ARTS2814 - School of Social Sciences
! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! School of Social Sciences ARTS2814 Theorising the International ! ! Semester 1, 2015 ! ! ! Table of contents ! ! PART A: COURSE SPECIFIC INFORMATION ...........................................................3 Staff contact details..................................................................................................3 About this course .....................................................................................................3 Course design and learning activities ......................................................................4 Course schedule ......................................................................................................7 Reading and resources ............................................................................................8 Assessment ...........................................................................................................15 Submission of written assignments .......................................................................20 Collection of Written Assignments .........................................................................20 Feedback ...............................................................................................................20 Course evaluation and development .....................................................................21 PART B: POLICIES AND PROCEDURES ................................................................22 Student conduct ....................................................................................................22 Communication ......................................................................................................22 Avoiding plagiarism ................................................................................................22 Attendance .............................................................................................................22 Extensions and late submission of work ................................................................23 Special consideration .............................................................................................24 Student Equity and Disabilities Unit (SEADU) .......................................................24 Review of results ...................................................................................................25 ! ! Student support and grievance procedures ...........................................................26 2 ! PART A: COURSE SPECIFIC INFORMATION ! Staff contact details ! Course convenor Name Michael Peters Phone - Office location Morven Brown Room 143 (during consultation hours only) Email address [email protected] Consultation hours Tuesday 2:30pm – 4:30pm Other teaching staff Name/s Stephen McGuinness Phone - Office location - Email address [email protected] Consultation hours TBC ! About this course ! Credit points: 6 ! Summary of the course: We all talk about 'international affairs' and the 'international community', without necessarily wondering exactly what we mean by 'the international'. This course encourages you to think critically about the concept of the international and various other concepts that are foundational to the discipline of International Relations, including the state, sovereignty, order, law and war. ! As we investigate each of these concepts, we will engage with a range of issues that are of crucial importance to contemporary global politics and our place in it: Who gets to decide which rules we live by? What does it mean to be a 'global citizen'? Can we hold states to account as moral actors? These are just some of the questions that will animate this course. ! This is a Level 2 prescribed elective in the International Relations major stream, which builds on skills and knowledge developed through Level 1 study in ARTS1810 International Relations: Conventions and Challenges and ARTS1811 International Relations: Continuity and Change. ! Aims of the course: This course aims: 3 • • • ! to encourage students to develop a sophisticated understanding of the concept of the international and the ways in which it is deployed in the contemporary study of global politics; to provide students with a thorough grounding in the theoretical and conceptual debates that enliven contemporary scholarship in the discipline of International Relations; and to provide a clear linkage between foundational study in the International Relations major undertaken in the Level 1 Gateway courses and the advanced study undertaken in specific issue areas in the Level 3 electives. Important information: This is a reading-heavy course. Due to the nature of the material we are studying, which engages with the development of theories, concepts and knowledge practices in International Relations, there are at least two pieces of reading prescribed every week. This reading is compulsory; you should read carefully and take detailed notes. ! The learning activities in the course reflect this emphasis, as each week during the two-hour lecture slot (Wednesdays 12-2pm), there will be a traditional lecture and then up to forty minutes spent in small groups discussing one of the required readings. ! ! ! ! ! ! Attendance at both lectures and tutorials is mandatory in this course.Both types of activity are subject to the UNSW Assessment Policy. The assessment regime also reflects the emphasis on reading and knowledge production. The critical review offers you the opportunity to enhance your analytical skills, while the annotated bibliography tests your research skills and your ability to produce accurate and detailed synopses. The final research paper demonstrates all of these skills together in the production of a contribution to contemporary debates in International Relations theory. ! Learning outcomes Upon successful completion of this course you should be able to: 1. Demonstrate, through production of an annotated bibliography, the ability to undertake independent research on theories of and concepts relevant to the international. 2. Evaluate competing theoretical perspectives on the international as a concept and related ideas including order, law, war, justice, citizenship and globality. 3. Provide a persuasive argument, orally and in writing, relevant to contemporary debates in international theory and the concepts and issues covered in the course. ! Course design and learning activities I see UNSW student learners as participants in the production of knowledge and I pursue the implementation of a curriculum responsive to each student’s individual needs. The course uses what are known as ‘blended learning’ techniques (a mix of face-to-face discussion and activities in groups of different sizes [lectures, tutorials] 4 supported by a range of online resources and activities) and a range of assessment practices in order to ensure that every student, irrespective of their own learning style, can access the course material readily and in a productive manner. ! The design of this course is motivated by a desire to foster the skills of independent learning and critical thinking. Blended learning encourages diversity of learning activities and also diversity in assessment. There are four main types of structured learning activity in this course, supplementing independent study (reading, notetaking, research): ! 