DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
E. Asia and the Pacific
The inter-war years. The Washington Treaties. Japan and China. The nationalist revolutions in East Asia since 1945. American policies and commitments in the Pacific and East Asia. The "Two Chinas" and their external relations. Some problems of Japan's foreign relations. The policy of non-alignment, with special reference to India's foreign policy. Some problems of Australia's foreign policy.
ANZUS, SEATO, the Colombo Plan.
Students will be required to submit written work.
BOOKS
(a) Recommended for preliminary reading:
Foot, M. R. D.—British Foreign Policy since 1898. (Hutchi
пson's U.L. )Carr, E. H.—Nationalism and After. (Macmillan.)
Connell-Smith, G.—The Pattern of the Postwar World. (Penguin.)
(b) Recommended for reference:
Carr, E. H.—The Twenty Years' Crisis. (Macmillan.)
Carr, E. I.—International Relations between the Two World_Wars. (Macmillan.) or Gathome-Hardy, G. M.—A Short History of International Affairs, 1919-1939.
(O.U.P.)
R.I.I.A.—Survey of International Affairs. Annual Volumes 1925-1954. (O.U.P.) Morgenthau, H. W., and Thom son, K. W.—Principled and Problems of Inter-
national Relations. (Knopf.
Greenwood, G. and Harper, N. D.—Australia in World Affairs 1950-1955.
(Cheshire.)
Detailed reading guides will be provided during the year.
EXAMINATION. One or two 3-hour papers.
71. ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY
A course of two lectures and one tutorial class per week throughout the year.
SYLLABUS
The study of bureaucracy in contemporary society.
This subject will not be taught in 1963. Public Administration will be accepted instead.
70. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
A course of two lectures and one tutorial class. per week throughout the year.
Students will be assumed to be familiar with the syllabus of Modern Govern- ment A.
SYLLABUS
Bureaucracy in modern society, with special reference to the development and organization of the public services in Australia.
Students will be required to submit written work.
BOOKS
(a) Recommended for preliminary reading:
Blau, P. M.—Bureaucracy in Modern Society. (Random House, 1956.) ( b ) ' Prescribed textbook:
*Spann, R. N. ( ed. )—Public AdminIstration in Australia. (N.S.W. Govt. Printer, 1959.)
(c) Recommended for reference:
Simon, H. A., Smithburg, D. W., and Thompson, V. A.—Public Administration.
(Knopf, 1950.)
Merton, R. K.
(ed.
)—Reader in Bureaucracy. (Glencoe Free Press, 1952.) Barnard, C. I.—The Functions of the Executive. (Harvard, 1938.)Davis, S. R. (ed. )—The Government of the Australian States. (Longmens, 1960.
Department of Political Science—The Government of Victoria. (M.U.P., 1958.) Scaгrow, H. C.—The Higher Civil Service in Australia. (Duke U.P., 1958.) A detailed reading guide will be issued in this subject.
EXAMINATION. One or two 3-hour papers.
HONOURS DEGREE
I. SCHOOL ` OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
(For possible combinations of this school with other honours schools see p. 220.) 1. The course for the degree with honours in the school of Political Science comprises the following subjects:
Modem Government A Modem Government В
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Modern Government C International Relations Organizational Theory Theories of Politics
together with one of the following sequences of subjects:
1. Modern History A or British History and one of Australian History, American History, Modern History B, Far Eastern History, Social History.
2. Economics A, Economics В.
3. Philosophy part I, Political Philosophy.
The first subject in any of these sequences must be taken at honours level.
In addition, candidates for the degree with honours must take one other subject at pass standard, and part I or IA of a foreign language in the First Year of the course.
2. The subjects of the course should be taken in the following order, unless,. because of special circumstances, the faculty allows the order to be varied.
First Year: ( a ) Modern Government A (hoes).
(b ) Modern History A ( hons) or British History ( hens) or Economics A (hofs) or Philosophy part I ( hons ).
