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Race and Ethnic Politics
Enrolment code: HSA201/301
Offered: Hbt: sem 1
Unit description:
Introduces the politics of ethnicity and race. After a study of some relevant concepts,
paradigms and theories, the unit will examine a range of situations of ethnic and race
politics drawn from such countries as Sri Lanka, Canada, Belgium, South Africa, and some
supra-national movements.
Staff: Dr WW Bostock
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 2 lectures weekly, 1 tutorial fortnightly (13 wks)
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in Political Science or equiv
M.excl: HSP205/305
Assess: 2,500-word essay (40%), tutorial participation and report (10%), 2-hr end-of-sem
exam (50%)
Required: Reader (available from School of Government)
Majors: Aboriginal Studies
Courses: [R3A] [R3K] [R3C]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Approaches to International Relations
Enrolment code: HSA202/302
Offered: Hbt: sem 1, Ltn: sem 1 [by video-link]
Unit description:
Reviews a range of theoretical and empirical approaches to the study of international
relations. The unit considers the significance of these differing perspectives in a period of
growing internationalisation – both global and regional. It also seeks to promote a more
effective understanding of how the nature of contemporary politics influences the desire
and capacity of states (and other actors) to achieve their external objectives.
Staff: Assoc Prof RA Herr
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 2 lectures weekly, 1 tutorial fortnightly (13 wks)
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Prereq: 25% at level 100 in Political Science or equiv
Assess: 2,500-word essay (30%), 1000-word report or class test (10%), tutorial participation
(10%), 2-hr end-of-sem exam (50%)
Majors: Political Science
Courses: [R3A] [R3K] [R3C]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Media and Politics
Enrolment code: HSA203/303
Offered: not offered in 2004
Unit description:
Provides students with a broad introduction to the increasingly intimate relationships
between media and politics. The unit critically analyses key ideas on the role of the media
in politics, including the democratic and propaganda models of media. It examines the
ways in which media ownership patterns, the structure and organisation of media
reporting, the relationship between ‘spin doctors’ and politicians, opinion polling, and
image-making shape the political and electoral process. The implications for politics of
‘globalisation’ and new media (satellite, digital and internet casting) are also considered.
Key case studies of the dynamic relationship between media and politics is drawn from
Australia, the United Kingdom and other European countries, the United States, and the
Asia-Pacific.
Staff: Dr WW Bostock, Dr T Narramore
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 2 lectures weekly, 1 tutorial fortnightly (13 wks)
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in Political Science or equiv
M.excl: HEJ211/311
Assess: 2,500-word essay (40%), tutorial participation and report (10%), 2-hr end-of-sem
exam (50%)
Required: Reader (available from School of Government)
Majors: Journalism and Media Studies
Courses: [R3A] [R3K] [R3C]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Politics in Literature and Film
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Enrolment code: HSA204/304
Offered: not offered in 2004
Unit description:
A dominant understanding in the teaching of politics contends that political
understanding is reducible to scientific method. By contrast, this unit seeks to examine
politics as an art, the art of government, and more precisely the way that particular idioms
of discourse have constituted that art. In order to explore these modes, students will
examine the manner in which satire, the novel, film, and the media in general affect and
inform contemporary political understandings. In this context the unit examines the
notions of utopia and dystopia in books like 1984 and films like Brazil, the problem of
bureaucracy in modernity, the media characterisation of war in films like Apocalypse Now,
new wars in journalism by Timothy Garton-Ash and films like Savior and the relationship
between modern politics and media depicted in films like Primary Colours and accounts of
political strategy offered in The New Prince by writers/practitioners like Dick Morris.
