Recommended Study Sequence

The Western philosophical tradition which arose from the 18th century until the early 20th century will be examined. These ideas will be placed in their historical and cultural context. How this philosophy and history has shaped contemporary understandings of politics, society, nature and the individual will be a central focus.

This unit aims to develop and refine students' skills in analytical writing, critical reasoning and the analysis of argument, especially within the context of Cultural and Social Analysis. It aims to develop students' understanding of how arguments are made, along with their ability to analyse and evaluate arguments, while at the same time helping them develop the capacity to make sophisticated arguments in essay form. Sample topics from which students can choose include: advanced database use, Endnote, techniques of visual analysis, punctuation, grammar, and advanced Internet use.

This unit provides an introduction to Australian Politics. It outlines the central features of the federal political system with attention to both historical background and current debates. In addition to study of the institutional frameworks (the Constitution, parliament, political parties and so on), the unit examines the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion that have shaped Australian politics. It explores what it has meant in the past, what it means in the future, for Australians to live together as members of a political community.

This unit introduces students to the 18th and 19th century foundations of modern Australia, and to the social, economic, political and cultural events that shaped Australian social and political institutions. Students will be encouraged to consider the process of historical change within an historiographical framework and will use primary sources to explore some of these debates.

The major philosophies of art will be examined. The Western tradition will be surveyed from the Ancient Greeks through medieval and Renaissance theories of art to modern and postmodern aesthetics beginning with Kant. Marxist and feminist aesthetics will be especially emphasised. The artistic material will primarily come from the visual arts.

This unit examines the role and influence of voluntary action, the state and civil society in Australian history from 1788 to the present. Unit content concerns the evolution and development of voluntary action, a basic tenet of democracy, in Australia, and the changing relationship between governments and the voluntary or third sector. The development of social policy and welfare issues, volunteering, the impact of war, and international comparisons will be a feature of the unit.

This unit offers a history of the United States of America from 1898 until 1945. It examines the key events and issues from the Spanish-American War to the New Deal and Isolationism which shaped the course of modern America.

This unit examines the transformation of Australia from a collection of small settler colonies to a modern, industrialising nation. The unit focuses on the creation of a national identity through examination of themes such as race, class, urbanisation, politics, sport gender and culture.

This unit includes a general overview of major developments in Australian political and social history since 1920, and also focuses on particular issues such as the 1949 coal strike, the Petrov Affair, the Whitlam dismissal and the Super League 'war'.

This unit examines the history of work, work relations, workers and workers' organisations in Australia from the time of European settlement. The unit investigates the concept of 'work', both paid and unpaid, voluntary and domestic. The focus is on social and political aspects of paid work, through the development of unionism, politics and arbitration. It also involves an analysis of structured and unstructured volunteer labour and its impact on Australian society.

An analytic and topical survey of the social and political history of the British Isles from the Protestant Reformation to the colonization of Australia; the unit also offers an introduction to the study of Social History and 'history from below'. Content includes studies of English hegemony; kings and queens; nobles and gentry; commons and plebs; parliaments; regions and localities; landscape; media, communications and ideas; work, class and gender; migration and mobility; secual mores; riot, rebellion and revolution; popular and elite culture; attitudes to death; crime and criminal law; religion; the state and constitution; public opinion and civil society; demographic and economic development; education and schooling; family and community; nationalism and the emergence of 'Great Britain'.

There are repeated calls for greater involvement by citizens in public life or the community. Generally such appeals draw upon an image of ancient Western citizenship derived from the Greek city-state or ancient Rome. Yet the history of citizenship and civic identity in the West is long and varied. This unit surveys the historical literature from a number of different periods of Western history, from the ancient city-states to the Roman Empire, from Medieval merchants to Renaissance scholars, through to early modern debates around sovereignty and religious toleration. It also examines modern debates around the greater complexity of modern societies as against ancient, and the perceived greater focuses upon privacy and personal autonomy in the modern world - all of which are claimed to have diminished the civic impulse. The unit should be of interest to history, politics and education students.

Human communication takes many forms, and has many corresponding capacities: to bond, to represent, to express, to reveal, to record, to encode, to network - and more. Through communicative connections and associated actions human societies aim to accomplish ethical, political and personal tasks. This unit aims to examine communications as actions and forces as much as making meanings: verbal confession reveals personal truths and cultural belief; the printed word enables dissemination of new ideas about society and its structures; electronic messages connect in novel ways. Through looking at crucial forms and evolving communication techniques, this unit examines the powers of communication.