(c) The pass course in one other subject, preferably a History or Economics A or Indonesian Studies part I.
(d) Part I or IA of a foreign language.
Second Year: ( a) Modern Government В (hons ).
(b) Organizational Theory (hofs) or Modern History В (hofs).
( c) An approved grade 2 History in sequence 1. above or Economics В or Political Philosophy.
Thhd Year: ( a ) Modern Government C (bons).
( b ) International Relations (hons) . Fourth Year: Theories of Politics.
3. Comments. The First Year is regarded as a preliminary year, and students who have completed it must be approved by the faculty of Arts as candidates for the degree with honours before entering the Second Year of the honour school. Admission will normally be given only to candidates who have obtained at least second class honours in Modern Government A and Modern History A or British History or Economics A or Philosophy part I. Other candidates who wish to continue in the honour school should interview the head of the department, who will be guided in his recommendations by the merits of the case.
A student who has not attempted honours, but who at the end of the First Year passes in Modern Government A and wishes to enter the honour school, must make special application to the faculty through the sub-dean for permission to do so. If such permission is given, the faculty will prescribe what further work must be completed before the student is allowed to proceed to the final examination.
The Second and Third Years of the honour course are regarded as forming a continuous whole. Candidates who during their Second Year have made satisfactory progress in Modern Government В will not be given a formal examination in this subject. Candidates whose progress in Modern Government В during the first two terms is not considered of satisfactory honours standard will be notified during the third term that they must sit for an annual examination in it at the end of the Second Year. In the pure school Organizational Theory is examined at an annual examination at the end of the Second Year.
4. The final examination in the school of Political Science will be divided into two parts as follows:
Part I
(Taken at the end of Third Year) (1) Modern Government В (one paper)
(2) Modem Government C (one paper) (3) International Relations (one paper)
Part II
POLTTICAL SCIENCE
In addition, students will be required to hand in early in third term a thesis of about nine thousand words embodying the result of independent research.
The following course has been approved for students who intend to combine the school of Political Science with a Law course:
First Year: ` Modern Government A (hons ).
British History (hons ).
Introduction to Legal Method.
Part I or IA of a foreign language.
Second Year: Modern Government B (hons).
Organizational Theory (hons ).. Legal History.
Criminal Law and Procedure.
Third Year: Modern Government C (bons).
International Relations (hons ).
Tort.
Principles of Contract.
Fourth Year: Theories of Politics.
Principles of Property.
Fifth Year: As for Third Year Law.
Sixth Year: As for Fourth Year Law.
66. MODERN GOVERNMENT A
(Ions )A course of lectures as for the ordinary degree, together with one honours tutorial class each week throughout the academic year.
SYLLABUS
(i) As for the ordinary degree.
(ii) A detailed study of the theory of democracy. The liberal scheme of repre- sentative institutions. The impact of twentieth century economic and social changes on democratic institutions and ideas.
BOOKS
(i) As for ordinary degree.
(ii) There are no set textbooks for this course. Detailed reading guides will be issued during the year.
EXAMINATION. Two 3-hour papers.
67. MODERN GOVERNMENT
В (Ions)A course of lectures as for the ordinary degree, together with one honours tutorial class each week throughout the academic year.
SYLLABUS
(i) As for the ordinary degree.
(ii) A study of German, Soviet, and American political theory. German theories studied will include Marxism, Corporative theory, and Nazi theory. ` Soviet theories studied will include the theories of Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin on State and Party, the proletarian revolution, the dictatorship
of
the proletariat, the peasant question, the relationship between the Russian revolution and world socialism, and Soviet and other Communist theory since the deathof
Stalin. The American course will con- centrate on traditional, nineteenth century, and contemporary approaches to the analysis of the American political system.BOOKS
(i) As for the ordinary degree-
(ii) References to various primary and secondary sources to be used for the course will be given in the reading guides for honours students which are issued during the year.
EXAMINATION. Two or three 3-hour papers.
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