Outline

Overview

The unit will equip students with the required analytical and pragmatical skills to study the multiple forces that have shaped our world. It will focus on specific debates and methodological examples, both from established and more recent scholarship on international and global affairs, that will serve as a foundation for research purposes. Students will be guided to frame and develop projects that challenge more conventional local and national points of view and deploy transnational and global frameworks capable of explaining the more complex and pressing problems of our globalised world.

Unit details and rules

Unit code	INGS4003
Academic unit	History
Credit points	6
Prohibitions ?	None
Prerequisites ?	None
Corequisites ?	None
Assumed knowledge ?	None
Available to study abroad and exchange students	No

Teaching staff

Coordinator	Roberto Chauca Tapia, roberto.chauca@sydney.edu.au

Type	Description	Weight	Due	Length
Assignment	Final Essay Final research paper	30%	Formal exam period Due date: 03 Jun 2024 at 23:59	2500 words
Outcomes assessed:
Presentation	Presentation 5-min presentation + review on classmate's project	10%	Multiple weeks	5 min/500 words
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Participation	Participation Marks are awarded for your contributions to the seminar discussion.	10%	Ongoing	Ongoing
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Assignment	Secondary Sources Report Annotated bibliography (10 secondary sources).See Canvas for details	25%	Week 05 Due date: 22 Mar 2024 at 23:59	1500 words
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Assignment	Primary Sources Report Analytical description of 10 primary sources. See Canvas for details.	25%	Week 09 Due date: 26 Apr 2024 at 23:59	1500 words
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Assessment summary

Participation (10%), presentation (10%), secondary sources report (25%), primary sources report (25%), and final essay (30%). Refer to Canvas for further details.

Assessment criteria

The University awards common result grades, set out in the Coursework Policy 2014 (Schedule 1).

As a general guide, a High distinction indicates work of an exceptional standard, a Distinction a very high standard, a credit a good standard, and a pass an acceptable standard.

Result name	Mark range	Description
High distinction	85 - 100	Work that is outstanding for the student’s present level of enrolment and shows potential for distinguished performance at higher levels.
Distinction	75 - 84	Work that shows proficiency in the discipline of study.
Credit	65 - 74	Promising work suggesting potential for further development.
Pass	50 - 64	Work of an acceptable standard
Fail	0 - 49	Work not of an acceptable standard.

For more information see sydney.edu.au/students/guide-to-grades.

For more information see guide to grades.

Late submission

In accordance with University policy, these penalties apply when written work is submitted after 11:59pm on the due date:

Deduction of 5% of the maximum mark for each calendar day after the due date.
After ten calendar days late, a mark of zero will be awarded.

This unit has an exception to the standard University policy or supplementary information has been provided by the unit coordinator. This information is displayed below:

In accordance with University policy, these penalties apply when written work is submitted after 11:59pm on the due date: • Deduction of 5% of the maximum mark for each calendar day after the due date. • After ten calendar days late, a mark of zero will be awarded.

Academic integrity

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We use similarity detection software to detect potential instances of plagiarism or other forms of academic integrity breach. If such matches indicate evidence of plagiarism or other forms of academic integrity breaches, your teacher is required to report your work for further investigation.

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Learning support

Simple extensions

If you encounter a problem submitting your work on time, you may be able to apply for an extension of five calendar days through a simple extension.  The application process will be different depending on the type of assessment and extensions cannot be granted for some assessment types like exams.

Special consideration

If exceptional circumstances mean you can’t complete an assessment, you need consideration for a longer period of time, or if you have essential commitments which impact your performance in an assessment, you may be eligible for special consideration or special arrangements.

Special consideration applications will not be affected by a simple extension application.