This unit offers advanced level study of contemporary Australia with a specific focus on political issues and cultural contexts. It explores a range of current issues that required analysis of the meaning of politics, the distribution of power in Australia and the relations of identity and difference that define the present. Within this broad framework, themes for study will be selected on the basis of topicality and theoretical richness.

This unit is concerned with the theory and practice of democracy in modern and contemporary Asia. It explores a range of issues relating to liberalism, human rights, political reform and democratization. It seeks to explain the differences in the ways in which democracy has been conceived, understood and practiced in different cultures and societies. It also examines the East-West debate on "Asian values" and the suitability of Western-style democracy to Asia. Finally, it discusses the prospects for democracy in Asia.

This unit aims to investigate the experience of the 19th century European empires from the perspectives of both the colonized and colonizers. It examines the combination of domination and cultural negotiation between colonizers and colonized. It examines both how peoples were managed as imperial subjects and how they responded to this management. It looks both at the effect of imperial rule on the colonized, and of empire upon the colonizers. It draws upon historical literature from a variety of sources and perspectives, and within European and Asian history. The focus is chiefly, though not exclusively, upon the British empire and its subjects peoples.

This unit examines the relationship between social change, ideology and politics in twentieth-century Europe. Three competing ideologies from 1900 are examined, authoritarianism, liberalism and socialism. With a special focus on the period 1914 to 1945, the unit examines the interaction between these ideologies and the polarization of politics through the major social upheavals of the period. Case studies will be drawn from the history of Britain, Germany, Russia, Italy, France and Spain in the twentieth century.

This unit surveys the transformation of European society, politics and culture in the period between the Reformations and the revolutions of the late eighteenth century. It focuses upon the religious conflicts of the early modern period and their resolution, both at the level of individuals and states. It studies popular experiences of and responses to social, religious and political change over the period. And it surveys the political, scientific and cultural transformations of this tumultuous time.

This Asian history unit is concerned with the transformation of China in a social, political and intellectual context since the middle of the nineteenth century. The unit focuses on China's modern transformation in the first half of the twentieth century and its contemporary relevance. The scope is broad, encompassing changes from the last decades of the Qing Dynasty to the Republican era and the rise to power of the Communists in 1949. The approach is issue-oriented, thematic and, where appropriate, chronological.

This unit aims to provide third year humanities students with first-hand knowledge of workplaces or research processes related to their chosen filed of study (major), such as art galleries, museums, libraries, local and state government, tourism and administration or in academic contexts. The units will introduce students to various fields in which the skills developed over two years of study in humanities can be applied. It will augment their study and provide much need work experience. The internship placement and/or project will be chosen by the student in consultation with the staff member responsible for the major area and the placement will be overseen and the academic work assessed by the member of staff responsible for the major area of study relevant to the internship.

This unit will be replaced by 101543 - India:Global Contexts from 2010. A survey of the history of India from early times to Independence, looking at key issues for understanding modern India. It introduces the ideological bases of Indian civilisation; the three great religious systems of Asia, Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam, and their related systems of social and political organisation. It focuses on the contest of history in colonial discourses; the uses of history in creating modern citizens and states. It offers material on the theme of Asian modernities.

The unit will provide the opportunity for critical reflection on the practices and debates in the writing of Australian history. It examines the approaches of major Australian historians including Manning Clark, Geoffrey Blainey and Humphrey McQueen, as well as themes such as empiricism versus postmodernism, the 'new social history' and Marxism and Australian historiography.

Primary sources of English political thought from the Tudors to the American, French and Industrial Revolutions. Topics include 'Influences' (Aristotle, Magna Carta, Machiavelli), The Commonwealthmen, Shakespeare, Bacon, Hobbes, the Levellers and True Levellers, Paine, Wollstonecraft and Marx. A study of the variant meanings and usages of 'Commonwealth' before it was adopted by Australia at Federation.

This unit presents a social and cultural history of Japan from the mid nineteenth century to the present. The principle organising theme is the question of modernity: what are the different ways that Japan has expressed its modern identity? How has this been shaped by Japan's position in relation to both the West and its Asian neighbours? What is the relationship among the state, its citizens, and history in negotiating identity? How has war affected Japanese modernity and what we know of modern Japan?

