1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

AP112 Australian Identities
3 hours per week Hawthorn Prerequisite: nil
Assessment: essays and tutorial participation
A subject in the Bachelor of Arts
Objectives and Content
This is the first in a sequence of Australian Studies subjects.
This subject examines the relationship between citizenship and
contemporary social movements. It begins with an analysis of
the core ideas which have shaped Australian national
identity. It goes on to explore the role of gender identity in
the emergence of contemporary feminism. This is followed
by a study of how the shared experience of work gave rise to
the labour movement, and how cultural heritages have been
politically mobilised as ethnic identities. The subject
concludes with an examination of how the promise of
formal equality underlying the nationalist idea of common
citizenship has been contested by these contemporary social
movements.
Recommended reading
White, R. Inventing Australia Images and Identity, 1688-1980.
Sydney, Allen & Unwin, 1981
Whitlock, Gillian and Carter, D. (eds), Images of Australia An
Introductory Reader in Australian Studies, St Lucia, University of
Queensland Press, 1992
AP114 Australia and Asia
3 hours per week Hawthorn Prerequisite: nil
Assessment: continuous
A subject in the Bachelor of Arts
Objectives and Content
This subject introduces students to Australia's relations with
the nations of Asia through a series of thematic classes and
case studies. It outlines the contours of the debate
concerning Australia's place in Asia and traces the process of
foreign policy making, outlining institutional structures,
pressure groups and key concepts such as the 'national
interest'. The various elements of foreign policy are
examined - trade, defence and security, aid and political
relations. The course has a historical dimension and
highlights the ways in which policies towards specific Asian
nations have changed over time.
Recommended reading
Evans, G. and Grant, B. Australia's Foreign Relations in the World
of the 1990s. Carlton, Vic., Melbourne University Press, 1992
Garnaut, R. Australia and the Northeast Asian Ascendency.
Canberra, AGPS, 1989
AP115 Introduction to Modern Asia
3 hours per week Hawthorn Prerequisite: nil
~ssesiment: continuous
A subject in the Bachelor of Arts
Objectives and Content
This subject provides an introduction to modern Asia
through the biographical/autobiographical accounts of four
major leaders who fundamentally altered the political
framework of their countries. They include Mahatma
Gandhi, Mao Zedong, Benazir Bhutto and Corazon Aquino.
The course will consider their contribution within the
broader context of nationalism, revolution and
modernisation. It offers important insights into the history,
politics and culture of diverse societies in Asia. Some of the
topics covered include India's nationalist movement, the
growth of communism in China, and democratisation in the
Philippines and Pakistan.
Recommended reading
Fischer, L. Gandhi. His Life and Message to the World. New York,
Penguin, 1982
Gonzalez-Yap, M. The Making of Cory. Quezon City, New Day
Publishers, 1987
Lamb, C. Waiting for Allah Pakistan's Struggle For Democracy,
London, Penguin, 1992
Murphey, R. A. History ofAsia. New York, Harper Collins, 1992
AP116 International Politics Since 1945
3 hours per week Hawthorn Prerequisite: nil
Assessment: class work and essays
A subject in the Bachelor of Arts
Obiedives and Content
This subject deals with the origin and development of the
main force shaping world politics since 1945 - namely the
Cold War between the US and the USSR. It deals with their
emergence as world powers, the origin of the conflict in
post-war Europe, and follows the development of US-Soviet
relations from the Truman-Stalin era to the break-up of the
USSR in the early 1990s. Particular emphasis is placed on
the impact of the Cold War on Australia's strategic
environment, the Asia-Pacific region, and topics include the
Korean and Vietnam wars.
Recommended reading
Arnbrose, S.E., Rise to Globalism American Foreign Policy Since
1938. 7th rev. edn, New York, Penguin, 1993
LaFeber, Walter, America, Russia and the Cold War, 1941-1992.
7th edn, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1993
Walker, Martin, The Cold War and the Making of the Modern
World, London, Vintage, 1994
AP202 Europe, Capitalism and The Third
World
3 hours per week Hawthorn Prerequisite: any stage one
political studies suhect or approved equivalent
Assessment: essays and tutorial participation
A subject in the Bachelor of Arts
Objectives and Content
This subject relates the shaping of today's Third World to
the emergence of capitalism in Western Europe.
It examines the forces that have produced the uneven
development where some parts of the world are
industrialised and rich and other parts still technically
primitive and poor.
The broad themes of the subject are the social origins of
capitalism and the process of proletarianisation, the
Industrial Revolution, European colonisation and the
making of a world economy.