Online Courses Handbook 2003

10793 (v.2) Politics 114 - Australia - Political Ideas and Traditions, World Politics - Comparing Experiences

Area:	School of Social Sciences
Contact Hours:	3.0
Credits:	12.5
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Anti Requisite(s):	2723 (v.4) Politics 112 - Australia - Political Ideas and Traditions, World Politics - Comparing Experiences
Other Requisite(s):	Admission: to course outside the School of Social Sciences.
Ideologies and processes in Australian and international politics. Australian politics - democratic principles, electoral systems, voting behaviour. Liberalism, conservatism and socialism - main elements and historical development. Political parties in Australia. Principles of international politics. Political systems in Asia, Africa, the Americas and Europe involving military intervention, the coup d'etat, the use of terror, and armed revolutions.