Course Title: Extreme Right Since 1945
Part A: Course Overview
Course Title: Extreme Right Since 1945
Credit Points: 12.00
Terms
Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
HUSO2121 |
City Campus |
Undergraduate |
330H Social Science & Planning |
Face-to-Face |
Sem 1 2006 |
Course Coordinator: Dr Eric Porter
Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 1011
Course Coordinator Email: eric.porter@rmit.edu.au
Course Coordinator Location: Building 8, Level 6, Room 28
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
None
Course Description
Understanding of the Extreme Right is generally guided by narrow, moralistic stereotypes projected by the media. This course aims at a dispassionate, in-depth investigation of the Extreme Right that examines the complexities of ideas, the social groups represented, the cultural meaning of participation, and the psychology of members and supporters. The principal focus is the Extreme Right as an expression of western, liberal capitalist society. The course emphasises interpretation, concentrating upon original documents in an endeavour to identify the assumptions and values that undergird the ideas and practices of different groups on the Extreme Right.
Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development
At the conclusion of this course, you will be able to:
- identify the main Extreme Right ideas and a range of ways that they are interpreted;
- assess critically the factors that make the Extreme Right attractive to particular sectors of western society;
- interpret the values that characterise extreme right-wing culture as expressed through ideas and practices;
- evaluate common gender roles and variants in a variety of Extreme Right groups and ideas,
- contextualise right-wing activities, tracing the underlying motivations and objectives of violence and protest, separatism and mainstream activism.
Overview of Learning Activities
You will learn principally through a combination of lectures, smaller classes and in-class exercises and discussion, and assignments.
Overview of Learning Resources
You will need to obtain a prescribed text.
Overview of Assessment
You will be able to prepare assessment tasks with a total word length or equivalent of 4,000 words.