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
(c) approved qualifications in resource management and environmental sciences, eg SREM1003 or GEOG1006 or GEOG2013, 2014 or FSTY3059.
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 the human urban environment. The emphasis is on human systems but includes consideration of their dependence on underlying natural systems. The unit focuses on street level community and household use of resources and reliance on industrial systems. Data are drawn from a range of disciplines but an integrated approach is maintained. Topics include the ecological processes and problems of maintaining urban systems; energy generation, supply and use; and how human interventions, such as urban planning, design and monitoring, can positively affect urban ecology.
Preliminary reading
Assessment: This will include, a field trip report, a poster with summary sheet, and an exam or essay (3000 words). Regular attendance and participation in tutorial/discussion groups are required. Students who fail to submit set work by the due date or fail to participate in tutorials/field trips may be excluded from examination.
Ecology of Health and Disease SCCO2003
(8cp)
First semester
Two one-hour lectures plus laboratory demonstration or seminar/tutorial
sessions of up to 3 hours each week.
Convenor: Dr Behm
Prerequisite
(a) A pass at credit or above in BIOL1001 or BIOL1002 or BIOL1003 or BIOL1004 or ANTH1002 or ANTH1003 or PREH1112 or GEOG1006; or
(b) approved qualifications in the biological or social sciences.
Syllabus: The unit, which is offered for both non-science and science students, explores the biological basis of human diseases and how they have affected individuals and communities. It covers biological, ecological and sociopolitical aspects of infectious, genetic and lifestyle-associated diseases, along with strategies used for their control. The impact of disease on human populations is considered, with emphasis on critical examination of the relative importance of modern medicine, public health, economic development and other factors. The role of scientific enquiry in the improvement of human health is discussed. Themes include natural selection, the dynamics of host-pathogen interactions, and the setting of research priorities. Principles are illustrated with case studies which may include: parasitic diseases such as malaria; other infectious diseases including influenza, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS; reproductive health; and immunological diseases such as asthma and diabetes.
Preliminary reading
Incompatible with SCCO3001
Biotechnology in Context SCCO3004
(8cp)
Second semester
One 1-hour lecture (taped), one 1 1/2-hour evening lecture/discussion
and one 1-hour seminar.
Prerequisites
(a) Any later year Science in Context unit; or
(b) Any two later-year units in Biology or any two Biological Anthropology (List A).
Convenor: Dr Evans
Syllabus: An examination of gene technology and modern medicine in social, environmental and ethical context. We shall examine case studies from the following areas, among others: reproductive technology and prenatal diagnosis; genetic modification of microorganisms, agricultural crops and pests, and humans; organ donation, life extension and euthanasia. Lectures will also raise broader issues, such as risk assessment; intellectual property; regulation; bioethics; cognitive development and worldview as these affect judgement. The unit seeks to emphasise neither the promise nor the threat of these new technologies. It seeks rather to encourage the student to develop a deeper and more coherent understanding of the important implications which these technologies hold not only for all human beings, but for organisms in general.
Recommended reading
Incompatible with SCCO2001
Sustainable Urban Systems ECOS3001
(8cp)
Not offered in 1999
Four class hours a week, comprising two 1-hour lectures,
one 2-hour tutorial, and two 1 day field classes.
Lecturer: Dr Keen
Prerequisite: ECOS2004 Urban Ecology, or ECOS2002 Agroecology and ECOS3002 Sustainable Agricultural Systems
Syllabus: The unit applies the principles of human ecology to the study of the problems of urban systems and their ecological footprint. The emphasis is on the impact and sustainability of large modern conurbations, their industrial base, and their ecological dependency. Case studies are used to combine theoretical and applied aspects and to illustrate the systemic connections between population, economy, energy and material use, technological change, equity issues, social goals and environmental attitudes, and their significance for policy choices such as sustainable development and the growth and persistence of cities.
Preliminary reading
Assessment: This may include two short papers, a tutorial presentation, and an essay (3000 words) or exam. Regular attendance and participation in tutorial/ discussion groups are required.
Sustainable Agricultural Systems ECOS3002
(8cp)
Second semester
Five class hours a week, comprising one 1-hour work group,
two 1-hour lectures, one 2-hour seminar/ practical class and two 1-day
field classes.
Lecturer: Mr Dumaresq
Prerequisite: ECOS2002 Agroecology, or ECOS2004 Urban Ecology and ECOS3001 Sustainable Urban Systems
Syllabus: This unit applies the principles and techniques of human ecology to the study of the problems of agricultural systems in the production, transportation, storage, processing and distribution of food and fibre for modern industrial societies. The emphasis is on the impact and sustainability of the industrial food chain outside the farm. Topics will include environmental impact of, and sustainability indices for, the production, transport, storage and processing of agricultural products; the composition of food; residues in food, fibre and water; supply of off farm inputs; rural and urban linkages; and the structure of local and international agribusiness. Examples will be drawn from Australia where possible.
Preliminary reading
Assessment: This may include a technical report, an essay or research project, performance in a range of class activities, and an examination.
Special Topics in Human Ecology ECOS3014
(8cp)
Available each semester
The unit will be provided in each semester depending
on the availability of suitable supervisors. Students are expected to devote
at least eight hours a week to lectures, seminars, laboratory and field
studies, and other work as required.
Coordinators: Mr Dumaresq, Dr Keen
Prerequisites: The completion of 32 credit points at 2000/3000 level plus written permission of the lecturer in charge.
Syllabus: Special programs of study designed to enable students to gain knowledge of a special topic in human ecology not otherwise covered in human ecology, geography or resource management courses.
Proposed assessment: By arrangement, but is likely to include an extended essay or research report and the presentation of a seminar.
Change and Transformation SCCO3002
(8cp)
Offered next in 2000
Second semester
One 1-hour lecture (taped), one 1 1/2
hour evening lecture/discussion and one 1-hour seminar.
Convenor: Dr Evans
Prerequisites
(a) Any later-year Science in Context unit or (b) ECOS2002 or 2004 or (c) any two later-year Biology, Psychology or Biological Anthropology (List A) units
Syllabus: An examination of some of the ways in which human beings change and develop, whether simply by moving through life’s stages, as a result of experiences like trauma, career change or religious conversion or, through education, rehabilitation from addiction, psychotherapy or ‘personal growth’. We shall examine case studies of human change and transformation, while the lectures will progressively develop a theoretical framework, based on: Psychoanalytic and Object relations theory, Bodywork; Transpersonal psychology (Jung, Wilber, Almaas); Buddhism. The theory is designed to encourage students to develop, and question, their own understanding of human development. The unit as a whole critically examines the increasingly popular belief that the current global crisis calls for a radical change in human cognition as well as behaviour.
Preliminary reading
The degree with honours
Intending honours students in Human Sciences who are enrolled in the Faculty of Arts should first read the general statement ‘The degree with honours’ in the introductory section of the Faculty of Arts entry.
The course for students in the Faculty of Arts extends over four years and normally consists of ¾
Completion of BA degree requirements to include:
(a) major in Human Sciences, together with another unit to a value of 8 credit points from among those listed for the major.
(c) another major in a cognate area of study. The department or program responsible for that major may require completion of an additional unit to a value of 8 credit points.
Intending honours students in Human Sciences should normally contact the convener of the Human Sciences program no later than the beginning of the third year of the degree. They should plan the third and fourth years of their degree in consultation with the convenor of Human Sciences and with the head of the department or program responsible for their cognate major.
Admission to Human Sciences IV(H) is approved by Faculty on the recommendation of the Head of the Department of Geography acting on the advice of the Convener of Human Sciences. The normal requirements for entry are:
(a) (ECOS2002 or 2004 at Credit level or better, and one Human Sciences core 3000 level unit, and
(b) Two other Human Sciences units or one other Human Sciences unit and one of the optional units listed for the Human Sciences major (see above). Two at least of the Human Sciences core units must be passed at Distinction level.
(c) Later-year units to a value of at least 32 points (4 units) from a cognate major.
Admission is possible only if a suitable supervisor is available.
