BACHELOR OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS INDUCTION SEMINAR

POL1ISP

2019

Credit points: 15

Subject outline

The BIR induction seminars introduce incoming BIR students to the study of International Relations, prompt you to think about your own role in the world and the complex processes we study in IR, and set you up for your future IR studies. The seminars draw on innovative and engaging teaching methodologies, including an enquiry based learning team project during semester. Speakers during the seminar series include academics in the international relations and politics programs. These seminars introduce you to the academics who will be teaching you during your BIR, give you a sense of the spread of their research expertise, and get you thinking about your potential career routes post-ABIR. You will explore key themes that underpin the study of IR, including power, politics, language, conflict, cooperation, inequality, capital, change and waste. They will also give you an opportunity to work in small groups and research a current global issue that you find particularly interesting, present your findings back to the rest of the cohort, and develop study resources for your future studies. This subject addresses La Trobe's Sustainability Thinking essential.

School: School of Humanities & Social Sciences

Credit points: 15

Subject Co-ordinator: Bec Strating

Available to Study Abroad Students: No

Subject year level: Year Level 1 - UG

Exchange Students: No

Subject particulars

Subject rules

Prerequisites: Students must be enrolled in the ABIR or LWLINT or LZCIR

Co-requisites: NA

Incompatible subjects: NA

Equivalent subjects: NA

Special conditions: This subject is compulsory for all student enrolled in the ABIR or LWLINT or BComm/BIR

Graduate capabilities & intended learning outcomes

01. To understand the scope of International Relations as a discipline, and be able to engage with some of the major issues and debates that IR is concerned with

Activities:: Participation in seminars and seminar activities, group project, development of glossaries, blogs and online discussions
Related graduate capabilities and elements:: Personal and Professional Skills(Teamwork including leadership and working in groups,Autonomy and independence,Ethical behaviour,Adaptability Skills,Study and Learning Skills); Personal and Professional Skills(Teamwork including leadership and working in groups,Autonomy and independence,Ethical behaviour,Adaptability Skills,Study and Learning Skills); Personal and Professional Skills(Teamwork including leadership and working in groups,Autonomy and independence,Ethical behaviour,Adaptability Skills,Study and Learning Skills); Personal and Professional Skills(Teamwork including leadership and working in groups,Autonomy and independence,Ethical behaviour,Adaptability Skills,Study and Learning Skills); Discipline -Specific Knowledge and Skills(Discipline-Specific Knowledge and Skills)

02. To develop connections and working relationships with other students enrolled in the degree, and the communications and team-work skills required for effective collaborations with them,

Activities:: Participation in seminars and seminar activities, group project, blogs and online discussions, development of glossaries
Related graduate capabilities and elements:: Literacies and Communication Skills(Speaking,Quantitative Literacy,Cultural Literacy); Literacies and Communication Skills(Speaking,Quantitative Literacy,Cultural Literacy); Personal and Professional Skills(Teamwork including leadership and working in groups,Autonomy and independence,Ethical behaviour,Adaptability Skills,Study and Learning Skills); Personal and Professional Skills(Teamwork including leadership and working in groups,Autonomy and independence,Ethical behaviour,Adaptability Skills,Study and Learning Skills); Personal and Professional Skills(Teamwork including leadership and working in groups,Autonomy and independence,Ethical behaviour,Adaptability Skills,Study and Learning Skills); Personal and Professional Skills(Teamwork including leadership and working in groups,Autonomy and independence,Ethical behaviour,Adaptability Skills,Study and Learning Skills)

03. To critically engage with media representations of global events and to position them in relation to scholarly works on the same issues, and begin to develop independent analyses of those issues

Activities:: Participation in seminars and seminar activities, group project, blogs and online discussions
Related graduate capabilities and elements:: Literacies and Communication Skills(Speaking,Quantitative Literacy,Cultural Literacy); Literacies and Communication Skills(Speaking,Quantitative Literacy,Cultural Literacy); Literacies and Communication Skills(Speaking,Quantitative Literacy,Cultural Literacy); Personal and Professional Skills(Teamwork including leadership and working in groups,Autonomy and independence,Ethical behaviour,Adaptability Skills,Study and Learning Skills); Personal and Professional Skills(Teamwork including leadership and working in groups,Autonomy and independence,Ethical behaviour,Adaptability Skills,Study and Learning Skills)

Melbourne, 2019, Semester 1, Blended

Overview

Online enrolment: Yes

Maximum enrolment size: N/A

Enrolment information:

Subject Instance Co-ordinator: Bec Strating

Class requirements

SeminarWeek: 10 - 22
One 2.0 hours seminar per week on weekdays during the day from week 10 to week 22 and delivered via blended.
"Flat floor seminar room required. Moveabl"

Unscheduled Online ClassWeek: 10 - 22
One 1.0 hours unscheduled online class per week on weekdays during the day from week 10 to week 22 and delivered via online.

Assessments

Assessment element	%	ILO*
Group enquiry-based learning (EBL) project (equivalent to 1,800 words)	50	01, 02, 03
Blogs and online discussion (equivalent to 1,000 words)	20	01, 02, 03
Development of glossaries (equivalent to 1,200 words)	30	01, 02