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ECOP6122: Dissertation Part B
2025 unit information
This unit, in conjunction with ECOP6121, enables you to write a 12,000 word dissertation, under supervision, within a nominated topic area. The nominated topic areas are: the global climate crisis; the evolving role/influence of financial markets; inequality under globalisation; the practice of wage theft; the Chinese economy’s growth trajectory; the intersecting crises of economy, health, care, gender, race and climate; and new forms of repression. In discussion with your supervisor, you will determine a research question to be answered. For example: what is Australia’s role in, or response to, the global climate crisis? Is energy impoverishment a new form of globalised inequality?
Unit details and rules
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Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Political Economy |
| Credit points | 6 |
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ECOP6121 |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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None |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Demonstrate a high level of disciplinary expertise applied to contemporary political economy issues.
- LO2. Demonstrate strong critical analytical skills applied to evaluate theoretical and empirical sources of information in the field of political economy.
- LO3. Demonstrate research skills that enable you to draw on extensive and diverse primary and secondary sources to construct a written analysis.
- LO4. Undertake a sustained piece of primarily self-directed, original research.
- LO5. Demonstrate awareness of your intellectual and professional development.
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Semester 1 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown / Darlington, Sydney | |
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Semester 2 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown / Darlington, Sydney |
Outline unavailable
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