The course for Human Sciences IV(H) will normally consist of ¾
(a) Human Sciences Honours and Graduate Seminar, together with an associated reading program and/or course work.
(b) Course work approved by the cognate department.
(c) An original investigation, presented in a seminar and as a subthesis of approximately 15,000 words, due in the first week of November.
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Convener: Dr J Tillotson, History
Medieval and Renaissance Studies takes for its subject the distinctive cultures of premodern Europe and West Asia, from the end of the Roman Empire to the 16th century. It aims to develop an understanding of the period and its contribution to modern society through a structure of disciplinary and interdisciplinary study. The first-year consists of two first-year units of Art History, or English and Theatre Studies, or History as listed below. The later-year program brings together units from several departments: Archaeology, Art History, Classical and Modern European Languages, English, History, and the West Asia area in the Faculty of Asian Studies. No more than 4 units of the major may be taken in the same discipline.
The major
Two first-year units consisting of one of the following pairs:
ARTH1002 & 1003 Introduction to Art History and Introduction to Modern
Art or
ENGL1001 & DRAM1006 Introduction to Literary Studies and Introduction
to the Western Theatrical Tradition or
HIST1019 & 1023 Rome: Republic to
Empire and Illuminating the Dark Ages
Plus
Four units from the following:
AREL2162 Islam: History and Institutions
ARTH2015 The Byzantine Empire
ARTH2018 Northern
Renaissance Art
ARTH2019 Art and Architecture of the Italian Renaissance
ARTH2037 From
Roman to Romanesque
ARTH2038 The Byzantine Commonwealth
ARTH2094 High Renaissance
in Rome and Venice
ENGL2007 Chaucer and His Age
ENGL2012 Elizabethan Drama
ENGL2014 Introduction
to Old English
ENGL2015 Two Early English Classics
ENGL2055 Shakespeare and
Film
ENGL2056 The Renaissance and England
HIST2120 The Decline of the Middle
Ages: England 1348-1485
HIST2114 The Medieval Church 1198-1378
ITAL3017 Apocalypse
Then: Dante’s Inferno
ITAL3011 Italian Renaissance Literature
PREH2086 PostRoman
Archaeology of Britain
The major may also be formed with 6 later-year units chosen from this list. For details of later-year units, including normal prerequisites, students should consult the entries in the Undergraduate Handbook under the Departments or Areas offering the units.
Students are strongly encouraged to develop skills in reading foreign languages, both ancient and modern.
It is anticipated that the following units will be offered in 1999:
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First semester |
Second semester |
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First year |
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Introduction to Art History ARTH1002 |
Introduction to Modern Art ARTH1003 |
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Later year |
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High Renaissance in Rome and Venice ARTH2094 |
From Roman to Romanesque ARTH2037 |
Convener: Dr R Kuhn, Political Science
Political Economy adopts a comparative and historical approach to the analysis of the social relations of production, consumption, distribution and exchange in different economies. This program examines various theories of the dynamics of economic systems in the context of the world economy and in light of anthropological, sociological and other evidence.
The major comprises Introduction to Australian and International Political Economy plus one unit from first-year units in Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science, Economics or Economic History, followed by any four of:
SOCY2026 Economic Sociology
SOCY2030 Sociology of Third World Development
SOCY2033 Australian
Society
POLS2054 Australian Political Economy
POLS2061 Classical Marxism
POLS2071 Germany
and Austria in Europe
POLS2011 Development and Change
ECHI2003 Development,
Poverty and Famine
ANCH2011 Economy and Society in Ancient Greece
A major may be made up of later-year units only. No more than 4 units may be included from any one department.
Prerequisites: The normal prerequisites will apply for later-year units.
Introduction to International and Australian Political Economy POLS1004
(6cp)
Offered in 1998 and most subsequent years
Second semester
Two lectures and
one tutorial per week.
Coordinator: Dr Rick Kuhn
Prerequisites: none
Incompatibility: none
Syllabus: Will I ever get a job or will I be able to hold on to my current one? Can I afford to study or travel? Will I be able to set up and sustain a household? The answers to these questions depend on more than the kind of people we are. International relations, election results, the extent of racism, the degree of equality between men and women and levels of industrial conflict are not simply determined by politicians’ decisions. No serious understanding of the forces which shape either our own lives or politics on a national and international scale is possible without knowledge of the interactions amongst politics, economic structures, relationships and developments.
This course will examine the boundary between politics and economics. It will explore the impact of economics on politics and of politics on economics, particularly through the study of Australia’s class structure and its relationship to competing theories and ideas about economic policy. Attention will be paid to social democratic, economic rationalist and Marxist approaches. There will be a strong emphasis on discussing and exploring current international and Australian issues as they arise in the media and public debate.
This framework will be used to examine changes in the Australian education ‘industry’, the political economy of the mass media and ‘globalisation’. A role play of an industrial dispute will help achieve the course’s fundamental aim, to develop the ability of participants to critically evaluate arguments about political economy.
Preliminary reading
Proposed assessment: Essay, tutorial participation and examination.
Conveners: Dr D Rowland, Sociology; Dr P van Dierman, Geography
The Population Studies program links population related units in several departments to enable students to pursue coherent and cumulative studies in this field. The program is designed to teach a range of complementary skills and perspectives necessary to an understanding of population in the context of historical trends and current issues. The Population Studies Program is jointly administered by the Department of Sociology and the Department of Geography.
The Population Studies Program and cognate departments regularly offer the following 7 single semester (8cp) core units:
POPS2001 Population and Society
POPS2002 Population Analysis
GEOG2014 Population
and Resources
SOCY2032 Population and Australia
SOCY2050 Population Health
POPS3001 Population
Research
PRAN2020 Culture, Biology and Population Dynamics
A major in Population Studies consists of 12 CP of appropriate first-year units (see below under departmental units) followed by: Population Analysis (8cp), 2 other Population Studies core units (16cp), an additional Population Studies unit or an approved departmental unit (8cp).
A major in Population Studies may also consist entirely of later-year units to the value of 48 CP, if a prerequisite first-year unit has been completed but is being counted as part of a different major. The 48 CP will come from the following units: Population Analysis (8cp), 2 other Population Studies core units (16cp), other Population Studies units or approved departmental units (24cp).
Most Population Studies core units may be included in majors either in geography (maximum of 16cp) or sociology and may also be taken as individual units toward a degree.
The Program offers a fourth honours year in Population Studies (see below).
Students wishing to pursue honours or graduate studies on population topics may also do so through a department such as Anthropology, Geography or Sociology, provided they have satisfied the requirements in the particular department.
Departmental units
The following are appropriate departmental units in a Population Studies major:
First-year units
ANTH1002 Introducing Anthropology (6cp)
ANTH1003 Understanding Human Diversity
(6 cp)
HIST1001 Australian History (12cp)
ECON1001 Economics I (12cp)
ECHI1005 Business
and Economy in the Asia Pacific Region (6cp)
ECHI1006 Australian Economy
(6cp)
GEOG1006 Society, Environment and Resources (6cp)
SOCY1002 The Self and
Society (6cp)
SOCY1003 Contemporary Society (6cp)
SREM1002 Earth Systems (6cp)
PREH1111 Introduction
to Archaeology (6cp)
PREH1112 Introduction to Humankind: From Origins to
Civilisations (6cp)
STAT1003 Statistical Techniques 1 (6cp)
STAT1004 Statistical
Techniques 2 (6cp)
STAT1006 Quantitative Methods for Business and Economics
1 (6cp)
STAT1007 Quantitative Methods for Business and Economics 2 (6cp)
Later-year units
ECHI2112 Australian Economic History (8cp)
ECOS2004 Urban Ecology (8cp)
GEOG2013 People
and Place (8cp)
SOCY2022 Energy, Environment and Society (8cp)
SCCO2003 Ecology
of Health and Disease
SOCY2038 Methods of Social Research A (8cp)
SOCY3018 Methods
of Social Research B (8cp)
SOCY3019 Methods of Social Research C (8cp)
HIST2119 Urban
Australia 1870-1970 (8cp)
ANTH2017 Aborigines and Australian Society (8cp)
PRAN2019 Nutrition,
Disease and the Human Environment (8cp)
Population Studies core units
Population and Society POPS2001
(8cp)
First semester
Normally offered in alternate years
Two lectures and one tutorial
a week
Lecturers: Dr Rowland, Dr Wilson
Prerequisite: Any one of: two first-year units of Anthropology or Archaeology or Geography or Sociology or History or Economic History or History or Political Science, Economics I, a later-year unit of a Population Studies major, or permission of the Convener.
