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Title: National Politics '09
Post by: steph753 on February 25, 2009, 10:35:29 pm: Is there anyone out there doing national politics this year??
Title: Re: National Politics '09
Post by: wombifat on February 26, 2009, 04:16:05 pm: yes! me! I'm finding it pretty interesting so far. Do you have the text book?
Title: Re: National Politics '09
Post by: steph753 on February 26, 2009, 04:29:25 pm: yeah we are using the Indigo handbook for National Politics by Rod Wise.

do you have the textbook?
Title: Re: National Politics '09
Post by: Aurelie. on March 02, 2009, 05:26:44 pm: wow - I was beginning to dobt the existence of a 2009 Nat Pol class! I did the subject last year, it's very, very interesting - and fun, coz you get to debate and scream across the classroom at people. Our classroom was SO chaotic and loud at times!
Title: Re: National Politics '09
Post by: Aurelie. on March 11, 2009, 01:59:19 am: Well, it ended up being my worst subject :) I got As on all of my SACs, and then a WAY lower mark on the exam. So did everyone else in my class > we had a shite teacher.

Anyway, I'm probably not the best for advice for this subject lol. But keep up to date with all aspects of current affairs and try and make a list of a few examples (say in the past year) of affairs regarding each topic.

Write heaps of practice essays and know all of your definitions by heart. I have a fairly extensive list of definitions, if you pm me I can send them to you, some of them are a little scratchy though!
Title: Re: National Politics '09
Post by: wombifat on March 12, 2009, 04:27:21 pm: ok yeah thats cool
we had a sac on definitions today and I wrote so much I ran out of time so now I'm really annoyed at myself :( But hopefully I managed to scrape a decent score
Title: Re: National Politics '09
Post by: Aurelie. on March 15, 2009, 05:36:40 pm: We were told that it's best to keep definitions to two sentences - first: define the term; second: give an example
Title: Re: National Politics '09
Post by: wombifat on March 15, 2009, 06:45:38 pm: yeah but before the sac he kept telling us "oh and you might wanna add that..."
so i just added everything and ran out of time :P
oh well i guess I know now
Title: Re: National Politics '09
Post by: Nic K on May 02, 2009, 09:29:16 pm: Hi everyone,

I'm just wondering....how many students are in your politics class?
Title: Re: National Politics '09
Post by: wombifat on May 02, 2009, 09:51:37 pm: ten people! lol minimum number to have a class

are you going to the lecture on friday?
Title: Re: National Politics '09
Post by: Nic K on May 02, 2009, 09:58:00 pm: I'm only in year 11 and am planning to do it next year if a class runs.
Title: Re: National Politics '09
Post by: Nic K on May 02, 2009, 10:13:20 pm: We have International politics and that class always has enough. From there, most of the students choose International Studies over National Politics.

I think we might get a class with 7 because there is a Music Styles class running this year with 7 in it so I'll argue that. I have 5 confirmed students wanting to do Nat.
Title: Re: National Politics '09
Post by: Nic K on May 02, 2009, 10:28:35 pm: I'd prefer to do National :)
Title: Re: National Politics '09
Post by: Nic K on May 03, 2009, 02:33:15 pm: I only have room to do one. A lot of people aren't interested in Australian politics. A lot like different international issues. I'll probably do international if nat doesn't run.
Title: Re: National Politics '09
Post by: xXNovaxX on August 13, 2009, 10:09:47 pm: I also wanted international :( When i picked the subject i didn't relise there were 2 types, i thought Unit 3 was international and unit 4 was national, or something like that, :-[

Its an okayyy subject, but i would have liked to learn more on foreign issues, disagreements between nations, types of government systems world wide etc, ah well.