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Knowledge Practices 2 (PHIL10004)
Undergraduate level 1Points: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Semester 2
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Overview
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This subject offers an introduction to a number of key concepts and ideas emergent from the Western intellectual tradition such as liberalism and freedom, settler colonialism, neoliberalism, property, imperialism, race, gender and sexuality, justice, sovereignty and childhood. Drawing on the work of Australian and trans-national Indigenous scholars and other various critical theorists, students will further extend their intellectual praxis as developed in Knowledge Practices 1 by complicating these concepts and interrogating the conditions of their emergence. In doing so, students will move beyond positioning ‘Indigenous’ in opposition to ‘the West’ in order to more deeply comprehend the forces and contradictions that inscribe not only the daily lived realities of Australian Indigenous peoples, but all Australians.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of the subject students should:
- Develop a foundational understanding from an Indigenous perspective of key concepts they will encounter throughout their study;
- Develop analytical skills through the examination of challenging questions;
- Extend an intellectual standpoint as developed in Semester 1 in relation to key concepts and thinkers foundational to the Western intellectual tradition;
- Demonstrate an understanding of how key thinkers of the western intellectual tradition underlie and have shaped the contemporary political, socio-economic and intellectual world.
- Develop an awareness of a diversity of views on the nature of humanity, the nature of 'truth' and knowledge, and the organisation of society;
- Develop a critique of selected key thinkers and movements of the western intellectual tradition; and
Generic skills
Students who successfully complete this subject should:
- have developed their capacity to critically analyse ideas;
- have the skills to successfully access a variety of information sources and to be able to identify the quality and relevance of this information;
- have the skills to effectively analyse source material and to use that material to formulate and support independent opinions; and
- have the ability to successfully develop and defend their own views in both oral and written essay form.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
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: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Due to the impact of COVID-19, assessment may differ from that published in the Handbook. Students are reminded to check the subject assessment requirements published in the subject outline on the LMS
Semester 2
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Co-response to weekly topic; Task performed in groups (typically 2-4 students per group); 800 words due on an assigned week
| During the teaching period | 20% |
Essay 1
| Mid semester | 30% |
Essay 2
| End of semester | 50% |
Hurdle requirement: Students must attend a minimum of 75% of classes in order to pass this subject. | Throughout the semester | N/A |
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
- Semester 2
Coordinators Todd Fernando and Emily Direen Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 36 hours: a 1 hour lecture and 2 hour seminar per week Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 3 August 2020 to 1 November 2020 Last self-enrol date 14 August 2020 Census date 21 September 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 16 October 2020 Assessment period ends 27 November 2020 Semester 2 contact information
Time commitment details
170 hours
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
A subject reader will be available.
- Perry, Jacob, Jacob, Chase, Von Laue. 2009, Western Civilization: Ideas, Politics and Society, vol. II: from 1600 (9th ed.) Boston:Houghton Mifflin
- Subject notes
This subject is only available to students enrolled in the Bachelor of Arts (Extended) program.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Bachelor of Arts (Extended) - 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: 3 November 2022