Syllabus: This unit introduces the main concepts in population studies, showing how they relate to issues in research, planning and policy development. Topics include contemporary thought on population growth, mortality control, changes in fertility, population mobility, the life cycle, the study of generations and the population dimension of environmental changes and social issues. The content is non-mathematical and coverage is global, with emphasis on comparisons between less developed and more developed countries.
Prescribed reading
Proposed assessment: Tutorial work, an essay and an open book examination or a take home examination or a final essay.
This unit may be included in a Geography or Sociology major or a program major in Development Studies or Human Sciences.
Population Analysis POPS2002
(8cp)
Second semester
Offered in 1999 and 2001
Two lectures, one tutorial and one
computer laboratory per week
Lecturer: Dr Rowland
Prerequisite: Any one of: two first-year units of Anthropology or Archaeology or Geography or Sociology or History or Economic History or History or Political Science, Economics I, a later-year unit of a Population Studies major, or permission of the Convener.
Syllabus: Demographic techniques and their applications in a wide range of contexts. Emphasis is given to methods that are most commonly needed for population studies in Australia; the focus is on practical applications of methods, rather than mathematics. Coverage will include: methods of analysing fertility, mortality, migration and population composition; standardisation of rates; life tables; population projections. Students will receive training in the uses of microcomputer spreadsheets for demographic calculations.
Prescribed reading
Proposed assessment: Three assignments.
This unit may be included in a geography or sociology major or in a program major in Human Evolution and Ecology or in Social Research Methods.
Population and Resources GEOG2014
(8cp)
Second semester
Prerequisite: GEOG1005 or SREM1003 or GEOG1006 or any later year unit in a Population Studies major
Incompatible with GEOG2005
Lecturer: Dr van Diermen
Syllabus: The concern in this unit is to account for the distribution of the human population and its relation to the resources of the Earth. Particular attention is given to the geographical aspects of the demography of populations and contemporary trends. The development of nations in their particular environments provides perspectives on the relationship between population and resources. Attention is centred on the Australian-Asian hemisphere. The limitations of resources, the role of technology, affluence and social policy are central topics. The methodology for understanding population dynamics supports the discussion of issues and problems. The course also studies policy and how it seeks to keep pace with rapid socio-economic change.
Associated program: Population Studies
Preliminary reading
Proposed assessment: To be agreed in consultation with students
Population and Australia SOCY2032
(8cp)
Offered in 2000 and 2002
Normally offered in alternate years
Two lectures
and one tutorial a week
Lecturer: Dr Rowland
Prerequisite: Any one of: two first-year units of Anthropology or Archaeology or Geography or Sociology or History or Economic History or History or Political Science, Economics I, a later-year unit of a Population Studies major, or permission of the Convener.
Syllabus: Population processes have contributed to many changes in Australian society, including urbanisation, the development of ‘multiculturalism’, the diversification of family forms, the emergence of ageing as a major social issue and the growth and decline of urban and rural communities. This unit examines changes in Australia from the perspective of the causes and effects of demographic processes. Emphasis is given to contemporary questions and their historical origins, referring to concepts and theories concerning migration, the demographic transition and social change.
Preliminary reading
Proposed assessment: Tutorial work, an essay and an open book examination or a take home examination or a final essay.
Population Research POPS3001
(8cp)
Not offered in 1999
One two-hour seminar and one one-hour computer laboratory
a week
Lecturer: Dr Rowland
Prerequisites: Population Analysis, or concurrent enrolment in Population Analysis, and at least one other later-year unit of a Population Studies major, or permission of the Convener.
Syllabus: This unit builds on the knowledge of population concepts and research methods taught in the prerequisite units. The aims of the unit are to show how research questions are formulated, how methods of collecting and analysing information are selected, and how research findings are presented. The focus is the nature of the research process and approaches to the investigation of demographic issues in Australia. Coverage will include advanced demographic methods and computing and the development of a research project from census and survey materials.
Preliminary reading
Proposed assessment: Computer laboratory work and a 3000 word research report.
This unit may be included in a Social Research Methods program major.
Culture, Biology and Population Dynamics PRAN2020
(8cp)
Not offered in 1999
Up to two lectures and one tutorial per week
Lecturer: Dr Attenborough
Prerequisites: Two first-year units in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology and/or the Division of Botany and Zoology, or enrolment in the Population Studies major.
Syllabus: The potential of human populations to grow, stabilise or decline is realised through events which are often strongly marked culturally and always crucial for individuals: birth, migration and death. The prospects and hazards of survival, mobility, marriage and raising a family vary greatly between populations, and are often related to sociocultural factors including religion, education, gender roles, valuation of children, political organisation and economy. Yet if sociocultural factors are to influence the dynamics of fertility and mortality, they must do so through their effects on those very biological events, giving birth and dying. In this course we aim to explore in an anthropological context the complex interplay between culture and biology in producing population dynamics of different kinds, as well as the implications of those population dynamics for the societies in question.
Course topics include: population size and structure in the past and present; the biology of natural fertility; social factors controlling fertility; mortality and the impact of varying life expectancies; population pressure on resources and consequences for migration; marital mobility, marriage practices, kinship systems and sex ratios; the demography of small-scale societies; health, nutrition and the demographic effect of epidemics; demographic implications of warfare; change, development and demographic transitions. Quantitative demographic techniques are introduced but not pursued in depth. Examples are drawn mainly from the mass societies of Asia and the small-scale indigenous societies of the Australia-Pacific region.
The course is designed on the premise that what is distinctive about the anthropological (in the broad sense) approach to population is its concern with the processes that lie behind population numbers more than the numbers themselves, and its comparative perspective across cultures and from prehistory to the present.
Preliminary reading
This unit may be included as part of a program major in Population Studies.
Population Health SOCY2050
(8cp)
Second semester
Two hours of lectures and a one-hour tutorial a week (or
equivalent)
Lecturer: Dr Dent
Prerequisites: Any one of: two first-year units of Sociology or Anthropology or Prehistory or Geography or Economic History or Political Science, PSYC1001, ECON1001, or permission of the Head of Department.
Syllabus: The aim of this unit is to introduce the concepts and methods used in describing and analysing the health of human populations, with particular emphasis on health in Australia. The causes of illness and death will be reviewed for the population as a whole and for selected sub-groups within it such as Aboriginals, migrants and males as compared with females. Demographic and epidemiological techniques for studying health and disease will be introduced. Various interventions such as immunisation, population screening, health promotion programs and acute medical care will be examined in relation to their impact on population health.
Proposed assessment: The preferred model of regular tutorial assignments and a final examination will be subject to consultation with students.
This unit may be included in a Program major in Population Studies.
Honours in Population Studies
Intending students should first read the general statement ‘The degree with honours’ in the introductory section of the Faculty of Arts entry. Prospective honours students should consult with the Population Studies conveners no later than the beginning of the third year. The course of study for the third and fourth years should be planned in consultation with the Population Studies conveners and the head of the department responsible for the cognate major.
The course for honours students in the Faculty of Arts extends over 4 years. The requirements for entry to honours in Population Studies normally consist of:
1. A major in Population Studies plus an additional approved unit to the value of 8cp. These units are to be completed with an average of at least Credit.
2. A departmental major in a cognate area of study. The department responsible for that major may require completion of an additional unit to the value of 8cp.
3. Further units to bring the total to 144cp.
The requirements for the fourth year normally consist of:
1. The honours seminar in Population Studies (Theories in Demography). This unit is offered by the Graduate Program in Demography and may be taken at honours level.