1. LECTURES This course consists of weekly large-group lectures, which may include the presentation of video clips, small-group activities, Q&A sessions and pair-work. The lectures are designed to supplement independent study on the course that begins (but should not end) with close engagement with the required weekly readings. Lectures begin in Week 1 and run through to Week 12. There is no lecture in Week 4 (instead, you will watch a film and participate in a discussion through Moodle). The lecture slides and lecture audio will be available on Moodle. Attendance at lectures is mandatory and covered by the UNSW Attendance Policy (as explained in Part B). A roll will be taken. ! 2. FOCUSED READING GROUPS The two-hour lecture slot (Wednesdays 12-2pm) will be divided up into an eightyminute lecture, as explained above, and forty-minute reading groups. Each week, you will have to read and engage with a piece of academic work, using the following questions as prompts to structure your analysis: • What is the author's approach/perspective? How are you able to determine this? • Summarise the core argument presented. How well-developed are the themes or arguments? • Are you convinced by the interpretations presented? • Are the conclusions supported firmly by the preceding argument? The readings for the focused reading groups are listed under ‘Required Readings’ in the week-by-week outline below and are marked with three asterisks (***). In the lecture theatre, you will divide into small groups to discuss the readings. Each group will then contribute to a whole-group plenary session at the end of the period. Attendance at and participation in the focused reading groups is mandatory and covered by the UNSW Attendance Policy (as explained in Part B). A roll will be taken. ! 2. TUTORIALS Tutorials allow students to discuss questions, themes and issues arising from their independent study, as well as providing the opportunity to engage in productive discussion with their peers and to participate in a range of structured learning activities, including group/pair/individual analytical work, formal and informal debates, quizzes and mini-projects. Tutorials begin in Week 2 and finish in Week 13. The topic of each tutorial, on which discussion, activities and tasks are based, is the topic of the previous week’s lecture, e.g. during the tutorial in Week 2 students will engage in activities and discussions based on the content of the lecture in Week 1 ‘The discipline: International theory’. Attendance at tutorials is mandatory and covered by the UNSW Attendance Policy (as explained in Part B). A roll will be taken. 5 ! 3. ALTERNATIVE LEARNING ACTIVITIES Independent learning activities replace tutorials in some weeks. They are designed to foster independent study and to allow for engagement with different tasks that cannot be undertaken in a tutorial environment, such as conducting online research or watching a film. These activities are clearly explained below and will mostly be facilitated by Moodle. Completion of the alternative learning activities is mandatory and covered by the UNSW Attendance Policy (as explained in Part B). 6 ! Course schedule ! DATE Week beginning … LECTURE TUTORIAL 2 March 2015 The Discipline: International theory 19 March 2015 States and the state system The Discipline: International theory 16 March 2015 War and peace States and the state system 23 March 2015 30 March 2015 Trade and finance I: The Making of Capitalism Law and order 6 April 2015 MIDSEMESTER BREAK MIDSEMESTER BREAK 13 April 2015 Trade and finance II: Neoliberalism and the GFC Trade and finance I: The Making of Capitalism 20 April 2015 Communication Trade and finance II: Neoliberalism and the GFC 27 April 2015 Citizenship 4 May 2015 Ethics ALTERNATIVE LEARNING ACTIVITY FURTHER INFORMATION Law and order (See below for instructions) Critical review due Monday 23 March 2015 MIDSEMESTER BREAK MIDSEMESTER BREAK Feedback on Critical review will be returned Communication Annotated (See below for bibliography instructions) due Monday 27 April 2015 Citizenship 7 11 May 2015 Global justice Ethics 18 May 2015 Contemporary representations of the international Global justice 25 May 2015 New directions in Contemporary international representations theory of the international 1 June 2015 New directions in international theory ! Reading and resources ! Feedback on Annotated bibliography will be returned Research paper due Friday 5 June 2015 Core texts: Many of the required readings each week will be drawn from the core texts. You are encouraged to purchase these texts if possible, which have been made available via the University Bookshop. There are also two copies available in the library’s High Use Collection. The core texts are: ! Booth, K. and S. Smith (eds) (1995) International Relations Theory Today. Cambridge: Polity. ! Brown, C. (2002) Sovereignty, Rights and Justice: International Political Theory Today, Cambridge: Polity. ! If you are looking for other general introductory texts that engage with many of the issues and debates we will address, then the following books may be useful: ! Smith, S., K. Booth and M. Zalewski (eds) (1996) International Theory: Positivism and Beyond. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ! Walker, R.B.J. (1993) Inside/outside: International Relations as Political Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ! The library runs the ELISE tutorial on-line, which familiarizes students with academic writing, research and using information responsibly. It can be located at http:// elise.library.unsw.edu.au/home/welcome.html. ! WEEK-BY-WEEK GUIDE Sources for further reading related to each topic are listed on Moodle. ! WEEK 1 (week beginning 2 March 2015) LECTURE TOPIC: The discipline: International theory 8 ! REQUIRED READING: ***De Carvalho, B., H. Leira and J.M. Hobson (2011) The Big Bangs of IR: The Myths That Your Teachers Still Tell You about 1648 and 1919, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 39(3): 735–758. Schmidt, S. (2011) ‘To Order the Minds of Scholars: The Discourse of the Peace of Westphalia in International Relations Literature’, International Studies Quarterly, 55(4): 601-623. Smith, S. (1995) ‘The self-images of a discipline: A genealogy of International Relations theory’, pp.1-37 in K. Booth and S. Smith (eds) International Relations Theory Today. Cambridge: Polity. ! There is no tutorial this