Using AI responsibly

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Weekly schedule

WK	Topic	Learning activity
Week 01	Introduction to the unit: How ‘global’ (or glocal) are you? + Professional Development 1: Building your personal profile.	Seminar (2 hr)
Week 02	Understanding the concept of ‘nation’: How does this fit into the notion of ‘globalisation’? + Research Development 1: Final essay topic (abstract and keywords).	Seminar (2 hr)
Week 03	The roots of nationalism: How is this connected to the origins of globalisation? + Research Development 2: Selecting 5 secondary sources.	Seminar (2 hr)
Week 04	Post-Marxist and post-colonial perspectives on nations and imperialism + Research Development 3: Selecting 5 additional secondary sources.	Seminar (2 hr)
Week 05	‘Creole’ identities in the 18th century: Understanding local identity formation in global revolutionary contexts + Professional Development 2: Building your CV or resume	Seminar (2 hr)
Week 06	Gender, race and the transnational imagination of nations in the 19th century + Research Development 4: Selecting 5 primary sources.	Seminar (2 hr)
Week 07	Critiques of imperialism in the mid-20th century + Research Development 5: Selecting 5 additional primary sources.	Seminar (2 hr)
Week 08	Transnational/In-between identities + Research Development 6: Writing your final essay outline.	Seminar (2 hr)
Week 09	Remembering, replicating, forgetting + Professional Development 3: Writing a cover letter or personal statement.	Seminar (2 hr)
Week 10	Between trans-nationalism and globalisation + Professional Development 4: Preparing your oral presentation.	Seminar (2 hr)
Week 11	Debates 1: First round of presentations and responses.	Seminar (2 hr)
Week 12	Debates 2: Second round of presentations and responses.	Seminar (2 hr)
Week 13	Debates 3: Third round of presentations and responses.	Seminar (2 hr)

Attendance and class requirements

Attendance: As per FASS resolutions, “Students are expected to attend a minimum of 90 per cent of timetabled activities for a unit of study”. Also, “The case of any formally enrolled student who is absent from 50% or more of classes, regardless of the reasons for the absence, will be automatically referred to the end-of-semester departmental examiners’ meeting for a determination as to whether the student should pass or fail the unit”. If you miss class, for a reason beyond your control (e.g. illness, misadventure, etc.), it is important that you email your unit coordinator/seminar leader explaining the reason of your absence, providing supporting documentation when relevant.

Preparation: Students should commit to spend approximately three hours’ preparation time (reading, studying, homework, essays, etc.) for every hour of scheduled instruction.

Study commitment

Typically, there is a minimum expectation of 1.5-2 hours of student effort per week per credit point for units of study offered over a full semester. For a 6 credit point unit, this equates to roughly 120-150 hours of student effort in total.

