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Global Youth (GEOG10003)
Undergraduate level 1Points: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
About this subject
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- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Semester 2
Overview
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This subject asks students to reflect on their position in the world through writing their own youth biographies and through discussing the links between their own lives and those of students in other global contexts. Students use personal reflection and selected scholarly readings, videos and media reports to investigate how youth are responding to global opportunities and threats in widely different settings, with specific reference to issues of education, work, and politics. Students also think about strategies for strengthening discussion of youth across geographical and social boundaries. The course is driven by student-centred learning activities and is centrally concerned with issues of diversity and inequality.
Intended learning outcomes
1. Identify differences and inequalities between the lives of young people within the UoM and globally.
2. Understand varied strategies for theorizing and addressing youth inequalities.
3. Produce well-crafted personal narratives and reflect critically on written work.
4. Identify strategies for linking up with youth locally and globally.
Generic skills
Upon successful completion of this subject, students will have skills in:
- reading, writing and speaking in theoretically-aware and comparative ways
- conducting library searches for relevant, critical literatures
- using a case study approach to explore processes and problems situated in particular contexts, relating information to conceptual arguments.
Last updated: 11 April 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 11 April 2024
Assessment
Additional details
- 800 word written assessment due week 4 (20%)
- 10 minute oral individual presentation due during tutorials between weeks 3 and 11 inclusive (25%)
- 2000 word essay due during examination period (50%)
- Tutorial participation (5%)
Tutorial participation will be assessed by noting meaningful participation in tutorials, such as asking questions, contributing to discussions as a whole or in group
Last updated: 11 April 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Jane Dyson Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 36 (one 2-hour lecture and one tutuorial each week) Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 24 July 2017 to 22 October 2017 Last self-enrol date 4 August 2017 Census date 31 August 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 22 September 2017 Assessment period ends 17 November 2017 Semester 2 contact information
Time commitment details
170 hours
Last updated: 11 April 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Jeffrey, C. and Dyson, J. (2008) Telling Young Lives: Portraits of Global Youth. Temple University Press
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Major Geography - Breadth options
This subject is available as breadth in the following courses:
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
Last updated: 11 April 2024