The Rise of Global Populism
UndergraduateGRF-GIR3222025
Course information for 2025 intake
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- 100% online
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- Enrol by
- 23 Feb 2025
- Entry requirements
- No ATAR needed, No prior study
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Start dates
- 3 Mar 2025
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The Rise of Global Populism
About this subject
After successfully completing this course, you should be able to:
- Demonstrate an ability to identify key theories and practices of populism within contemporary democratic contexts.
- Demonstrate an understanding of basic democratic institutions and ways in which they are challenged by forms of populism.
- Critically analyse the factors that facilitate or impede the success of populist actors.
- Demonstrate competence in a range of generic skills required for academic study which include the following: critical thinking skills, ability to critically analyse data, problem-solving skills, ability to argue in an articulate and concise manner, self-management skills, improved teamwork abilities, the ability to develop an argument and structure a response to questions and improved written expression skills.
Assurance of Learning:
This course evaluates student performance for Assurance of Learning purposes for the program learning objective (PLO 6): Identify and critically analyse sources of data to inform evidence based decision making.
- Introduction: Populism and Democracy
- Populism: The People versus The Elites
- Populism and Globalisation
- Populism in Times of Crises
- Populism and International Institutions
- Transnational Populism
- Populism in Australia
- Populists in Action
- Populists in Power: Italy
- Populists in Power: The United States
- Populists in Power: India
- Implications of the Populist Rise
Over the last decade, populists have come to power in the world's four largest democracies: India, the United States, Indonesia and Brazil, among a range of other countries. Populists have run on platforms challenging the checks and balances of liberal democracy, rejecting globalization and international institutions, and opposing free trade and movement. This course will enable students to gain a deeper understanding of the unique challenges posed by populism to democracy in the twenty-first century, including in Australia and Asia. It examines what happens when populists take power, what the impacts of populism on global politics are likely to be in the 2020s, and how political leaders can respond.
Students should not enrol in this subject if they have previously completed 3022GIR The Business of Global Populism or 3022GIR The Rise of Global Populism at Griffith University.
- Presentation (30%)
- Research Paper (35%)
- Presentation (35%)
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