4. Subject areas within the Faculty of Arts

What is in this section
This section gives information about subject areas, including an overview of units of study available in 2010, pathways, majors and entry requirements for honours.

What is a major
Please refer to Chapter 3, Faculty of Arts Undergraduate Resolutions, Item 3: The major and cross-listing.

Entry requirements for honours
Please refer to Chapter 3, Faculty of Arts Undergraduate Resolutions, Item 4: Requirements for honours degrees, and chapter 8 and 9 for each subject area.

Entry requirements for major
Most departments require you to complete junior (first year) foundational units as prerequisites for enrolling in senior units. Requirements are explained in each subject area entry below.

Senior entry into major
Some subject areas do not have junior units, and thus do not have specific prerequisites for entry into a major, beyond a requirement to complete a certain number of junior credit points in any subject, or departmental permission. These subjects are:

• American Studies
• Australian Studies
• Celtic Studies
• Cultural Studies
• Digital Cultures
• European Studies
• Film Studies
• Gender Studies
• Heritage Studies
• Indigenous Australian Studies
• International and Comparative Literary Studies
• Medieval Studies
• Performance Studies

Cross-listing
Some departments or programs allow cross-listed units of study to be counted towards their major(s); see individual subject entries for more information. The full up-to-date list of all cross-listed units of study can be found at
www.arts.edu.au/current_students/undergraduate_forms.shtml.

Exchanges
Overseas exchange units are available in most subjects. Students enrolled in foreign language and area studies majors and in the Bachelor of International and Global Studies are strongly encouraged to complete a semester on exchange, and some schools offer scholarships for this purpose. For students in the Bachelor of Arts (Languages), an exchange is a compulsory requirement for completion of the degree. See Degree Resolutions in Section 3, and the website of the School of Languages and Cultures.

What is not in this section
For detailed information about individual units of study including prerequisites and semesters offered, as well as information about honours, please consult Chapter 9 (yellow pages).

For information about degree requirements, please consult Chapter 2 and 3 (white pages).

Note that many units of study are offered on a rotating basis over a two- or three-year cycle. For information about the full curriculum for subject areas, including units of study not offered this year, see the relevant department's or program's website.

American Studies

The American Studies major is an interdisciplinary program incorporating units of study from the Departments of English, Film Studies, History, Government and Music. Understanding the United States is critical for global citizens. This major enables students to develop a broad, multi-faceted understanding of the United States, which remains the dominant cultural and political force in the twenty-first century, and has long loomed large in Australian life.

Students take advantage of the widest range of undergraduate units of study focused on the United States of any Arts faculty in Australia. They partake of a rich tradition of research and teaching on the United States in the faculty, particularly in the departments of History and English. Fisher Library holds the most extensive collections of American material of any library in Australia. The program is not a part of the United States Studies Centre.

The major is offered at senior level only. It consists of one core unit of study, AMST2601 American Foundations, and five senior units of study chosen from a list of cross-listed units offered by participating departments, no more than three of which may come from a single department. A major in American studies is also one of the Area Studies options for students enrolled in the Bachelor of Global Studies.

The core unit is an interdisciplinary course, team-taught by staff from the contributing departments, and offered in semester one of each year. You must have completed 12 junior credit points of English, and/or History and/or Art History in order to enrol in the unit. It is recommended that students take the core unit in their second year. This is a modular unit of study, each addressing a core national myth. Each module will be approached from a variety of angles – historical, literary, cultural, and where relevant cinematic – to introduce students to an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the United States.

Contributing departments offer more than twenty units of study focused on the United States, not all of which will be offered in any given year. Units in History and English are generally taught once every two years, ensuring students will have a wide range of choices from which to construct a major.

Check the Faculty of Arts website for the table of cross-listed units of study.

At present, honours in American Studies is not offered. If there is sufficient demand, an honours program may be developed in the future.

Contact/further information
Coordinator: Dr Melissa Hardie, Department of English, Room N409, John Woolley Building, +61 2 9351 7737

Program website:
www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/americanstudies

Ancient History

Ancient History is taught by the department of Classics and Ancient History within the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI).