Staff: Dr DM Jones
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 2 lectures weekly, 1 tutorial fortnightly (13 wks)
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in Political Science or equiv
M.excl: HAC244/344, FST257/357
Assess: 2,000–2,500-word essay (30%), tutorial assessment (10%), 1,000–1,500-word book
review (20%), 2-hr end-of-sem exam (40%)
Required: Reader (available from School of Government)
Majors: Journalism and Media Studies
Courses: [R3A] [R3K] [R3C]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Political Ideologies
Enrolment code: HSA210/310
Offered: not offered in 2004
Unit description:
The central concern of this unit is to examine politics and its relationship to what Destut
de Tracy termed ‘ideology’. The unit begins by considering what kind of activity politics
actually involves, arguing that political rule arises when a collection of people deemed to
be formally equal form a government amongst themselves. The mode of political
communication between these people is persuasion. A further consequence of politics is a
literature of political thought. Politics accordingly is not a universal activity and even
where it is established it is often regarded with hostility. This rhetorical style is contrasted
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with a rationalistic, scientistic and ideological style of thinking that emerged in the 19th
century. In this context, the unit considers liberalism, nationalism, Marxism and fascism as
ideological styles of rule located in modernity, and concludes by considering whether
postmodernity offers any relief from the rationalistic certainties of modernity.
Staff: Dr DM Jones
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 2 lectures weekly, 1 tutorial fortnightly (13 wks)
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in Political Science or equiv
Assess: 2,500-word essay (30%), 1,000-word report (20%), tutorial assessment (10%), 2-hr
end-of-sem exam (40%)
Required: Reader (available from School of Government)
Majors: Political Science
Courses: [R3A] [R3K] [R3C]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Political Thought: Liberal Democracy
Enrolment code: HSA212/312
Offered: Hbt: sem 2
Unit description:
Parliamentary multi-party democracy is now widely accepted as the dominant expression
of the democratic ideal in most parts of the world. This historical transformation has
occurred alongside the ostensible ascendance of capitalism over state socialism and the
declining influence of Marxist ideas. The triumph of democracy in the 1990s has brought
to prominence liberal democratic ideas and institutions as well as renewing support for
free-market capitalism and neo liberal principles. Despite its virtues, however, liberal
democracy continues to generate dispute among both its defenders and its critics. This
unit explores the key theoretical underpinnings of the tradition of liberal democracy;
including Lockean liberalism (the freedom of the governed); free-market capitalism; the
discourse of civil society; and understandings of freedom and justice. It then addresses
some of the most important criticisms of liberal democracy including those that flow from
the republican; Marxist; feminist; and post-structuralist traditions. From this background
it will then be possible to mark out and examine key contemporary debates occurring
within the liberal democratic tradition such as those surrounding the issues of liberty
versus equality; citizenship; identity; multiculturalism; and participatory democracy.
Staff: Assoc Prof B He
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 2 lectures weekly, 1 tutorial fortnightly (13 wks)
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Prereq: 25% at level 100 in Political Science or equiv
Assess: 2,500-word essay (40%), 1,000-word tutorial paper or book review (10%), tutorial
presentation/participation (10%), 2-hr end-of-sem exam (40%)
Required: Reader (available from School of Government)
Majors: Political Science
Courses: [R3A] [R3K] [R3C]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Comparative Political Systems
Enrolment code: HSA222/322
Offered: not offered in 2004
Unit description:
A study of the concept of system and its relevance to politics, with particular reference to
the relationship between system and structure. Britain, France, Germany and the
European Union are given particular attention.
Staff: Dr WW Bostock
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 2 lectures weekly, 1 tutorial fortnightly (13 wks)
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in Political Science or equiv
Assess: 2,500-word essay (40%), tutorial participation and report (10%), 2-hr end-of-sem
exam (50%)
Required: Reader (available from School of Government)
Majors: Political Science
Courses: [R3A] [R3K] [R3C]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Politics of Democratisation, East and West
Enrolment code: HSA227/327
Offered: not offered in 2004
Unit description:
Considers the historical, cultural, social and political preconditions for democratisation in
East Asia, and Eastern and Western Europe. Examines the process of democratisation and
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the attended problems, by comparing and contrasting the democratic experiences of a
range of cases including China, Taiwan, Korea, Russia, Poland and the European Union.
