Faculty of Arts

 Australian Studies

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Convener: Dr June Senyard (Department of History)

The Faculty of Arts offers a program in Australian Studies housed in the Department of History. Defining Australia and Australians has been a major preoccupation of cultural production in this country. The Australian Studies program allows students to integrate knowledge of the Australian situation drawn from other disciplines and to apply different methodological approaches to the ways in which ideas of identity and tradition have been communicated.

 1. Strengths of the area of study

The program addresses questions concerning the production and reproduction of a distinctive culture and provides opportunities for the concentrated study of sport, language and everyday life as distinctive aspects of the Australian cultural tradition.

 2. Career opportunities

A degree with a major in Australian studies is of relevance to graduates entering education, librarianship, the public service, the media or other roles where an understanding of preoccupations in Australian cultural production is of significance.

 3. Prerequisites

Entry to the program will usually be at second-year level. The normal prerequisite for entry to a major in Australian Studies is the completion of 25 points at first-year level which focus on Australia. Students should consult the coordinator for approval of their subject choice but could consider the following as appropriate:

First year subjects
Department of History		Semester
	131-109 Australian History A: the Colonial Experiment	n/a
	131-111 Australian History B: Towards 2001	n/a
	131-116 Colonisers and Colonised A: Settler Societies in an Imperial Age	1
	131-117 Colonisers and Colonised B: Settler Societies in a Postcolonial Age	2
	131-120 Introduction To Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies	1
Department of English
	106-103 Modern Australian Writing	1
	106-104 Women's Writing, Women's Lives	n/a
Department of Political Science
	166-101 Australian Politics: Institutions, Parties and Issues	1
	166-102 Contemporary Issues in Australian Politics: Citizenship and Globalisation	2
	166-103 Australian Society: Class, Gender, Race and Sexuality	1
	166-104 Change and Conflict in Australian Society	2

 4. Requirements for a major

A major in Australian Studies requires the completion of five subjects at second and third-year level for a total of 83.3 points. The program offers a core of subjects taught by lecturers in Australian Studies and a range of options offered by the departments of the Faculty. Of the five subjects, two should be taken from the list of second and third-year Australian Studies subjects listed below. The three remaining subjects may be selected from the subjects listed below offered by other departments. Students may choose other subjects, subject to approval by the course coordinator. All students should consult with the course coordinator regarding their individual program.

Second and third year subjects
Australian Studies Subjects		Semester
	100-201 Australia Now: Environments, Cultures, Institutions	1, repeated 2
	131-203 The Oral Tradition in Australia	1
	131-204 Australian Sporting Culture A: Playing	1
	131-209 The Australian Way of Life	2
	131-278 Myths of Australia	n/a
	131-283 Australian Sporting Culture B: Watching	2
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Department of English
	106-241 Postcolonial Writing	1
	106-268 Reading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Textual Production	1
	106-275 Australian Authorship	1
	106-290 Contemporary Cultural Studies	2
	106-295 Feminist Cultural Studies	1
Department of Fine Arts
	111-216 Postcolonialism in Australia and the Pacific	1
	111-223 Myths and Legends in Australian Art 1840-1950	2
	111-227 Perspectives On Contemporary Aboriginal Art	2
	111-248 Television and Australian Import Culture	n/a
	111-251 Theorising the Body in Australia	2
	111-254 Commodity Culture: Myth, Meaning and Advertising	2
	111-262 Australian Cinema	1
	111-433 You Beaut Country: Australian Art and Design in the 1950s	1
	111-444 Making Gender: Art, Film and Spectatorship in the West 1850-1995	n/a
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
	121-214 Urban Geography: the Post-Modern City	1
	121-218 Australia and the Pacific Rim in a Global Economy	1
	121-219 Environmental Politics and Management	1
	121-220 Water Resources	2
Department of History
	131-205 War and Australian Society 1788-1918	1
	131-210 Crime, Law and Punishment in Colonial Victoria	n/a
	131-211 War and Australian Society Since 1919	2
	131-215 Making Melbourne Marvellous (B) - A Zone in Transition: the Inner Suburbs	1
	131-219 Changing Concepts of 'Woman's Place': Europe, the United States and Australia, 1790-1950	n/a
	131-220 Gender, Culture and Society	2
	131-236 Australian History 1788-1914: The Colonial Experiment	1
	131-253 Koori and Non-Koori Histories: Colonial and Post Colonial Interchanges in Australia	2
	131-258 Australia Since 1914: Memories, Identities and Histories	2
	131-259 The Migrant Experience	n/a
	131-260 Migration and Australian Society	n/a
	131-279 The Browning of Australia: Australian Environment History	1
	131-290 Exhibiting Histories and Cultures: Museums, Objects, Spectacles	1
Department of History & Philosophy of Science
	136-227 Science in Australian Society	n/a
	136-272 Ethnic Nationalism and the Modern World	n/a
Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
	175-214 Language in Aboriginal Australia	n/a
Department of Political Science
	166-203 Australian Political Economy	n/a
	166-209 Transforming Australian Culture: State, Society and the Australian Way of Life	1
	166-225 Public Policy Making in Australia	2
	166-231 Australia in the International Political Economy	1
	166-232 Political Psychology	n/a
	166-243 Australian Foreign Relations	n/a
	166-249 Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies	2
	166-270 Australian Public Policy and Public Sector Change: Current Trends

 5. Entry to combined Honours

There is no pure Honours program in Australian Studies at this time.

Students wishing to enrol in a combined Honours course in Australian Studies complete all the requirements of the Bachelor of Arts degree, complete an Australian Studies major with an average grade over the major of at least H2B, and gain admission to Honours in another area of study within the Faculty.

 6. Honours requirements

Combined honours in Australian Studies requires the completion of one single semester unit in Australian Studies (16.7 points), three semester units in another Department and a thesis in the combining Department. Interested students should contact the Coordinator.

 7. Opportunities for further study

A range of multi-disciplinary postgraduate courses are offered to meet the needs of both established professionals and others wishing to pursue further research in the area of Australian Studies.

 8. For more information

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Subject descriptions

131-203 The Oral Tradition in Australia
131-204 Australian Sporting Culture A: Playing
100-201 Australia Now: Environments, Cultures, Institutions
131-209 The Australian Way of Life

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