Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Unit Convenor
Julian Droogan
Contact via julian.droogan@mq.edu.au
PICT Offices, Level 2, Building Y3A
By appointment
Sheryn Lee
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Credit points |
Credit points
4
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
Admission to MPICT or PGDipPICT or GradDipPICT or MPICTMIntSecSt or MIntSecStud or PGDipIntSecStud or GradDipIntSecStud or PGCertIntSecStud or GradCertIntSecSt
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
The unit provides a comprehensive overview of the social construction of international security and compares and contrasts several different but overlapping theoretical and thematic approaches to international security that have recently arisen. Since the end of the Cold War, broader and deeper concepts of security have been unavoidable, given the limitations of realism and the challenges that have accompanied rapid globalisation and increased global disorder. As a result, there has been a growing concern about new drivers of non-traditional transnational security challenges. These new international security challenges, coupled with ongoing more traditional concerns, have significantly transformed the international security environment, and brought into question traditional state-centric assumptions about security.
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Name | Weighting | Due |
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Research Essay | 50% | See iLearn for details |
Analytical Report | 25% | See iLearn for details |
Online Quiz | 25% | Weekly |
Due: See iLearn for details
Weighting: 50%
The completion of a research essay is intended to encourage and enable students to develop core disciplinary knowledge, enhance research skills, display effective communication (academic writing) skills and demonstrate originality and critical thinking.
Assignments in this unit will be submitted, marked and returned electronically. For further information see the iLearn site.
Further detailed assessment criteria is available to all enrolled students through the Unit iLearn site.
Due: See iLearn for details
Weighting: 25%
Please see the iLearn page for a full description of this assessment.
Due: Weekly
Weighting: 25%
Please see the iLearn page for a full description of this assessment.
DELIVERY AND RESOURCES
UNIT REQUIREMENTS AND EXPECTATIONS
REQUIRED READINGS
TECHNOLOGY USED AND REQUIRED
SUBMITTING ASSESSMENT TASKS
LATE SUBMISSION OF ASSESSMENT TASKS
WORD LIMITS FOR ASSESSMENT TASKS
REASSESSMENT OF ASSIGNMENTS DURING THE SEMESTER
Note: The required readings for this Unit are available to all enrolled students through the Unit iLearn site and Macquarie University Library's EReserve site
Module 1: Introduction and Overview
Module 2: Reconceptualising Security in the 21st Century
Module 3: Realism and Neo-realism
Module 4: Liberalism and Neo-liberalism
Module 5: Human Security and the Demise of the State
Module 6: Constructivism and Critical Theory
Module 7: Securitisation
Module 8: Non-Traditional Security Challenges
Module 9: Health
Module 10: Environmental Security
Module 11: Security and Identity: Ethnicity, Culture, Religion
Module 12: Security and Gender: Feminism and Emancipation
Module 13: The Future?
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