The ‘transition to democracy’ literature will constitute the theoretical framework for the
discussion of change in East Asia and Europe in the context of global democratisation in
the world of post-cold war era.
Staff: Dr DM Jones
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 2 lectures weekly, 1 tutorial fortnightly (13 wks)
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in Political Science or equiv
M.excl: HMA216/316
Assess: 2,500-word essay (30%), 1,000-word report (10%), tutorial participation (10%), 2-hr
end-of-sem exam (50%)
Majors: Asian Studies
Courses: [R3A] [R3K] [R3C]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Australian Foreign Policy
Enrolment code: HSA240/340
Offered: not offered in 2004
Unit description:
A critical examination of Australian foreign policy from federation until the present. This
unit focuses on the search for an independent foreign policy throughout this period,
including recent attempts to define an integral role in the Asia Pacific region and its role as
a middle power in international affairs in the 1990s. It examines political, economic and
strategic issues and includes an evaluation of the links between external and domestic
policy decisions.
Staff: tba
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 2 lectures weekly, 1 tutorial fortnightly (13 wks)
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in Political Science or Public Policy or equiv
M.excl: HSD241/341
Assess: 2,500-word essay (40%), tutorial paper (10%), tutorial participation and
presentation (10%), 2-hr end-of-sem exam (40%)
Majors: Public Policy
Courses: [R3A] [R3K] [R3C]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
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Australian Political Institutions
Enrolment code: HSA241/341
Offered: not offered in 2004
Unit description:
Australian liberal democracy provides a distinctive political culture. Within this concept
the unit considers the Australian state, the party system, the media, electoral law and
behaviour drawing on theoretical and comparative material.
Staff: tba
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 2 lectures weekly, 1 tutorial fortnightly (13 wks)
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in Political Science or Public Policy or equiv
M.excl: HSD242/342
Assess: 2,500-word essay (30%), 1,000-word report or class test (10%), tutorial participation
(10%), 2-hr end-of-sem exam (50%)
Required: tba
Majors: Public Policy
Courses: [R3A] [R3K] [R3C]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Globalisation and East Asian Politics
Enrolment code: HSA258/358
Offered: Hbt: sem 2
Unit description:
Examines the political development of the countries of the East Asian region – Japan,
China, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia – in the context
of the international political economy. The unit begins with an introduction to the main
interpretations of international political economy. It then considers: the relationship
between the countries of East Asia and the US-dominated postwar international political
economy; the nature of an East Asian model of political economy, pioneered by Japan, and
the extent to which it may be imitated in the region; the challenge of this East Asian model
to international political economy; the potential for an East Asian regionalism; and the
pressures for radical change in the political economy of East Asia as a result of the
financial crisis in the region.
Staff: Dr T Narramore, Assoc Prof B He
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Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 2 lectures weekly, 1 tutorial fortnightly (13 wks)
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in Political Science or equiv
M.excl: HMA258/358
Assess: 2,500-word essay (40%), 1,000-word report (10%), tutorial participation (10%), 2-hr
end-of-sem exam (40%)
Majors: Asian Studies
Courses: [R3A] [R3K] [R3C]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Tasmanian Politics and Australian Federalism
Enrolment code: HSA260/360
Offered: Hbt: sem 2, Ltn: sem 2 [by video-link]
Unit description:
Introduces students to both Tasmanian politics and the politics of Australian federalism as
seen from the state perspective. The specific features of Tasmanian politics will be used to
help explain the broader changes in contemporary Australian federalism. Special attention
will be given to understanding the needs of Tasmania in responding to the dynamics of
Australian federal policy-making.