The department of Classics and Ancient History offers three separate majors in ancient world studies: Ancient History, which has a history-centred disciplinary approach to the ancient world; and Latin and Ancient Greek, language-based majors which allow for progression from complete beginners to an advanced mastery of the language and literature. Students are encouraged to supplement the focus of their particular major by drawing on the wide range of units of study available within the department (and in related departments, such as Archaeology and Philosophy) to build an Arts degree with a deep, cross-disciplinary grounding in the ancient world.

In Ancient History we teach the discipline of history and use it to offer undergraduate and postgraduate students at all levels a wide range of units on the ancient Greek, Roman and early post-Roman and Byzantine civilisations. We look at the evidence for this world: literature; documents on stone, metal, clay, wood or papyrus; coins; visual images and material sources. We use various historical approaches to try to recover the past in a way that is meaningful to the present. You can do as many units of study of Ancient History as you wish in a full sequence towards a BA degree, or you can do as little as one or two units as part of a degree specialising in something else, such as Archaeology or Art History and Theory or Commerce or Law (Combined Law students only).

Ancient History units can be combined with other units in History (which is a separate subject area) to make up a major in History.

Honours
Qualifying for honours
If you are considering an honours year in Ancient History, it is best to seek early advice on all the pathways open to you and the skills you will need to do your best. Our formal prerequisites are a credit or better average in 48 credit points of senior Ancient History including ANHS2612 Historiography Ancient and Modern (or equivalent). Students are also encouraged to enrol in at least one unit at ANHS3600 level. The Honours Coordinator can advise you on acceptable equivalents to our standard requirements.

Ancient History at honours level requires you to have learned at least the basics of the ancient language most relevant to your thesis topic. Normally students are expected to have successfully completed two semesters of an Introductory Latin or Ancient Greek or its equivalent. Note that you can still pick up your ancient language as senior units via the units in Reading Greek (GRKA2620 or 2621) or Reading Latin (LATN2620 or 2621).

Undertaking honours
An extra year of Ancient History allows students to specialise in a particular field and to write a major piece of research. The honours year can be the culmination of your study of Ancient History or a pathway to further research in our postgraduate program. It develops worthwhile transferable skills of analysis and critical argumentation. Our program consists of two seminars and a thesis of 20,000 words on a topic decided by you in consultation with your supervisor.

Full details of the program, its prerequisites and its relationship to other majors taught by the department may be found on the Department's website at www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/cah.

Cross-listing (units of study from other subject areas)
Please check the cross-listing schedule located on the Faculty of Arts website.

Contact/further information
Enquiries should be directed in the first instance to the school office, phone +61 2 9351 2862. Further information about units of study may be sought from coordinators. For their names, phone numbers and office numbers, see: www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/cah.

Anthropology

The department of Anthropology is part of the School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS).

Program structure and content
Anthropology may be described as the study of human societies and cultures. Although it shares much of its theory and method with a wide range of social and humanistic disciplines, it remains distinct in its:

1. emphases on cross-cultural comparison;
2. interest in the full range of human, cultural and social diversity;
3. use of long-term field research in distinct settings as its primary research method.

While often associated with the study of small-scale stateless societies, social anthropology is equally concerned with the investigation and analysis of archaic state formations and modern nation states. Junior units of study introduce students to core themes revealing the fundamental character of cultural difference, the continuing significance of cultural difference in a globalised world, and the development of major traditions of theory about these key problems in anthropology.

Confronting cultural difference raises general issues of human cognition and communications, social structure, performance, semiotics and representation, and calls into question taken for granted categories such as religion, politics and economics. Senior units of study address these theoretical and conceptual challenges.

In regional terms, current units of study focus on various aspects of the socio-cultural circumstances of both Aboriginal and immigrant Australians, as well as a wide range of Asian, Pacific and other cultures and societies.

Anthropology also has a long tradition of engagement with key contemporary social issues. The question of race and racism, processes of urbanisation, globalisation, the dynamics of poverty, the politics of ethnicity, the social impacts of development projects, medicine as a cultural issue, have all loomed large in teaching and research. Many of these issues are taken up in the Master of Development Studies program.

Requirements for a major
Students should consult the departmental website for advice on combinations of units of study that form the major.

First Year Anthropology
There are two junior Anthropology units of study, each worth six credit points:

• ANTH1001 Cultural Difference: An Introduction
• ANTH1002 Anthropology and the Global

A combination of two junior units of study is a prerequisite for all other anthropology units.