week. ! In Week 1 it is essential that you: • Make sure that you are enrolled in a suitable tutorial, that you know where and when this tutorial will be held, and get access to the Moodle section for this course; • Make sure that you have read this course outline cover to cover; and • If you have an ongoing equity or disability issue that may affect your learning in this and other courses, make sure that you are registered with the Student Equity and Disability Unit (SEADU), that you have met with your Disability Officer and that you come to see me during Consultation Hours to discuss the adjustments that can be made to accommodate your needs and facilitate your learning (see also Section 18). ! ! WEEK 2 (week beginning 9 March 2015) LECTURE TOPIC: States and the State System ! REQUIRED READING: Brown, C. (2002) Sovereignty, Rights and Justice: International Political Theory Today, Cambridge: Polity. Chapter 2 ‘The Westphalia system: The law of nations and the society of states’ (pp.38-56). Buzan, B. (1995) ‘The level of analysis problem in International Relations reconsidered’, p.198-216 in K. Booth and S. Smith (eds) International Relations Theory Today. Cambridge: Polity. ***Kantola, J. (2007) ‘The gendered reproduction of the state in International Relations’, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 9(2): 270-283. ! TUTORIAL TOPIC: The discipline: International theory ! TUTORIAL DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: • What are the conventional accounts of the formation of the discipline of IR? • How we might begin to challenge these conventional accounts? ! ! WEEK 3 (week beginning 16 March 2015) 9 LECTURE TOPIC: War and Peace ! REQUIRED READING: ! Brown, C. (2002) Sovereignty, Rights and Justice: International Political Theory Today, Cambridge: Polity. Chapter 6 ‘Force, Violence and International Political Theory’ (pp.96-114). Brown, C. (2002) Sovereignty, Rights and Justice: International Political Theory Today, Cambridge: Polity. Chapter 8 ‘Humanitarianism and humanitarian intervention’ (pp.134-159). *** Masters, C. (2009) ‘Femina Sacra: The `War on/of Terror', Women and the Feminine’, Security Dialogue, 40(1): 29-49. ! ! TUTORIAL TOPIC: States and the state system ! TUTORIAL DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: • Why does traditional IR take the state as its unit of analysis? • What does unit of analysis mean? • What has sovereignty meant in different historical epochs and are some states more sovereign than others? ! ! WEEK 4 (week beginning 23 March 2015) There are no lectures or tutorials this week. ! REQUIRED READING: Barnett, M. and M. Finnemore (2005) ‘The power of liberal international organisations’, pp.161-184 in M. Barnett and R. Duvall (eds) Power in Global Governance, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Murphy, C. N. (2002) ‘The historical processes of establishing institutions of global governance and the nature of global polity’, pp.169-188 in M. Ougaard and R. Higgot (eds) Towards a Global Polity, London: Routledge. Neuman, I. B. and O. J. Sending (2010) Governing the Global Polity: Practice, Mentality, Rationality, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michegan Press. Chapter 5 ‘International Organizations: Liberalism, Sovereignty and Police’ (pp. 132-156). ! ALTERNATIVE LEARNING ACTIVITY: Policing the world Instead of attending a lecture on the topic of ‘Law and order’, you are expected to watch one of two films: either Team America: World Police; or War on Whistleblowers. You should engage with the readings listed under ‘Required Readings’ as normal and apply the insights from those readings to your film of choice (if you want to, you can of course watch both films and compare them). Once you have watched the film, you should write a short (200-300 word) blog-style piece addressing one way in which the film you watched represented, contested or perpetuated the themes and issues raised in the required reading. ! 10 You will then need to post your blog in Moodle. You must post your blog by midnight on Wednesday 25 March 2015. Once you have posted your blog, you need to read and engage with the blogs posted by other people. You need to respond to at least one other blog. You must post a response/engage in discussion by midnight on Friday 27 March 2015. Failure to post a blog and response by the dates specified will result in your being marked ‘absent’ for this week. ! ! WEEK 5 (week beginning 30 March 2015) LECTURE TOPIC: Trade and Finance I: The making of capitalism ! REQUIRED READING: ***Jones, B. G. (2013) ‘Slavery, finance and international political economy: Postcolonial reflections’, pp.49-69 in S. Seth (ed.) Postcolonial Theory and International Relations, London: Routledge. Little, R. (1995) ‘International Relations and the triumph of capitalism’, pp.62-89 in K. Booth and S. Smith (eds) International Relations Theory Today. Cambridge: Polity. Strange, S. (1995) ‘Political Economy and International Relations’, pp.154-174 in K. Booth and S. Smith (eds) International Relations Theory Today. Cambridge: Polity. ! TUTORIAL TOPIC: Law and order ! TUTORIAL DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: • How might we think about the way the international system is organised? • What are the various influences of the international legal system, norms, values and principles? • Who gets to decide which rules we live by? ! ! WEEK 6 (week beginning 13 April 2015) LECTURE TOPIC: Trade and finance II: Neoliberalism and the GFC ! REQUIRED READING: ***Davies, W. and McGoey, L. (2012) ‘Rationalities of Ignorance: on financial crisis and the ambivalence of neo-liberal epistemology’, Economy and Society, 41(1), 64-83 Griffin, P. (2012) ‘Gendering Global Finance: Crisis, Masculinity, and Responsibility’, Men and Masculinities, 16(1), 9-34 Peck, J. (2013) ‘Explaining (with) Neoliberalism’, Territory, Politics, Governance, 1(2), 132-157 ! TUTORIAL TOPIC: Trade and Finance I: The making of capitalism ! TUTORIAL DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: • What roles have been played by trade and financial practices in the development and consolidation of the international system? 