The Western experience of the fundamental questions of love and death will be examined. Literary as well as philosophical works will be utilised. Ancient Greek, Christian and medieval attitudes will be contrasted with more modern romantic and existentialist views. Authors wil include: Sophocles, Plato, Augustine, Goethe, Austen, Sade, Dostoyevsky and Heidegger.

This unit provides an introduction to Australian foreign policy relations with Asia. It seeks to acquaint students with Australia's historic and contemporary relations with countries in East and Southeast Asia and to identity the factors that have contributed to their development.

This unit studies the post-war Japanese political experience. In particular examining the intersection between domestic political developments, and security and foreign policy matters.

This unit offers an introduction to the contemporary analysis of sex, gender and relations of power. Sex and gender are not studied in isolation but in connection with other significant aspects of identity and difference - ethnicity, class and sexuality for example. Particular attention is paid to contemporary Australian issues and debates. Key concepts that are studied include 'sex', 'gender', 'sexuality', 'power', 'resistance', 'identity', 'difference', 'subjectivity', and 'inter-subjectivity'.

This unit offers a general overview of race in politics as it exists in Europe, Asia, the Americans and Australasia. It will focus on theories of race, racist policies and practices and the political economy of race.

This unit varies in content from year to year, to take advantage of opportunities that may arise through topical and community interest in aspects of Australian history, or through visits by scholars who have expertise in an aspect of Australian history not otherwise taught in the program. The unit may be taught in normal sessions, or offered in flexible format, involving weekend work or intensive full-time study during summer or winter breaks, and by individual study contract.

This unit will examine the place of and the role played by sport in Australia's history. Sport will also be used as a means to examine issues such as race, class, gender, nationalism and patriotism, regionalism, commercialization and globalisation.

This unit surveys the history of Indonesia, Australia's nearest and most important Asian neighbour. Commencing with the coming of Islam to Indonesia in the twelfth century it concludes with the overthrow of Soeharto in 1998, but the focus is primarily on the 20th Century. The unit looks briefly at the Islamic and Hindu-Buddhist kingdoms, the colonial period, the nationalist struggle, the Japanese occupation and in more detail the first fifty years of independence. Indonesia's rich heritage of trade, culture, religions, and ethnicities are all dealt with. The units also examines historiographical problems for the study of Indonesian history and seeks to identify historical patterns.

This unit investigates the far-reaching political and social changes underway in Indonesia, Australia's closest and most important Asian neighbour. It studies in depth the turbulent period since the 1998 overthrow of Soeharto, paying particular attention to the dramatic struggle for political reform against efforts to preserve much of the status quo. The unit examines the far-reaching constitutional reforms implemented since 2000 and the accompanying new political structure that is emerging. Indonesia's status as an emerging democracy is a particular focus of the unit against the backdrop of challenges such as economic crisis, Islamist terror, separatist pressures, and endemic corruption.

The local history of Westminster and its connections, from the foundation of Westminster Abbey to Australian Federation. A critical historical enquiry into vernacular English institutions of and attitudes to law, politics and government that were transported to Australia in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Unit involves instruction in 'Middle English' sources of legal and constitutional culture.

Why do humans kill? What is the nature of war? This course is a selection of different established theories offering explanations of human violence and social conflict. Both theories of individual violence and aggression, and collective conflict are studied to give students a perspective on the forces behind these phenomena. Theories from politics, philosophy, psychoanalysis, sociobiology, sociology, and cultural studies are introduced to exemplify the classic positions and lines of reasoning. These are used to question and explain current forms of violence and conflict, and to give students better understanding of the issues behind attempts to forestall, manage or end conflict.

This unit examines problems and issues in international politics. In particular the unit critically assesses the major theoretical paradigms associated with attempts to explain international behaviour of key individuals, nations and the international system. Major issues and key problems in world affairs since the end of World War Two (such as justice and equality, human rights and terrorism) are examined.

This unit studies various social, political and cultural aspects of Australian history in the twentieth century, from Federation in 1901 to 2001, with a specific focus on the effects of war on Australian society. Australia has been involved in a number of wars in the twentieth century. The unit begins with the Boer War, begun before the Federation of the Australian colonies and continues through the First and Second World Wars to the most unpopular war in which Australia has ever been involved - Vietnam.

