ATS3340 · International security studies

Overview

This unit introduces you to key approaches, institutions, and contemporary issues in international security. It engages both traditional and non-traditional forms of security, examining global responses and options to address conflict, build peace, and create lasting security for states and individuals. You will engage with contemporary issues such as great power competition, the prospects for cooperation under conditions of uncertainty about the future, and the balance between justice and order in addressing global security threats. You will also examine different kinds of international security actors, forms of security governance and key challenges posed by environmental change and new technologies.

Areas of study: Human rights International relations

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Within semester assessment: 100%

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Identify and explain the theories of security and successfully apply them to contemporary global crises;
2. Appraise several contemporary global security crises;
3. Analyse the roles of states, global institutions (such as the UN Security Council), and non-state actors (such as NGOs or terrorist groups) in relation to questions of security;
4. Utilise information and research skills to formulate and respond to essay questions;
5. Critically assess the academic scholarship, including methods, assumptions and uses of evidence, and organise and defend a verbal and written argument based upon those assessments;
6. Reflect upon and make critical use of a range of resources including, where relevant, on-line materials.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.