Programs in the Faculty of Arts complement teaching within departments by offering units in newer areas of specialisation or in fields common to two or more disciplines. Some programs have staff specifically appointed to them, while others have developed through collaboration between staff in different departments. Whereas a departmental major consists of an approved sequence of units taken in one department, a program major consists of an approved sequence of units in a newer subject area or an interdisciplinary field. A program major thus enables students to pursue studies which span the interests of more than one department.
The units for a program major can include core units specific to a particular program together with related units offered in two or more departments. For example, the Population Studies Program offers several core units on demographic issues, concepts and methods, while departments ¾ such as Archaeology and Anthropology, Geography and Sociology ¾ teach further units on population which may be included in the Population Studies major.
Another example is the Medieval and Renaissance Studies program which reflects the interest of History, Art History and language departments in this particular period of history.
As these examples illustrate, the fields of interest are defined by their subject matter. It may be a geographical area (for example, Contemporary Europe), or a particular cultural phenomenon (Religious Studies) or a social process (Social and Political Theory). Each combines in one program a variety of approaches taken by scholars from different disciplinary perspectives. Students following the programs have the opportunity to compare and combine the various approaches, achieving a more rounded and richer understanding of the field they are studying.
Within the programs, honours courses are offered by Contemporary Europe, Film Studies, Human Sciences, Population Studies, Religious Studies and Women’s Studies.
Students who intend to complete a program major are encouraged to consult with the Convener in planning their course.
No program major may include more than 12 credit points at 1000 level nor more than 4 units from one discipline. Unit prerequisites will apply unless waived by the lecturer concerned.
Program majors are detailed in the following pages.
Convener: Dr Peterson, Archaeology and Anthropology
Introduction
The program in Aboriginal Studies enables students with an interest in Aboriginal studies to take a set of interrelated units in different disciplines without the normal prerequisite required in each unit. The major in Aboriginal Studies is an interdisciplinary program in which it is possible to combine archaeology, anthropology, history, music and linguistics for a broadly based understanding of Aboriginal societies and cultures, both past and present. Taken together, the units provide a comprehensive insight into all aspects of Aboriginal studies including Aboriginal origins, their occupation and adaptation to the continent, their traditional social, cultural and linguistic practices, the impact of European colonisation, the history of the interrelationship between Aboriginal people and other Australians and the place of Aboriginal people in Australian society today.
The only prerequisites for advanced level units in Aboriginal Studies are completion of 2 first-year units in Anthropology or Archaeology or History or Linguistics or Political Science or Sociology. In their second and third years, students taking a major in Aboriginal Studies may take advanced level units offered by the Departments of Archaeology and Anthropology, History and Linguistics. All that is required of Arts students as a prerequisite for the Music unit, Music in Aboriginal Society is Arts or Asian Studies units.
The major comprises two approved first-year units plus any four semester units or six semester units at 2000/3000 level.
Australian Aboriginal Societies and Culture ANTH2005
(8cp)
First semester
For details see entry under Department of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Aboriginal Australian History HIST2022
(8cp)
Not offered in 1999
For details see entry under Department of History.
Language in Aboriginal Australia LING2016
(8cp)
First semester
For details see entry under Department of Linguistics.
Music in Aboriginal Society MUSM2088
(8cp)
First semester
For details see entry under Department of Literature and
Materials of Music
Prehistory of Australia PREH2004
(8cp)
First semester
For details see entry under Department of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Biological Anthropology of Aboriginal Australians ANTH2016
(8cp)
Not offered in 1999
For details see entry under Department of Anthropology and Anthropology.
Aborigines and Australian Society ANTH2017
(8cp)
Second semester
For details see entry under Department of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Convener: Dr A. J. Liddicoat, Linguistics
Applied Linguistics studies language and linguistics in relation to practical problems and social issues. It includes issues such as language teaching and learning, language planning, language acquisition, social issues in language use, and crosscultural communication. Students in the Applied Linguistics major will be introduced to the basic concepts of Linguistics and their application in their selected areas of study. The program major will complement studies in a foreign language or English, especially for students interested in a career in language teaching, as well as enriching the study of other majors, especially Communication and Cognitive Studies, Development Studies, Political Science, Psychology or Sociology. No more than 4 units may be taken from one department.
The major comprises:
(a) LING1001/2001 Introduction to the Study of Language (first semester)
(b) at least one unit from:
LANG2101 Second Language Acquisition*
LING2013 Teaching Languages
LING2024 Teaching
English to Speakers of Other Languages
LING3021 Children’s Language Acquisition
(c) One or two units from:
GERM2110 Structure of German*
JAPS2007 Japanese Linguistics**
JAPS2009 Japanese
Lexicon**
JAPS2019 Japanese Phonetics and Phonology**
LENG2010/2020 Structure
of English
LING1004/2004 Phonetics and Phonology
LING2003 Introduction to Syntax
LING2008 Semantics
LING2011 Romance
Linguistics
LING2017 Chinese Linguistics
SEAT2106 Seminar on Thai Linguistics**
SEAT2107 Comparative
Historical Tai Linguistics**
(d) The remaining units to be chosen from:
LANG2102 Psycholinguistics*
LANG2105 Language and Culture
LING1002/2002 Language
and Society
LING1021/2021 Cross Cultural Communication
LING2016 Language in
Aboriginal Australia
LING2022 Language Planning and Language Politics
LING2023 Dictionaries
and Dictionary Making
LING3011 Discourse Analysis
LING3009 Research Methods
in Applied Linguistics
ALIN1001 Language in Asia**
CLAS2010 Speaking and Persuading
ENGL2063 Australian
English***
FREN2006 History of the French Language*
GERM2023 The German Language
Today*
GERM2111 German Language Change*
* see entry under Modern European Languages
** see entry under Asian Studies
*** see entry under English
All other subjects are offered by Linguistics
Convener: Dr I Keen, Archaeology & Anthropology
The objectives of this program are to examine the attitudes, practices and responsibilities of societies with respect to art and material culture. Issues include the preservation, documentation and accessibility of this culture, and the influence of technological change and social values. The major in Art and Material Culture provides a theoretical basis for art curatorship and museum studies.
The major comprises any one of:
Introducing Anthropology and Understanding Human Diversity
Introduction
to Art History and Introduction to Modern Art
Introduction to Philosophy
(or Thinking Clearly: Philosophical Themes and Fundamental Ideas in Philosophy)
Self
and Society and Contemporary Society
Introduction to Archaeology and Introduction
to Humankind: From Origins to Civilisations
To be followed by 4 units from the following:
ANCH2009 Artefacts and Society in the Greco-Roman World
ANTH2010 The Anthropology
of Art
ARTH2044 Art and its Context: Materials, Techniques, Display
ARTH2045 Curatorship:
Theory and Practice
ARTH2055 The Fabric of Life: an Introduction to Textile
History
ARTH2032 Computer Applications in the Humanities
ARTH2035 Publishing
Humanities on the World Wide Web
PHIL2068 Aesthetics
PHIL3065 Advanced Philosophy
of Art
PREH2032 Presenting the Past: Archaeology, Politics and Representation
PREH2033 Feminism,
Gender and Archaeology
PREH2034 Archaeology and the Document
PREH2036 Understanding
Early Technologies
PREH3012 Analysis of Stone Artefact Assemblages
SOCY2022 Energy,
Environment and Society
MUSM2076 Music in Aboriginal Society
MUSM2077 Music
in Asian Cultures
MUSM2122 Music, Culture and Society (World Musics A)
MUSM2123 Music,
Culture and Society (World Musics B)
provided that no more than 4 units in the major are drawn from the one department.