Staff: Assoc Prof RA Herr
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 2 lectures weekly, 1 tutorial fortnightly (13 wks)
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in Political Science or Public Policy or equiv
M.excl: HSD243/343
Assess: 2,500-word essay (30%), 1,000-word report or class test (10%), tutorial participation
(10%), 2-hr end-of-sem exam (50%)
Required: Reader (available from School of Government, Hbt; Uniprint, Ltn)
Majors: Public Policy
Courses: [R3A] [R3K] [R3C]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Foreign Correspondence: Foreign Policy and the
Media
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Enrolment code: HSA262/362
Offered: Hbt: sem 1
Unit description:
Provides a consideration of the interaction between the making of foreign policy and the
influence of public participation through the media. Several models of interaction will be
developed to explore and assess this interaction including the democratic elitist model
(minimal public participation) through to the populist model (only ‘the people’ can
prevent war). Technological change has made for significant challenges to older styles of
foreign policy-making in the 20th century and more can be expected in the 21st century.
Staff: Assoc Prof RA Herr (Coordinator), Dr T Narramore
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 2 lectures weekly, 1 tutorial fortnightly (13 wks)
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in Political Science or equiv
Assess: 2,500-word essay (30%), 1,000-word report or class test (10%), tutorial participation
(10%), 2-hr end-of-sem exam (50%)
Required: tba
Majors: Journalism and Media Studies
Courses: [R3A] [R3K] [R3C]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Espionage, Terror and Global Disorder
Enrolment code: HSA270/370
Offered: Hbt: sem 1, dist.ed: sem 1 [by web]
Unit description:
Offers a systematic study of various forms of ‘disorder’ in the post-Cold War era, with a
particular focus on terrorism. States are increasingly confronted with unpredictable,
internal and trans-national threats to their security, for example: new and diverse forms of
terrorism and political violence; international organised crime and traffic in arms, drugs
and people; religious nationalism and ethnic/racial conflict; and struggles for new states
and national liberation. In attempts to maintain security, states use a range of overt and
covert techniques, such as surveillance, espionage, counter-terrorism, and military force.
This diverse range of threats and state responses is analysed in key examples from around
the globe and in the Asia-Pacific region. This year the unit focuses on the ‘globalisation’
of terrorism in such forms as Osama bin Laden’s al-Qa’ida network, and the implications
for global security and intelligence of the ‘war on terrorism’.
Staff: Dr T Narramore
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Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: int: 2 lectures weekly, 1 tutorial fortnightly; dist.ed: web-based delivery
(13 wks)
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in Political Science or equiv
M.excl: HSP203/303, HMA259/359
Assess: 2,500-word essay (40%), 750–1,000-word tutorial paper/presentation and
participation (20%), 2-hr end-of-sem exam (40%)
Required: Reader (available from School of Government)
Majors: Police Studies
Courses: [R3A] [R3K] [R3C]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
The Politics of International Justice
Enrolment code: HSA271/371
Offered: Hbt: sem 2
Unit description:
Provides an introduction to, and an assessment of, the agencies and institutions that make
up the
international justice system. These range from the national instruments of police, courts
and foreign affairs departments through international instruments such as Interpol, the
Red Cross/Red Crescent, Amnesty International, a suite of United Nations regulatory
agencies, the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice. The unit
also addresses issues such as what is ‘international justice’, human rights, war crimes, and
the significance and nature of transnational and multinational crime.
Staff: Assoc Prof Herr (Coordinator), Dr R Hall
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 2 lectures weekly, 1 tutorial fortnightly (13 wks)
Prereq: HSG101 and HSG102 or equiv
Assess: 2,500-word essay (30%), 1,000-word class test (10%), tutorial participation (10%),
2-hr end-of-sem exam (50%)
Majors: Police Studies
Courses: [R3A] [R3K] [R3C]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Parliamentary Internship
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Unit details [HSA]
Enrolment code: HSA361
Offered: Hbt: may be taken in sem 1 OR sem 2, Ltn: may be taken in sem 1 OR sem 2
Special note: enrolment in this unit requires the approval of the unit coordinator; places are
limited
Unit description:
A Parliamentary Internship is available at the Parliament of Tasmania. It involves a
part-time placement with a Member of Parliament or a Parliamentary Committee and
involves the intern undertaking a practical, research oriented report.