2. An appropriate later-year unit taken in the Faculties or in the Graduate Program in Demography, and assessed at fourth-year honours level.
3. A sub-thesis of 15,000 to 20,000 words supervised by staff from one or more of the following: the Population Studies Program, the Department of Sociology, the Department of Geography, the Graduate Program in Demography. Normally, the sub-thesis will count for 60% of the overall result, the graduate seminar and the additional unit for 20% each.
Conveners: Dr Peter Roeper, Philosophy and Mr Robert Barnes, History
Religious Studies is an interdisciplinary program. It operates in association with the Faculty of Asian Studies major in Asian Religions, but is administratively separate and attached to the Department of Philosophy.
Religion is a phenomenon known to human societies of all times and places, and it is intimately connected with the social organisation, psychology, literature and art of those societies. The critical study of religion can therefore take the form either of the study of religious concepts, patterns of behaviour, and linguistic or artistic forms of expression common to a variety of societies; or of the study of the religious aspects of a particular society. Both of these forms of study are exemplified in the religion units offered in this program.
The major in Religious Studies comprises Introduction to Religion A and Introduction to Religion B, followed by approved later-year units to the value of 32 credit points. In any one year, at least 2 later-year units will be offered by the Faculties of Arts or Asian Studies, 2 different units being offered in the following year. Arts students may take any of the Asian Studies religion units listed below, but are reminded that their degree must include at least 12 units offered by Arts, including 8 at later-year level.
Students may take Introduction to Religion A and Introduction to Religion B as individual units; one is not a prerequisite for the other.
Introduction to Religion A RELS1002
(Judaism, Christianity and Islam) (6cp)
Two lectures and one tutorial a week
First semester
Coordinators: Mr R W Barnes, Dr A D Street
Syllabus: Methods in the study of religion. The question of religious evolution. `Historic’ religions. The three Semitic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam), studied from the point of view of their historical relationships and of their present situation in the world. Contemporary religious revivalism and fundamentalism. Women and religion.
Preliminary reading
Assessment: It is proposed that assessment be on the basis of: an assignment on research methods, one essay of about 2000 words, one test, and tutorial performance. This will be finalised after discussion with students at the beginning of the semester.
This unit is incompatible with Religious Studies I, RELS1001 (no longer offered).
Introduction to Religion B RELS1003
(South Asian and East Asian Religious Traditions) (6cp)
Second semester
Coordinator: Dr J Powers
Syllabus: Anthropological and philosophical approaches to religion. An introduction to Indian and Chinese religious traditions. A discussion of ‘Eastern’ and ‘Western’ views of religion from a philosophical perspective. Religion and ideology in today’s world.
Preliminary reading
Assessment: There will be two examinations, one at midsemester and one at the end of the course, each of which will count for 45% of the final grade. The final 10% will be assessed on the basis of tutorial performance. This will be finalised after discussion with students at the beginning of the semester.
This unit is incompatible with Religious Studies I, RELS1001 (no longer offered).
Later-year units in Religious Studies
ANTH2004 Religion, Ritual and Cosmology
AREL2251 Buddhism
AREL2161 Religion
and Politics in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
AREL2162 Islam: History and
Institutions
AREL2265 Religion in Modern East Asia
AREL2174 Mysticism
AREL2264 How
to Live in the Real World: ‘Practical Learning’ in East Asia
AREL2263 Modern
Hindu Thought
AREL2163 Religion and Social Movements in Southeast Asia
AREL2816 Modern
Islamic Thought: West to Southeast Asia
ARTH2047 Art and Architecture of
Asia: Continuity and Change
ARTH2056 Art and Architecture of Southeast Asia:
Tradition and Transformation
ASHI2163 Daoism
ASHI2812 The Qur’an in Translation
HIST2137 Ancient
Israel: History, Religion and Archaeology
HIST2138 The Historical Jesus and
Christian Origins
HIST2114 The Medieval Church 1198-1378
POLS2081 Religion
and Politics in Australia
Details of the above units may be found in the entries for the Arts Departments of Archaeology and Anthropology, Art History, History and Political Science; or in the entries for Asian Studies.
Honours in philosophy and religious studies
There is no honours school in religious studies as such, but suitably qualified students may take the honours course in philosophy and religious studies. This involves a modification of the normal philosophy honours course to allow for the inclusion of religious studies units in lieu of some of the other components.
The course for honours in philosophy and religious studies extends over four years. It comprises ¾
First year: Introduction to Religion A and Introduction to Religion B; Introduction to Philosophy; and other first-year units to the value of 24 credit points.
Second year: Later-year units as follows:
Philosophy (2 units)
Religious
Studies (3 units)
Philosophy Second Year Honours Seminar
Third year: Later-year units as follows:
Philosophy (2 units)
Religious
Studies (3 units)
Philosophy Third Year Honours Seminar
Fourth year: Philosophy FourthYear Honours Seminar; regular supervision of a subthesis in the area of philosophy of religion; further course work in philosophy and/or religious studies equivalent to 2 units.
For admission into fourth year, students, subject to the discretion of the Head of Department, must have achieved a grade of Credit or higher in at least 8 of their philosophy or religious studies units.
As in the case of the pure honours degree in philosophy (see above), this course structure may, in special circumstances, be modified with the approval of the Head of Department. For example, Introduction to Philosophy may not be required of students who have entered later-year philosophy units via other prerequisites. Whether units in the philosophy of religion will be counted as philosophy or religious studies units will be at the discretion of the Head of Department. In certain circumstances the requirement for the Philosophy Second Year or Third Year Honours Seminar may be replaced in either case by another unit in philosophy.
Final honours assessment: The final honours grade in philosophy and religious studies will be on the same basis as for Philosophy IV (see above) except that one of the three major essays (plus the subthesis) may be based on religious studies topics.
Convener: Dr J. M. Barbalet, Sociology
The program is intended to bring together units dealing with theory that are offered by several departments, and to enable students to combine those units in ways that would not be available within the limits of a departmental major. The program includes several upper level units with an explicit interdisciplinary approach.
There are no compulsory units, but students enrolling in Introduction to Philosophy are advised to take the Modern Political Philosophy Workshop. The units Contemporary Political Theory, Classical Sociological Theory and Modern Sociological Theory are particularly relevant.
Prerequisites: Except with the permission of the respective Heads of Department, and the Convener, the normal prerequisites for each unit will apply.
Not more than 32 credit points toward the Social and Political Theory major may be taken within any one department. The major consists of ¾
(i) Not more than 12 credit points from the following units:
ANTH1002 Introducing Anthropology
ANTH1003 Understanding Human Diversity
PHIL1002 Introduction
to Philosophy
POLS1002 Introduction to Politics, and
POLS1003 Ideas in Politics
SOCY1002 Self
and Society, and
SOCY1003 Contemporary Society
(ii) Units to the value of 16 credit points chosen from the following:
POLS2023 Modern Political Theory
POLS2061 Classical Marxism
POLS2063 Contemporary
Political Theory
POLS2064 New Social Movements
POLS2073 Frankfurt School and
Habermas
POLS2077 Economic Liberalism and its Critics
POLS3017 International
Relations Theory
SOCY2040 Classical Sociological Theory
(iii) Units to the value of 16 credit points chosen from the following:
ANTH2023 Power, Economy and Society
ANTH2034 Anthropology of Emotion
PHIL2065 Politics
and Rights
PHIL2089 Power and Subjectivity
PHIL2070 Philosophy and Gender
POLS2078 Paradigms
and Research Programs in Political Science
SOCY3014 Modern Sociological Theory
WOPH2001 Theories
of Postmodernism
For details concerning all units listed above, see entries under the respective departments.
Conveners: Dr O. Dent, Sociology; Mr K. Johnson, Geography; Dr D. Rowland, Population Studies
The program is designed to complement departmental studies for the Bachelor of Arts degree, by enabling students to study sequences of units which reinforce and extend their knowledge of methods of research and analysis in the social sciences. Students enrolled in the major receive access to and training on computers, instruction in statistical techniques and research methods, and experience in applied work.