The major, consisting of 6 units, may also include 5 or 6 of the later-year units. Note that most advanced units in this program are normally offered in alternate years.
Convener: Professor Ann Curthoys, History Department
This is a multi-disciplinary program designed to complement departmental majors in the Faculty. It draws on the Arts Faculty’s considerable strengths in the area of Australian Studies in both the humanities and social sciences. Most Departments and Centres offer subject units in Australian studies; by offering a Program major in the area, the Faculty aims to assist students to find and access these units and to develop a range and depth of knowledge of Australia greater than would be possible within a single Departmental major. The Australian Studies Program may be of particular interest to overseas students wishing to include a year of study in Australia in their degree, and to Undergraduate Diploma students.
The program takes Australia as its focus, and provides opportunities for the detailed study of Australian history, environment, geography, society, politics, and culture. Emphasis is given to both indigenous and non-indigenous Australia, approximately ten units focusing specifically on indigenous Australian societies and cultures, and most units considering the contact and connections, past and present, between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples. Australia is studied in a series of relationships and comparisons: to the European origins and allegiances of many of its people and institutions; to similar settler societies, especially those which also have British connections; and to the societies and cultures of the Asia-Pacific region. The theoretical and methodological frameworks used to consider Australian society are varied, according to the approach of the contributing disciplines and teachers. Some of the themes and concepts used include: national identity and nationalism, class and power, colonialism and postcolonialism, gender and sexuality, and race, ethnicity and diaspora.
The requirements for the major are ¾
(a) six units, a maximum of two at first year level, from the list below.
(b) no more than three units may be taken from a single discipline (signified by a common alpha in the subject code).
There are no compulsory units or additional requirements.
Honours in Australian Studies may be taken only as part of a combined honours program, which will consist of a year long program of coursework and thesis devised in consultation between a Head of Department and the Program Convenor. Students hoping to undertake a combined honours year which includes Australian Studies should consult with the Convenor early in their second year of study.
To enter the honours year a student must have complete no fewer than seven units in the Australian Studies Program major and seven units in the Departmental major. The student must satisfy the relevant Department’s requirements for combined honours degree students, and have achieved at least a credit average in the units making up the seven Australian Studies units, including at least two at distinction level. The word length of the thesis will be subject to negotiation between the Department and the Degree Coordinator.
List of Units
In selecting units for the major, students are advised to remember that many are offered each alternate year. Details are given in the subject descriptions in the Departmental majors. Existing prerequisites apply, except that, with the permission of the relevant Head of Department, two units in Australian Studies may be used as an alternative mode of entry to the later-year units listed below.
FIRST YEAR
HIST1024 Australian History (first semester, each year)
POLS1002 Introduction
to Politics (first semester, each year)
LING1021 Cross Cultural Communication
(first semester, each year)
SOCY1003 Contemporary Society (second semester,
each year)
GEOG1006 Society, Environment, and Resources (second semester,
each year)
ENGL1004 Introduction to Australian Literature (second semester,
each year)
LATER YEAR
Check subject descriptions in Departmental majors for information on availability.
ANTH2005 Australian Aboriginal Societies and Cultures
ANTH2016 Biological
Anthropology of Aboriginal Australians
ANTH2017 Aborigines and Australian
Society
ANTH2056 Anthropology of Nationalism
ANTH2058 Anthropology of Australian
Settler Cultures
ARTH2027 Australian Art: Twentieth century
ARTH2049 Australian
Art: Methods and Approaches
ARTH2093 Postcolonial Discourses in Australian
Art
DRAM2008 Modern Australian Drama
ENGL2004 Lines of Growth in Australian
Literature
ENGL2011 Twentieth Century Australian Fiction
ENGL2052 Contact Discourse
ENGL2065 Australian
English
ENGL2066 Australian Film: Ned Kelly to Mad Max
GEOG2013 People and
Place
GEOG3010 Environmental Policy and Planning
HIST2022 Aboriginal Australian
History
HIST2129 Country Lives: Australian rural history
HIST2128 Convicts
and Immigrants: Colonial Australian history
HIST2139 20th Century Australia
HIST2111 Healing
Powers: Medicine and Society since 1750
LING2012 Structure of an Australian
Language
LING2016 Language in Aboriginal Australia
MUSM2088 Music in Aboriginal
society
POLS2005 Australian Government Administration and Public Policy
POLS2043 Pressure
Groups and Australian Public Policy
POLS2054 Australian Political Economy
POLS2065 Australian
Federal Politics
POLS2066 Australian Elections
POLS2067 Australian Political
Parties
POLS2074 Women and Australian Public Policy
POLS2075 Globalism and
the Politics of Identity
POLS2080 Politics, Policy and the Media
POLS3001 Australian
Foreign Policy
POLS2080 Religions and Politics in Australia
POLS2001 Aborigines
and Australian Politics
PREH2004 Australian Archaeology
PREH3015 Selected Themes
in Australian Archaeology
PREH3017 Archaeological Artefact Analysis
PREH2036 Understanding
Early Technologies
PREH2031 The Archaeology of Culture Contact
PREH2017 Landscape
Archaeology
PREH3004 Archaeological Field and Laboratory Methods
SOCY2032 Population
and Australia
SOCY2033 Australian Society
SOCY2050 Population Health
WOMS2019 Race,
Gender, and Nation
WOMS2020 Issues in Postcolonial Studies
Communication and Cognitive Studies
Conveners: Dr Lyon, Archaeology and Anthropology; Dr Andrews, Linguistics
The program in Communication and Cognitive Studies is an interdisciplinary program concerned with the search for an understanding of cognitive and communicative processes, and with the nature of knowledge and its representation in the broadest sense. Its constituent fields are linguistics, anthropology, philosophy, computer science and psychology.
In each of these disciplines there are areas of inquiry which have a bearing on the question of processes of mind. In linguistics, for example, language may be studied as a source of information on ways in which the world is conceptualised, and on the nature of human thinking, emotions, communication and values; and as a system by which knowledge is processed and articulated. In anthropology, cultures may be approached as systems of knowledge and one may study theories of knowledge and knowing from different cultural perspectives. In biological anthropology, one may study the question of the evolution of human consciousness. In philosophy, the question of the origin of knowledge and the possible grounds of justifying knowledge claims (epistemology) is a central theme. Psychology seeks to understand the way in which we acquire and operate upon knowledge in terms of the activities of the mind and mechanisms of the brain. And finally, in computer science, it is accepted that the computer is essential in carrying out studies of human information processing. In this program, students from various disciplines will have the opportunity to integrate perspectives from these diverse disciplines and bring them to bear on the central issues of communication and cognition.
Students are encouraged to consult with the conveners or with lecturers in the program to assemble an appropriate sequence of units. Please note that not all units are offered every year and students need to plan with this in mind. Prerequisities also vary considerably.