The First World War remains absolutely fundamental to an understanding of the history of Europe and the world in the twentieth century. At one obvious level, three great conservative empires, the Russian, German and Austro-Hungarian empires, were swept away. Even more importantly, however, the war transformed the way Europeans thought about politics. As the was so prolonged, the war intensified ideological pressures inside the warring nations, polarizing and radicalizing the political ideologies of the pre-war era. Tensions between authoritarians and liberal democrats mounted steadily. The schism between democratic socialists and revolutionary socialists became unbridgeable. The central focus of this unit is the politics and diplomacy of the war's prolongation.

The Western philosophical tradition which arose from the 18th century until the early 20th century will be examined. These ideas will be placed in their historical and cultural context. How this philosophy and history has shaped contemporary understandings of politics, society, nature and the individual will be a central focus.

This unit aims to develop and refine students' skills in analytical writing, critical reasoning and the analysis of argument, especially within the context of Cultural and Social Analysis. It aims to develop students' understanding of how arguments are made, along with their ability to analyse and evaluate arguments, while at the same time helping them develop the capacity to make sophisticated arguments in essay form. Sample topics from which students can choose include: advanced database use, Endnote, techniques of visual analysis, punctuation, grammar, and advanced Internet use.

This unit provides an introduction to Australian Politics. It outlines the central features of the federal political system with attention to both historical background and current debates. In addition to study of the institutional frameworks (the Constitution, parliament, political parties and so on), the unit examines the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion that have shaped Australian politics. It explores what it has meant in the past, what it means in the future, for Australians to live together as members of a political community.

This unit introduces students to the 18th and 19th century foundations of modern Australia, and to the social, economic, political and cultural events that shaped Australian social and political institutions. Students will be encouraged to consider the process of historical change within an historiographical framework and will use primary sources to explore some of these debates.

The major philosophies of art will be examined. The Western tradition will be surveyed from the Ancient Greeks through medieval and Renaissance theories of art to modern and postmodern aesthetics beginning with Kant. Marxist and feminist aesthetics will be especially emphasised. The artistic material will primarily come from the visual arts.

This unit examines the role and influence of voluntary action, the state and civil society in Australian history from 1788 to the present. Unit content concerns the evolution and development of voluntary action, a basic tenet of democracy, in Australia, and the changing relationship between governments and the voluntary or third sector. The development of social policy and welfare issues, volunteering, the impact of war, and international comparisons will be a feature of the unit.

This unit offers a history of the United States of America from 1898 until 1945. It examines the key events and issues from the Spanish-American War to the New Deal and Isolationism which shaped the course of modern America.

The Athens of Pericles is studied from three perspectives: philosophy, art and history. The use of reason and rhetoric is examined through the works of some pre-Socratics, sophists and Socrates. Architectural style and the artistic representation of the human will be studied with particular reference to the Parthenon. This philosophy and art will be placed in the context of the history of the body, the city-state and democratic citizenship.

This unit examines the transformation of Australia from a collection of small settler colonies to a modern, industrialising nation. The unit focuses on the creation of a national identity through examination of themes such as race, class, urbanisation, politics, sport gender and culture.

This unit includes a general overview of major developments in Australian political and social history since 1920, and also focuses on particular issues such as the 1949 coal strike, the Petrov Affair, the Whitlam dismissal and the Super League 'war'.

This unit examines the history of work, work relations, workers and workers' organisations in Australia from the time of European settlement. The unit investigates the concept of 'work', both paid and unpaid, voluntary and domestic. The focus is on social and political aspects of paid work, through the development of unionism, politics and arbitration. It also involves an analysis of structured and unstructured volunteer labour and its impact on Australian society.

An analytic and topical survey of the social and political history of the British Isles from the Protestant Reformation to the colonization of Australia; the unit also offers an introduction to the study of Social History and 'history from below'. Content includes studies of English hegemony; kings and queens; nobles and gentry; commons and plebs; parliaments; regions and localities; landscape; media, communications and ideas; work, class and gender; migration and mobility; secual mores; riot, rebellion and revolution; popular and elite culture; attitudes to death; crime and criminal law; religion; the state and constitution; public opinion and civil society; demographic and economic development; education and schooling; family and community; nationalism and the emergence of 'Great Britain'.

