Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Lavina Lee
Gai Ramesh
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Credit points |
Credit points
3
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
POIR615
PLT120
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Unit description |
Unit description
International developments such as the uprisings in the Arab world, the rise of China and climate change demonstrate that we live in a fast-changing world. This unit equips students with a deeper understanding of the structural forces that shape the world we live in by introducing them to the key issues, institutions, ideas and actors involved in global politics. The first section of the unit outlines the historical context and fundamental institutions of contemporary global politics. The second section covers key contemporary issues including great power rivalry, security challenges, globalization, climate change, refugees and global inequality. The unit gives students the foundations necessary for undertaking a major in International Relations or Politics.
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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 | 30% | varied |
Essay Plan | 15% | Week 6 beginning 4 April |
Major Research Essay | 45% | Essay is due Monday 23 May |
Due: Ongoing
Weighting: 10%
Each week you will have consulted the relevant information on i-learn before reading the selected readings and attending or listening to the lectures prior to your weekly tutorial. Students who prepare for the tutorials by doing the readings and engaging the lecture material always get most benefit from the unit.
Participation marks are only awarded to those who demonstrate an awareness of the course materials by actively participating in tutorials. Attending does not constitute participation.
External Students will participate in weekly on-line discussions. The contributions that external students make should be ongoing. Students who post contributions more than 2 weeks late will be penalised and contributions 3 weeks late will not be marked. If as an external student you require some flexibility, then please negotiate this with the tutor or course convenor in advance.
Due: varied
Weighting: 30%
You will choose or be assigned a topic that you will research and write an 1000 word essay or report on. You will asked to look for a contemporary issue and analyse it from the perspective of the topic you are assigned such as security or development or multilateralism, etc. 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.
You will be marked out of 30 with 15 marks for the formal paper and 15 marks for your involvement in the on-line discussions. More information about this assessment task will be available in the first week of the semester. The exercise may lead to some in-class discussion from time to time, but principally this is an on-line assessment exercise which aims to test your capacity to communicate in an informed and scholarly manner via the web.
Due: Week 6 beginning 4 April
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 lectures and tutorials.
Due: Essay is due Monday 23 May
Weighting: 45%
Essay of maximum 2500 words. Questions will be made available on ilearn.
Lectures:
Tuesday 3-4pm in W6D also known as the Lotus Theatre
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Thursday 3-4 in W6D (Lotus Theatre)
Tutorials: 1hr as designated Tuesdays or Thursdays
Textbook:
Lawson, S. (2012) International Relations, 2E, Polity Press.
All other readings are available through the Library and 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
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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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No changes from last year except the case study has been moved from in-class to entirely on-line.
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19/02/2016 | 2 very minor but important changes. 1. One of the assessment due dates was incorrect. 2. I added details of the textbook. |