Duration
12 weeks
Study method
100% Online
Available loans
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Assessments
100% online
Prior study
Not required
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Subject details
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- • How three different disciplines approach their study: economics, political philosophy, and political studies.
- • Trade: free markets, justice, and political institutions.
- • Income inequality: marginal productivity, unfairness, and neoliberal politics.
- • Sustainability: negative externalities and emissions trading schemes, ecological justice, and big coal.
- • Education: human capital, educational egalitarianism, and political interest groups.
No eligibility requirements
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
This subject introduces you to the disciplines of politics, philosophy, and economics (PPE). Learn how influential theories and concepts from each discipline can illuminate different aspects of a particular problem. You will use PPE perspectives to analyse markets, inequality, environmental degradation, educational opportunity, and discrimination. This is a core subject for students in La Trobe's Bachelor of Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE), but it is also open and accessible to any student seeking an introduction to these three disciplines (politics, philosophy, and economics) and their intersecting application to real-world challenges. Students from all campuses can take this subject online, with the option of a face-to-face tutorial at the Bundoora campus. Students enrolled in the Bachelor of PPE or Law/PPE should choose the face-to-face tutorial.
- Short Paper (1000 words equivalent) A short paper articulating an argument on one of the subject's modules. (30%)
- Essay (1750 words) An argumentative research essay on one of the subject's modules (a module different to the one on which the short paper focused). (40%)
- Piece of reflective writing (1000 words) (30%)
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