There are repeated calls for greater involvement by citizens in public life or the community. Generally such appeals draw upon an image of ancient Western citizenship derived from the Greek city-state or ancient Rome. Yet the history of citizenship and civic identity in the West is long and varied. This unit surveys the historical literature from a number of different periods of Western history, from the ancient city-states to the Roman Empire, from Medieval merchants to Renaissance scholars, through to early modern debates around sovereignty and religious toleration. It also examines modern debates around the greater complexity of modern societies as against ancient, and the perceived greater focuses upon privacy and personal autonomy in the modern world - all of which are claimed to have diminished the civic impulse. The unit should be of interest to history, politics and education students.

Classics of Modern Philosophy introduces students to a selected number of 'great' (highly influential) philosophical texts of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Addressing fundamental issues such as human freedom, the nature of truth and knowledge, technological progress, problems of modern life, this unit guides students through key statements with supporting explanation of the philosophers, their projects and careers, and relevant social contexts.

Human communication takes many forms, and has many corresponding capacities: to bond, to represent, to express, to reveal, to record, to encode, to network - and more. Through communicative connections and associated actions human societies aim to accomplish ethical, political and personal tasks. This unit aims to examine communications as actions and forces as much as making meanings: verbal confession reveals personal truths and cultural belief; the printed word enables dissemination of new ideas about society and its structures; electronic messages connect in novel ways. Through looking at crucial forms and evolving communication techniques, this unit examines the powers of communication.

This unit offers advanced level study of contemporary Australia with a specific focus on political issues and cultural contexts. It explores a range of current issues that required analysis of the meaning of politics, the distribution of power in Australia and the relations of identity and difference that define the present. Within this broad framework, themes for study will be selected on the basis of topicality and theoretical richness.

This unit is concerned with the theory and practice of democracy in modern and contemporary Asia. It explores a range of issues relating to liberalism, human rights, political reform and democratization. It seeks to explain the differences in the ways in which democracy has been conceived, understood and practiced in different cultures and societies. It also examines the East-West debate on "Asian values" and the suitability of Western-style democracy to Asia. Finally, it discusses the prospects for democracy in Asia.

This unit examines forms of cultural expression and collective self-understanding articulated as emotional identifications. Topics covered may include shame, pride, responsibility, forgiveness, resentment, hope, remembrance, generosity, happiness, hate and love. The unit explores how these have been taken up in contemporary cultural analysis as a focus for understanding affinities and conflicts between individuals and communities and, for how Australians imagine their historical interconnectedness. It introduces some key theoretical perspectives that have been, and might be, applied to the study of emotions, culture and community.

This unit aims to investigate the experience of the 19th century European empires from the perspectives of both the colonized and colonizers. It examines the combination of domination and cultural negotiation between colonizers and colonized. It examines both how peoples were managed as imperial subjects and how they responded to this management. It looks both at the effect of imperial rule on the colonized, and of empire upon the colonizers. It draws upon historical literature from a variety of sources and perspectives, and within European and Asian history. The focus is chiefly, though not exclusively, upon the British empire and its subjects peoples.

The unit provides an historical overview of the different types of ethical beliefs and practices that have been used is specific social settings from the classical world to the modern West. It looks at different types of spiritual and secular ethical behaviours, and the doctrines associated with each. It focuses upon the types of ethical argument and judgment-making specific to particular professions, occupations and social statuses over time. It concludes by surveying the different types of ethics taught to professionals today in the West, and on the differences between each, as well as the specific requirements of each. It will be of interest both to students with an interest in the history of ideas, and to students who want to learn more about ethics and moral decision-making.

This unit examines the relationship between social change, ideology and politics in twentieth-century Europe. Three competing ideologies from 1900 are examined, authoritarianism, liberalism and socialism. With a special focus on the period 1914 to 1945, the unit examines the interaction between these ideologies and the polarization of politics through the major social upheavals of the period. Case studies will be drawn from the history of Britain, Germany, Russia, Italy, France and Spain in the twentieth century.

Understanding local history is an integral part of establishing personal and community identities. Local studies are used as the foundation for many socio-economic studies across many disciplines as well as in school curricula. The University of Western Sydney is part of a region rich in history, little of which has been researched or published. Local history techniques involve understanding a variety of physical and documentary sources. Students learn the history of the Sydney region by assembling data from original historical sources, based at the State Archives in Kingswood. There are opportunities for site visits to historical and archaeological sites and local museums.