Students interested in units for which they may not have the listed prerequisites should discuss this with the lecturer as variations in prerequisites are sometimes possible. Further, those interested in particular aspects of cognitive science are urged to consult the Handbook entries under the discipline concerned for additional courses or seminars which are not part of the program but which may be of interest to them. For example, persons interested in neuroscience may wish to see the section on studies in neuroscience at the end of the Zoology section of the Handbook.
A major consists of 6 units (44 credit points). These 6 units should be chosen from the list of units below. The major must include units offered by at least three different departments, though this does not mean that 2 of the 6 unitsmust be taken in each of the three departments chosen. Students should note that the major may be made up entirely of later-year units, ie first-year units do not have to be part of the sequence. However, when listed first-year units form part of the sequence, no more than 2 points may be taken at the first-year level.
Other units may be chosen from:
ANTH2010 The Anthropology of Art
ANTH2034 Anthropology of Emotion
ANTH2011 The
Primates
PRAN2024 Animal Societies and Human Societies: Comparisons and Relationships
BIOL3001 Physiology
of the Nervous System [Biology B01 and C02, co-listed in psychology below]
COMP1100 Introduction
to Programming and Algorithms
COMP2033 Data Structures and Algorithms
COMP2037 Programming
Language Acceptors
COMP3063 Formal Languages, Computability and Complexity
COMP3065 Declarative
Programming Paradigms
LANG2015 Language and Culture
LING1001/2001 Introduction
to the Study of Language/ Introduction to the Study of Language (L)
LING1021/2021 Cross-Cultural
Communication/ Cross-Cultural Communication (L)
LING2003 Introduction to
Syntax
LING2006 Generative Grammar
LING2008 Semantics
PHIL2061 Philosophy of
Psychology
PHIL2074 Modern Theories of Knowledge
PHIL2082 Philosophy of Biology
PHIL3056 Philosophy
of Language
Psychology 2007/Biology B01 Biological Basis of Behaviour
Psychology
2008 Cognitive Processes
Psychology 3015 Issues in Cognitive Psychology
Psychology
3016/Biology C02 Issues in Behavioural Neuroscience
Prerequisites: The prerequisites for the component units vary according to the department offering them. In some cases, any relevant first-year unit or units from any of the five departments (Anthropology, Computer Science, Linguistics, Philosophy, and Psychology) may be acceptable as a prerequisite for later-year units listed in the program from other departments. Students should consult the Handbook under the appropriate course entry, or see the lecturer for possible variation in prerequisites.
Coordinator: Professor E Papadakis (European Studies)
The value of studying Europe arises both from a long history, recent events and the prospects for change. Following the end of the Cold War and the expansion of the European Union, new possibilities have emerged for cooperation and unity as well as for reasserting traditions and diversity. Apart from gaining an understanding of the foundations of modern Europe, the program focuses on contemporary European society. An important consideration is that Australia has in common with many European countries high levels of education, relatively affluent societies and similar social and economic concerns. Europe, which represents the biggest trading bloc in the world, is also the largest trading partner of Australia.
The program offers a major which is taken by students enrolled in the BA (European Studies) and is available to students enrolled in the BA.
The major consists of the following units in first year: Foundations of Modern Europe (EURO1002) and Contemporary European Society (EURO1003). In second and third years students are required to take four units. Two of these units must include either Citizens and the State in Europe (EURO2007); The European Union: Policies, Institutions and Challenges (EURO2003); or Contemporary Issues in Historical Perspective (EURO2005); and two other units can be drawn from the wide selection of units listed below.
The following core units in Contemporary Europe will be offered in 1999:
|
First semester |
Second semester |
|
First year |
|
|
Foundations of Modern Europe EURO1002 |
Contemporary European Society EURO1003 |
|
Later year |
|
|
Citizens and the State in Europe EURO2007 |
Europe: Contemporary Issues in Historical Perspective EURO2005 |
Foundations of Modern Europe EURO1002
(6cp)
Two lectures and one tutorial a week
Lectures will be recorded
First semester
Coordinator: Professor Papadakis
Syllabus: This unit develops perspectives on the concept of Europe, considers the political, social and cultural forces at work on European countries both with respect to elements of unity and diversity, to traditions and innovations and to the significance of notions like democracy, authoritarianism, the nation state, social class and citizenship.
Among the core themes are the idea of European unity, the shifting boundaries of European culture and identity, the consequences of transformations like the political and the industrial revolutions of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the development of a welfare state and a wide range of projects which predated and have been used as models of unifying Europe today.
The unit provides access to perspectives on modern Europe which are critical of prevailing orthodoxies, constructive in attempting to understand the benefits of particular courses of action and offer explanations and interpretations of social, political and cultural forces at work in Europe.
Proposed assessment: Tutorial papers and essay work.
Contemporary European Society EURO1003
(6cp)
Two lectures and one tutorial a week
Lectures will be recorded
Second semester
Coordinators: Professor Papadakis and Dr Muller
Syllabus: This unit identifies continuity and change in the organisation of European societies, beginning with the conception of Europe after World War II and appraising political and social structures and institutions.
Among the key themes are those pertaining to notions of economic reconstruction and development, challenges by social movements to aspects of the postwar settlement, shifts in values and attitudes, questions of race and ethnicity, religion, the status of women, employment and social policies, and national identities and cultures. The unit considers the position of Europe and European nations in the context of changes in power relationships around the globe.
The unit explores critical and constructive perspectives on contemporary European societies. It also aims to develop thinking skills and conceive alternative paths for action to those advocated by wellestablished practitioners or commentators.
Proposed assessment: Tutorial and essay work and a two-hour examination.
Citizens and the State in Europe EURO2007
(8cp)
Two lectures and one tutorial a week
Lectures will be recorded
First semester
Coordinator: Professor Papadakis
Syllabus: This unit considers changes in the roles of citizens and in the scope and growth of government in Europe. Among the topics addressed are the question of trust in politicians and the political system; the character of citizen involvement, including elections and other forms of political action; and links between citizens and political associations. Changes in the relationship between citizens and the state are explored in the context of social changes in Europe and the degree of support among elites and ordinary citizens for nation states and for the European Union.
The unit will cover the following themes in order to understand and speculate on these transformations: the use of public opinion in the process of political persuasion; how far the formation of public opinion represents citizen involvement in decisionmaking or the manipulation of perceptions and social control; the possibility of democracy; and the problematic nature of the categories used to define citizens and the state.
The approach adopted in this unit allows for critical appraisal of prevailing views about citizens and the state and for an exploration on their usefulness.
Proposed assessment: Tutorial and essay work and a two-hour examination.
Europe: Contemporary Issues in Historical Perspective EURO2005
(8cp)
Two lectures and one tutorial a week
Lectures will be recorded
Second semester
Coordinator: Mr J Gage, Department of Economic History, Faculty of Economics and Commerce
Syllabus: The unit will identify significant issues in the life of contemporary Europe and trace the development of these issues over the recent past; that is, principally since the Second World War. Strong emphasis will be placed on the emergence of a European consciousness over the last fifty years, especially on the political, economic and social elements of that consciousness. An examination of the origins, evolution and present state of institutions of European unity will also form a core component of the unit.