11 • ! ! How did extractive colonialism shape the modern state system and how do these patterns contribute today? WEEK 7 (week beginning 20 April 2015) LECTURE TOPIC: Communication ! REQUIRED READING: ***Castells, M. (2008) ‘The New Public Sphere: Global Civil Society, Communication Networks, and Global Governance’, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 616(1): 78-93. Franklin, M. I. (2001) ‘Inside out: Postcolonial subjectivities and everyday life online’, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 3(3): 387-422. Stone, D. (2002) ‘Knowledge networks and policy expertise in the global polity’, pp. 125-144 in M. Ougaard and R. Higgot (eds) Towards a Global Polity, London: Routledge. ! TUTORIAL TOPIC: Trade and finance II: Neoliberalism and the GFC ! TUTORIAL DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: • How does the Global Financial Crisis challenge our understandings of International Relations or the global economy? • Does the GFC signal the ‘death of neoliberalism’? ! ! WEEK 8 (week beginning 27 April 2015) LECTURE TOPIC: Citizenship ! REQUIRED READING: Brown, C. (1995) ‘International political theory and the idea of world community’, pp. 90-109 in K. Booth and S. Smith (eds) International Relations Theory Today. Cambridge: Polity. ***Weber, C. (2013) ‘‘I am an American’: protesting advertised ‘Americanness’’, Citizenship Studies, 17(2): 278-292. Zalewski, M. and C. Enloe (1995) ‘Questions about identity in International Relations’, pp.279-305 in K. Booth and S. Smith (eds) International Relations Theory Today. Cambridge: Polity. ! There is no tutorial this week. ! ALTERNATIVE LEARNING ACTIVITY: The memefication of world politics Instead of attending a tutorial on the topic of ‘Communication’, you are expected to find a meme online that is relevant to one or more of the course themes. You should write a short (500 word) analysis of the meme. You should submit your meme and accompanying analysis through Turnitin on Moodle by 4pm on Friday 1 May 2015. You do not need to submit in hard copy. Failure to submit a meme and accompanying analysis by the time and date specified will result in your being marked ‘absent’ for this week. ! 12 ! WEEK 9 (week beginning 4 May 2015) LECTURE TOPIC: Ethics ! REQUIRED READING: Brown, C. (2002) Sovereignty, Rights and Justice: International Political Theory Today, Cambridge: Polity. Chapter 10 ‘Cultural diversity and international political theory’ (pp.160-186). Jackson, R. (1995) ‘The political theory of international society’, pp.110-128 in K. Booth and S. Smith (eds) International Relations Theory Today. Cambridge: Polity. ***Odysseos, L. (2002) ‘Dangerous ontologies: the ethos of survival and ethical theorizing in International Relations’, Review of International Studies, 28(2): 403-418. ! TUTORIAL TOPIC: Citizenship ! TUTORIAL DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: • What does it mean to be a global citizen? • How has the mediatisation of information in the latter half of the 20th century had an impact on how we think about our world and our places in it? ! ! WEEK 10 (week beginning 11 May 2015) LECTURE TOPIC: Global justice ! REQUIRED READING: Brown, C. (2002) Sovereignty, Rights and Justice: International Political Theory Today, Cambridge: Polity. Chapter 9 ‘Global inequality and international social justice’ (pp.160-186). Nagel, T. (2005) ‘The problem of global justice’, Philosophy & Public Affairs, 33(2): 113-147. ***Young, I. M. (2006) ‘Responsibility and global justice: A social connection model’, Social Philosophy and Policy, 23(1): 102-130. ! TUTORIAL TOPIC: Ethics ! TUTORIAL DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: • What does the discipline of IR tell us about ethical practice? • How do the canonical texts of the conventional literature address ethics? • Is ethical practice in international affairs possible? • Can we hold states to account as moral actors? ! ! WEEK 11 (week beginning 18 May 2015) LECTURE TOPIC: Contemporary representations of the international ! REQUIRED READING: 13 Grayson, K., M. Davies and S. Philpott (2009) ‘Pop goes IR? Researching the popular culture – world politics continuum’, Politics, 29(3): 155-163. Smith, S. (2004) ‘Singing Our World into Existence: International Relations Theory and September 11’, International Studies Quarterly, 48(3): 499-515. ***Rowley, C. and J. Weldes (2012) ‘The evolution of international security studies and the everyday: Suggestions from the Buffyverse’, Security Dialogue, 43(6): 513-530. ! TUTORIAL TOPIC: Global justice ! TUTORIAL DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: • What justice mechanisms exist in the international system? • Can we measure their efficacy? Should we even try? • How do people access institutions of global justice? • Is justice a concept that can be meaningfully 'globalised'? ! WEEK 12 (week beginning 25 May 2015) LECTURE TOPIC: New directions in international theory ! REQUIRED READING: Booth, K. (1995) Dare not to know: International Relations theory versus the future’, pp.328-350 in K. Booth and S. Smith (eds) International Relations Theory Today. Cambridge: Polity. Brown, C. (2002) Sovereignty, Rights and Justice: International Political Theory Today, Cambridge: Polity. Chapter 12 ‘A world gone wrong?’ (pp.231-248). ***Dunne, T., L. Hansen and C. Wight (2013) ‘The end of International Relations theory?’, European Journal of International Relations, 19(3): 405-425. ! TUTORIAL TOPIC: Contemporary representations of the international ! TUTORIAL DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: • How can we link everyday practice and popular culture to our studies of the international system? • What do various media tell us about ways of understanding the world we live in? ! WEEK 13 (week beginning 1 June 2015) ! There is no lecture or focused reading group this week. ! The tutorial activities will be based on receiving and delivering feedback on work in progress. You should bring a plan or full draft of your research paper to the tutorial and be prepared to receive and deliver feedback. ! You must submit your final research paper in Week 13 (details can be found below). ! ADDITIONAL RESOURCES Online databases 14 Online databases are accessible through the UNSW Library website at http:// www.library.unsw.edu.au/HowDoI/databases.html. The page also links to helpful tips and a guide to using databases as a research resource. ! Internet sources You are encouraged to explore Internet sources for your research papers, but be aware that these cover a wide range of standards, from very scholarly to pure drivel. Also be aware that academic staff know how to use search engines and that all information gathered from Internet research needs to be appropriately referenced. You should also get used to navigating Google Scholar (www.scholar.google.com) as this is a very useful preliminary search engine for academic research. NB Wikipedia is NOT an appropriate academic resource. ! Under no circumstances should lecture slides or notes be cited in your assignments. Use peer-reviewed sources, primary sources or other sources of repute. IMPORTANT: All written assignments must be properly referenced and accompanied by a bibliography. If you are not sure about referencing conventions, please speak to your tutor. The UNSW Learning Centre provides a range of resources to assist with referencing, available at http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au/onlib/ref.html. ! Assessment ! TASK LENGTH/ DURATION WEIGHT DUE DATE Critical review 750 words 15% Monday 23 March 2015 by 4pm Annotated bibliography 1250 words 25% Monday 27 April 2015 by 4pm Research paper 2500 words 60% Friday 5 June 2015 by 4 pm ! ! Writing a critical review Producing a short critical review of an academic article from the shortlist below will enable you to develop vital critical skills that will stand you in good stead for the production of the research paper. The critical review examines the ability to write fluently and coherently with close reference to one source (drawing on other sources as needed) and to engage critically with the assumptions and arguments put forward in the article. ! The title of this piece of work (which should appear at the top of the first page) is: ! Critical Review ! 