Required readings

WK	Topic	Learning activity
Week 01	Introduction to the unit: How ‘global’ (or glocal) are you?	Seminar (2hr)
Week 01	Professional Development 1: Building your personal profile (think about your career as an INGS student, what you have done thus far and your future goals).
Week 02	Understanding the concept of ‘nation’: How does this fit into the notion of ‘globalisation’? Required: Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. Revised ed. London: Verso, 2016, ‘Preface to the Second Edition’ and chapter 1, pp. xi-xv, 1-7. Hobsbawm, Eric J. Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, introduction, pp. 1-13. Smith, Anthony D. The Ethnic Origins of Nations. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986, chapter 1, pp. 6-18.	Seminar (2hr)
Week 02	Research Development 1: Think about the topic of your final essay project and the argument or question that you want to address. Write an abstract (200-250 words) and select 5 keywords that can summarise your project.
Week 03	The roots of nationalism: How is this connected to the origins of globalisation? Required: Anderson, Imagined Communities, chapters 2 and 3, ‘Cultural Roots’ and ‘The Origins of National Consciousness’, pp. 9-36 and 37-46.	Seminar (2hr)
Week 03	Research Development 2: Select 5 secondary sources related to your topic and explain (3-4 sentences) how they support your research project.
Week 04	Post-Marxist and post-colonial perspectives on nations and imperialism. Required: Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism, chapter 1, ‘The nation as novelty: From revolution to liberalism’, pp. 14-45. Chatterjee, Partha. The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020, chapter 1, ‘Whose Imagined Community?’, pp. 3-13.	Seminar (2hr)
Week 04	Research Development 3: Select 5 additional secondary sources related to your topic and explain (3-4 sentences) how they support your research project.
Week 05	‘Creole’ identities in the 18th century: Understanding local identity formation in global revolutionary contexts. Required: Jefferson, Thomas. Notes on the State of Virginia [1785], ed. William Peden. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982, query VI, section on ‘animals’, pp. 43-72. Bolívar, Simón. ‘The Jamaica Letter’ [1815]. In: Bushnell, David, ed. El Libertador: Writings of Simón Bolívar. Trans. Frederick H. Fornoff. New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 12-30. Recommended: Anderson, Imagined Communities, chapter 4, pp. 47-65.	Seminar (2hr)
Week 05	Professional Development 2: Built your CV or you resume (and understand the differences among them)
Week 06	Gender, race and the transnational imagination of nations in the 19th century. Required: Sarmiento, Domingo F. Life in the Argentine Republic in the Days of the Tyrants or, Civilization and Barbarism. Trans. Mary Mann. New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1868, chapter 1, ‘Physical aspect of the Argentine republic, and the forms of character, habits, and ideas induced bi it’, pp. 1-23. Tristan, Flora. Flora Tristan, Utopian Feminist: Her Travel Diaries and Personal Crusade. Ed. and trans. Doris Beik and Paul Harold Beik Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993, chapter 2, ‘From Peregrinations of a Pariah’, pp. 9-33. Recommended: Anderson, Imagined Communities, chapters 5 and 6, pp. 67-82, 83-111. Renan, Ernest. What Is a Nation?: And Other Political Writings. Ed. M.F.N. Giglioli. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018, chapter 9, ‘What is a nation?’, pp. 247-263.	Seminar (2hr)
Week 06	Research Development 4: Select 5 primary sources related to your topic and explain (3-4 sentences) how they support your research project.
Week 07	Critiques of imperialism in the mid-20th century. Required: Gandhi, Mohandas. Hind Swaraj: or, Indian Home Rule. Revised new ed. Ahmedabad: Navajivan Publishing House, 1946, chapters 5-6, 8-10 and 13, pp. 27-41, 48-72 and 85-91. Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. Trans. Richard Philcox. New York: Grove Press, 1966, chapter 4, pp. 145-180. Recommended: Anderson, Imagined Communities, chapter 7, pp. 113-140.	Seminar (2hr)
Week 07	Research Development 5: Select 5 additional primary sources related to your topic and explain (3-4 sentences) how they support your research project.
Week 08	Transnational/In-between identities. Required: Baldwin, James. Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son. London: Michael Joseph, 1961, chapters 1 and 6, ‘The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American’ and ‘Nobody Knows My Name: A Letter from the South’, pp. 17-23 and 87-100. Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1987, ‘Preface’ and chapter 7, ‘La conciencia de la mestiza/Towards and New Consciousness’, pp. [viii-ix] and 77-91. Recommended: Anderson, Imagined Communities, chapters 8 and 9, pp. 141-154 and 155-162. Foucault, Michel. ‘Questions on Geography’. In Elden, Stuart, and Jeremy W Crampton, eds. Space, Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography. Abingdon: Routledge, 2007, pp. 173-182.	Seminar (2hr)
Week 08	Research Development 6: Write the outline and internal organisation of your final essay (1-2pp). First, write the introductory paragraph (which must include your premise or argument). Second, write the literature-review paragraph (which must include the relevance of your argument in comparison with the literature on your topic (the 10 secondary sources). Third, think about the potential sections of your essay, in which you will explain, with further details, your main argument with your supporting evidence (the 10 primary sources).
Week 09	Remembering, replicating, forgetting. Required: Valaskivi, Katja. Cool Nations: Media and the Social Imaginary of the Branded Country. Abingdon: Routledge, 2016, chapter 4, ‘Manufacturing authenticity’, pp. 87-112. Sengupta, Anita. Symbols and the Image of the State in Eurasia. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2016, chapter 4, ‘Reconstructed Pasts and Imperatives of Branding’, pp. 69-90. Recommended: Anderson, Imagined Communities, chapter 10 and 11, pp. 163-185 and 187-206.	Seminar (2hr)
Week 09	Professional Development 3: Write a cover letter or personal statement (1-2 pp.)
Week 10	Between trans-nationalism and globalisation. Required: Salonga, Aileen O. ‘Serving the World, Serving the Nation: Everyday Nationalism and English in Philippine Offshore Call Centres’. In: Borders in Service: Enactments of Nationhood in Transnational Call Centres. Ed. Kiran Michandani and Winifred R. Poster. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016, pp. 121-151. Ren, Xuefei. ‘Architecture and Nation Building in the Age of Globalization: Construction of the National Stadium of Beijing for the 2008 Olympics’. Journal of Urban Affairs 30, no. 2 (2008): 175–90	Seminar (2hr)
Week 10	Professional Development 4: Prepare the contents of your oral presentation. Select 4-5 images and 4-5 key ideas or phrases and build a PPT slide presentation.
Week 11	Debates 1: First round of presentations (5min/each) and responses.	Seminar (2hr)
Week 11	à Presenters will share a transcript of their oral presentation with a selected ‘reviewer’, who will provide feedback on the presenter’s project.
Week 12	Debates 2: Second round of presentations (5min/each) and responses.	Seminar (2hr)
Week 12	à Presenters will share a transcript of their oral presentation with a selected ‘reviewer’, who will provide feedback on the presenter’s project.
Week 13	Debates 3: Third round of presentations (5min/each) and responses.	Seminar (2hr)
Week 13	à Presenters will share a transcript of their oral presentation with a selected ‘reviewer’, who will provide feedback on the presenter’s project.