Major in Anthropology
A major consists of 36 senior credit points in Anthropology.

Cross-listing
Please check the cross-listing schedule located on the Faculty of Arts website.

Pathways
A student normally needs to do two junior units at the 1000 level and then proceed to the senior units at the 2000 level. Simultaneous completion of one of the junior units with 2000 level senior units is also permissible.

Honours (see chapter 9 for further information)
Honours entry units of study and fourth year honours are designed to develop an advanced understanding of Anthropology as a discipline with a distinctive methodology and history. The aim is to provide students with the research skills and breadth of disciplinary knowledge required for them to formulate their own research project culminating in a fourth year honours thesis.

To proceed to fourth year honours in Anthropology, students must have a credit average or better in 48 senior credit points of Anthropology, including ANTH3601 and ANTH3602 pre-honours seminars or equivalent.

Applications from students from other universities with equivalent qualifications are also encouraged.

Any problems students may encounter due to the new prerequisites should be referred to the Departmental Honours Coordinator.

Contact/further information
Department website: www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/anthro
Chair of Department: Professor Linda Connor
Email:

Arabic and Islamic Studies

The department of Arabic and Islamic Studies is in the School of Languages and Cultures (SLC).

Program structure and content
Arabic is the major language in the Middle East and North Africa with over 280 million speakers. Islam is the faith of over a billion people. Its significance as a religion and a civilisation, and its role in culture and politics can be seen in world history and in the globalised context of our modern world.

Arabic is one of six official languages of the United Nations. It is the language of Islam's scriptures and of significant Arabic speaking Christian communities. It is both the language of an ancient civilisation and the living medium of a vibrant contemporary literature and culture.

Apart from its strong influence on Persian, Turkish, Urdu, Indonesian and Malay, within the Islamic world, Arabic has also influenced several European languages through hundreds of loan words in various fields of knowledge.

Studying Arabic introduces learners directly to the Middle Eastern heritage, to Islamic sources, and to the contemporary culture and media of the Arab world. Studying the Arab World, Islam and the Middle East will enable students to comprehend the history, culture and politics of a significant part of our present world, as well as the place of the Arabs and Islam globally.

The department of Arabic and Islamic Studies offers two types of units covering two interrelated areas of study: Arabic Language, Literature and Culture (ARBC) units are language based and deal with Arabic language material (advanced classes are conducted mostly in Arabic); and units of study on the Arab World, Islam and the Middle East (ARIS), where classes and texts are in English.

Arabic Language, Literature and Culture
The Arabic language program is offered in two streams. The beginners 'B stream' is for students with no learning experience in Arabic. First year units focus on practical language skills using living Arabic in context. The language taught is Modern Standard Arabic, the variety of learned Arabic common across the Arabic speaking world. Students will also be gradually familiarised with a variety of Arabic dialects. The senior units seek to extend these skills while introducing students to samples of contemporary Arabic literature and the media.

The advanced 'A stream' is for students with sufficient learning experience of Arabic (HSC Arabic or equivalent) and who already read and write in Arabic. 'A stream' units seek to develop writing and translation skills as well as study and analysis of Arabic literature and media.

Students with no learning experience of Arabic will need to enrol in the 'B stream' units beginning with ARBC1611 and ARBC1612.

Students with 2-unit Continuers HSC Arabic (or equivalent) will need to enrol in the 'A stream' units beginning with ARBC2633 and ARBC2634.

Students with 2-unit General HSC Arabic or equivalent fluency are required to take a placement test, administered by the department, to determine their appropriate entry level. Students cannot enrol concurrently in both A and B streams, and those eligible to enrol in the A stream cannot enrol in the B stream.

Arab World, Islam and the Middle East
ARIS units of study deal with aspects of the history, society, religion, culture and politics of the Arabic and Islamic Middle East from pre-Islamic times to the present. The approach is historical and sociological.

Lectures and tutorials are conducted in English and the units of study are available to all students who wish to study this area and its place in the world, particularly students with an interest in the study of History, Asian Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Global Studies, Religion and Politics, as well as those majoring in Arabic and Islamic Studies.

