International Relations and Security Studies
Duration
- 1 Semester/Teaching Period
Contact hours
- 36 hours
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning. For Online unit delivery, learning is conducted exclusively online.
Prerequisites
Aims and objectives
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
1. Comprehend and classify the various conceptual and theoretical perspectives in international relations and security studies
2. Contrast traditional concepts of security with non-traditional security problems
3. Assess and critically apply those concepts and theories to case studies
4. Evaluate the implications of considering global security problems from a range of differing perspectives.
Courses with unit
BA-ARTSPROF Bachelor of Arts (Professional)
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment, general skills outcomes and content.
Teaching methods
Learning and Teaching Structure
This Unit will involve up to 150 hours of work including
On Campus
Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
Face to Face Contact Lecture Tutorial |
1 2 |
12 12 |
12 24 |
Online Contact | N/A |
|
|
Specified Learning Activities Tutorial Reading | 5 | 12 | 60 |
Unspecified Learning Activities Independent study, assignment preparation, revision | Recommended |
| 54 |
TOTAL |
|
| 150 hours/12.5cp |
Swinburne Online [SOL]
Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
Face to Face Contact | N/A |
| |
Online Contact Collaborate sessions |
1 |
4 |
4 |
Specified Learning Activities Interactive DB activities Online eLA-student interactions Readings Viewing videos Self-check tests and/or online tests | 8 | 12 | 96 |
Unspecified Learning Activities Independent study, reading up on current affairs relevant to topics | Recommended |
| 50 |
TOTAL |
|
| 150 hours/12.5cp |
Assessment
Types | Individual or Group task | Weighting | Assesses attainment of these ULOs |
Minor Essay | Individual | 30% | 1, 2, 3, 4 |
Major Essay | Individual | 60% | 1, 2, 3, 4 |
Presentation | Individual | 10% | 1, 2, 4 |
General skills outcomes
• Analysis Skills
• Problem Solving Skills
• Communication Skills
• Ability to work independently
Content
• Traditional security threats: analysing the approaches to state security and security in a world of sovereign, territorial states, and the concepts and theoretical ideas that construct the notion of 'security'.
• Non‐traditional security threats, such as terrorism, migration and asylum, humanitarian intervention, environmental and resource insecurity.
• New approaches to understanding the widening of the security agenda and new forms of insecurity.
• Critically assessing the relevance and merits of specific approaches for understanding the concept of security, implications for policy and global politics.
Study resources
- Reading materials.
Reading materials
A list of reading materials will be made available in the Unit Outline.