15 In this assignment you are to choose one academic, scholarly article from the list below. You will want to include: • complete and accurate references to the article and references to other texts wherever appropriate; • well-developed and sophisticated coverage of key issues and themes without being overly descriptive (i.e. don’t just repeat what the author says, explain how and why you think it strengthens or weakens her/his overall argument); • critical engagement with the strengths and weaknesses of the article including your own informed argument (i.e. based in the relevant literature) about the validity of the article’s conclusions or insights; • a reference list listing the sources you have referenced, including the article itself (the article under reviewed must be referenced normally). ! The list of articles from which you can choose is: ! Seth, Sanjay (2011) ‘Postcolonial Theory and the Critique of International Relations’, Millennium: Journal of International Studies 40(1): 167-83. ! Donnelly, Jack (2006). ‘Sovereign Inequalities and Hierarchy in Anarchy: American Power and International Society’, European Journal of International Relations 12(2): pp.139-70. ! Lake, D.A. (2003) ‘The New Sovereignty in International Relations’, International Studies Review 5(3): 303-23. ! Jackson, Robert (1999) ‘Sovereignty in World Politics: A Glance at the Conceptual and Historical Landscape’, Political Studies 47(3): 431-56. ! Schmidt, S. (2011) ‘To Order the Minds of Scholars: The Discourse of the Peace of Westphalia in International Relations Literature’, International Studies Quarterly, 55(4): 601-623. ! Stirk, P. (2012) ‘The Westphalian Model and Sovereign Equality’, Review of International Studies 38(3): 641-60. ! Walker, R.B.J (1995) ‘International Relations and the concept of the political’, pp. 306-327 in K. Booth and S. Smith (eds) International Relations Theory Today. Cambridge: Polity. ! You may also choose any article from the 2013 Special Issue of the European Journal of International Relations 19(3): ‘The End of International Relations Theory’, except for Dunne, Tim, Hansen, Lene and Wight, Colin (2013) ‘The End of International Relations Theory’, European Journal of International Relations 19(3): 405-25. This article cannot be chosen as it has been listed as the article for discussion in the readings groups in the final lecture. ! ! Your review must also be uploaded to Turnitin on Moodle. You must provide a physical proof of submission obtained from Turnitin with your assignment. This can 16 be a screen-shot showing submission is complete or the email you receive acknowledging submission. ! Reviews submitted without the following documentation will be regarded as incomplete and will be returned for completion, with penalties incurred for late submission per School policy: i. Assessment Cover Sheet. ii. Proof of submission through Turnitin. iii. Bibliography. ! The critical review will be graded /100 and will constitute 15% of your final grade for the course. The review will be graded using a rubric showing the assessment criteria. The rubric is available on Moodle. ! Writing an annotated bibliography The aim of this exercise is to encourage you to begin thinking about the theoretical foundations of your research paper and to begin engaging with the academic literature upon which you will draw in the construction of your core arguments when you write your research paper. ! The title of this piece of work (which should appear at the top of the first page) is: ! Annotated Bibliography ! For this assignment, you should research and identify five academic sources that will inform your arguments in your research paper and create a bibliography of those sources. These sources should not be drawn from the ‘Required reading’ listed above – you will need to identify five other sources that you can use for your essay. ! You should then annotate the bibliography with a few lines about why you have chosen each source, what you hope to draw from it, how it fits with the rest of the literature with which you engage and so on. ! Guidance on writing an annotated bibliography can be found on the UNSW Learning Centre website at http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au/onlib/annotated_bib.html. ! Specifically, your annotated bibliography should: • Provide the full bibliographic citation for each source discussed • Demonstrate the quality and depth of reading that you have done And for each text: • Indicate the content or scope • Outline the main argument • Identify any conclusions made by the author/s • Discuss the relevance or usefulness of the text for your research • Point out in what way the text relates to themes or concepts in your course • State the strengths and limitations of the text • Present your view or reaction to the text ! 17 You must also ! Your annotated bibliography must also be uploaded to Turnitin on Moodle. You must include proof of submission through Turnitin, e.g. a screen-shot showing submission is complete or the email you receive acknowledging submission. ! Annotated bibliographies submitted without the following documentation will be regarded as incomplete and will be returned for completion, with penalties incurred for late submission per School policy: i. Assessment Cover Sheet. ii. Proof of submission through Turnitin. ! The annotated bibliography will be graded /100 and will constitute 25% of your final grade for the course. The annotated bibliography will be graded using a rubric showing the assessment criteria. The rubric is available on Moodle. ! Writing a research paper Research papers should demonstrate that you have engaged with the themes and issues raised in the course and that you are able to construct a persuasive and well-evidenced argument in relation to one or more of these themes or issues. ! You must agree to the title and research question of your research paper with your tutor no later than Monday 27 April 2015, when you submit your annotated bibliography. You can use one of the tutorial discussion questions as inspiration if you like. ! Further guidance to assist with preparing, planning and researching your paper is available on Moodle, including week-by-week further reading. You will be assessed on your ability to demonstrate research skills (the ability to provide accurate and