Program Overview

MJ-GPOL - Global Politics and Policy

Overview

The Global Politics and Policy major is for students who want to actively participate in shaping the local and global forces that affect political institutions and the policies they produce. This major will enable students to take up effective roles in local, state, national and international political institutions by developing their deep understanding of how local and global forces affect political institutions, and encouraging them to apply their knowledge to real-world political and policy issues.

Structure

The major consists of 24 credit points, including:

• Required Units: 24 credit points
  • POL133: Politics, Power and Policy (3 cp)
  • POL161: Understanding International Politics (3 cp)
  • POL228: Democracy, Dictatorship and Capitalism (3 cp)
  • POL246: Public Policy Analysis (3 cp)
  • POL298: International Political Economy (3 cp)
  • POL331: Democracy in Doubt (3 cp)
  • POL305: Mining and the Politics of Development (3 cp)
  • POL303: Politics, the state and Crisis (3 cp)

Admission Requirements

• Special Requirements: There may be a reduction in choice of units if completing this course in the external mode.
• Entry Requirements (Onshore): As per normal undergraduate admission requirements.
• Entry Requirements (Transnational): As per normal undergraduate admission requirements.
• English Language Requirements: Equivalent of an Academic IELTS overall score of 6.0 with no band less than 6.0.

Learning Outcomes

1. Demonstrate substantive knowledge of a variety of conceptual approaches to analysing and explaining the local and global forces that affect political institutions and the policies they produce.
2. Examine issues in and theories of global politics and public policy-making and apply these theories to develop policy recommendations to address political issues.
3. Construct evidence-based arguments with respect to the local and global forces that affect political institutions and the policies they produce.
4. Clearly and persuasively communicate concepts, problems and arguments in the disciplines of Political Science and Public Policy.
5. Demonstrate the capacity to think across cultures and contexts in discussing and debating complex issues in global politics and public policy-making.
6. Apply innovative and imaginative approaches to the application of knowledge and skills to a range of practical tasks and experiences associated with identifying the local and global forces that affect political institutions and the policies they produce.
7. Undertake self-directed research projects.

Professional Outcomes

Graduates may work as or advise Ministers, Members of Parliament, Officeholders in Political Parties, Political Candidates, Lobbying, Policymaking, Policy Consultancies (public and private), Aid and Non-governmental Organisations.

Program Details

• Credit Points: 24
• Enrolment Pattern(s): Part Time, Full Time
• Owning College: College of Arts, Business, Law and Social Sciences (PRE 2023)
• Owning School: Social Sciences and Arts (PRE 2023)
• Version: 14
• Version Start Date: 01/07/2022
• End Date: 31/07/2022