Staff: Assoc Prof RA Herr (Coordinator)
Unit weight: 12.5%
Prereq: HSA241/341 or HSA260/360
Majors: Political Science
Courses: [R3A] [R3K] [R3C]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Political Science 4 (Honours)
Full time/Part time
Enrolment code: HSA400/401
Offered: Hbt: (fy) ie sem 1 & 2
Special note: length of course – one academic year (or two semesters) full-time or up to two years
(or four semesters) part-time
Unit description:
The full-time course (HSA400 weight 100%) consists of two units normally taken in
semester 1 and a dissertation of 15,000 words on a subject approved by the Head of School
in semester 2. Students commencing in semester 2 or undertaking the part-time course
(HSA401 weight 50%) should plan their course in consultation with the Honours
Coordinator.
Full-time students enrol in HSA400 (100%)
Part-time students enrol in HSA401 (50%)
Plus
HSA499
Dissertation
and two of the following elective units:
HSD418
Challenges to Governance (see page C-xx)
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HSA425
Comparative Politics: Order and Conflict
HSA475
Contemporary Political Thought
HSA437
International Relations in Asia
HSA476
Issues in Polar and Marine Policy
HSA434
Parliament in Society
HSA432
Parliamentary Internship
HSA420
Politics of International Relations
HSA430
Politics of Terrorism
HSA431
Selected Topics in Australian Politics
HSA438
Seminar in Foreign Correspondence
HSA435
Special Reading Program
A relevant Honours level unit from another discipline may be substituted for one of the
above electives, subject to the approval of the Head of the School of Government as to its
suitability, weighting, and satisfaction of any prerequisites.
The number and pattern of elective units offered may depend on staff loads and student
numbers.
Staff: Dr MG Haward (Coordinator)
Unit weight: 100%/50%
Prereq: major, with GPA of 6.5 or higher
Courses: [R4A]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Politics of International Relations
Enrolment code: HSA420
Offered: Hbt: sem 1
Special note: unit weighted at 25% for students enrolling in Graduate Certificate, Graduate
Diploma or Master of International Politics
Unit description:
Provides students with the opportunity for advanced level study of international relations.
The unit explores the politics of international relations examining such topics as the global
politics of the environment, Australian foreign relations and the principle and practice of
diplomacy, the international relations of the Pacific Islands, peacekeeping and
transnational crime, managing international conflicts and strategic defence issues.
Staff: Assoc Prof RA Herr (Coordinator)
Unit weight: 0%/25%
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Teaching pattern: 2-hr seminar weekly (13 wks)
Prereq: major, with GPA of 6.5 or higher for honours entry
Assess: 8,000 words in written assignments
Courses: [R4A] [R5Q] [R6Q] [R7Q]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Comparative Politics: Order and Conflict
Enrolment code: HSA425
Offered: Hbt: sem 1
Special note: unit weighted at 25% for students enrolling Graduate Diploma or Master of Police
Studies
Unit description:
Provides students with the opportunity for advanced level study of comparative politics.
Special attention is given to issues concerning order and conflict.
Staff: Dr WW Bostock
Unit weight: 0%/25%
Teaching pattern: 2-hr seminar weekly (13 wks)
Prereq: major, with GPA of 6.5 or higher for honours entry
Assess: 8,000 words in written assignments
Courses: [R4A] [R6L] [R7L]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Politics of Terrorism
Enrolment code: HSA430
Offered: Hbt: sem 1
Special note: unit weighted at 25% for students enrolling in Graduate Diploma or Master of
Police Studies; and for students enrolling in Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma or Master of
International Politics
Unit description:
Offers an introduction to current thinking on the character of terrorism, its definitional
ambiguity and its relationship to globalisation and the internationalisation of the media.
The unit examines the emergence of terror strategies after 1945 and through an
investigation of a number of case studies, considers both the strategic use and ideological
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justification of terror during the Cold War and the changing nature of terror in the post
Cold War era of low intensity conflict.
