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Advanced Security Studies - PICX851
This unit provides a critical survey of the students’ chosen field of study (ISS, Policing, Intelligence, and Counter Terrorism) by allowing students to critically engage with a number of core primary sources. Through reading and discussing key texts, students will trace the intellectual history of their field, examine shifts in conceptual frameworks and research traditions, and compare alternative methodological approaches. The course is designed to provide a capstone experience through critically engaging with important issues and debates in Security Studies, and to help students’ critically reflect on assumptions behind different concepts and debates. The unit will provide students with an ‘intellectual map’ of their chosen field of study, through providing a historical background into the intellectual trends and methodological perspectives commonly found in the field of Security Studies today. The course is an exercise in close and critical reading, and is highly reading-intensive. Students are expected to read the assigned materials in advance of each module and participate actively in discussion.
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| When Offered: | S1 OUA - Session 1, offered through Open Universities Australia S2 OUA - Session 2, offered through Open Universities Australia |
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| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism Faculty of Arts |