Learning outcomes

Learning outcomes are what students know, understand and are able to do on completion of a unit of study. They are aligned with the University's graduate qualities and are assessed as part of the curriculum.

Outcomes
Graduate qualities

At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:

LO1. Develop a solid understanding of the concept of globalisation and international studies.
LO2. Identify the social, political, cultural, and economic factors that have shaped the global and international community in which we live today.
LO3. Explain the relationship and interaction between local (regional/national) and global (world-wide) forces and networks.
LO4. Analyse and critically interpret primary and secondary sources to better understand the trans-disciplinary nature of global phenomena.
LO5. Organise bibliographic materials, develop a research method, and consolidate oral and written communication skills.

Graduate qualities

The graduate qualities are the qualities and skills that all University of Sydney graduates must demonstrate on successful completion of an award course. As a future Sydney graduate, the set of qualities have been designed to equip you for the contemporary world.

GQ1	Depth of disciplinary expertise Deep disciplinary expertise is the ability to integrate and rigorously apply knowledge, understanding and skills of a recognised discipline defined by scholarly activity, as well as familiarity with evolving practice of the discipline.
GQ2	Critical thinking and problem solving Critical thinking and problem solving are the questioning of ideas, evidence and assumptions in order to propose and evaluate hypotheses or alternative arguments before formulating a conclusion or a solution to an identified problem.
GQ3	Oral and written communication Effective communication, in both oral and written form, is the clear exchange of meaning in a manner that is appropriate to audience and context.
GQ4	Information and digital literacy Information and digital literacy is the ability to locate, interpret, evaluate, manage, adapt, integrate, create and convey information using appropriate resources, tools and strategies.
GQ5	Inventiveness Generating novel ideas and solutions.
GQ6	Cultural competence Cultural Competence is the ability to actively, ethically, respectfully, and successfully engage across and between cultures. In the Australian context, this includes and celebrates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, knowledge systems, and a mature understanding of contemporary issues.
GQ7	Interdisciplinary effectiveness Interdisciplinary effectiveness is the integration and synthesis of multiple viewpoints and practices, working effectively across disciplinary boundaries.
GQ8	Integrated professional, ethical, and personal identity An integrated professional, ethical and personal identity is understanding the interaction between one’s personal and professional selves in an ethical context.
GQ9	Influence Engaging others in a process, idea or vision.

Outcome map

Learning outcomes	Graduate qualities
Learning outcomes

Responding to student feedback

This section outlines changes made to this unit following staff and student reviews.

This unit has been redesigned to reflect the expertise of the new seminar leader. Note that the first hour of our seminar will focus on discussing the interaction between nationalism and globalisation, for which it is necessary to have previously read the required readings. The second hour will be dedicated to conduct two different types of in-class activities: (1) 'Professional development' tasks are planned as a foundation for those of you that are about to graduate and need some pragmatical formation in terms of materials and preparation that are normally required for the job market. (2) 'Research development' tasks are planned as a process to build, step by step, the different components that, at the end, will be part of your final research paper for this unit.

Additional information

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Required readings

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INGS4003: Global Studies Seminar

Semester 1, 2024 [Normal day] - Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney

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Overview

Unit details and rules

Teaching staff

Assessment

Assessment

Assessment summary

Assessment criteria

Late submission

Academic integrity

Learning support

Learning support

Simple extensions

Special consideration

Using AI responsibly

Support for students

Weekly schedule

Weekly schedule

Attendance and class requirements

Study commitment

Required readings

Learning outcomes

Learning outcomes

Graduate qualities

Outcome map

Responding to student feedback

Responding to student feedback

Additional information

Additional information

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