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1. English, Faculty of Arts (v3, p60) : Next:106-448 | Prev:106-445
Year 4 English.
Credit points: 16.7 4th year
Coordinator: Anne Maxwell.
Contact: One 2-hour seminar per week.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject successfully will:
- have developed critical and analytical skills that will enable them to trace the operations of imperialist discourse in the context of the Pacific;
- examine the cultural consequences of imperialist practices in the Pacific;
- adapt a wide range of theoretical material to the cultural productions arising from European and North American presence in the Pacific;
- carry out archival work in the areas of literary, pictorial or filmic representations.
Content:
This subject examines a number of different sites of colonial cultural production located within the imperial centre and the colonies themselves. The aim is to demonstrate the plurality of colonialism's culture by examining a number of written and visual practices which include the exhibitionary complex, anthropology, travel writing, photography, tourist postcards, film and fiction.
Assessment:
Written work of not more than 6,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
1. English, Faculty of Arts (v3, p60) : Next:106-448 | Prev:106-445
2. Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts (v3, p49) : Next:106-448 | Prev:106-436
Year 4 Cultural Studies.
Credit points: 16.7 4th year
Coordinator: Anne Maxwell.
Contact: One 2-hour seminar per week.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject successfully will:
- have developed critical and analytical skills that will enable them to trace the operations of imperialist discourse in the context of the Pacific;
- examine the cultural consequences of imperialist practices in the Pacific;
- adapt a wide range of theoretical material to the cultural productions arising from European and North American presence in the Pacific;
- carry out archival work in the areas of literary, pictorial or filmic representations.
Content:
This subject examines a number of different sites of colonial cultural production located within the imperial centre and the colonies themselves. The aim is to demonstrate the plurality of the colonialism's culture by examining a number of written and visual practices which include the exhibitionary complex, anthropology, travel writing, photography, tourist postcards, film and fiction.
Assessment:
Written work of not more than 6,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
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2. Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts (v3, p49) : Next:106-448 | Prev:106-436
Status: Official 1996 Date created: Oct 9 1995 Last modified: Oct 9 1995 Authorised by: Academic Registrar Email enquiries: Course_Information@registrar.unimelb.edu.au
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