Unit Code:	POL2HMP
Alternative Unit Code:	POL3HMP
Unit Short Title:	HISTORY OF MODERN POLITICAL THOUGHT
Credit Points:	20
Unit Description:	In this subject students examine the writings of some important and influential modern political thinkers between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. Political theorists to be studied include the social contract theorists (Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau) and the two very different responses to nineteenth-century capitalism and the new era of mass politics embodied in the works of J. S. Mill and Karl Marx. Students are enabled to place some of the canonical texts of the Western tradition in their historical and political context. They also consider some general and thematic questions, to do with women in Western political thought and the notion that natural science should serve as a paradigm for political thinking, among others.
Prerequisites:	30 credit points of first-year politics, or Asian Studies or co-ordinator's approval
Class Requirements:	one 2-hour lecture and one 1-hour tutorial per week
Work Experience Indicator:	Not undertaking work experience in industry
Available to 'Study Abroad' students:	Y

Assessment:

Assessment Type	%	Comments
one 2-hour examination	40
one 1,500-word essay	30
one 1,500-word essay	30	Third year students will be expected to show a greater achievement of discipline specific skills in their written work than second year students.

Readings:

Reading Type	Title	Author	Publisher
Recommended	Machiavelli to Marx	Germino, D.	University of Chicago Press 1979.
Recommended	Nature and politics: liberalism in the philosophies of Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau	Rapaczynski, A.	Cornell University Press 1987.
Recommended	The political theory of possessive individualism: from Hobbes to Locke	Macpherson, C. B.	Clarendon Press 1964.

Unit Streams:

Teaching Period	Unit Class	Location
2   26-JUL-10   29-OCT-10	Day	BUNDOORA

Unit Coordinators:

Title	First Name	Last Name	Location	Primary Coordinator
Dr	Miriam	Bankovsky	BUNDOORA	Y