The description and analysis of these particular aspects of European experience will be placed within the wider framework of examination of the ideological and cultural trends that have characterised the European continent since 1945.
Preliminary reading
Proposed assessment: One class paper, one essay and a two-hour examination.
The European Union: Policies, Institutions and Challenges EURO2003
(8cp)
Not offered in 1999
Two lectures and one tutorial a week
Lectures will be
recorded
Coordinator: Dr Muller
Syllabus: The syllabus reflects the shifting challenges confronting the European Union and Europe. It includes an analysis of the institutions of the European Union in the context of questions of subsidiarity, the democratic deficit and likely reforms. The unit also covers the nature, history and evolution of major policies and their impact on member states as well as the wider debate over the evolution of the European Union as it confronts ‘globalisation’.
Other considerations include the perspective of member states on issues like defence, social policy, culture and enlargement; and the European Union in the world, as an expanding regional bloc, as an aid donor to developing countries and as a partner of Australia. Students will be encouraged to explore the relationship between the institutions of the European Community as well as the particular issues of concern to present or prospective member states by means of workshops or simulations.
Proposed assessment: An essay, workshops or simulations and an examination.
Preliminary reading
Perceptions of Stalin EURO2006
(8cp)
One lecture, one two-seminar per week
Not offered in 1999
Prerequisite: two units in the Faculty of Arts
Syllabus: This unit proceeds from the premise that the legacy of Stalin has been a constant factor in all aspects of Russian life since his death and that it will continue to be a major factor in the future. It follows, therefore, that to come to some understanding of contemporary Russia, it is necessary first to grasp the nature of Stalin’s regime, its impact on the people of the Soviety Union and their perception of it.
The unit takes an area studies approach with the aim of identifying different perceptions of Stalin and of the Soviet Union under Stalin. It will make use of studies by historians and political scientists, memoirists, travellers, writers and film makers, both contemporary and made in recent years. While students with some command of Russian will be encouraged to use their knowledge, the unit will be shaped for non-Russian speakers, using sources in translation and secondary sources in English.
Preliminary reading
Proposed assessment: a combination of written and spoken assignments, quiz and examination.
Reading list: A detailed list will be available to students.
Incompatibility: Nil.
Other units which may be taken as part of the Contemporary Europe Major and the BA European Studies:
ENGL2008 19th and 20th Century Literature
ARTH2048 Art and the Constitution
of Power
FREN2012 Contemporary France
POLS2063 Contemporary Political Theory
WOPH2002 Deconstruction
A Users’ Guide
FILM2003 European Cinema, European Societies
PHIL2087 European
Philosophy A
PHIL3066 European Philosophy B
ARTH2037 From Roman to Romanesque
HIST2103 From
Socialism to Thatcherism
GERM3046 German Cinema
POLS2071 Germany and Austria
in Europe
POLS2073 Global Politics of the Environment
PHIL2091 Identity and
Desire
FREN2014 Ideological Issues under the Fifth Republic
HIST22132 Marginals,
Misfits and Miscreants: Western Europe 1500-1700
DRAM2001 Modern European
Theatre
ARTH2043 Modernism in 20th Century Art and Design
ARTH2092 Modernism
and Postmodernism: Architecture in our Century
POLS2064 New Social Movements
ARTH2018 Northern
Renaissance Art
ARTH2039 Painters of Modern Life
PHIL2070 Philosophy and Gender
FILM2002 Play
into Film
POLS2025 Politics in Britain
POLS2069 Politics in Russia
ITAL3010 Politics,
Culture and Society in Postwar Italy
FILM2004 Postwar European Cinema: Films
and Directors
GERM2020 Postwar German Society
ITAL3009 Postwar Italian Cinema
PHIL2089 Power
and Subjectivity
HIST2133 Race and Racism in Modern Europe
RUSS2005 Russian
Drama in the Twentieth Century
ARTH2051 The Body in Question: Images and
Spectators in Western Art
HIST1017 The French Revolution: A Cultural Perspective
WOMS2015 The
Literature of Testimony
ENGL2009 Theories of Literature and Criticism
WOPH2001 Theories
of Postmodernism
HIST2136 World at War, 1939-1945
Any later-year unit in German, French, Italian, not primarily language-based (see entry under Classical and Modern European Languages).
Honours Program in Contemporary Europe
The Single Honours in Contemporary Europe enables either BA students or BA European Studies students to focus on Contemporary Europe in their fourth year.
The normal requirements for entry into fourth year Single Honours in Contemporary Europe are ¾
(i) completion of the Contemporary Europe Major (44 credit points) and of other designated units of the Contemporary Europe Major (32 credit points) with a Credit level average
(ii) completion of other units which, when taken together with (i) above, are sufficient to meet the requirements for a BA degree.
Students who have completed the BA European Studies will have a major in a language. Students enrolling in the Single Honours in Contemporary Europe but who have not been enrolled in the BA European Studies are not required to have a language major, though competence in a language is desirable.
The fourth year program will comprise ¾
The thesis will count for 50% of the grade and the two seminar courses for 25% each.
Students wishing to do the Honours in Contemporary Europe should consult the Convener of European Studies about their choice of seminar and about other seminars that may be available in 1998.
Students can do a fourth (honours) year in the BA European Studies by combining honours in an affiliated honours school with work at honours level in European Languages (see p.111 in this Handbook).
Convener: Ms R Kennedy, Women’s Studies
This is an interdisciplinary program designed to complement departmental majors in the Faculty. It draws on ANU’s distinctive strengths in the area of cultural and critical studies.
Cultural and Critical Studies is a comparatively recent interdisciplinary field of teaching and research. It draws on new theoretical and methodological developments in a range of disciplines, including art history, philosophy, literary studies, psychoanalysis, anthropology and European Studies. In this major, students will be introduced to important concepts for the study of culture such as representation, the sign, the text, culture, power, subjectivity, spectatorship, desire and pleasure. Students will take two compulsory units which will introduce them (1) to the role of the visual media in contemporary culture, and (2) to interdisciplinary theories of culture. In addition to these units, students will have the opportunity to study a range of important theorists, such as Foucault, Derrida, Lacan and Barthes, and theories such as poststructuralism, postmodernism, feminism, psychoanalysis and deconstruction. They will also have the opportunity to take units which apply these theories and methodologies to a range of contemporary issues, including representation and cultural politics, modernism and postmodernism, colonialism, postcolonialism and nationalism, and sexuality, gender, and race. Units in the major are interdisciplinary, and draw on a wide range of texts from elite and popular culture, including magazines, newspapers, film, theatrical productions, art, photography, political tracts, video and performance art.
Students should consult the convener for advice about how to structure their program major, and which units in departmental majors would best complement it.
The requirements for the major are ¾
(a) two first-year units in either Archaeology and Anthropology, Art History, English, Film Studies, History, Philosophy or Political Science;
(b) two compulsory units in Cultural and Critical Studies;
(c) two designated units in Cultural and Critical Studies.
The compulsory units, Reading Contemporary Culture and Theories of Culture are convened in the Centre for Women’s Studies, and the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, respectively. These units will be taught in alternate years.
