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Courses Handbook 2011

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2011.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2010.

312583 (v.2) Foreign Policy Analysis 212

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Tutition Patterns

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Area: School of Social Sciences and Asian Languages
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
Tutorial: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: The unit introduces the comparative analysis of foreign policy for the development of professional skills in the field of foreign affairs. It examines individual, organisational, bureaucratic, societal, and/or state levels as well as situational and system variables in foreign policy making. The unit is designed to employ a wide range of approaches, including historical, normative, rational, behavioural, liberal, institutional, psychological and constructivist. Case studies and simulations are used to answer why and how decision-makers choose a particular policy.
Field of Education: 090300 Studies in Human Society (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Supplemental
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2011 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        
2011 Bentley Campus Semester 2     Y    

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External