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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

312325 (v.2) Political Inquiry 311

Note

Tuition Patterns

The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.

Unit references, texts and outcomes

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Area: School of Social Sciences and Asian Languages
Credits: 50.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
Seminar: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 312581 (v.2) International Relations: Theory and Practice 211 or any previous version
AND
312583 (v.2) Foreign Policy Analysis 212 or any previous version
Syllabus: This advanced unit will facilitate knowledge production skills of third year students. The aims of the unit are to explore ways in which International Relations and Security Studies scholars and practitioners engage in practical problem-solving through critical analysis of ideas and bodies of evidence; and examine methodological approaches to politics-oriented knowledge in the Australian and international contexts. Students are expected to undertake a major research project to learn knowledge-application techniques; they will also work on career development strategies.
Field of Education: 090101 Political Science
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 1     Y    
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 1 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