For the designated units, existing prerequisites apply, except that, with the permission of the Convener and the Lecturer concerned, a compulsory unit may serve as a prerequisite for a designated unit. Students are reminded of Faculty’s rule that a program major may not include more than 4 units from any one department.
The designated units are ¾
ANTH2049 Ethnographic Film
ANTH2056 Anthropology of Nationalism
ANTH2057 Culture
and Person
ARTH2048 Art and The Constitution of Power
ARTH2051 The Body in
Question
AARTH2061 The Postmodern Sublime
ASHI2003 Asia and Australia in the
Visual Media (2 points)
ASHY2261 National Identity and its Critics
ENGL2009 Theories
of Literature and Criticism
ENGL2018 Post Colonial Literatures
ENGL2052 Contact
Discourse
ENGL2058 Theories of Imitation and Representation
ENGL2062 Duchesses
and Drudges
FILM2003 European Cinemas, European Societies
FILM2005 Moving Pictures:
Cinema and the Visual Arts
HIST2110 History and Theory
HIST2121 Electric Citizens:
The Rise of Modern Media in the United States, 1865-2000
HIST2122 Popular
Culture, Gender and Modernity
HIST2124 Histories of the Self in the Modern
Age
LANG2015 Language and Culture
PHIL2068 Aesthetics
PHIL2089 Power and Subjectivity
PHIL2091 Identity
and Desire
POLS2064 New Social Movements
POLS2075 Globalism and The Politics
of Identity
POLS2076 Frankfurt School and Habermas
WOHY2004 Sexual Politics
WOMS2010 Representation
and Gender
WOMS2011 Feminist Film Theory
WOMS2021 Trauma, Memory and Culture
WOMS2018 A
History of Western Sexuality
WOMS3002 Psychoanalysis and Subjectivity
WOPH2001 Theories
of Postmodernism
WOPH2002 Deconstruction, A User’s Guide
WOMS2020 Issues in
Postcolonial Studies
WOMS2023 Gender, Sex and Sexuality: An Introduction
to Feminist Theory
Convener: Dr R. Bloul, Sociology
Introduction
The major in Development Studies enables students to combine units concerned with development processes and specific regions. These units are drawn from the social science disciplines, each of which has a different perspective to offer. The inter-disciplinary major is intended to provide guidance in the selection of units so as to achieve a broadly based understanding of theories of development and the experience of at least one major geographical area. In order to ensure that students have a firm disciplinary base, the Development Studies major may be taken only in conjunction with one of the following majors: Anthropology, Economics, Economic History, Geography, History, Political Science, Sociology.
Students wishing to complete a Development Studies major should take first year units to the value of 24 credit points from: ANTH1002 and ANTH1003; ECON1001: ECHI1105 and ECHI1106; ECHI1006; ASHI1001; POLS1002 and POLS1003; SOCY1002 and SOCY1003; SREM1002 and GEOG1006; two History units at 1000 level. In order to satisfy prerequisites for 2000/3000 level units in the major, students are advised to include at least two of the following: ANTH1002, ANTH1003, POLS1002, POLS1003.
The major comprises twelve first-year credit points from the units listed above, together with later-year units to the value of 32 credit points. Among these later-year units, 2 must be selected from the core units listed below, which focus on the theoretical and practical problems of development; these 2 units must be drawn from different departments and at least one must be drawn from Group A. The other 2 later-year units in the major must be drawn from the area groups of units concerned with China, Oceania, Southeast Asia or Central Asia and the Middle East, as listed below. Details of units will be found under the appropriate departmental entry.
Students should try to include the normal prerequisites for advanced units in their selection of first-year units, but exemptions from normal prerequisites may be made for units being included in a Development Studies major.
Advice on appropriate combinations and sequences is available from the convener.
Core units: Group A
ANTH2009 Culture and Development. First semester
POLS2011 Development and
Change. First semester
SOCY2030 Sociology of Third World Development. Second
semester
Core units: Group B
ANTH2025 Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Second semester
ANTH2054 Anthropology
and the Urban Experience. First semester
ANTH2055 Social Change and Modernity.
Not offered in 1999
ANTH2056 Anthropology of Nationalism. Not offered in
1999
ASHI2002 Technology, Innovation and Society. Not offered in 1999
ECHI2003 Development,
Poverty & Famine. Second semester
ECHI2006 International Economy since the
Second World War. Second semester
ECHI3004 Poverty, Public Policy and Development.
Second semester
ECOS2004 Urban Ecology. First semester
ECOS3001 Sustainable
Urban Systems. Not offered in 1999
ECOS3002 Sustainable Agricultural Systems.
Second semester
GEOG2013 People and Place. First semester
GEOG2014 Population
and Resources. Second semester
POLS2068 Gender in International Politics.
Second semester
POLS2075 Globalism and the Politics of Identity. First semester
POLS3020 Lies,
drugs, sex and videotapes: counter-narratives of global politics. Not offered
in 1999
POPS2001/6001 Population and Society. First semester
SOCY2034 Modern
Society. Not offered in 1999
SOCY3022 Identity, Difference and Ethnicity.
Second semester
AREA UNITS
Central Asia and the Middle East
AREL2816 Modern Islamic Thought: West to Southeast Asia. Second semester
POLS2031 Politics
in the Middle East. Second semester
POLS2070 Politics in Central and West
Asia. First semester
China
ASHI2014 Contemporary Chinese Politics. Second semester
ECHI2109/2119 Asian
Giants: India, China and Japan: Alternative Paths to Prosperity. First
semester
Oceania
ANTH2006 Anthropology of New Guinea and Melanesia. Not offered in 1999
ANTH2017 Aborigines
in Australian Society. Second semester
HIST2054 Colonial and Contemporary
Pacific Islands. Not offered in 1999
POLS2055 Pacific Politics. Second semester
POLS2001 Aborigines
and Australian Politics. Not offered in 1999
Southeast Asia
ANTH2007 Anthropology in Southeast Asia. Not offered in 1999
ANTH2018 Anthropology
of Indonesia. Not offered in 1999
ANTH2060 Southeast Asia: Contemporary Issues
and Anthropological Perspectives. Second semester
AREL2173 Religion and Social
Movements in Southeast Asia.
ASHY2011 Colonialism and Resistance: Indonesia,
Malaysia and the Philippines
ASHY2012 State, Society and Politics in Indonesia,
Malaysia and the Philippines
ASHY2013 Mainland Southeast Asia to 1900: Cambodia,
Myanmar (Burma), Thailand and Vietnam. First semester
ASHY2014 State, Society
and Politics in Myanmar (Burma), Thailand and Vietnam. Second semester
ASHI2413 Vietnam
in the 20th Century. Not offered in 1999
ASHI2510 Malaysia: Politics, Society
and Development. First semester
ASHI2516 Indonesia: Politics, Society and
Development. First semester
ASHI3504 Reading Malay Political Culture. Not
offered in 1999
ASHI3505 Reading Thai Political Culture. Not offered in 1999
ASHI3002 Chinese
in Southern Diaspora. First semester
ECHI2108/2118 Emerging South East Asia:
The Economic Use of Australia’s Neighbours. Second semester
Other Areas
HIST2090 Black and White Tribes of South Africa. Second semester
ASHI2263 India:
The Emerging Giant. First semester
Environmental Studies has the broad objective of developing understanding of the interrelationships between human societies and their environment. The areas of study vary from natural ecological and earth processes through environmental management and resource use to cultural ecology and the history of environmental change, perception and philosophy.