detailed information about your chosen case study), on synthesis and persuasive argument (in bringing together ideas and data from several sources), on quality of presentation (including accurate referencing) and on the clarity of your writing. ! You will have to make reference to further reading. References to the core texts alone will not be sufficient to pass this assessment. ! To write a good research paper: • Explain in the introduction the context of the question, your basic argument and how the paper will proceed step by step (the structure). • Signpost the structure throughout the paper, indicating the logical progression from paragraph to paragraph and section to section (so linking sentences at the ends of paragraphs and sections are important). • Provide persuasive analysis of evidence in support of your argument. • Ground your argument in the theoretical debates of the discipline. ! Your paper must be properly referenced and accompanied by a bibliography. If you are not sure about referencing conventions, please speak to your tutor. The UNSW Learning Centre provides a range of resources to assist with referencing, available at http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au/onlib/ref.html. 18 ! Your research paper must also be uploaded to Turnitin on Moodle. You must include proof of submission through Turnitin, e.g. a screen-shot showing submission is complete or the email you receive acknowledging submission. ! Papers submitted without the following documentation will be regarded as incomplete and will be returned for completion, with penalties incurred for late submission per School policy: i. Assessment Cover Sheet. ii. Proof of submission through Turnitin. iii. Bibliography. ! It is a good idea to plan and draft your research paper well in advance. You are welcome to see me, or your tutor, during consultation hours to discuss your ideas, plan and draft. We will not, however, respond to requests for research assistance, i.e. ‘I want to use ‘X’ as a case study, what should I read?’ ! The research paper will be graded /100 and will constitute 60% of your final grade for the course. The research paper will be graded using a rubric showing the assessment criteria. The rubric is available on Moodle. ! PENALTIES THAT WILL BE APPLIED TO YOUR WORK: • You will lose 3 marks if you do not use the Harvard (in-text) system of referencing for all assessments. See https://student.unsw.edu.au/harvardreferencing. • You will lose 3 marks if you submit all assessments through Turnitin but do not provide proof of submission attached to your work. • You stand to lose between 5 and 20 marks for poor referencing and attribution of sources. There is A LOT of assistance available to you to help you learn about referencing, attribution and avoiding plagiarism. If you are not sure JUST ASK! See https://student.unsw.edu.au/support-referencingassignments. • If you do not submit written work through Turnitin your work will not be marked. • If you submit work for this course that you have already submitted for assessment in another course at this University or any other institution, in whole or in part, or if you copy material from another source and do not attribute that material to its original author, your work will be referred to the School Student Ethics Officer for an investigation into a possible charge of academic misconduct. See https://student.unsw.edu.au/plagiarism. You must submit a valid attempt at all assignments including the formative assignments to gain credit for the course. This means that you will receive a final grade of ‘UF’ (unsatisfactory fail) for the course if you do not make a valid attempt at completion of all assessments listed in the table on p.13 even if you have gained enough marks from the major assessment to earn a passing grade. ! 19 Submission of written assignments Hard copy assignments are to be submitted to the appropriate assignment box located on the First Floor of the Morven Brown Building unless this course specifies electronic submission ONLY. There will be a separate box for late submissions. Only late submissions will be stamped by the School Office with the receipt date. ! A penalty will be applied to assignments that are submitted to the wrong box. ! You are also required to submit an electronic copy of the assignment through Turnitin on Moodle. ! BOTH HARD COPY AND ELECTRONIC COPY OF YOUR ASSIGNMENT MUST BE SUBMITTED BY 4PM ON THE DUE DATE TO AVOID A LATE PENALTY. ! Please be advised that there is usually a queue to submit near the 4pm deadline. You are strongly advised to aim to submit early, as submissions received at 4.01pm will be stamped as late and will incur a late penalty. The Faculty late penalty is 3% of the total possible marks for the task for each day or part day that the work is late. Lateness includes weekends and public holidays. ! It is your responsibility to keep a copy of your work in case of loss of an assignment. You are also responsible for checking that your submission is complete and accurate. ! All assignments (hard copy and electronic submission) must be submitted with a signed Assessment Cover Sheet (required for all assignments). Please ensure that you read the Assessment Cover Sheet carefully, particularly the section related to the originality of the submission. ! Assessment Cover Sheets are available from outside the School Office, near the assignment submission boxes, and are available to download from the School website: https://socialsciences.arts.unsw.edu.au/students/resources/forms/. ! Collection of Written Assignments The critical review and the annotated bibliography will be returned in tutorials. There are two options for the collection of the research paper. You can: ! EITHER attach a prepaid self-addressed envelope to the submission, in which case you work will be posted back to you ! OR your work will be available for collection at a time and date to be confirmed. ! If you do not come to collect your work and you do not provide a prepaid selfaddressed envelope then you will not get your work back until the start of Semester 2. ! Feedback This course uses rubrics to outline assessment criteria for the written assignments. A rubric is a table or grid that lists a number of criteria against which you will be 20 assessed and descriptors that specify the performance corresponding to each level (FL-HD), to allow assessors to interpret which level has been met. ! In addition to completing a rubrik, written feedback will be available for all three assignments. To receive written feedback for your final assignment, however, you must request it. If written feedback is not requested clearly on your assignment, a completed rubrik and a numerical mark will be returned only. ! There is a different rubric for each of the three written assessed tasks: 1. Rubric for the critical review; 2. Rubric for the annotated bibliography; 3. Rubric for the research paper. You can find the rubrics on Moodle. ! I strongly encourage you to look at the rubrics well in advance as they each clearly state what type of work you need to hand in to attain a good grade in this course. ! ASSESSMENT TASK FEEDBACK DATE Critical review Week beginning 13 April Annotated bibliography Week beginning 18 May Research paper To be confirmed ! ! Course evaluation and development Student evaluative feedback is gathered periodically using, among other means, the University’s ‘Course and Teaching Evaluation and Improvement’ (CATEI) process. Informal feedback and feedback specific to individual tutorials and lectures are also important, and welcome. Student feedback is taken seriously and continual enhancements are made to learning and teaching activities on the basis of student feedback. ! ! ! 