There are two junior (first year level) units and four senior (second and third year level) units of ARIS. The four senior units are offered in alternating sequence to ensure continuity over three consecutive years. Students who have already completed ARIS1671 and ARIS1672 will proceed to ARIS3675 and ARIS3676 in 2010 and to ARIS2673 and ARIS2674 in 2011.

Requirements for a major
A major in Arabic and Islamic Studies will require a minimum of 36 credit points at senior level. It combines ARBC and ARIS units and allows more focus on either area of study as follows:

Either Arabic Language and Literature (ARBC): 24 credit points of Arabic language senior units (ARBC2613-3616 B stream or ARBC3635-3638 A stream), plus 12 credit points from the ARIS senior units (ARIS2673-3676).

Or Arab World, Islam and the Middle East (ARIS): 24 credit points of ARIS units (ARIS2673-3676), plus 12 credit points of senior Arabic language units (ARBC2613-3616 B stream or ARBC3635-3638 A stream).

Students taking senior units in the ARBC A stream may be taught in a combined class for practical purposes (eg ARBC3635 and ARBC3637). Contents offered to such combined classes alternate from year to year to ensure a continuing sequence.

Cross-listing
Please check the cross-listing schedule located on the Faculty of Arts website.

Sample pathways

Pathway 1: Arabic Language and Literature major (ARBC) for students with no learning experience of Arabic.

• First year: ARBC1611 and ARBC1612 Arabic Introductory 1B and 2B (plus a minimum of 6 junior credit points in ARIS units of study recommended).
• Second year: ARBC2613 and ARBC2614 Arabic Language and Literature 3B and 4B plus a minimum of 6 senior credit points of ARIS units of study.
• Third year: ARBC3615 and ARBC3616 Arabic Language and Literature 5B and 6B plus a minimum of 6 senior credit points of ARIS units of study.

Pathway 2: Arabic Language and Literature major (ARBC) for students with 2 unit Continuers HSC Arabic (or equivalent).

• First year: ARBC2633 and ARBC2634 Arabic Advanced Language and Literature 3A and 4A (plus a minimum of 6 junior credit points in ARIS units of study recommended).
• Second year: ARBC3635 and ARBC3636 Arabic Advanced Translation and Writing 5A and Arabic Advanced for Media Studies 6A plus a minimum of 6 senior credit points in ARIS units of study.
• Third year: ARBC3637 and ARBC3638 Arabic Advanced Translation and Writing 7A and Arabic Advanced for Media Studies 8A plus a minimum of 6 senior credit points in ARIS units of study.

Pathway 3: Arab World, Islam and the Middle East Major (ARIS) for students with no learning experience of Arabic.

• First year: ARIS1671 and ARIS1672 plus 12 junior credit points if ARBC (B stream) units of study.
• Second year: ARIS2673 and ARIS2674 plus a minimum of 6 credit points in ARBC (B stream) units of study.
• Third year: ARIS3675 and ARIS3676 plus a minimum of 6 senior credit points in ARBC (B stream) units of study.

Pathway 4: Arab World, Islam and the Middle East Major (ARIS) for students with 2 unit Continuers HSC Arabic (or equivalent).

• First year: ARIS1671 and ARIS1672 (plus a minimum of 6 junior credit points in ARBC (A stream) units of study recommended).
• Second year: ARIS2673 and ARIS2674 plus a minimum of 6 credit points in ARBC (A stream) units of study.
• Third year: ARIS3675 and ARIS3676 plus a minimum of 6 senior credit points in ARBC (A stream) units of study.

Honours (see chapter 9 for further information)
The honours program in Arabic and Islamic studies requires the student to have completed 48 senior credit points in Arabic and Islamic Studies, at Credit level or above. These include the 36 credit points of the Arabic and Islamic Studies major (as specified above) plus 6 credit points chosen from any of the remaining ARBC or ARIS senior units, and the obligatory honours entry unit of study ARIS3680 Approaches to Arabic and Islamic Studies.

Students with interdisciplinary interests can enrol in joint honours, combining Arabic and Islamic Studies with another subject area.

The honours program in Arabic and Islamic Studies consists of seminars on topics in Arabic and Islamic culture and society, and advanced language for research purposes, and a thesis on a topic chosen by the student in consultation with the department. For more information, see chapter 9 of this handbook.

