Australian Studies
Peter Allen assures us that 'I still call Australia home'. But what and where is home for Australians? The destination is not as simple as the song's popular sentiment would imply. Indeed the concept...
'Australia and Home' asks you to forget whatever you thought you knew about Australia and begin the process again. The starting point is in Australias unique writing and films. Is Australia a '...
This unit will examine both historical and contemporary Australian films. Students will consider the means by which cinema is an expression of Australian history and culture, as well as how film...
RationaleThe appropriate content of Australian history courses is openly debated. Even the nation called Australia is problematic as competing identities, discourses, conceptualisations and nations-...
RationaleThe appropriate content of Australian history courses is openly debated. Even the nation called Australia is problematic as competing identities, discourses, conceptualisations and nations-...
Rationale The appropriate content of Australian history courses is openly debated. Even the nation called Australia is problematic as competing identities, discourses, conceptualisations and nations...
Introduces students to the study of nineteenth and twentieth century Australian history at the tertiary level. Topics covered include race and gender relations, convict society, the growth of self-...
Introduces students to the study of nineteenth and twentieth century Australian history at the tertiary level. Topics covered include race and gender relations, convict society, the growth of self-...
Introduces students to the study of Australian history at the tertiary level. Topics covered include race and gender relations, convict society, and the growth of self-government. Emphasis is placed...
Introduces students to the study of Australian history at the tertiary level. Topics covered include race and gender relations, convict society, and the growth of self-government. Emphasis is placed...
Introduces students to the study of Australian history at the tertiary level. Topics covered include race and gender relations, convict society, and the growth of self-government. Emphasis is placed...
The unit aims to provide US Study Abroad students with a substantial overview of Australian history and an analysis of the evolution of contemporary Australian society. It covers major themes and...
What symbols and landmarks identify and embody Australia? How have Uluru and the Opera House, the Harbour Bridge and Barrier Reef, Anzac and vegemite evolved as cultural icons and what do they tell...
What symbols and landmarks identify and embody Australia? How have Uluru and the Opera House, the Harbour Bridge and Barrier Reef, Anzac and vegemite evolved as cultural icons and what do they tell...
Examines the social meanings & historical formation of selected forms of popular culture in Australia from the early twentieth century to the present. Areas considered include television, popular...
Examines the social meanings & historical formation of selected forms of popular culture in Australia from the early twentieth century to the present. Areas considered include television, popular...
The course introduces students to Australian cultural studies through consideration of constructions of Australian national identity in a broad range of popular cultural forms such as popular...
Examines the social meanings & historical formation of selected forms of popular culture in Australia from the early twentieth century to the present. Areas considered include television, popular...
AUST2000 Australian Popular Culture explores various aspects of popular culture in Australia with particular emphasis on the period from the 1960s to the present. The course examines the production...
The course introduces students to Australian cultural studies through consideration of constructions of Australian national identity in a broad range of popular cultural forms such as popular...
