Units that can be counted towards Politics
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First-year level
- PLT1020 Australian politics and government
- PLT1031 Introduction to international relations
- PLT1040 Introduction to international relations
- PLT1050 Nature, law, revolution: political ideas in context
- PLT1070 Modernity in crisis: citizenship, democracy and identity
- PLT1120 Fanatics and Fundamentalists: the Global Politics of Violence
- INT1010 Contemporary Worlds 1
- INT1020 Contemporary Worlds 2
Second/Third-year level
The normal prerequisite for second-year level units is successful completion of an approved first-year politics sequence at any Monash campus.
The normal prerequisite for a third-year-level unit is successful completion of an approved first-year politics sequence and any two second-year level Politics units at any Monash campus.
- PLT2040 / PLT3040 Raging against the machine the politics of rock and global identities
- PLT2050 / PLT3050 World politics and international law
- PLT2060 / PLT3060 Images of democracy: early Greek origins
- PLT2070 / PLT3070 Ideas and Power
- PLT2120 / PLT3120 Justice, rights and difference
- PLT2140 / PLT3140 Progress and despair: modern political ideologies and theories
- PLT2152 / PLT3152 Nationalism: Interpretations
- PLT2160 / PLT3160 Australia in the age of information: part 1
- PLT2162 / PLT3162 Australia in the age of information: part 2
- PLT2170 / PLT3170 Politics and the Media in Australia
- PLT2230 / PLT3230 International political economy
- PLT2280 / PLT3280 Order and Violence in International Society
- PLT2370 / PLT3370 America: decay of the Liberal Dream
- PLT2380 / PLT3280 Gender Politics and Policy: Australia Compared
- PLT2460 / PLT3460 Crisis Zone: the International Relations of the Middle East
- PLT2470 / PLT3470 Politics of development
- PLT2152 / PLT3152 Nationalism: Interpretations*
- PLT2521 / PLT3521 Parties and power in Australia
- PLT2630 / PLT3630 China: revolution versus pragmatism
- PLT2650 / PLT3650 Terrorism and Violence in Global Politics
- PLT2701 / PLT3701 Victorian state politics and policy
- PLT2750 / PLT3750 Gender in asian politics
- PLT2850 / PLT3850 Defended to death? Arms control and international security
- PLT2870 / PLT3870 Power and influence in Australia
- PLT2910 / PLT3910 Australian political economy
- PLT2950 / PLT3950 International ethics in a divided world
- PLT2960 / PLT3960 Seeking a New World Order: Washington and world politics
- PLT2970 / PLT3970 Australia and the world
- PLT2990 / PLT3990 Politics of environmentalism
- PLT2270 / PLT3270 Ministers, minders and bureaucrats
- PLT3440 Victorian parliamentary internship
- PLT3790 Three conceptions of international relations
- PLT3930 Southeast Asian Politics
- PLT2980 / PLT3980 Issues in Global Politics (Summer Semester Only)
- PSI3000 Professional Internship
Students may choose a maximum of 12 points from the following elective list:
- ANY2350 / ANY3350 Questions of Identity: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Globalisation
- AUS2070 / AUS3070 Friends and Phobias
- BHS2110 Research Methods for Behavioural Studies
- CRI2005 Crime and Politics: Myths and Realities
- GND2010 / GND3010 Contemporary Feminist Theory
- GND2030 / GND3030 Gender, Media and Consumption
- GND2070 / GND3070 Rethinking Global Culture: Sex, Race, Consumption
- INT2050 / INT3050 Mobile Worlds: Migrants, Refugees and the Politics of Belonging
- SCY2041 / SCY3041 Multiculturalism, Culture and Social Identities
- SCY2480 / SCY3480 Political Sociology
* From 2004 this single unit replaces the previously offered PLT2150 / PLT3150 Nationalism 1: Global Transformations and PLT2152 / PLT3152 Nationalism 2: Interpretations. Students who have completed PLT2150 / PLT3150 prior to 2004 cannot complete the new version of PLT2152 / PLT3152. However, if either of the older versions of the units (or both) were completed prior to 2004 they may still count them toward a major in Politics.