International Relations and Security Studies
Duration
- One Semester or equivalent
Contact hours
- 36 hours
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning. For Online unit delivery, learning is conducted exclusively online.
2023 teaching periods
| Swinburne Online Teaching Period 1 |
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|---|---|---|
Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Prerequisites
37.5 Credit Points
Anti-requisites:
Aims and objectives
This unit builds on International Politics by exploring conceptual and theoretical debates in international relations and security studies. With a focus on traditional and nontraditional security problems in global politics, this unit develops students' critical analysis by applying a range of theories and conceptual frameworks to understand complex security issues such as terrorism, environmental security, human security, new wars, and traditional state/territorial security.
Unit Learning Outcomes (ULO)
On successful completion of this unit students will be able to:
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-ART3 Bachelor of Arts
BA-ARTSPROF Bachelor of Arts (Professional)
BA-ARTSPROF Bachelor of Arts (Professional)
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment and content.
Teaching methods
Swinburne Online
Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
Live Online Class | 1 | 4 | 4 |
Online Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning | 12 | 12 | 146 |
TOTAL | 150 hours |
Assessment
Types | Individual/Group Role | Weighting | Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) |
Minor Essay | Individual | 30% | 1, 2, 3, 4 |
| Major Essay | Individual | 60% | 1, 2, 3, 4 |
| Presentation | Individual | 10% | 1, 2, 4 |
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
Students are advised to check the unit outline in the relevant teaching period for appropriate textbooks and further reading.