For students trained in a particular discipline, a knowledge of the methods of related disciplines enhances abilities to conduct research and analyse information in their field of specialisation. Historians and political scientists, for example, use the statistical techniques and survey methods of sociologists; prehistorians and environmental scientists are turning increasingly to the analytical techniques of geography; and the methods of demography are widely used by social scientists in the analysis of survey data and official statistics such as population censuses. The ability to handle a range of problems and methodological issues is important in occupations using practical investigative skills.
The major in research methods recognises the complementarity of training in the techniques of different social science disciplines, and is designed to facilitate crossdisciplinary education. The structure of the major exposes students to a wide range of learning experiences, but the close interrelationships between the component units provide a cohesive course of study.
The major consists of 12 credit points from appropriate first-year units, followed by 32 credit points from later-year units (listed below). The major may also consist of six later-year units, if a prerequisite first-year unit has been completed but is being counted as part of a different major.
To give students adequate breadth in their studies, not more than half the points of later-year units in the major can be taken in any one study area. Information Systems A14 and Computer Applications in the Humanities cannot both be included in the major. The later-year units must be drawn from at least two of the following study areas:
(1) Social Investigation;
(2) Spatial Analysis;
(3) Demographic Analysis;
(4)
Data Management;
(5) Behavioural Studies
Normal prerequisites apply.
First-year units: 12 credit points from:
ANTH1002 Introducing Anthropology
ANTH1003 Understanding Human Diversity
ECON1001 Economics
I
ECHI1105 Microeconomics for Social Scientists
ECHI1106 Macroeconomics for
Social Scientists
STAT1001 Economic Statistics
SREM1002 Earth Systems
GEOG1006 Society,
Environment and Resources
SOCY1002 Self and Society
SOCY1003 Contemporary Society
POLS1002 Introduction
to Politics
POLS1003 Ideas in Politics
PREH1111 Introduction to Archaeology
PREH1112 Introduction
to Humankind: From Origins to Civilisations
STAT1003 Statistical Techniques
I
STAT1004 Statistical Techniques 2
INFS1014 Information Systems A14
Later-year units: At least 32 credit points from at least 2 of the following categories of units:
1. Social Investigation
SOCY2037 Foundations of Social Research
SOCY2043 Qualitative Research Methods
POLS2078 Paradigms
and Research Programs in Political Science
SOCY2038 Methods of Social Research
A
SOCY3018 Methods of Social Research B
SOCY3019 Methods of Social Research
C
Foundations of Social Research provides an extensive coverage of concept formation, theory construction and other methodological issues. The units on methods of social research provide training in data acquisition procedures, including survey design, and quantitative analytical techniques for examining social data.
2. Spatial Analysis
GEOG2009 Geography, Information and Intelligence
GEOG3009 Geographic Information
Systems
These units discuss the analysis of spatial information and data sets commonly encountered in geography. Extensive use is made of computers for mapping and graphing data, calculating descriptive statistics and analysing spatial data from satellites and other sources.
3. Demographic Analysis
POPS2002 Population Analysis
POPS3001 Population Research
Vital statistics, migration statistics and census figures on population characteristics ¾ such as age composition, family structure and occupations ¾ are important source materials in the social sciences. Population Analysis equips students to find and use such materials, while Population Research provides experience in conducting demographic research and preparing a report.
4. Data Management
ARTH2032 Computer Applications in the Humantities
ARTH2036 World Wide Web
Strategies
The first unit introduces principles of computing and discusses text processing, databases, spreadsheets, networking and graphics. The second covers the development and management of electronic information.
5. Behavioural Studies
PSYC2009 Quantitative Methods
PSYC3009 Advanced Research Methods
These units cover research strategies, statistical methods and computing techniques in psychology. Coverage includes the design and analysis of experiments and applications of techniques of psychological measurement in experiments and in psychological testing.
Director: Dr J R Pettman, Centre for Women’s Studies
The Centre for Women’s Studies offers undergraduate and graduate programs which seek to: (i) explore the scholarly consequences of the omission of women as subjects of traditional university teaching and research; (ii) present and develop alternative understandings of social life that fully accommodate women’s contribution and experience; that reveal how gender is socially constructed and reproduced, and how gender hierarchy is implicated in all aspects of social life; and that establish the interrelations between gender, race, class and sexuality; (iii) engage students in critical discussion of the growing literature in women’s studies research and feminist theory; and (iv) promote coherence among units offered by the Faculty which concentrate on women and gender.
The major in Women’s Studies is designed to enable students to understand the distinction between the transdisciplinary study of women and the study of women within disciplines. The first year of the major is made up of study in any discipline in the Faculty of Arts or Economics or Psychology, so that students may get a sense of the way the subject of ‘women’ is treated in that discipline. At the second and third year levels, the Centre for Women’s Studies offers a number of core and cognate units.
The Centre also offers a fourth honours year in Women’s Studies (see below). Students who wish to do honours in Women’s Studies are advised to consult the Honours Convener before designing their courses.
Students may study Women’s Studies at any intensity:
People interested in any of these higher degrees are invited to see the Director for further information.
The major (not less than 44cp)
First-year units to the value of twelve credit points offered by the Faculty of Arts or Economics I or Psychology A01 (other units may be accepted with the approval of Faculty on the recommendation of the Director).
Followed by
(a) three Women’s Studies core units
(b) at least one additional
point from core units or approved cognate units.
Core units are
(i) units taught by Women’s Studies staff, or
(ii) units which are based
in feminist theory and taught within departments.
Cognate units are
units taught within departments, programs and centres having a substantial content dealing with women, gender, or feminist theory. (Students must fulfil the normal prerequisites before enrolling in any of these units. See detailed Undergraduate Handbook entries under relevant departmental listings.)
Appropriate units taught in the Women’s Studies elective major in the Faculties of Education and Management at the University of Canberra may also be credited as cognates in the Women’s Studies Program. (Consult the University of Canberra for details, and obtain a permission letter from the Arts Faculty Office before final date for cross-institutional enrolment.)
Assessment: Assessment methods in each unit will be determined in consultation with the students. In general, it is expected that assessment for undergraduate students will be based on approximately 4000-5000 words of written work (or equivalent) plus tutorial participation.
At the time of printing, some staffing arrangements for 1999 were uncertain. Students are strongly urged to contact the Centre Administrator at the time of enrolling to ascertain which units are on offer or visit The Women’s Studies web site for information ¾ http://www.anu.edu.au/womens_studies/
The following Core Units will be offered in 1999:
|
First Semester |
Second Semester |
|
WOMS2025 Introducing Women’s Studies: The Public Life of Feminism |
POLS2068 Gender and International Politics |
|
POLS2075 Globalism and Identity |
WOMS2023 Gender, Sex and Sexuality: An Introduction to Feminist Theory |
|
WOMS2018 A History of Western Sexuality |
WOMS2014 Nature/Nurture? |
|
WOMS2022 Reading Contemporary Culture |
WOMS2021 Trauma, Memory and Culture |
|
WOPH2002 Deconstruction: A User’s Guide |
Approved Cognate Units ¾ please check individual department entries regarding availability.
ANTH2034 Anthropology of Emotion
ARTH2048 Art and the Constitution of Power
POLS2005 Australian
Government Administration and Public Policy
ANTH2009 Culture and Development
ENGL2062 Duchesses
and Drudges: A Cultural History of Women in Britain, 1750-1850
SOCY3023 Engendering
Paradigms
PREH2033 Feminism, Gender and Archaeology
ASHI2016 Gender and Power
in East Asia
ASHI2006 Gender and Korean History
ANTH2025 Gender in Crosscultural
Perspective
PHIL2091 Identity and Desire
SOCY2044 Intersexions: Gender and
Sociology
ENGL2059 Literature and Gender in the 18th Century
POLS2064 New Social
Movements
ARTH2039 Painters of Modern Life
PHIL2070 Philosophy and Gender
POLS2080 Politics,
Policy and the Media
HIST2122 Popular Culture, Gender and Modernity
POLS2043 Pressure
Groups and Australian Public Policy
PHIL2093 Sexing the Body Politic
ARTH2051 The
Body in Question: the Images and Spectators in Western Art
POLS2074 Women
and Australian Public Policy
ITAL3014 Women in Italian Society
Deconstruction: A User’s Guide WOPH2002
(8cp)
Second semester 1999
Two hour lecture and one hour tutorial each week
Lecturers: Dr Deutscher and Dr Wilson
Prerequisites: One of: PHIL2091 (Identity and Desire), WOMS2010 (Representation and Gender), WOMS3002 (Psychoanalysis and Subjectivity) or PHIL2070 (Philosophy and Gender) or with the written permission of the Head of Department or Centre, any relevant TWO later-year Arts Faculty units.
