Agents for a Just World unit (HPP325)

Introduction

Students of politics, policy and international relations confront a turbulent domestic and international context replete with injustices demanding action. To inform such action, knowledge must be gathered, analysed, synthesised, and communicated.

Guided by Politics and International Relations academic staff, you will identify a topic that encapsulates for you the meaning of injustice in the modern world. Examples of such topics include issues like food insecurity, energy poverty, or housing unaffordability at the local and national levels, or war, refugees and climate change at the global level. Working individually, as well as in collaborative teams, and with relevant PIR academics, you will undertake an analysis of the historical and contemporary background of your chosen topic, select an appropriate conceptual framework to analyse it, and then employ that framework to understand relevant aspects of your topic including actor interests, power dynamics, and institutional and governance arrangements.

Your overall objective will be to evaluate alternative governance and/or policy options that deliver more just outcomes than currently, which you will communicate in written and oral presentations.

Although a capstone unit in the Politics and International Relations major, this unit is also available as an elective to suitably qualified students from other disciplines

Summary

Unit name	Agents for a Just World
Unit code	HPP325
Credit points	12.5
College/School	Arts and Society Humanities and Social Sciences
Discipline	Politics and International Relations
Coordinator	Professor James Chin
Available as an elective?	Yes
Delivered By	University of Tasmania
Level	Advanced

Availability

Specific information on 2027 unit availability will be available in August

Learning Outcomes

• Critically assess the historical context, key actors, interests, and power relations, values, and practices related to your topic of choice in politics and international relations.
• Employing an appropriate conceptual framework, analyse a local, national or global political or international issue of injustice and design a substantive or process-based solution that improves outcomes.
• Communicate critically, persuasively, reflectively, and ethically in written and oral form to set out your analysis and preferred solution to the identified justice problem

Fee Information

2027 fee information will be available in August.

Requisites

Prerequisites

25 credit points at Intermediate level or higher

Teaching

Assessment	Concept Paper (10%)|Narrative literative review (15%)|Research seminar participation (25%)|Multimedia Presentation on Justice (50%)
Timetable	View the lecture timetable | View the full unit timetable

Textbooks

Required	Required readings will be listed in the unit outline prior to the start of classes.

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