At present the programs incorporate units from the biological and earth sciences, geography, prehistory and anthropology as well as the environmental aspects of law, economics, philosophy and sociology. One program, Human Sciences, has its own units and structure, and there are jointly taught units in the School of Resource Management and Environmental Science.
The three programs naturally involve overlap, but have different emphasis and associated majors. There are several recommended sequences for the programs but some combinations between sequences are permissible, and a program can be formed from later-year units if prerequisites are met. Prerequisites for some units, particularly in science, may require additional units to be taken in earlier years, and these should be checked carefully.
A major is a prescribed sequence of units comprising no fewer than 44 credit points.
Details of ECOS units can be found under the Human Sciences entry.
Agroecology
Convener: Mr Dumaresq, Geography
The program brings together the study of traditional and modern agricultural systems. Relevant units are taught in the Faculties of Arts and Science. The focus of the program is on how human societies have provided and can continue to provide food, fibre and water for their members. The core units provide an integrated multidisciplinary understanding of the ecology of agricultural systems.
Science students should use the following groupings as a guide only, bearing in mind the minimum number of science points needed for their degree.
Arts students should select appropriate units from the following lists and are reminded that a major may consist entirely of 2000 and 3000 level units.
Normal prerequisites apply to all units unless the student obtains exemption from the lecturer in charge of that unit.
Units should be selected as follows (ECOS2002 and 3002 are compulsory core units):
First-year units (only 12 credit points may be counted)
ANTH1002 Introduction to Anthropology
ANTH1003 Understanding Human Diversity
PREH1111 Introduction
to Archaeology
PREH1112 Introduction to Humankind: From Origins to Civilisations
GEOG1006 Society,
Environment and Resources
SREM1002 Earth Systems
BIOL1001 Biology A01
BIOL1002 Biology
A02
BIOL1003 Biology A03
Core units to the value of 16 credit points
ECOS2002 Agroecology
ECOS3002 Sustainable Agricultural Systems
Normally, a further 16 credit points from the following (or, where the major consists entirely of 2000/3000 level units, not more than 32 credit points):
GEOG3010 Environmental Policy and Planning
PREH2039 The Origins and Dispersals
of Agricultural Populations
PRAN2008 Ethnobiology and Domestication
SREM2005 Australian
Soils
SREM3003 Soil Management
FSTY3056 Farm Forestry
ECOS3014 Special Topics
in Human Ecology
Environmental Resources
Convener: Mr Dumaresq, Geography
The fundamental nature of environmental resources, essential to life and increasingly subject to conflict over ends and means, makes their study necessarily broad. Relevant units are taught in four faculties, Arts, Economics and Commerce, Law, and Science. Grouping these units appropriately, three separate majors provide different coherent approaches and areas of focus. Common to all of them is the interactive process between humans and their environment at the individual and societal levels.
Students enrolled in the Faculty of Science should use these as a guide only, bearing in mind the minimum number of science points required in their degree.
Students enrolled in the Faculty of Arts should make their selections as indicated under each major below but are reminded that, if desired, a major may consist entirely of 2000 and 3000 level units. No more than four 2000 or 3000 level units from one department may be included in an Environmental Resources major. No more than 4 units from one department may be included in an Environmental Resources major.
Normal prerequisites apply to all such units unless the student obtains exemption from the lecturer in charge of that unit.
Some units are annual units and others one semester units.
Natural Resources concentrates on those resources that provide the essential economic foundation for society, uses Urban Ecology as an integrating core unit and covers economic, legal and management aspects. Units should be selected as follows: no more than 12 credit points from Group 1, 16 credit points from Group 2 of which ECOS2004 is compulsory, and at least 16 more credit points from Group 2 or Group 3.
Group 1
ECHI1003 Australian Economy (S)
ECHI1001 Australian Economy
ECON1001 Economics
I
ECHI1005 Micro Economics for Social Scientists
ECHI1006 Macro Economics for
Social Scientists
Group 2
ECOS2002 Agroecology
ECOS2004 Urban Ecology
ECOS3001 Sustainable Urban Systems
ECOS3002 Sustainable
Agricultural Systems
GEOG2014 Population and Resources
GEOG3010 Environmental
Policy and Planning
GEOG2013 People and Place
Group 3
ECHI2102 Australian Economic History
ECON2128 Resource Economics
FSTY2102 Natural
Resource Economics
LAW3103 Law and the Environment
SOCY2022 Energy, Environment
and Society
SOCY2032 Population and Australia
POLS2073 Global Politics of the
Environment
Supporting units in statistics would be an advantage.
Conservation and Recreation combines ecological and social approaches in the study of more general aspects of the environment affecting the quality of life. Geography and Human Sciences provide the integrating themes. Units should be selected as follows: no more than 12 credit points from Group 1, 16 credit points from Group 2 of which ECOS2004 is compulsory, and at least 16 more points from Group 2 or Group 3.
Group 1
BIOL1001 Biology A01
BIOL1003 Biology A03
GEOG1006 Society, Environment and
Resources
SOCY1001 Introduction to Sociology
SOCY1002 The Self and Society
SOCY1003 Contemporary
Society
SOCY1004 Introduction of Social Psychology
SREM1003 Managing Earth’s
Resources
Group 2
GEOG2014 Population and Resources
GEOG3010 Environmental Policy and Planning
ECOS2004 Urban
Ecology
ECOS3001 Sustainable Urban Systems
Group 3
FSTY3059 Participatory Resource Management
ECOS3002 Sustainable Agricultural
Systems
FSTY4003 Forest Policy and Planning
LAW3103 Law and the Environment
SOCY2022 Energy,
Environment and Society
SOCY2034 Modern Society
Convener: Dr R Hillman (Art History and Visual Studies)
In the first hundred years of its history, film has become a leading art form, technology, and source of information and opinion. The program in Film Studies is designed to bring together the different perspectives offered by units in a range of departments and programs. The units also feed well into the new Cultural and Critical Studies Program major. The core unit FILM1001, described below, opens up interdisciplinary issues which underpin film scholarship.
Film Studies is based in the Department of Art History and Visual Studies, though occasionally guest lecturers are also involved.
Students interested in the major are encouraged to consult with the convener or with lecturers in the program to assemble an appropriate sequence of units. Please note that not all later-year units are offered in each year.
The major: Introduction to Film Studies (FILM1001) plus units to the value of 32 credit points from groups A and B. Note that units to a maximum value of 16 credit points may be chosen from group B.
Introduction to Film Studies (FILM1001)
(12cp)
Annual
Five hours a week, with two lectures, a tutorial, and a screening
Coordinator: Dr R Hillman
Prerequisites: None
Syllabus: This course is intended as an introduction to the aesthetics, history and genres of film. Throughout the course there will be a mix of formal, cultural and historical analysis. Once equipped with an understanding of elements of film technique, students will address questions of narrative, and of film as a document of society and culture. Film viewed as a representation of realities will lead to issues of documentation, personalised history and ideologies. Students will be introduced to historical and theoretical perspectives to deepen their understanding of what they see (and hear) and to develop critical thinking about film as art, as industry and as social critique.
