Not offered from 2020 - please refer to Indigenous and Australian Studies
To be read in conjunction with the program of study requirements for the degree in which you are enrolled:
A student may complete a major sequence of 36 units in Australian Studies by completing two Year 1 topics (9 units), two Year 2 topics (9 units) and two Year 3 topics (9 units) plus two additional topics (9 units) from the Year 2 or Year 3 topics listed in the program of study below.
A student may complete a minor sequence of 22.5 units in Australian Studies by completing two Year 1 topics (9 units), two Year 2 topics (9 units) plus and additional topic (4.5 units) from the Year 2 or Year 3 topics listed in the program of study below.
A minor in Australian Studies is not available to students who commenced the Bachelor of Education (Primary R-7), Bachelor of Arts from 1 January 2019.
A student may complete an extended major sequence in Australian Studies by completing the prescribed major topics (36 units), plus an additional two topics (9 units) from the Year 2 or Year 3 topics listed below.
An extended major in Australian Studies is not available to students enrolled in the double Bachelor of Education/Bachelor of Arts degrees.
Course aims
The Australian Studies major is designed to reflect the overall academic goals of the University.
The major aims to:
- equip students with a thorough grounding in contemporary issues and debates in Australian Studies
- produce graduates with a critical understanding of the various ways identities are formed and represented within Australia
- equip students to apply multi-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary understandings of Australian culture and society
- furnish students with the critical and cross-disciplinary skills required to apply their learning in everyday social, educational and professional settings
- furnish students with a thorough knowledge of local and regional Australian issues and an ability to locate them within a global context
- produce graduates who communicate effectively in a range of mediums, and who are able to critically engage in everyday situations and contexts
- encourage learning and transferable skills in both independent and collaborative contexts
- encourage students to connect across boundaries and value ethical behaviour through a cross-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary understanding of Australian culture and society.
Learning outcomes
- be able to demonstrate a thorough knowledge in contemporary issues and debates in Australian Studies;
- be able to demonstrate a critical understanding of the ways identities are formed and represented within Australia, and apply multi-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary understandings of Australian culture and society;
- have developed the critical and cross-disciplinary skills required to apply their learning in everyday social, educational and professional settings;
- communicate effectively in a range of mediums.
Program of study
The following is the program of study for a 36 unit major sequence in Australian Studies and should be read in conjunction with the course rule for the degree in which you are enrolled.
Major - Australian Studies
Year 1 topics
AUST1001 Australian Studies: Identities (4.5 units)
plus 4.5 units from the year 1 topics listed below
AUST1004 An Introduction to Aboriginal Studies (4.5 units)
HIST1203 Creating a Nation: A Brief History of Australia to 1939 (4.5 units)
HIST1803 'The Lucky Country' ? Australia and the World since 1939 (4.5 units)
POLI1003 An Introduction to Democracy and Government (4.5 units)
Year 2 topics
AUST2500 Australian Studies: Social and Political Cultures (4.5 units)
plus 4.5 units from the year 2 topics listed below
ARCH2202 Australian Indigenous Archaeology (4.5 units)
AUST2610 Australian Studies: Indigenous Australian Art (4.5 units)
AUST2611 Australian Languages: Issues and Debates 1 (4.5 units)
AUST2612 Reconciliation and Indigenous Knowledges (4.5 units)
GEOG2711 Australian Environmental Change (4.5 units)
HIST2015 Maps and Dreams: Indigenous-Settler Relations in Australian History (4.5 units)
POLI2011 Australian Public Policy: Applications, Issues and Dilemmas (4.5 units)
POLI2019 Parties, Voting Behaviour and Elections in Australia (4.5 units)
POLI2020 Australian Indigenous Politics (4.5 units)
plus an additional 4.5 units from the year 2 topics listed above or from the year 3 Option topics listed below.
Year 3 topics
AUST3330 Reading Australian Culture (4.5 units)
AUST3333 Australian Studies: Issues for Australians (4.5 units)
plus an additional 4.5 units from the year 2 topics listed above or from the year 3 Option topics listed below.
Year 3 Option topics
AUST3611 Australian Languages: Issues and Debates 2 (4.5 units)
GEOG3761 Caring as Country: Indigenous Environmental Management (4.5 units)
HIST2022 Memory and the Politics of Difference: Sex, Race and Belonging (4.5 units)
HIST3007 Body Politics in Australian History (4.5 units)
INTR3001 Australian Foreign Policy (4.5 units)
Honours
Refer to Honours - Australian Studies