Contact/further information
Department website: www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/arabicislamic
Chair of Department: Dr Nijmeh Hajjar
Email:; Phone: +61 2 9036 7011 or contact the SLC office at .

Archaeology

The department of Archaeology is part of the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI).

Archaeology provides a vivid understanding of how the past informs our present through its focus on material remains of the human past. Its methods range from scientific analysis of artefacts and landscapes to interpretation of ancient art and written documents and beyond.

The University of Sydney has Australia's oldest Department of Archaeology and offers the widest program of teaching and research. Staff conduct fieldwork in Australia, Oceania, East and South-East Asia (Angkor Wat in Cambodia), China, Central Asia, Western Asia (Iran, Jordan) and the Mediterranean (Cyprus, Greece, Italy). Our teaching program reflects these regional interests.

The department has its own well-equipped laboratory to support teaching of artefact-analysis and fieldwork methods. Students may also access the resources of Australia's oldest and largest archaeological collection at the Nicholson Museum. The department has links with the Electron Microscope Unit for teaching scientific methods and the Archaeological Computing Laboratory for digital methods, including geographic information systems (GIS) and other computing applications.

Majors are offered in two areas: Archaeology and Heritage Studies (for Heritage Studies, see separate entry). Before beginning their major in Archaeology students normally complete 12 junior credit points by taking ARCA1001 and ARCA1002 which respectively introduce students to important civilisations of the ancient world, and to archaeological methods and theory.

Students interested in Classical and/or Near Eastern Archaeology can gain entry to relevant senior level units by taking either ARCA1001 or ARCA1002 combined with 6 junior credit points of Ancient History or Classical Studies.

A wide range of senior level units are offered. These are regionally based and/or structures around themes in archaeological method, theory and practice. Some units include hands-on practical work components. For units from other departments that may count towards an Archaeology major please check the cross-listing schedule on the Faculty of Arts website.

Honours
From 2010 the department offers a single honours program in Archaeology while letting students specialise in the subject area of their choice, including Heritage Studies. Honours entry requires 48 senior credit points (to a maximum of 60 credit points) in Archaeology (including cross-listed units for students doing honours in Heritage Studies topics; see Heritage Studies entry). For 2010 honours entry all students should normally have completed ARCA3600 with credit results or better. For Classical Archaeology honours, students should also have obtained credit results or better in ARCA3602 or ARCA3604 and HSC 2-unit or equivalent knowledge of at least one of the following languages: French, German, Italian or Modern Greek. For Near Eastern Archaeology honours, students should also have obtained credit results or better in ARNE2691 and ARNE3691. Further details of honours prerequisites are listed elsewhere in this handbook.

ARCA3600 will not be offered in 2010. For 2011 honours entry, students should complete at least one subject specific pre-honours unit of study to gain credit results or better: ARCA3602, 3603 or 3604 for Classical Archaeology; ARNE3691 Special Topics in West Asian Archaeology (or equivalent) for Near Easter and/or West Asian Archaeology; ARCA3601 Research in Australasian Archaeology (or equivalent) for all other honours topics (eg Australian, Asian, Pacific, Heritage Studies or other thematic research).

Exact prerequisites may be waived where a student is unable to meet exact requirements due to curriculum changes. All students with results of credit and above are encouraged to apply for honours.

Contact/further information
More information about the Archaeology program is available at: www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/archaeology, or by phoning the school on +61 2 9351 2862.

Art History

Art History is part of the School of Letters, Art and Media (SLAM).

In a new century when visual images increasingly challenge texts as a means of communication, the history of art and film provides a foundation of visual literacy. With strengths in European, American, Asian and Australian art and film, units of study offered by the department provide an understanding of different cultures and times. Studying not only the 'high art' of the museums and private collections, the department engages with the vitality of popular culture: design, photography, and the medium of film that so defines contemporary experience.

A major in Art History has a wide range of real world applications. Beyond the rigorous training in argument and writing the degree provides, it gives a pathway into several art industries. Many commercial galleries, public art spaces, public galleries and museums are staffed by our graduates. Many art critics, film critics and programmers working in the print media, radio and television have trained in art history and film studies.

The department's excellence in theoretical as well as historical studies have encouraged young researchers who have gone on to find work at the university level around Australia and overseas.