Syllabus: What is meant when a contemporary theorist talks about deconstruction gender, a text, a novel, a philosopher, or an identity effect? This unit will introduce students both to key aspects of deconstruction, and to the influence of deconstruction in a variety of academic contexts. A component of the unit is devoted to reading some of the early, famous pieces by Jacques Derrida. We then survey the influence and changing uses of deconstruction in some of the following contexts: literary theory, gender theory, queer theory, French feminism, postcolonial theory. Readings will include: Eve Sedgwick, Gayatri Spivak, Luce Irigaray, Sarah Kofman, Vicki Kirby ... and Jacques Derrida.
Preliminary reading
Proposed assessment: By essay and tutorial participation.
Incompatibility: PHIL3066 (European Philosophy B) as offered in 1992 and 1994.
This unit may form part of a major in Philosophy or European Studies.
Feminist Film Theory WOMS2011
(8cp)
Not offered in 1999
Four and a half hours per week to include a two-hour
screening session and two and a half hours of lecture and tutorial
Prerequisites: Any first-year units to the value of twelve credit points. Although Representation and Gender and Introduction to Film Studies are not required, they are strongly recommended.
Syllabus: This unit will introduce students to the study of film through recent developments in film theory. The first part of the unit will focus on classic Hollywood cinema. Students will be introduced to a number of genres such as the western, film noir, suspense, thriller and melodrama. Readings will be selected from a range of film journals including Screen, Camera Obscura, Cinetracts, Wide Angle and Frame Works, and will cover topics including semiotics, psychoanalysis, narrative theory, gender and sexual difference. Issues to be discussed include: film as a representational system, realism, narrative structure, the cinematic apparatus, identification, the role of the spectator, woman as spectacle, voyeurism and fetishism, pleasure, ideology, the cinematic contract. How do films produce meaning? What makes a film pleasurable or unpleasurable? Is pleasure always implicated in the reproduction of ideology? Do films solicit male and female viewers differently: Is it possible to represent the female body on screen without turning the woman into a spectacle? What role does cinema play in the reproduction of ideologies of gender, race, ethnicity, class and nationality?
In the second part of the unit, we will consider a number of issues raised by attempts to develop alternatives to Hollywood cinema, including independent cinema, avantgarde film, oppositional film, postmodern film, and films by women. The unit will aim to help students critically engage with and produce readings of films.
Preliminary reading
Proposed assessment: Written work and tutorial participation.
This unit may form part of a program major in Film Studies.
Introducing Women’s Studies: The Public Life of Feminism WOMS2025
(8cp)
First semester 1999 and every year (staff permitting)
Three hours in lecture
and tutorial each week
Lecturer: Dr Keane
Prerequisite: Any first-year units to the value of twelve credit points.
Syllabus: This unit introduces students to Women’s Studies by examining the participation of feminists and feminism in contemporary social and cultural politics and public debate. How are feminist ideas expressed and deployed in the public arena? How is popular feminism addressing aspects of everyday life and experience in ways that appeal to a broad audience of women (and men)? Various feminist analyses of gender and power will be outlined and the question of ‘post-feminism’ will also be considered. A number of case studies, drawing on material from Australia, the United States and Britain will be explored, including: sexual harassment and the Ormond College case; race and sexual violence; ‘power’ feminism and celebrity feminists; cyberfeminism and the internet; the recovery movement and self-help feminism; motherhood and child care debates; reproductive politics.
Proposed assessment: 4,000-5,000 words of written work and tutorial participation.
Preliminary reading
Fiction and Domesticity WOMS2012
(8cp)
Not offered in 1999
Three hours per week of lectures and tutorial
Lecturer: Dr Kennedy
Prerequisites: Any first-year units to the value of twelve credit points
Syllabus: Drawing on a range of novels, short stories, films and feminist criticism, this unit will study the relationship between fiction and an ideal of domesticity as it developed in Englishspeaking countries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In the first half of the unit we will read selected nineteenth century novels by authors such as Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte and Wilkie Collins. In the second half, we will read a selection of stories and novels by writers such as Sally Morgan, Don De Lillo, Marilynne Robinson, and Toni Morrison. Additional materials will include selections from female conduct books, a case study of hysteria, readings on the history of sexuality, women’s magazines from the 1940s and 1950s, and selected films such as Housekeeping.
The following issues will be considered: why did women writers only come into their own with the emergence of the novel? what role has the novel played in the domestication of culture? is the novel a ‘domestic form’? a ‘disciplinary practice’? We will examine how women writers revise each other’s texts, and how these texts are ‘rewritten’ by feminist critics, the relationship between feminism and imperialism, the emergence of female ‘diseases’ such as hysteria, issues of identity and place in contemporary women’s writing, and the feminist attack on domesticity from the 1960s to the present. One of the main aims of the unit will be to provide students with the tools to develop a critical approach to literary texts.
Preliminary reading
Proposed assessment: Written work and tutorial participation.
This unit may form part of a major in English.
Gender and International Politics POLS2068
(8cp)
Second semester
One two-hour lecture and one tutorial a week
Lecturer: Dr Pettman
Prerequisite: Any first year units to the value of twelve credit points.
Syllabus: This unit will analyse gender relations within international politics. It will examine issues to do with gender and war, gender and the state, and women’s experiences of nationalism and citizenship, as well as women’s roles in the development process and the international political economy. It will scrutinise key concepts and categories in international politics in the light of recent feminist and critical scholarship.
Preliminary reading
Proposed assessment: Tutorial participation, written work and a course review.
This unit may form part of a major in Political Science.
Gender, Sex and Sexuality: An Introduction to Feminist Theory WOMS2023
(8cp)
Second semester 1999 and every year (staff permitting)
Three hours a week
in lecture and tutorial
Lecturer: To be appointed
Prerequisites: Any first-year units to the value of twelve credit points. Introducing Women’s Studies: The Public Life of Feminism is recommended but not required. This unit is not available for students who completed WOMS2024 in 1998.
Syllabus: This unit will further develop students’ knowledge and understanding of contemporary feminist theoretical frameworks. In particular, the course will consider the categories of ‘woman’, ‘gender’ and ‘sexuality’ as foundational concepts in feminist theory. Topics to be covered include: theories of power, discourse and representation; experience, identity and difference; biological and cultural theories of sex and gender; patriarchy; the body; public/private; the sex/gender debate; critiques of the category of ‘woman’; queer theory and postmodernism.
Proposed assessment: The recommended assessment for this course is 4,000-5,000 words of written work and tutorial participation.
Preliminary reading
This unit is strongly recommended for students intending to major in Women’s Studies.
Globalism and the Politics of Identity POLS2075
(8cp)
First semester
One two-hour lecture and one tutorial a week
Lecturer: Dr Pettman
Prerequisite: Any first year units to the value of twelve credit points.
Syllabus: This unit analyses the making of political identities in the contemporary world, beginning with ‘the world’ itself, the West and its Others, and international processes of colonisation, migration, decolonisation and globalism. It moves on to dominant political identities, including those of state, citizen and ‘old’ nationalisms, and to post-colonial and post-migratory identities. Within this global frame, the unit then pursues debates around community, identity and difference through a focus on Australian nationalism, Aboriginality and ethnicity; and on Australia’s place in the world and the region.
Preliminary reading
Proposed assessment: Tutorial participation, written work and a course review.