Staff: Dr T Narramore
Unit weight: 0%/25%
Teaching pattern: 2-hr seminar weekly (13 wks)
Prereq: major, with GPA of 6.5 or higher for honours entry
Assess: 8,000 words in written assignments
Courses: [R4A] [R6L] [R7L] [R5Q] [R6Q] [R7Q]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Selected Topics in Australian Politics
Enrolment code: HSA431
Offered: Hbt: sem 1
Special note: unit weighted at 25% for students enrolling in Graduate Certificate, Graduate
Diploma or Master of Public Policy
Unit description:
Provides students with the opportunity for advanced level study of Australian politics.
The unit is normally undertaken as a reading unit and students must contact the Honours
Coordinator prior to enrolling in the unit.
Staff: as appropriate, depending on topic
Unit weight: 0%/25%
Teaching pattern: 2-hr seminar weekly (13 wks)
Prereq: major, with GPA of 6.5 or higher for honours entry
Assess: 8,000 words in written assignments
Courses: [R4A] [R5M] [R6M] [R7M]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Parliamentary Internship
Enrolment code: HSA432
Offered: Hbt: may be taken in sem 1 OR sem 2
Special note: enrolment in this unit requires approval of unit Coordinator; places are limited
Unit description:
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A Parliamentary Internship is available at the Parliament of Tasmania. It involves a
part-time placement with a Member of Parliament or a Parliamentary Committee and
involves the intern undertaking a practical, research oriented report.
Staff: Assoc Prof RA Herr (Coordinator)
Unit weight: 0%
Teaching pattern: supervised research
Prereq: major, with GPA of 6.5 or higher plus HSA241/341 or HSA260/360
Assess: 8,000-word report
Courses: [R4A]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Parliament in Society
Enrolment code: HSA434
Offered: Hbt: sem 1
Special note: unit weighted at 25% for students enrolling in Graduate Certificate, Graduate
Diploma or Master of Public Policy
Unit description:
Examines the role of Parliament in modern democratic society. While this unit may focus
on Australia, comparative parliamentary experience can be covered.
Staff: Assoc Prof RA Herr
Unit weight: 0%/25%
Teaching pattern: 2-hr seminar weekly (13 wks)
Prereq: major, with GPA of 6.5 or higher for honours entry
Assess: 8,000 words in written assignments
Courses: [R4A] [R5M] [R6M] [R7M]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Special Reading Program
Enrolment code: HSA435
Offered: Hbt: may be taken in sem 1 OR sem 2
Special note: students must contact the Honours Coordinator prior to enrolling in this unit
Unit description:
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Involves supervised reading on a topic selected by the student in consultation with an
appropriate member of staff. Students must contact the Honours Coordinator prior to
enrolling in this unit
Staff: as appropriate, depending on topic
Unit weight: 0%
Teaching pattern: 2-hr seminar weekly (13 wks)
Prereq: major, with GPA of 6.5 or higher
Assess: 8,000 words in written assignments
Courses: [R4A]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
International Relations in Asia
Enrolment code: HSA437
Offered: Hbt: sem 1
Special note: unit weighted at 25% for students enrolling in Graduate Diploma or Master of
Asian Studies; or students enrolling in Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma or Master of
International Politics
Unit description:
Provides students with the opportunity for advanced level study of international relations.
The unit focuses on international relations in Asia – the international politics of South-East
Asia, Asian and Australian security and finally, the evolving triangular relations between
China, the United States and Japan are described.
Staff: Dr T Narramore
Unit weight: 0%/25%
Teaching pattern: 2-hr seminar weekly (13 wks)
Prereq: major, with GPA of 6.5 or higher for honours entry
Assess: 8,000 words in written assignments
Courses: [R4A] [R6K] [R7K] [R5Q] [R6Q] [R7Q]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Seminar in Foreign Correspondence
Enrolment code: HSA438
Offered: Hbt: sem 2
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Special note: unit weighted at 25% for students enrolling in Graduate Certificate, Graduate
Diploma or Master of International Politics
Unit description:
Examines in depth some of the critical issues in the impact of news on foreign
policy-making particularly in the tension between the public’s ‘right to know’ and a
country’s ‘right to national security’. The precise content of the seminar will vary from
year to year to allow for a special focus on the current controversies of the day.