21 ! PART B: POLICIES AND PROCEDURES ! Student conduct ‘It is a condition of enrolment that students inform themselves of the University’s rules and policies affecting them, and conduct themselves accordingly’ (UNSW Student Code Policy, Art. 2.1). ! All students must read and adhere to the UNSW Student Code Policy (2012): http:// www.gs.unsw.edu.au/policy/documents/studentcodepolicy.pdf. ! A related document is the UNSW Student Misconduct Procedure (2013): http:// www.gs.unsw.edu.au/policy/documents/studentmisconductprocedures.pdf. ! Communication As outlined in the UNSW Student Email Rules: ‘All students are expected to read their official UNSW email. All students have a central email address of the form z1234567 where “1234567” is the student number. It is a requirement that all students read email that is sent to this address, as it may contain vital administrative or teaching material not provided any other way. If a student uses an email account other than the centrally provided email account, the student must arrange to forward UNSW email to an account that they do use.’ ! The full Student Email Rules can be found at: https://my.unsw.edu.au/student/ resources/StudentEmailRules.html. ! Avoiding plagiarism Plagiarism is a form of cheating which constitutes student academic misconduct. Plagiarism can result in penalties to grades, suspension or exclusion from the University. This and other types of academic misconduct must be avoided. These are outlined in the Student Code Policy and the Student Misconduct Procedures. ! The Learning Centre provides a central UNSW resource on academic integrity and understanding and avoiding plagiarism: https://student.unsw.edu.au/plagiarism. ! The Elise Study Skills tutorial, which familiarizes students with academic writing, research and using information responsibly, including through proper attribution, is mandatory for all commencing undergraduate students and the quiz must be completed by the end of Week 5 of their first semester at UNSW. All postgraduate coursework students are encouraged to take the tutorial: http:// subjectguides.library.unsw.edu.au/elise. ! Attendance UNSW policy on Attendance and Absence can be found at: https://my.unsw.edu.au/ student/atoz/AttendanceAbsence.html ! It states that ‘Students are expected to be regular and punctual in attendance at all classes in the courses in which they are enrolled.’ The School of Social Sciences expects that students will attend and participate actively in 100% of learning and 22 teaching activities (henceforth ‘classes’, to include lectures, tutorials, seminars, labs, online activities and so on). ! If you arrive more than 15 minutes late, you may be recorded as absent. If such a penalty is imposed, you will be informed verbally at the end of class and advised in writing within 24 hours. ! If you experience illness, misadventure or other occurrence that makes absence from a class unavoidable, or you expect to be absent from a forthcoming class, you should seek permission from the course convenor, and where applicable, should be accompanied by an original or certified copy of a medical certificate or other form of appropriate evidence. ! If you attend less than 80% of classes or have not submitted appropriate supporting documentation to the course convenor to explain your absence, you may be awarded a final grade of UF (Unsatisfactory Fail). This applies to both tutorials and lectures separately. You must attend 80% of the lectures and also 80% of the tutorials in order to pass the course. For attendance purposes, alternative learning activities are counted as tutorials, and late submissions of your blog (week 4) and meme (week 8) will be counted as absences. ! Upon submission of appropriate evidence, course convenors have discretion and authority to determine whether a student meets the required volume of learning and has completed the necessary assessments for a given course in circumstances where attendance has been less than the normal university requirement of 80% of classes. ! A student may be excused from classes for up to one month (33% of learning and teaching activities) in exceptional circumstances and on production of an original or certified copy of a medical certificate or other form of appropriate evidence. In such cases, course convenors may assign additional and/or alternative tasks to ensure that students have met the volume of learning associated with the course. ! A student who has submitted the appropriate documentation but attends less than 66% of classes will be asked by the course convenor to apply to discontinue the course without failure rather than be awarded a final grade of UF. ! Extensions and late submission of work A course convenor can only approve an extension up to five days. A student requesting an extension of greater than five days should complete an application for Special Consideration (see below). ! Work submitted late (i.e., past the time and date specified in the course outline) will incur late penalties. The late penalty is the loss of 3% of the total possible marks for the task for each day or part thereof the work is late. Lateness will include weekends and public holidays. ! Work submitted fourteen days after the due date may be marked and brief feedback provided but no mark will be recorded or counted towards your overall grade. If the 23 work would have received a pass mark but for the lateness and the work is a compulsory course component, you will be deemed to have met that requirement. ! Work submitted twenty-one days after the due date will not be accepted for marking or feedback and will receive no mark or grade. If the assessment task is a compulsory component of the course you will automatically fail the course. Where an extension has been granted, either directly by the course convenor or through the Special Consideration mechanism, the late penalties outlined above will apply from the revised due date. ! Special consideration Sickness, misadventure, or other circumstances beyond your control may prevent you from completing a course requirement or attending or submitting assessable