This unit surveys the transformation of European society, politics and culture in the period between the Reformations and the revolutions of the late eighteenth century. It focuses upon the religious conflicts of the early modern period and their resolution, both at the level of individuals and states. It studies popular experiences of and responses to social, religious and political change over the period. And it surveys the political, scientific and cultural transformations of this tumultuous time.

This Asian history unit is concerned with the transformation of China in a social, political and intellectual context since the middle of the nineteenth century. The unit focuses on China's modern transformation in the first half of the twentieth century and its contemporary relevance. The scope is broad, encompassing changes from the last decades of the Qing Dynasty to the Republican era and the rise to power of the Communists in 1949. The approach is issue-oriented, thematic and, where appropriate, chronological.

This unit aims to provide third year humanities students with first-hand knowledge of workplaces or research processes related to their chosen filed of study (major), such as art galleries, museums, libraries, local and state government, tourism and administration or in academic contexts. The units will introduce students to various fields in which the skills developed over two years of study in humanities can be applied. It will augment their study and provide much need work experience. The internship placement and/or project will be chosen by the student in consultation with the staff member responsible for the major area and the placement will be overseen and the academic work assessed by the member of staff responsible for the major area of study relevant to the internship.

This unit will be replaced by 101543 - India:Global Contexts from 2010. A survey of the history of India from early times to Independence, looking at key issues for understanding modern India. It introduces the ideological bases of Indian civilisation; the three great religious systems of Asia, Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam, and their related systems of social and political organisation. It focuses on the contest of history in colonial discourses; the uses of history in creating modern citizens and states. It offers material on the theme of Asian modernities.

The unit will provide the opportunity for critical reflection on the practices and debates in the writing of Australian history. It examines the approaches of major Australian historians including Manning Clark, Geoffrey Blainey and Humphrey McQueen, as well as themes such as empiricism versus postmodernism, the 'new social history' and Marxism and Australian historiography.

Legislation requires the preservation of natural, built and movable heritage, but agreement about what to keep is rarely achieved. The historian's investigation of the history of places and objects is an important part of the assessment process. Historical research helps to establish priorities and contributes to the preservation work of archives, museums and heritage sites. Class work involves real project work with museums and heritage managers.

Primary sources of English political thought from the Tudors to the American, French and Industrial Revolutions. Topics include 'Influences' (Aristotle, Magna Carta, Machiavelli), The Commonwealthmen, Shakespeare, Bacon, Hobbes, the Levellers and True Levellers, Paine, Wollstonecraft and Marx. A study of the variant meanings and usages of 'Commonwealth' before it was adopted by Australia at Federation.

This unit presents a social and cultural history of Japan from the mid nineteenth century to the present. The principle organising theme is the question of modernity: what are the different ways that Japan has expressed its modern identity? How has this been shaped by Japan's position in relation to both the West and its Asian neighbours? What is the relationship among the state, its citizens, and history in negotiating identity? How has war affected Japanese modernity and what we know of modern Japan?

The Western experience of the fundamental questions of love and death will be examined. Literary as well as philosophical works will be utilised. Ancient Greek, Christian and medieval attitudes will be contrasted with more modern romantic and existentialist views. Authors wil include: Sophocles, Plato, Augustine, Goethe, Austen, Sade, Dostoyevsky and Heidegger.

Philosophy Today provides an introduction and analysis of selected issues in contemporary philosophy, with an emphasis on moral and ethical controversies, problems in modern social life, and explanations of human subjectivity and consciousness. Themes and philosophers are selected to provide students with a series of focused perspectives on recent and current philosophical debate - particularly on controversial issues and areas of public debate.

This unit examines the interaction between politics and business in the contemporary East Asian and Southeast Asian contexts. Particular attention will be paid to the business-government relationship in a number of key countries and comparisons drawn. The unit examines the issue of the so-called "Asian Way" with respect to business, governing and achieving economic development. It also looks at the so-called "Asian economic miracle" and the "Asian economic crisis" and considers contemporary reform programs aimed at the business-politics nexus in Asia.

This unit provides an introduction to Australian foreign policy relations with Asia. It seeks to acquaint students with Australia's historic and contemporary relations with countries in East and Southeast Asia and to identity the factors that have contributed to their development.

This unit studies the post-war Japanese political experience. In particular examining the intersection between domestic political developments, and security and foreign policy matters.