This unit may form part of a major in Political Science.
A History of Western Sexuality WOMS2018
(8cp)
First semester
Three hours per week of lecture and tutorial
Lecturer: Dr Matthews
Prerequisites: Any later-year Women’s Studies or History unit to the value of eight credit points or written permission of the Lecturer
Syllabus: This unit will examine the emergence of the new field of the history of sexuality, both as an example of the creation of a new field of knowledge and in terms of the substantive issues it has explored. It will examine the social and intellectual context of the emergence of the field in the past two decades, including feminism and gay liberation, the AIDS epidemic, Foucault and the social construction of sexuality theorists, gay and lesbian studies and queer theory. It will also examine in more detail the findings of the new historical investigations. Specific topics will vary from year to year, but will include three or four of the following: fertility, contraception and abortion; sexually transmitted diseases; prostitution; pornography; homosexual/ lesbian identities; crossdressing; sexual panics and moral regulation; race, nationalism, eugenics and sexuality; sexology and sexual knowledges in various periods.
Proposed assessment: Written work and tutorial participation.
Preliminary reading
This unit may form part of a History major.
Nature/Nurture? WOMS2014
(8cp)
Second semester, 1999
One 2-hour seminar and one 1-hour tutorial each week
Lecturer: Dr Wilson
Prerequisite: Any first-year units to the value of twelve credit points
Syllabus: Are psychological and behavioural tendencies biologically given or are they socially constructed? The goal of this unit is to introduce students to the nature/nurture debate in both its academic and popular forms. The unit will begin with a critical investigation of the studies of feral children and twins that have been used to adjudicate over the role of biological and social factors in determining psychological and behavioural phenomena. Following this the unit will investigate, in depth, a set of current problems in the nature/nurture debates that are particularly pertinent to feminist concerns: the aetiology of mental illness; addiction; IQ; cognitive sex differences; sexuality. The reading and the seminars will move between academic texts, video documentary, newsmagazine articles and popular scientific texts. This material will come from a variety of disciplinary sources ¾ psychology, neurology, sociology, psychiatry ¾ although no expertise in these areas is required. This material will be assessed using contemporary feminist criticism of the nature/culture distinction.
Proposed assessment: 4,000-5,000 words of written work plus tutorial participation.
Psychoanalysis and Subjectivity WOMS3002
(8cp)
Not offered in 1999
One 2-hour seminar and one 1-hour tutorial each week
Lecturer: Dr Wilson
Prerequisite: Any first-year units to the value of twelve credit points
Syllabus: This unit will introduce students to psycho- analysis with a particular focus on the relationship between feminist theory and psychoanalysis. Can psychoanalysis help us understand the nature of sexual difference? How is Freud’s critique of the rational, conscious subject useful to feminist theory? How have recent developments in feminist theory (eg queer theory, feminist theories of the body) been influenced by psychoanalysis?
In the first part of the unit we will read Sigmund Freud, focusing particularly on his account of the development of the subject and the nature of the unconscious. Next we will consider, in depth, Freud’s writings on sexuality and the construction of masculinity and femininity. Finally, we will consider a number of important feminist responses to psychoanalysis (eg the work of Karen Horney, Luce Irigaray, Juliet Mitchell, Elizabeth Grosz, Teresa de Lauretis).
Note: It is intended that, among other things, this unit will lay the foundations in psychoanalytic theory that will be useful for students doing other Women’s Studies units (eg Representation and Gender) and crosslisted units (eg Philosophy and Gender, The Body in Question).
Preliminary reading
Proposed assessment: 4000-5000 words of written work plus tutorial participation.
Race, Gender and Nation WOMS2019
(8cp)
Not offered in 1999
One 2-hour seminar/lecture a week and one 1-hour tutorial
a week. Lectures will not be taped.
Lecturer: To be announced
Prerequisites and Corequisites: Any first-year units to the value of twelve credit points
Syllabus: The course will consider the recent moves within feminist history to bring ‘race’ into its focus on gender. As black feminists and women of colour within Australia and overseas have noted, Western feminism and feminist history has for too long overlooked the centrality of racial issues and race relations to the histories and politics of ‘women’ in Australia.
This course will investigate the impact of new imperial and colonial history and rewritings of national history upon the field of feminist history. We will begin by asking what are the implications of writing history which recognises power relations operating between women differently constituted within dominant discourses of national, imperial and colonial relations. We will then investigate recent claims for both the complicity and resistance of colonising women in their proximity to other women as well as the work of indigenous women in activist history. This course ends with a short introduction to postcolonial theory.
Proposed assessment: Written work and tutorial participation.
Preliminary reading
Reading Contemporary Culture WOMS2022
(8cp)
First semester 1999
Three hours a week in lecture and tutorial
Lectures will
not be taped
Lecturer: Dr Kennedy
Prerequisites: Any first-year units to the value of twelve credit points
Syllabus: This unit will provide an introduction to cultural studies by focusing on the role of the visual media in contemporary culture. The unit has two aims: (1) it will introduce students to the representational conventions of advertising, photography, television and film, as a basis for understanding the role of the visual media in contemporary culture, and (2) it will introduce selected critical methodologies used to study visual media. Students will be introduced to semiotics, the study of how meaning is produced, directed and circulated, and to theories of identity, subjectivity and fantasy. We will also consider theories of entertainment and mass culture. By the end of the unit, students should have a basic understanding of key concepts shared by cultural studies and feminist theory, including representation, culture, the commodity, identity, production and consumption. Because questions of gender, race, class, and sexuality are so central to media practices in contemporary culture, we will take these issues as a unifying theme throughout the semester.
Preliminary reading
Proposed assessment: Written work and tutorial participation.
Representation and Gender WOMS2010
(8cp)
Not offered in 1999
Three hours per week in lecture and tutorial
Lecturer: Dr Kennedy
Prerequisite: Any first-year units to the value of twelve credit points
Syllabus: This introductory unit will explore the role of representation in the cultural construction of gender, drawing examples from a range of cultural texts, including advertisements, photographs, high and low art, films and novels. It will introduce students to key concepts shared by feminist theory and cultural studies, including gender, represent ation, culture, the sign, the commodity, spectatorship, subjectivity and ideology. The unit will address the following issues: the structure of representation, how representations make meaning and solicit the participation of spectators, the relationship between representation and reality, the distinction between high and low culture, the role of representation in the construction of dominant and marginal cultures, the image as commodity, women’s selfrepresentations, and feminism as a representational politics.
Preliminary reading
Proposed assessment: Written work and tutorial presentation.
Science and Embodiment WOMS2013
(8cp)
Not offered in 1999
One 2-hour seminar and one 1-hour tutorial each week
Lecturer: Dr Wilson
Prerequisite: Any first-year units to the value of twelve credit points
Syllabus: This unit examines a number of recent feminist engagements with the sciences that have been both critical and productive in their effects. The specific focus of the unit will be on the relationship between embodiment and scientific knowledges/methodologies. The unit will consider not only how the sciences have constructed bodies in particular ways, but also how the sciences themselves are dependent on (a disavowed) embodiment. The unit will start with a critical survey of recent feminist engagements with scientific discourses, and will introduce Foucault’s nexus of power/bodies/ knowledges as a way of theorising embodiment in the sciences. In the second part of the unit we will examine how the sciences have constituted bodies according to certain dominant understandings of difference and pathology. In the third part of the unit this relation between science and bodies will be reversed and we will consider how embodiment regulates the form and function of scientific knowledges and methodologies. The work of Luce Irigaray, Donna Haraway, Vicki Kirby, Evelyn Fox Keller (amongst others) will be discussed throughout the unit, and there will be a particular focus on recent discourses on HIV/AIDS, biomedicine and genetics.
Preliminary reading
Proposed assessment: 4,000-5,000 words of written work and tutorial participation.
