Democracy and the Contemporary Global Order: correspondence or conflict Lecture 2: Resistance and Revolutions: from Tahrir Square to the Occupy Movement |
Week 12 |
Lecture 1: Beyond IR: does the world we now live in need a new scholarly project? Lecture 2: What can we do to change the world? |
Week 13 |
Lecture 1: Teaching Evaluations and concluding comments Lecture 2: No Lecture |
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