Films to be analysed come from European, Hollywood and Australian/NZ traditions. They will include works by Eisenstein, Welles, Hitchcock, Wilder, Fassbinder, Jane Campion and many others.
Preliminary reading
(Note: The latest edition of one of these texts should be bought as your textbook for the year)
Proposed assessment: One 1,500 word assignment (close reading of images); a 2,000 word essay, two two-hour examinations (end of each semester).
In their second and third years, students take units to the value of four points from the following. Full details of those without the prefix FILM may be found under respective Department or Program headings.
GROUP A
Play into Film: The Cinematic Adaptation of Theatrical Texts FILM2002
(8cp)
Not offered in 1999
Five hours per week: one three hour session for film
viewing and discussion, one two-hour tutorial/ workshop
Coordinator: Dr G Moliterno
Prerequisite: FILM1001 or, for those taking it as part of a Drama major, two first-year points in Drama.
Syllabus: Cinema has a rich tradition of attempts to translate theatrical texts into film. If at one level such attempts can be appreciated as simply other productions of the plays in question, at another level such adaptations bring to the fore the specificity of theatre and film as distinct forms of representation working within differing conventions. The course thus proposes to study several examples of plays on film not merely with the intention of gauging the fidelity of the adaptation to the original but more importantly as a way of trying to elucidate the complex dynamics of exchange between these two different forms of representation.
Prescribed text
Proposed assessment: Two 2,000 word essays, tutorial/workshop participation.
European Cinemas,
European Societies FILM2003
(8cp)
Not offered in 1999, may be offered in 2000
Four hours a week: one two-hour
screening, a lecture and a tutorial/seminar
Coordinator: Dr R Hillman
Prerequisites: For Film Studies majors, FILM1001, for Art History majors ARTH 1002 and 1003. For other (EURO or Cultural Studies) majors, FILM1001, EURO1002 and 1003, or 2 units in History. No language prerequisite; films not in English are all subtitled.
Syllabus: The course examines how selected postwar European cinema movements and filmmakers have used film as another way to represent the past. After a brief segment on the relationship between Hollywood and European cinemas, the main focus is on issues ¾ aesthetic, cultural and industrial ¾ arising from the representation of history in film. The conventions of visual vs written genres and language are examined. Chronologically the course extends from a retrospective view of Stalinism in Burnt by the Sun to splintered nationalism in the former E. bloc (Before the Rain; Gorilla Bathes at Noon), but it also includes cult arthouse films whose historical contexts are still of particular significance (The Conformist; Hiroshima, mon amour). The interplay among fact, fiction and memory foregrounds the role of film in creating or perpetuating cultural myths via historical themes. Discourses addressed include national identities, the aestheticisation of fascism and the limits of representation. The course will combine the symbolic dimension of (political) history with the social dimension of (film) art. In this it complements Postwar European Filmmakers (FILM2004).
Proposed assessment: Two 2,000 word essays, or one essay and a two-hour examination.
Preliminary reading
Incompatibility: (the former) EURO2002.
This unit may also be counted towards the Contemporary Europe or Cultural and Critical Studies majors.
Postwar European Cinema: Films and Directors FILM2004
(8cp)
Not offered in 1999, may be offered in 2000
Four hours a week: a one-hour
lecture, one two-hour screening, and a one-hour tutorial/seminar
Coordinator: Dr G Moliterno
Prerequisites: For Film Studies majors, FILM1001, for Art History majors ARTH 1002 AND 1003; for Contemporary Europe majors, EURO1002 and EURO1003; otherwise at least two first-year units in the Faculty of Arts. No language prerequisite; all non English language films will be subtitled.
Syllabus: The unit examines the major developments in postwar European cinema through a detailed study of representative films by some of Europe’s most significant filmmakers. Directors treated will include Ingmar Bergman, Roman Polanski, Federico Fellini, Luis Bunuel, Jacques Tati, Jean Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Werner Herzog, Peter Greenaway and Krzysztof Kieslowski. The films will be examined in their historical and social context as well as in relation to their director’s particular aesthetic and thematic preoccupations.
The unit is specifically intended to function as the aesthetic counterpart of European Cinemas, European Societies (FILM2003) but it may also be taken on its own as a general survey of the major European auteurs.
Preliminary reading
Proposed assessment: One 2,500 word essay and one two-hour examination.
Incompatibility: EURO2002
This unit may also be counted towards a program major in Contemporary Europe.
Moving Pictures: Cinema and the Visual Arts FILM2005
(8cp)
1st semester
4 hours per week (1 lecture, 1 tutorial, one 2-hour film screening)
Coordinator: Dr G Moliterno
Prerequisites: For students taking it for the Film Studies major, FILM1001; for students taking it for the Art History major, ARTH1002 and 1003; otherwise students should have qualified for entry into 2nd year study in the Faculty of Arts or have the written permission of the Head of Department.
Syllabus: Through a close analysis of selected feature films which utilise artistic and art historical references as part of their expressive strategies, the course will explore both the nature of visual representation, common to cinema and the visual arts, as well as the particular characteristics which distinguish and define each of these as separate art forms. Films to be studied may vary from year to year according to availability of copies, teaching staff, etc. but may include films by Vincente Minelli (An American in Paris), Andrej Tarkovsky (Andrej Rublev), Derek Jarman (Caravaggio), Peter Greenaway (The Draughtsman’s Contract), Orson Welles (F for Fake), Paul Cox (The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh) and Raul Ruiz (Hypothesis of a Stolen Painting).
Proposed assessment: One 2,500 word essay, final exam
Preliminary text
Incompatibility: None
This unit may also be counted towards the Contemporary Europe, Art History and Visual Studies and Cultural and Critical Studies majors.
U.S. Cinema: Hollywood and Beyond FILM2006
(8cp)
2nd semester
4 hours a week: a screening (usually 2 hours), a lecture and
a tutorial. Lectures will be taped, but since these will often include
videoclips, students are warned this is not very satisfactory.
Coordinator: Dr R Hillman
Prerequisites: FILM1001 or ARTH1002 and ARTH1003, or else by permission of the HOD.
Recommended corequisite: HIST2130
Syllabus: The course comprises an aesthetic, historical and to a lesser degree industrial analysis of the impact of Hollywood on 20th century culture. It will trace the development, maturation and more recent transformations of classical narrative, while also addressing issues of genre, performance, and historical, social and sexual ideology. Questions of censorship, the industrial aspects of the studio system and Hollywood’s attempts at global hegemony will also be addressed.
Titles will include D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation, Mankiewicz’ All about Eve, John Ford’s The Searchers, Malick’s Days of Heaven, Oliver Stone’s Platoon, Jarmusch’s Mystery Train, and films by Charlie Chaplin, von Stroheim and others.
Proposed assessment: A 2,000-2,500 word essay and either a two-hour exam or a further essay
Preliminary reading
This unit may also be counted towards the Contemporary Europe, Art History and Visual Studies and Cultural and Critical Studies majors.
