International Security (POLS90022)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
About this subject
Contact information
July
Overview
| Availability | July |
|---|---|
| Fees | Look up fees |
This subject provides students with a critical understanding of the changing concepts and practices of security in a globalised and dynamic world. The subject contrasts traditional state-centric, military based, and external-oriented national security thinking and policy with non-traditional, critical, and human security approaches. The subject explores key relationships between: the state, society and security, including in 'failed states'; international intervention and security, including the 'responsibility to protect' doctrine; weapons and security, including nuclear weapons; and considers the particular insecurities of marginalised groups, such as forcibly displaced populations. The subject then explores globalised forms of insecurity including information and cyber threats, transnational terrorism and organised crime, global health pandemics, and the nexus between climate change, natural resources, and conflict.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject students should:
- Have a political, historical and cultural understanding of both traditional and non-traditional sources of insecurity
- Be able to evaluate national, regional, and international institutional responses to transnational security threats
- Have strengthened skills in critically analysing different security discourses, including through the 'securitisation' process
- Develop skills in analysing and evaluating contemporary security policy.
Generic skills
On completion of this subject students should:
- Apply research skills and critical methods to a field of inquiry
- Develop persuasive arguments on a given topic
- Communicate oral and written arguments and ideas effectively
- Develop cross-cultural understanding.
Last updated: 8 November 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Admission into the MC-IR Master of International Relations
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: 8 November 2024
Assessment
| Description | Timing | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
An essay
| Due mid-teaching period | 20% |
Presentation and written summary. Presentations due in-class in weeks 5-9. Written summary due one week after presentation.
| From Week 5 to Week 8 | 20% |
A research essay
| During the assessment period | 60% |
| Hurdle requirement: 1. Attendance hurdle requirement: This subject has a minimum requirement of 80% attendance at tutorials, seminars, or workshops. There is an expectation that students attend lectures where offered. | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
| Hurdle requirement: 2. Late Penalty and Assessment hurdle requirement: Assessment submitted late without an approved extension will be penalised at five per cent (5%) of the possible marks available for the assessment task per day or part thereof. All pieces of assessment must be submitted to pass the subject. Each submitted assessment must be complete, constitute a genuine attempt to address the requirements of the task and will not be accepted after 20 University business days from the original assessment due date without written approval. | Throughout the semester | N/A |
Last updated: 8 November 2024
Dates & times
- July
Coordinators Simon Pratt and Sara Meger Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total of 24 contact hours: A 1 hour lecture and 2 hour seminar per week for eight weeks from the teaching start date. Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 22 July 2024 to 20 September 2024 Last self-enrol date 2 August 2024 Census date 9 August 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 13 September 2024 Assessment period ends 13 October 2024 July contact information
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Last updated: 8 November 2024
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Last updated: 8 November 2024