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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.

312602 (v.2) Global Change in Australia and its Region 112

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Area: School of Social Sciences and Asian Languages
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: This unit provides an introduction to globalization and its impact upon Australia and the Asia Region. A core theme is how social and cultural identities in Australia and across the region are being affected by globalizing processes. Key topics include: what is meant by globalization; globalization and the nation-state; impact of globalization on work, community and environment; cultural and social responses to globalization; migration, cultural diversity and social cohesion in Australia and Asia; towards a post-global world. The unit is comparative and draws on materials from Australia and selected Asian countries.
Field of Education: 090303 Anthropology
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