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FASS2100: Ideas and Movements That Changed the World
2024 unit information
This unit provides you with the ideas and encouragement to build upon your curiosity and creativity to view the world in a new light by investigating a range of differing ideologies and beliefs such as those of nationalism, radicalism, feminism, conservatism, narcissism, colonialism and racism, and Maoism and Taoism. The unit makes a case for the lifelong benefits of wide and critical reading. It is committed to deep thinking and learning through engaging with key texts that examine ideas across a range of cultures. Focussed engagement with texts will improve your critical thinking skills as you closely read and imaginatively respond to texts, movements and their at times provocative ideas.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Arts and Social Sciences
| Code | FASS2100 |
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| Academic unit | Arts and Social Sciences |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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must be in the Dalyell stream |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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None |
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Communicate effectively in written and spoken English
- LO2. Engage deeply with key texts on movements and ideas that changed the world
- LO3. Learn how to analyse issues and debates from a multi-disciplinary perspective
- LO4. Develop a deeper theoretical understanding of key social and political issues
- LO5. Develop an understanding the strengths of fiction and non-fiction in understanding history, politics and society.
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Semester 2 2024
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
Outline unavailable
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