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2025 unit information
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1 x 1-hour on-campus lecture per week
1 x 1-hour on-campus seminar per week
1 x 1-hour online lecture per week (recordings provided)
1 x 1-hour online seminar per week
Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.
This unit challenges you to put yourself in the shoes of a diplomat and negotiate a multilateral agreement at the United Nations. The unit explores the nature of diplomacy in a globalizing world and investigates the forms and effectiveness of a range of political and policymaking efforts to address current issues in world politics.
Throughout the unit, students work in small groups representing an assigned nation to establish a national position on a number of key issues and negotiate with other groups. These diplomatic efforts culminate in the Model United Nations Summit towards the end of the unit.
The unit will be delivered via a series of lectures, workshops and participation in a Model United Nations Summit (on-campus or online).
Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs)
Analyse a range of policymaking contexts in contemporary transnational diplomacy in the form of Intergovernmental Organisations, Non-Governmental Organisations, and Governments
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO2: Communication
Evaluate and devise systemic responses to key diplomatic concerns in world politics - including global poverty, environmental degradation, economic crises among other contemporary global issues
GLO4: Critical thinking
Critically assess arguments from a number of sources in order to make an independent evaluation of the questions posed by the unit and to construct convincing arguments that are systematic, logically coherent and evidence based in both individual tasks as well as group settings
GLO5: Problem solving
GLO6: Self-management
GLO7: Teamwork
Apply the conventions of academic communication (written, verbal and online), as reflected in clear and accessible writing and presentation as well as professional conduct in group settings (either online or face-to-face)
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
The texts and reading list for AIR349 can be found via the University Library. Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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