Sexual Politics WOHY2004
(8cp)
Not offered in 1999
Four-and-a-half hours per week to include a two-hour
film screening session and two-and-a-half hours of lecture and tutorial
Lecturer: Dr Matthews
Prerequisite: Any first-year units to the value of twelve credit points
Syllabus: This unit looks at the development of sexual politics in the United States from the 1960s to the present. Its focus is on the way in which women’s and men’s personal lives became an arena of intense political confrontation and transformation during this period. It begins with analysis of the 1960s’ sexual revolution and the new permissiveness, then traces the rise of the women’s liberation and gay liberation movements, and the various backlash organisations. Issues to be dealt with include the politics of heterosexuality, lesbianism, homosexuality and bisexuality; consciousness raising; abortion and contraception; rape and sexual violence; love and sexual ethics; marriage and divorce; communal living; pornography and sexual consumerism; sexually transmitted diseases; prostitution; and pleasure.
Preliminary reading
Proposed assessment: Written work (4000-5,000 word essay or research project) and tutorial participation.
This unit may form part of a major in History. It is an approved outside point for Political Science honours.
Trauma, Memory and Culture WOMS2021
(8cp)
Second semester, 1999
Three hours of lecture and tutorial a week
Lecturer: Dr Kennedy
Prerequisites: Any first-year units to the value of twelve credit points
Syllabus: Memory is an important source of personal and collective identity and history. Yet, memory is never a simple record of the past; it is an interpretive reconstruction of events which incorporates narrative traditions, cultural assumptions, and ‘expert’ discourses. Traumatic experiences ¾ genocide, nuclear war, sexual abuse ¾ are assumed to interfere with memory and the ability to tell a coherent story about past events. This unit is concerned with the cultural politics of memory and trauma. Whose memories are sought, believed and commemorated in the public sphere? What material and discursive conditions determine whether an event is represented as a collective trauma, or is simply forgotten? What effects does representing an event as ‘traumatic’ have? When is racial or sexual oppression traumatic, and when is it merely an unfortunate but ‘normal’ part of everyday life? Is trauma a useful crosscultural concept?
We will begin by tracing the history of the concept of trauma in psychoanalysis, medicine and popular culture. Next, students will be introduced to theories of memory and trauma drawn from cultural studies, anthropology, history, psychoanalysis, and feminist theory. We will consider the relationship between trauma, history and mourning, the role of public memorials, and the problem of ‘forgetting’. We will study the cultural politics of trauma and memory in three contexts: the Holocaust, the Stolen Generation, and child sexual abuse and the recovered memory syndrome. Texts for study include autobiographies, films, novels, poetry, testimonials, media texts and political essays.
Preliminary reading
Proposed assessment: 4,000-5,000 words of written work, and tutorial participation.
This unit may form part of a program major in Cultural and Critical Studies.
Writing a Woman’s Life: Studies in Autobiography and Biography WOMS2016
(8cp)
Not offered in 1999
Three hours a week of lecture and tutorials
Lecturer: Dr Kennedy
Prerequisite: Representation and Gender (WOMS2010) or Women’s Studies units to the value of eight credit points or later-year English units to the value of eight credit points
Syllabus: This unit is concerned with the issue of how women represent their lives in writing, and how they are represented by others. The genres of auto biography and biography have traditionally been defined on the basis of male lives, and have celebrated individualism. Women’s attempts at literary selfrepresentation have often been considered ‘confessional’, because women writers have often focused on relationships, motherhood, sexuality and the body. We will begin by asking why writing a woman’s life presents special problems. In the first part of the unit, we will take as our case study the life of Sylvia Plath. We will study Plath’s auto biographical writings, including her poetry, her autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, her journals and her letters. We will then read selections from several biographies that have been written about Plath. In the latter part of the unit, we will read selected English and Australian autobiographies and biographies (possible authors include Miles Franklin, Ruby Langford, Drusilla Modjeska, Carolyn Steedman). We will end the unit by considering the everyday uses of autobiography on television talk shows, on video, in performance art and in memoirs. Throughout the unit, we will focus on questions concerning the form of women’s auto/biographies, individualism and relationality, sexuality, intimacy, exhibitionism and voyeurism, and the ethics of revealing intimacies about others in one’s own autobiography.
Proposed assessment: Written work and tutorial participation.
Preliminary reading
This unit may form part of a major in English.
The degree with honours
Intending honours students should first read the general statement ‘The degree with honours’ in the introductory section of the Faculty of Arts entry. The course for honours students in the Faculty of Arts extends over 4 years, and honours in Women’s Studies normally consists of ¾
1. Completion of pass degree requirements.
2. A major in Women’s Studies preferably including WOMS2023 or WOMS2024 plus an additional Women’s Studies prerequisite honours unit. Each unit must be completed at Credit level or above. Two of these units must be completed at Distinction level or above.
3. Another major in a cognate area of study.
Because of the need to coordinate individual courses, prospective honours students should consult with the Women’s Studies Honours Convener by the beginning of the third year at the latest.
The fourth year consists of ¾
1. Honours Seminar in Women’s Studies (Issues in Feminist Theory).
2. An appropriate later-year, or 4th year unit taken in the cognate department or elsewhere in the Faculties assessed at fourth year honours level.
3. A subthesis of 15,000-20,000 words supervised by the Centre for Women’s Studies.
Normally the subthesis will count for 40% of the overall result, the Women’s Studies Honours Seminar and the unit in the cognate department for 30% each.
Cognate Program
H M Boot, BSc(Econ) London, PhD Hull
Head of Department
Economic History units may be studied in the Faculty of Economics and Commerce, and as part of an Arts degree. Arts students wishing to take honours in economic history should consult the Department. For details of later-year units refer to the entry for Economic History in the section of the handbook on the Faculty of Economics and Commerce.
The Department offers two first-year units, Understanding Economic Behaviour: Microeconomics for Social Scientists and Understanding Economic Policy: Macroeconomics for Social Scientists, which are not offered to students in the Faculty of Economics and Commerce; they are designed especially for non-economics students, and emphasise the usefulness of an understanding of economics in such disciplines as history, political science and sociology. Most later year units in Economic History require either Economics I or Understanding Economic Behaviour and Understanding Economic Policy as a prerequisite, therefore BA students taking a major in Economic History should normally take Understanding Economic Behaviour and Understanding Economic Policy as the first units of the major. The other first-year units offered are ‘Australian Economy’ and ‘Business and Economy in the Asia-Pacific Region’. Each runs for one semester but are not normally prerequisites for later-year Economic History units.
Understanding Economic Behaviour: Microeconomics for Social Scientists and Understanding Economic Policy: Macroeconomics for Social Scientists are the only Economic History units which count as Arts units. These first-year units may be taken alone, as part of an economic history major, or as part of a number of program majors.
Lecturers: Dr Boot, Mr Cornish, Dr Martina
Understanding Economic Behaviour: Microeconomics for Social Scientists ECHI1105
(6cp)
First semester
Two lectures and one tutorial a week.
Prerequisite: None
Syllabus: Understanding Economic Behaviour is a unit designed to introduce the principles and applications of microeconomic thinking to students in the social sciences, including political science, history and sociology. The unit focuses on the concepts of economics and requires no background in mathematics. Its aim is to show how those concepts of economics may be employed to assist social scientists to think more coherently and consistently about a wide range of social problems. Emphasis will be placed on the application of the economic way of thinking to contemporary social issues. It is hoped that students who complete the unit will be better equipped to tackle not only questions that are primarily economic, but also questions in other disciplines where a knowledge of the basis tools of economics is most useful.
Preliminary reading
Proposed assessment: By examination, essay and tutorial participation.
Understanding Economic Policy: Macroeconomics for Social Scientists ECHI1106
(6cp)
Second semester
Two lectures and one tutorial a week.
Prerequisite: None
Syllabus: Understanding Economic Policy aims to introduce students to the macroeconomic relationships of a modern capitalist economy. The course is designed for social scientists and requires no background in mathematics. We examine the major policy issues facing developed and developing countries, place these issues within their historical and institutional context, and provide an introduction to the history of economic policy debate in the twentieth century. Topics addressed include the economic activities of firms and households, inflation and unemployment, international trade, economic growth, and the policy role of government.
Preliminary reading
Proposed assessment: By examination, essay and tutorial participation.