School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Conflict and Cooperation: Global Challenges in an Age of Disruption
  • Unit Code

    POL3170
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Genevieve Ruth HOHNEN

Description

The early decades of the 21st century are shaping as a vital period in world politics; a time when an increasing number of global challenges face humanity: climate change, nuclear proliferation, terrorism, failed states, refugees, pressures of population and rising inequality. Most of these challenges are subject to competing forces of global cooperation and national self-interest. Utilising concepts and theories in international relations, this unit examines a framework for examining international politics and applies this to a number of case studies of urgent global issues.

Equivalent Rule

Unit replaces POL3130

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically analyse globalisation as a concept in world politics.
  2. Analyse the social, political and economic impacts of globalisation.
  3. Identify key political structures in international political systems.
  4. Identify the major differences in political systems between developed, developing and less developed countries.
  5. Apply theories and concepts to contemporary case studies.

Unit Content

  1. Theories and concepts in international relations.
  2. The role of the United Nations and international organisations.
  3. Global economy and its social and economic impacts.
  4. The rise and implications of a multipolar world.
  5. Failed states.
  6. Control over nuclear weapons.
  7. Sustainability and climate change.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, discussions, documentary analysis

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PortfolioPortfolio50%
ExaminationExamination50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Conflict and Cooperation: Global Challenges in an Age of Disruption
  • Unit Code

    POL3170
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Genevieve Ruth HOHNEN

Description

The early decades of the 21st century are shaping as a vital period in world politics; a time when an increasing number of global challenges face humanity: climate change, nuclear proliferation, terrorism, failed states, refugees, pressures of population and rising inequality. Most of these challenges are subject to competing forces of global cooperation and national self-interest. Utilising concepts and theories in international relations, this unit examines a framework for examining international politics and applies this to a number of case studies of urgent global issues.

Equivalent Rule

Unit replaces POL3130

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically analyse globalisation as a concept in world politics.
  2. Analyse the social, political and economic impacts of globalisation.
  3. Identify key political structures in international political systems.
  4. Identify the major differences in political systems between developed, developing and less developed countries.
  5. Apply theories and concepts to contemporary case studies.

Unit Content

  1. Theories and concepts in international relations.
  2. The role of the United Nations and international organisations.
  3. Global economy and its social and economic impacts.
  4. The rise and implications of a multipolar world.
  5. Failed states.
  6. Control over nuclear weapons.
  7. Sustainability and climate change.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, discussions, documentary analysis

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PortfolioPortfolio50%
ExaminationExamination50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PortfolioPortfolio50%
ExaminationExamination50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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