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WEEK 9 NATIONALISM 1 – 5 MAY Lecture Program: • Historical and intellectual background of nationalism; the nation; self-determination; imagined communities; constructive and destructive aspects of nationalism; cosmopolitanism; Gellner; Kedourie, B. Anderson WEEK 10 MULTICULTURALISM 8 – 12 MAY Lecture Program: • Examines key issues and concept of multiculturalism. WEEK 11 ECOLOGISM 15 – 19 MAY Lecture Program: • Historical and intellectual background of ecologism: critique of liberalism, conservatism and socialism; major streams of ecological thought in the present day. WEEK 12 RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM 22 -26 MAY Lecture Program: • The concept of ‘fundamentalism’; the resurgence of religious fundamentalism in the late 20 th and early 21 st centuries; Christian fundamentalism; Islamism. WEEK 13 REVIEW OF THE COURSE 29 MAY – 2 JUNE Lecture Program: • Review of main themes of POLS1301; Discussion of exam requirements. POLS1301 Modern Political Ideologies Course Profile Semester One - 2006 Page # 17
TUTORIAL PROGRAM Students are expected to have completed all required reading each week before attending tutorials. WEEK 1 INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE 27 FEBRUARY – 3 MARCH No tutorials this week. (Register for tutorials via MySI-net after the first lecture). Required Reading: Heywood, Andrew. 2003. Political Ideologies. An Introduction, 3rd ed. London: Macmillan. pp.1-23. WEEK 2 INTRODUCTION TO TUTORIALS 6 – 10 MARCH Required Reading: Heywood, Andrew. 2003. Political Ideologies. An Introduction, 3rd ed. London: Macmillan. pp.25-68 AND Singer, Peter. 2003. ‘“The Bread Which You Withhold Belongs to the Hungry”: Attitudes to Poverty’. Available at http://www.iadb.org/etica/documentos/dc_sin_elpan-i.htm (to be handed out at lecture 1). Tutorial Discussion: • Discussion of tutorial program requirements. • Discussion of Peter Singer article (see Required Reading above). WEEK 3 LIBERALISM 13 – 17 MARCH Key Words: Liberty, sovereignty, individualism, state of nature, rights, social contract, constitutionalism. Questions for Discussion: 1. What are some of the main features of classical liberalism? Is classical liberalism important in Australia or in the world today? 2. What are the main differences between classical and social liberalism? What do they share? Required Reading: Heywood, Andrew. 2003. Political Ideologies. An Introduction, 3rd ed. London: Macmillan. pp.25-68 AND at least one of the following from the Course Reader: French National Assembly. [1789] 1995. ‘The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen’. In The Portable Enlightenment Reader, ed. I. Kramnick. New York: Penguin. pp.466-468. POLS1301 Modern Political Ideologies Course Profile Semester One - 2006 Page # 18
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