I'm Charlotte Fabiansson's and I have a
senior lecturer position within the
College of Arts and Education and I'm a
coordinator for political science here
at the University. The units are about
political science from different
perspective, we actually look at both our
Australian political system but
especially we look at the U.S. political
system, we look at China, we look at Iran,
and especially also we think about the
links between the history where it all
started and how we actually can see part
of that in today's actual political
systems and we can understand how
everything here actually are in one way
or another interlinked. The skills the
students learn is actually to critically
analyse political systems and actually
see why they have developed in that way
and also what are the consequences of
these political system, and the course
with students coming from very different
countries or other environments, they
have different views is really how they
learn to critically analyse the current
system and to understand how it is
connected to around the world but also
to historical times. The main points the
students get out from this study is to
actually understand interconnection
between different political systems and
how they actually are not that different
than we think they are. So for instance we
can see part of the U.S. Constitution in the
Chinese system and in the Iranian systems.
What I think there were students
we get for is that it needs to become
much more aware of what actually going
around in the political sense in around
the world, and also understanding
Australia's political systems and how it
is tied and restricted in a way to
others a sovereign country's
political systems.
