Bachelor of Arts
Australian Studies - unit set code MJ-A000012
The Australian studies major sequence comprehensively examines major debates in Australian society in its global contexts. At each level, students are encouraged to explore a range of sources from popular culture to politics and policy.
On successful completion of the Australian Studies major sequence, students should have the following skills:
- an ability to reconstruct/explain social, political and cultural events;
- an ability to relate the global/international and the Australian;
- an ability to recognise the impact of the Australian past on the present;
- an ability to analyse change today and place contemporary issues and debates in context;
- an ability to incorporate a reflective perspective; that is, to illustrate the range of opinions between different scholars and disciplines on the subject and how and why interpretations have differed;
- an ability to evaluate media coverage of current political debates such as those over citizenship/identity and Indigenous issues;
- an ability to appreciate social, class, ethnic, cultural and gender differences;
- an ability to study Australian society from and interdisciplinary perspective.
Level 1
Core Units
Trimester 1
| AIA104 | Australian Identities: Indigenous and Multicultural (B, G, W, X) (Final year of offer 2013) |
| AIA106 | Populate Or Perish: Australia's People (Commencing 2014) |
| AIA200 | Resistance and Revival: 20th Century Indigenous Australians (Commencing 2014) |
Trimester 2
| AIA105 | Visions of Australia: Time and Space From 1700 to 2010 (B, G, W, X) |
| AIA300 | Australia's Asia: From Peril to Asian Century (B) (Commencing 2013) |
And a selection of four other units, including at least 1 unit from each levels 2 and 3, from the following:
Trimester 1
| AAM219 | Contemporary Australian Cinema (B, W) * |
| AIH205 | Sex and Gender in History (B, G, X) |
| AIH337 | Race, Science and Religion in Australasia 1860s to 1920s (B, G, X) |
Trimester 2
| AIH288 | Exploring Australia's Indigenous Pasts (B, G, X) |
| AIH238 | Australia and the Two World Wars (B, G) |
| AIP204 | Politics and the Media (B, G, W, X) |
| ASC304 | Culture and Control: Boundaries and Identities (B, G, X) |
| ASS330 | Human Possibilities in the Age of Digital Communication (G, X) |
* AAM219 also offered on campus at Burwood only in trimester 3
Trimester 3
| ALL379 | Representing Australia (ONLINE) |
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