ATS3690 Reflections on humanity: Truth, freedom and power
Faculty of Arts
ATS3690 Reflections on humanity: Truth, freedom and power is a level 3, 6-credit-point, undergraduate unit from the Faculty of Arts. It isn't offered in 2020. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2020
- Not offered
- Workload
- 144 hours
- per semester
This is the 2020 handbook entry. See the 2024 entry.
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Requisites
Before ATS3690
No prerequisites or corequisites besides the enrolment rules below.
After ATS3690
No unit lists ATS3690 as a prerequisite in the 2020 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Prohibition: ATS2690
Prerequisite: Twelve credit points of second-year Arts units. It is highly recommended that students only take this unit after they have completed two gateway units in Politics.
Overview
This unit seeks to illuminate the current crisis of humanity by looking at the work of three key figures in recent political theory - Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida. Each of these theorists has interrogated the relationship between politics and barbarism at the most profound level and attempted to salvage a concept of humanity from the catastrophes of the twentieth century. Pivoting around themes of truth, freedom and power, their work draws us back to fundamental questions about the purposes and possibilities of politics as a human endeavour. Engaging with them will help to shed light on what might be hoped for human beings, individually and collectively, in the future.
Offerings in 2020
The 2020 handbook lists no offerings for ATS3690.
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Understand debates about humanism and anti-humanism in politics and political theory
- 2
Compare and contrast key political ideas of the three theorists studied in the unit: Arendt, Foucault, Derrida
- 3
Display developing skills of spoken and written communication in addressing questions of politics and humanism
- 4
Summarise and analyse passages of text that raise issues and ideas in political theory
- 5
Understand and analyse the relationship between politics and ethics in the writings of political theorists
- 6
Critically reflect on political theory as an attempt to explain the meaning and advance the possibility of human freedom
Workload and teaching
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.
Where it fits
ATS3690 is part of 6 areas of study in the 2020 handbook.
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- INTREL04Elective unitsInternational relationsNo reviews yet
- POLITICS01Politics elective unitsPoliticsNo reviews yet
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Contacts
- Unit Coordinators
- Dr Paul Muldoon
- Chief Examiners
- Dr Paul Muldoon
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for ATS3690?
ATS3690 has no prerequisites, but enrolment rules apply.
When is ATS3690 offered?
ATS3690 has no offerings listed in the 2020 handbook.
How much work is ATS3690?
The handbook expects about 144 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.
Which majors and minors include ATS3690?
ATS3690 is part of International relations and Politics.