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Offerings

MURDOCH-S2-FACE2FACE-2025-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S2-ONLINEFLEX-2025-ONGOING
OUA-S2-ONLINEFLEX-2025-ONGOING

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Learning outcomes

1.

Demonstrate a broad knowledge of a range of historical and contemporary security challenges

2.

Demonstrate substantive knowledge of the principal actors and tools that can address security problems.

3.

Demonstrate a critical understanding of various conceptual approaches and arguments in relation to the analyse of security issues, such as securitisation, human security and non-traditional security approaches.

4.

Identify and appraise a number of contemporary security challenges such as climate change, global pandemics, transnational crime, civil conflict and energy and food security. 

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Additional information

Unit content:
  1. The relevance of security studies
  2. Traditional approaches to security
  3. Securitisation and human security
  4. Critical and gender perspectives on security
  5. Providers of security: states and international organisations
  6. Provides of security: non-state and private actors
  7. War and terrorism
  8. Health and pandemics
  9. Climate change and environmental stress
  10. Food insecurity
  11. Cyberattacks and cybersecurity
  12. Security in the 21st century