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Overview

This unit develops the conceptual and theoretical frameworks covered in Contemporary Approaches to Security. It covers non-traditional security threats and empirical case studies through new approaches in security studies. Students explore the key critical debates between theoretical schools and analyse emerging and future security threats.

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Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Comparatively assess post-positivist approaches to security
  • Identify and explain key debates within and between security theories
  • Critically analyse case studies and security scenarios through the conceptual and theoretical approaches studied
  • Evaluate the ethical, normative and political dimensions of how we can theorise security

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Live Online
Lecture		1.00Ìý8 weeks 8
On-campus
Lecture		1.00Ìý4 weeks 4
On-campus
Class		2.00Ìý12 weeks 24
Specified Activities
Various		5.00Ìý12 weeks 60
Unspecified Activities
Independent Learning		4.50Ìý12 weeks 54
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
Case Presentation±õ²Ô»å¾±±¹¾±»å³Ü²¹±ôÌý25%Ìý2,3,4Ìý
Literature Review±õ²Ô»å¾±±¹¾±»å³Ü²¹±ôÌý30%Ìý1,2,4Ìý
Major Essay±õ²Ô»å¾±±¹¾±»å³Ü²¹±ôÌý45%Ìý1,2,3Ìý

Content

  • Post-positivist security studies
  • Critical security studies and human security
  • Securitization theory
  • Race, empire and security
  • Gender and feminist security studies
  • Ontological security
  • Images, discourses and visual in/security
  • Critical military studies
  • Science, technology and security
  • Case studies across the unit include: terrorism; drone warfare and technological security; surveillance; migration; environmental insecurity; media and representations of insecurity; pandemics; resource wars; economic insecurity and everyday insecurity

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.