Plus the following, full details of which may be found in the relevant Departmental entries:
ANTH2049 Ethnographic Film
ANTH2052 Ethnography, Film and Literature: Crosscultural
Knowledge and Form
ASHI 2010 Representing Asia on Film: 1. South-east Asia
ASHI
2011 Representing Asia on Film: 2. East Asia
ENGL2066 Australian Film
FREN2023 French
Cinema from the ‘Nouvelle Vague’ to the Nineties
HIST2130 History on Film
ITAL3009 Postwar
Italian Cinema
GERM3046 German Cinema
WOMS2011 Feminist Film Theory
GROUP B
ENGL2055 Shakespeare and Film
ENGL2067 Classic Novel into Film
ENGL 2069 The
Modern Novel into Film
HIST2122 Popular Culture, Gender and Modernity
WOMS2010 Representation
and Gender
Honours Program in Film Studies
While not yet in a position to offer full Honours, Film Studies is, as of 1999, offering combined Honours in combination with any Department in the Faculty of Arts where the combination makes academic sense. For students wishing to enter Film Studies Honours, points may include a maximum of two from Group B, listed above.
To be admitted to combined honours a student must complete pass Bachelor of Arts requirements and include a minimum of 7 units from the Film Studies program major with a Credit average and two Distinctions (unless by special permission of the Head of the Department) and at least 7 units from the relevant departmental major.
The Honours Year will comprise:
(a) a one-semester Film unit
(b) coursework prescribed by the relevant Department
(c) a research thesis of 15,000 words on a topic approved by both areas.
In 1999 the course topic for (a) will be U.S. Cinema: Hollywood and Beyond FILM 2006 (see entry above), for which a special seminar will be held for 4th year students. Screenings and lecture are to be shared by both groups.
Convener: Mr Dumaresq, Geography
Introduction
The Human Sciences Program is founded on two beliefs ¾ first, that the search for a relationship between humans and their global environment that will prove sustainable in perpetuity has become a matter of critical urgency, and second, that because of the systemic nature of the problem, information and discoveries provided by means of the reductionist analysis used by specialist disciplines must be balanced by an emphasis on whole systems. Only by using a holistic framework to integrate data and analyses from different academic disciplines and other sources can citizens and policymakers gain the insights and general understanding of local and global problems that they need and now actively seek.
The Program has two closely related foci, the health and well being of the environment and the health and well being of people. Each of the core units deals with specific aspects of these interdependent problem areas, draws theoretical ideas and factual information from several disciplines (exposing underlying assumptions) and integrates analyses and conclusions by means of case studies.
Human Sciences’ integrative approach complements a wide variety of specialist disciplinary studies in the Faculty of Arts and in other faculties. This approach, as well as the organisation of the undergraduate units, gives considerable rein to the interests of individual students and assists the development of coherence across the range of disciplines within the degree as a whole.
The education provided by Human Sciences is an excellent preparation for a wide number of generalist positions in many fields of employment, including the Commonwealth and State public services, as well as providing a valuable complement to the specialist training of students intending to pursue professional practice.
The pass degree
It is not possible to offer all units every year.
Assessment: The pattern of assessment in all units will be decided in consultation with students.
The major
The major consists of a prescribed sequence of units comprising no fewer than 44 credit points as set out below. Normal prerequisites apply. Human Sciences majors focused in the area of the environment and human ecology may be discussed with Mr Dumaresq and those focused on human well being with Dr Evans.
(a) Two 1000 level units selected from ANTH1002, ANTH1003, PREH1111 and 1112, GEOG1006, BIOL1001, 1002, 1003.
(b) One 2000 level introductory unit from either ECOS2002 or 2004.
(c) A further two 2000 or 3000 level units from Human Sciences core units: any two of ECOS2002, 2004, 3001, 3002, 3014, SCCO2003, 3002, 3004.
(d) One unit selected from:
1. A fourth Human Sciences core unit, or
2. A unit related to human ecology selected from, for example:
ECHI2003 Development, Poverty and Famine
FSTY3059 Participatory Resource Management
FSTY3056 Farm
Forestry
GEOG2013 People and Place
GEOG2014 Population and Resources
LAWS3103 Law
and the Environment
POLS2011 Development and Change
POLS2043 Pressure Groups
and Australian Public Policy
POLS2073 Global Politics of the Environment
POLS2079 Green
Politics: Environmentalism in the Contemporary World
POPS2001 Population
and Society
PREH2007 The Origins and Dispersal of Agricultural Populations
SOCY2022 Energy,
Environment and Society
SREM2005 Australian Soils
SREM3003 Soil Management
3. Or a unit related to human well being selected from, for example:
LANG2015 Language and Culture
PRAN2015 `Race’ and Human Genetic Variation
ANTH2016 The
Biological Anthropology of Aboriginal Australians
ANTH2026 Medical Anthropology
PRAN2019 Nutrition,
Disease & the Environment
PRAN2020 Culture, Biology and Population Dynamics
PREH2011 Human
Evolution
PSYC2002 Development and Individual Differences
PSYC2007 Biological
Basis of Behaviour
PSYC3010 Abnormal Psychology
A major may consist entirely of 2000 and 3000 level units, but if so, it must include at least four core units and the remaining points must come from those listed under (d).
Other majors: Particular Human Sciences core units can be counted towards several other program majors: Development Studies, Environmental Studies, and Population Studies.
Up to two of the following: ECOS2004, 2002, 3001, 3002 and 3014 may be included in a Geography major.
Agroecology ECOS2002
(8cp)
First semester
Six class hours a week, comprising one 1-hour work group,
two 1-hour lectures, one 3-hour laboratory class and five days of field
classes.
Lecturer: Mr Dumaresq
Prerequisites
(a) two units selected from GEOG1006, SREM1002, BIOL1001, 1002, 1003, ANTH1002, 1003, PREH1111, 1112, or
(b) approved qualifications in the biological and social sciences, eg a unit of biology with Psychology AO1 or a social science or humanities unit, or
(c) approved qualifications in resource management and environmental science, eg SREM1003 or GEOG1006 and SREM2005, 3003 or FSTY2001 or ECOS2001.
Syllabus: The unit provides an introduction to human ecology through the application of the principles of evolutionary biology and ecosystem analysis to the study of agricultural systems. The focus is on the study of agricultural ecosystems at the farm level. Worldwide examples are used; however investigation is concentrated on Australian farming systems. The persistence of these human managed ecosystems is a central issue. Topics include the ecological processes and problems of different farming strategies, soil conservation and fertility maintenance, agrichemicals and pest and disease management, tillage and herbicides, plant and animal integration on-farm, monocultures versus polycultures, and energy use.
Prescribed text
Assessment: This will include evaluation of a research project, field and laboratory work and an examination. Regular attendance and participation in class work is required. Students who fail to submit set work by the due date or fail to participate in laboratory classes and field excursions may be excluded from examination.
Urban Ecology ECOS2004
(8cp)
First semester
Four class hours a week, comprising two 1-hour lectures,
and one 2-hour tutorial/discussion group two 1-day field classes.
Lecturer: Dr Keen
Prerequisites
(a) two units selected from GEOG1006, SREM1002, BIOL1001, 1002, 1003, ANTH1001, 1002, 1003, PREH1111, 1112, or
(b) approved qualifications in the biological and social sciences, eg a unit of biology with PSYC1001 or a social science or humanities unit, or