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Unit Summary

Unit type

UG Coursework Unit

Credit points

12

AQF level

7

Level of learning

Introductory

Former School/College

Former School of Arts and Social Sciences

Unit aim

Introduces students to contemporary work around the formation and governance of subjects and citizens as they are articulated in time and place, in institutions and discourses of public and everyday life. Dominant discourses and structures that govern people's subjectivity, identity and public life will be explored. This unit aims to address notions of active citizenship through mapping the relations between discourses and operations of power, including questions of selfhood and agency.

Unit content

Module One: Forming citizens

Topic 1. Locating Subjects and Citizens
Topic 2. Education: Training loyal and dutiful citizens
Topic 3. Media and family: Cultures of pedagogy

Module Two: Governing subjects

Topic 4. Modes of subjection: Govern/mentality
Topic 5. Governing Aboriginality
Topic 6. Governing sexuality
Topic 7. Governing disability

Module Three: Contesting power

Topic 8. Locating 'the people'
Topic 9. Unruly subjects: Law
Topic 10. New frontiers of citizenship
Topic 11. Activating the civil subject

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

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On completion of this unit, students should be able to: GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 demonstrate the importance of a historical perspective on citizenship
2 demonstrate an understanding of contemporary theories of citizenship and the relevance of those theories in relation to systems of power/knowledge
3 recognise conflicts generated by issues of political subjection and the reciprocal obligations of the state
4 demonstrate an understanding of some of the ways in which citizenship is negotiated on an international, national, local, group and personal level
5 recognise the intersections between gender, sexuality, class, race, ability and ethnic identity in cultural practices inscribed within an institutional setting
6 demonstrate an understanding of the intersection between different forms of truth and the context in which they are articulated.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. demonstrate the importance of a historical perspective on citizenship
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
    • GA7:
  2. demonstrate an understanding of contemporary theories of citizenship and the relevance of those theories in relation to systems of power/knowledge
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
    • GA7:
  3. recognise conflicts generated by issues of political subjection and the reciprocal obligations of the state
    • GA4:
    • GA7:
  4. demonstrate an understanding of some of the ways in which citizenship is negotiated on an international, national, local, group and personal level
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
    • GA7:
  5. recognise the intersections between gender, sexuality, class, race, ability and ethnic identity in cultural practices inscribed within an institutional setting
    • GA4:
    • GA6:
    • GA7:
  6. demonstrate an understanding of the intersection between different forms of truth and the context in which they are articulated.
    • GA4:
    • GA7:

Prescribed texts

  • No prescribed texts.
Prescribed texts may change in future teaching periods.