This unit offers an introduction to the contemporary analysis of sex, gender and relations of power. Sex and gender are not studied in isolation but in connection with other significant aspects of identity and difference - ethnicity, class and sexuality for example. Particular attention is paid to contemporary Australian issues and debates. Key concepts that are studied include 'sex', 'gender', 'sexuality', 'power', 'resistance', 'identity', 'difference', 'subjectivity', and 'inter-subjectivity'.

This unit offers a general overview of race in politics as it exists in Europe, Asia, the Americans and Australasia. It will focus on theories of race, racist policies and practices and the political economy of race.

This unit is concerned with developments in China since the establishment of the People's Republic in 1949. It will focus on the post-1976 period, which saw the adoption and implementation of an "open-door" policy and the launch of the "Four Modernisations". Due attention, however, will also be paid to the history and politics of the 1950s and 1960s as backgrounds. The unit will be issue-oriented, exploring a whole range of social and political issues that will have a bearing on China's future as a potential world power in the twenty-first century.

Unit offer depends on demand.

This unit varies in content from year to year, to take advantage of opportunities that may arise through topical and community interest in aspects of Australian history, or through visits by scholars who have expertise in an aspect of Australian history not otherwise taught in the program. The unit may be taught in normal sessions, or offered in flexible format, involving weekend work or intensive full-time study during summer or winter breaks, and by individual study contract.

This unit will examine the place of and the role played by sport in Australia's history. Sport will also be used as a means to examine issues such as race, class, gender, nationalism and patriotism, regionalism, commercialization and globalisation.

This unit surveys the history of Indonesia, Australia's nearest and most important Asian neighbour. Commencing with the coming of Islam to Indonesia in the twelfth century it concludes with the overthrow of Soeharto in 1998, but the focus is primarily on the 20th Century. The unit looks briefly at the Islamic and Hindu-Buddhist kingdoms, the colonial period, the nationalist struggle, the Japanese occupation and in more detail the first fifty years of independence. Indonesia's rich heritage of trade, culture, religions, and ethnicities are all dealt with. The units also examines historiographical problems for the study of Indonesian history and seeks to identify historical patterns.

This unit investigates the far-reaching political and social changes underway in Indonesia, Australia's closest and most important Asian neighbour. It studies in depth the turbulent period since the 1998 overthrow of Soeharto, paying particular attention to the dramatic struggle for political reform against efforts to preserve much of the status quo. The unit examines the far-reaching constitutional reforms implemented since 2000 and the accompanying new political structure that is emerging. Indonesia's status as an emerging democracy is a particular focus of the unit against the backdrop of challenges such as economic crisis, Islamist terror, separatist pressures, and endemic corruption.

The major social and political philosophy of the West, from the 5th century BC Greece till the 18th century will be examined. The development of ideas of citizenship, subjectivity, freedom, equality and the democratic state will be explored. The influence of Christianity will also be a major theme. Authors will include: Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, More, Hobbes, Locke, Vico, Rousseau.

Why do humans kill? What is the nature of war? This course is a selection of different established theories offering explanations of human violence and social conflict. Both theories of individual violence and aggression, and collective conflict are studied to give students a perspective on the forces behind these phenomena. Theories from politics, philosophy, psychoanalysis, sociobiology, sociology, and cultural studies are introduced to exemplify the classic positions and lines of reasoning. These are used to question and explain current forms of violence and conflict, and to give students better understanding of the issues behind attempts to forestall, manage or end conflict.

This unit examines problems and issues in international politics. In particular the unit critically assesses the major theoretical paradigms associated with attempts to explain international behaviour of key individuals, nations and the international system. Major issues and key problems in world affairs since the end of World War Two (such as justice and equality, human rights and terrorism) are examined.

This unit studies various social, political and cultural aspects of Australian history in the twentieth century, from Federation in 1901 to 2001, with a specific focus on the effects of war on Australian society. Australia has been involved in a number of wars in the twentieth century. The unit begins with the Boer War, begun before the Federation of the Australian colonies and continues through the First and Second World Wars to the most unpopular war in which Australia has ever been involved - Vietnam.

This unit will look at the historical heritage of Japan that is central to contemporary Japanese identity and culture.

This unit will examine a series of topical theoretical issues such as claims concerning the end of sovereignty, the emergence of a borderless world, the triumph of liberalism following the end of the Cold War and the so-called 'War on Terrorism' since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. Finally it will examine the rise in prominence of so-called 'low politics' issues such as human rights, gender and the environment.