Staff: Assoc Prof R Herr, Dr T Narramore
Unit weight: 0%/25%
Teaching pattern: 2-hr seminar weekly (13 wks)
Prereq: major, with GPA of 6.5 or higher for honours entry
Assess: 8,000 words in written assignments
Courses: [R4A][R5Q] [R6Q] [R7Q]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Contemporary Political Thought
Enrolment code: HSA475
Offered: Hbt: sem 1
Unit description:
Examines a number of current approaches to issues of equity, equality and freedom that
perennially trouble the liberal conscience. Beginning with John Rawls’ Theory of Justice the
unit examines the justice oriented thinking of Dworkin, Barry, the communitarian
modifications of Will Kymlicka and Charles Taylor together with the criticism of new
liberalism posed by feminists like IM Young and Ann Phillips and sceptical ironists like
John Gray and Richard Rorty.
Staff: tba
Unit weight: 0%
Teaching pattern: 2-hr seminar weekly (13 wks)
Prereq: major, with GPA of 6.5 or higher
Assess: 8,000 words in written assignments
Courses: [R4A]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Issues in Polar and Marine Policy
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Unit details [HSA]
Enrolment code: HSA476
Offered: Hbt: sem 2
Special note: unit weighted at 25% for students enrolling in Graduate Certificate, Graduate
Diploma or Master of International Politics
Unit description:
The management of both polar and marine policy areas has become much more
contentious in recent decades. The unit considers the challenge to traditional State interest
by increasing use of multilateral mechanisms.
Staff: Assoc Prof RA Herr, Dr R Hall
Unit weight: 0%/25%
Teaching pattern: 2-hr seminar weekly (13 wks)
Prereq: major, with GPA of 6.5 or higher for honours entry
Assess: 8,000 words in written assignments
Courses: [R4A] [R5Q] [R6Q] [R7Q]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Dissertation
Enrolment code: HSA499
Offered: Hbt: may be taken in sem 1 OR sem 2
Special note: undertaken following completion of all coursework units
Unit description:
Involves supervised research on a subject approved by the Head of School. The results of
the research are reported in a 15,000-word dissertation.
Staff: as appropriate, depending on topic
Unit weight: 0%
Teaching pattern: supervised research
Prereq: major, with GPA of 6.5 or higher
Assess: 15,000-word dissertation
Courses: [R4A]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Research Thesis
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Unit details [HSA]
Full time
Enrolment code: HSA701
Offered: Hbt: may be taken in summer-sch OR sem 1 OR sem 2
Special note: this unit is offered as part of the Master of International Politics and is undertaken
following completion of all coursework units
Unit description:
Students undertake independent research on an approved subject. The results of the
research are reported in a thesis of 15,000 words. Guidance will be provided in a short
series of workshops at the beginning of the unit and through supervision while research
work is in progress.
Staff: Assoc Prof R Herr (Coordinator)
Unit weight: 50%
Teaching pattern: supervised research
Assess: 15,000-word thesis
Courses: [R7Q]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Research Thesis
Part time
Enrolment code: HSA702
Offered: Hbt: may be taken in summer-sch OR sem 1 OR sem 2
Special note: this unit is offered as part of the Master of International Politics and is undertaken
following completion of all coursework units; thesis to be completed over two consecutive semesters
Unit description:
Students undertake independent research on an approved subject. The results of the
research are reported in a thesis of 15,000 words. Guidance will be provided in a short
series of workshops at the beginning of the unit and through supervision while research
work is in progress.
Staff: Assoc Prof R Herr (Coordinator)
Unit weight: 50%
Teaching pattern: supervised research
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Assess: 15,000-word thesis
Courses: [R7Q]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
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