work for a course, or may significantly affect performance in assessable work, e.g. formal end of session examination, class test, laboratory test, or seminar presentation. Students can apply for consideration for the affected assessments. ! Except in unusual circumstances a problem involving only three consecutive days or a total of five days within the teaching period of a semester is not considered sufficient grounds for an application. The circumstances have to be unexpected and beyond your control. Students are expected to give priority to their University study commitments and any absence must clearly be for circumstances beyond your control. Work commitments are not normally considered a justification. ! Students cannot claim consideration for conditions or circumstances that are the consequences of their actions or inactions. ! Details of the university policy and procedures on Special Consideration, and information about how to apply for Special Consideration, can be found at: https:// my.unsw.edu.au/student/atoz/SpecialConsideration.html ! You should be aware that in the School of Social Sciences, it is the course convenor that makes a decision on whether or not to grant Special Consideration through the online mechanism. If Special Consideration is granted, this may take the form of a removal of part or all of a late penalty, or an adjustment to the raw grade, or an alternative form of assessment, at the discretion of the course convenor. ! Student Equity and Disabilities Unit (SEADU) Students with a disability, and those with ongoing physical or mental health conditions, who require consideration of their circumstances and support, are advised to register with the Student Equity and Diversity Unit (SEADU). Registration is advisable but not obligatory. To receive support from SEADU, students must be registered with SEADU. Contact details can be found on their website at http:// www.studentequity.unsw.edu.au/. Upon registration, an Educational Liaison Co-ordinator (ELC) assesses the support services the student requires. If necessary, a Letter of Support from the Educational Liaison Co-ordinator is written to the student’s lecturers outlining the services that have been approved. 24 If you are currently registered with SEADU, Letters of Support are emailed out prior to the beginning of Semester 1. You must then email your Letter of Support to their course convenor from your UNSW email account by the end of Week 1. The educational adjustments outlined in the letter apply for the whole year, including summer semester. If at any time there are changes to a student’s disability during the semester, adjustments may be modified and a new letter will be issued. If you are registering for the first time, you will be given a letter at your first appointment. If a Letter of Support is written after the commencement of the teaching period, you must forward the Letter to your course convenors from your UNSW email account within one week of the date on the letter. In the first correspondence with a new course convenor, you should cc SEADU in to the email so SEADU can track the process. You will also be encouraged to meet with the course convenor in person by the end of Week 2 to discuss their adjustments. Review of results If you have concerns about a mark you have achieved, you should raise this with the course convenor in the first instance. This should normally be done within two working days of the return of the assessed work. ! If you are not satisfied with the explanation provided, you should complete the UNSW Review of Results (RoR) application form: https://my.unsw.edu.au/student/ academiclife/assessment/ReviewofResults.pdf. ! You must provide a written explanation of why you believe the work requires review. The written explanation must include the stated criteria for the assessment task indicating the exact area(s) where the assessment of your work differs from the mark you have received. ! The course convenor has the option to not recommend review if they deem the grounds for review insufficient. The course convenor will make their decision within three working days of receiving the request. ! If the course convenor approves the review, you should submit the Review of Results application form to Student Central. A clean copy and a copy of the marked work with all feedback must be submitted with the RoR application. An administration fee applies under certain circumstances. ! If the course convenor does not recommend the review but you believe that the mark/grade does not reflect your performance, you may forward the RoR application form to the Deputy Head of School (Learning & Teaching), A/Prof. Laura Shepherd (email: [email protected]). ! 25 The Deputy Head of School (DHoS) will normally make a decision within three working days of receiving the application. ! If the DHoS approves the review, you should submit the application to Student Central. A clean copy and a copy of the marked work with all feedback must be submitted with the RoR application. An administration fee applies under certain circumstances. ! If the DHoS does not approve the review, she will notify the Chair of the Faculty Assessment Review Group (FARG). The FARG can either endorse or overturn the decision of the DHoS. ! The FARG will make a decision within one week of receiving advice from the DHoS. If, after the FARG’s decision, the student still believes they have a case they should submit their claim through the University grievance procedures. ! A RoR application must be lodged within 15 working days of receiving the result of the assessment task. ! Student support and grievance procedures The UNSW Learning Centre provides academic skills support to all students enrolled at UNSW: http://www.lc.unsw.edu.au. ! UNSW offers a number of support and development services for students: https:// student.unsw.edu.au/additional-support. ! There is a range of wellbeing, safety and equity initiatives you can access at UNSW: https://student.unsw.edu.au/wellbeing. ! UNSW Counselling and Psychological Services offer individual consultations and can usually accommodate urgent needs: https://student.unsw.edu.au/individualcounselling. ! If you have issues related to, or concerns about, academic decisions or any aspect of Learning & Teaching in the School of Social Sciences, you are welcome to contact the Deputy Head of School (Learning & Teaching), A/Prof. Laura Shepherd (email: [email protected]). ! If you have a grievance related to a person or administrative process, you should contact the School Grievance Officer, Dr Michael Wearing (email: [email protected]). ! You can also contact the Student Conduct and Appeals Office (email: [email protected]) or the student association Arc@UNSW (email: [email protected]). ! For more information regarding progressing a complaint: https:// student.unsw.edu.au/complaints. 26
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