- Students are to follow the requirements of the Handbook for the year they commenced the course.
However, the subject links below do not contain the subject information for the current year. You can view current subject information through the new Course Handbook.
Politics
The discipline of Politics is an exciting, vibrant and constantly changing body of ideas, approaches and methods. The Politics program offers subjects in international relations, Australian politics, political theory, comparative politics, the politics of developing countries, public policy, culture and media. Students are advised to study as broadly as possible across the areas offered by the discipline.
The purpose of the major is to acquaint students with key areas of Politics as a discipline. Political study involves examining the origins and nature of consent, authority, and consensus, which underpin social order. Many factors are covered in this examination; political institutions, political economy, culture, class, gender and ethnicity. Politics can and does occur at many levels, from international relations to the nation state, from local communities to the individual. The study of politics is not just to do with politics in the here and now, but concerns itself with both the past and the future. Whether it is a country being studied, relations between countries, or a body of political ideas, politics engages us with choices about how to live life and how best to contribute to society.
Major Study
A major in Politics consists of 52 credit points, including at least 24 credit points at 300-level in Politics subjects. Graduates with a Politics major will normally have included at least one subject from each of the following areas in their program: (1) Australian Politics, (2) Political Theory and (3) the politics of a country other than Australia or Comparative Politics or International Relations.
Students majoring in Politics may count up to 16 credit points from the following subjects: PHIL232, PHIL390, SOC309, STS 300, STS 309. Note: Students enrolled in a double major may only cross-count one subject.
Minor Study
A minor in Politics will consist of at least 28 credit points in subjects with the prefix 'POL' from the Course Structure of the Politics major. Students may not take more than two subjects at 100-level, and may not cross-count any subjects from the minor in any other minor or major study.
Honours
See Bachelor of Arts Honours
Study Program
Subject Code |
Subject Name |
Credit Points |
Session |
100 level | |||
POL100 |
The Art of Politics |
6 |
Autumn |
POL121 |
Global Politics and Power |
6 |
Spring |
POL141 |
Change and Debate in Contemporary Australian Society |
6 |
Not offered 2013 |
200 level | |||
PHIL232 |
Political Philosophy |
8 |
Spring |
POL210 |
The European Union: Post-war Integration, 1945 to the present |
8 |
Not offered 2013 |
POL211 |
Democracy in Theory and Practice |
8 |
Autumn |
POL213 |
Key Concepts and Thinkers in Political Theory |
8 |
Not offered 2013 |
POL216 |
Politics in the USA |
8 |
Not offered 2013 |
POL220 |
An Introduction to Peacekeeping |
8 |
Spring |
POL222 |
Australian Public Policy |
8 |
Not offered 2013 |
POL224 |
Politics and the Media |
8 |
Spring |
POL225 |
International Relations: Issues, Concepts and Theories |
8 |
Autumn |
POL290 |
Women in Society: Productive and Reproductive Labour |
8 |
Not offered 2013 |
300 level | |||
PHIL309 |
Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations |
8 |
Not offered 2013 |
POL301 |
Politics Internship |
8 |
Autumn/Spring |
POL302 |
Foundations of Australian Political Culture |
8 |
Not offered 2013 |
POL303 |
Complex Peace Operations |
8 |
Autumn |
POL314 |
Power and the Modern State |
8 |
Spring |
POL317 |
Politics in the South Pacific |
8 |
Not offered 2013 |
POL318 |
The Politics of Asian Development |
8 |
Autumn |
POL319 |
Political Economy in the New Millennium |
8 |
Spring |
POL320 |
Twentieth Century Dictatorships |
8 |
Not offered 2013 |
POL323 |
An Unequal World |
8 |
Not offered 2013 |
POL324 |
Culture and Politics |
8 |
Not offered 2013 |
POL340 |
Special Topics in Politics |
8 |
Autumn/Spring |
POL368 |
Protest and Power in America: The Sixties |
8 |
Autumn |
SOC 309 |
Social Movement and Community Activism |
8 |
Not offered 2013 |
STS300 |
The Environment Context: Imagining a Zero Carbon Future |
8 |
Autumn |
STS309 |
Future Tense: Politics and Regulation of Technoscience |
8 |
Spring |
Other Information
Further information is available at http://coursefinder.uow.edu.au/ or email: Arts - fac-arts@uow.edu.au