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Overview

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Offerings

MURDOCH-S1-FACE2FACE-2025-ONGOING

MURDOCH-S1-ONLINEFLEX-2025-ONGOING

OUA-S1-ONLINEFLEX-2025-ONGOING

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Learning outcomes

1.

Demonstrate a critical understanding of the principal concepts and debates in politics, political institutions and processes, and public policy, including their contested character.

2.

Discuss the complexities of political and policy change, recognising how these processes are shaped by changing domestic and global interactions and contexts.

3.

Evaluate major political and policy challenges confronting global and national political actors and institutions.

4.

Manage and interpret empirical material

5.

Communicate logical, evidence-based arguments.

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:

What is politics? Who has power? How do power and politics shape policy? This course introduces students to the key ideas and debates relating to domestic and global political institutions and processes, and their intersection. Students then explore a range of analytical frameworks that have shaped understandings of politics and power. The course then applies these debates and theories to contemporary real world political and policy challenges (both domestic and global). These challenges include issues of: equality and justice; 'security'; peace and conflict; political economy; identities (such as 'race', ethnicity, gender and class); refugee flows; the legacy of imperialism and the Global North/South divide; terrorism and climate change.