Major
Students intending to major in Art History must complete both ARHT1001 and ARHT1002. Film Studies is a complementary area to Art History and students intending to major in Film Studies need to complete either ARHT1002 Modern Times: Art and Film or the English junior unit of study ENGL1025. (Please refer to separate Film Studies entry for further details).

After completing ARHT1001 and ARHT1002 a student can select from the full range of senior units of study available across the department. Please note that each year every unit of study may not be offered. However over the two-year period which a full-time student completes senior units, almost all will be offered. At least 36 credit points at senior level (six units) are required for a major, although students may take up to 78 (18 junior and 60 senior) credit points of Art History units.

Pathways
Students have the option of either selecting from a wide range of units of study to create a more generalised degree or selecting from a specific area to create a more specialised major.

Each year different units of study are offered in the following areas:

• European Art History from the Early Renaissance to the late 19th Century. The discipline was founded and developed on European models of representation through many parts of the world, including Australia.
• Modern and Contemporary Art. This area covers most aspects of visual culture from the late 19th Century up until the present day. It includes the study of photography, popular culture, art, design and architecture.
• Australian Art. This area covers indigenous, colonial and post-colonial art and visual culture to the present.
• Asian Art. This area covers modern and contemporary art and popular culture in Northern and Southeast Asia.
• Film Studies. This area covers the histories and theories of film and electronic media. Please note that you can count the department's film units as part of your Art History major.

Students in the Department of Art History and Film Studies are able to enrol in practical units of study offered at the Art Workshop (Tin Sheds) in the Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Allied Arts. Units of study are normally offered in the following media: Ceramics, Drawing, Painting, Photography, Screenprinting, Sculpture, Video and Web design.

Students enrolled in either ARHT1001 or ARHT1002 are able to enrol in one introductory level workshop. Students enrolled in senior units of study can also take one advanced level workshop, each worth six credit points. A listing of these units of study can be found in the Faculty of Architecture Handbook. These units of study will not be included as part of a major in Art History, but the credit points gained will count towards a student's degree total.

For more details please consult the Tin Sheds on +61 2 9351 3115 or email .

Honours
The prerequisites for Art History honours is a credit average in 48 senior credit points of Art History. The honours year comprises two semester-long units of study and a thesis of 18,000-20,000 words in length. Art History honours students can commence their study either at the beginning of the year or mid-year. Students are also able to undertake Film Studies honours.

Further detail regarding prerequisites and the nature of the honours year for both Art History and Film Studies is described in chapter 9 of this handbook.

Foreign Language
Knowledge of another language is not compulsory, however students wishing to proceed to postgraduate research in Art History are strongly advised to acquire a good reading knowledge of a language other than English. A student may be precluded from doing postgraduate research in a particular area if s/he does not have reading knowledge of the appropriate language/s. Language skills are also often highly valued by future employers, particularly in museums and art galleries.

Summer and Winter School
The department will be offering the following undergraduate units of study as part of the 2010 University of Sydney Summer School:

ARHT1001 Art and Experience
ARHT2657 Contemporary Hollywood

For further details see the Summer School webpage: www.summer.usyd.edu.au

Contact/further information
For comprehensive information please see the department website: www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/arthistory

Undergraduate Student Advisor: Associate Professor Jennifer Milam, phone +61 2 9351 4210, email .

Arts Digital

The Arts Digital unit in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Sydney was formed in 2008 to enable, enhance, and plan for the present and future of digital media and technology-based services in the Faculty. Its main aims are straightforward in terms of technology-based development and services dedicated to the Humanities and Social Sciences: research, develop, deliver.

Arts Digital primarily manages Faculty and discipline specific aspects of the five main Faculty technology-based service areas: research, learning and teaching, the student experience, administration, and marketing. Generic ICT services such as email, desktop support and some networking are provided by the University's ICT Shared Services.

Arts Digital is supported by its four teams: Administration and Library; Media, Communications and Educational Technology; Web; and Digital Projects.

Arts Digital also provides:

• Project-based research and teaching support and development to students and staff.
• Technology consultancy and project management services both internally and externally to the University.
• Specialised services and development to enable other important research, teaching, administration and marketing initiatives in the faculty and wider University.

Faculty technology-based research and teaching interests range from Media and Communications to Digital Ethnography, Game Theory, Geospatial Information Systems (GIS), and the latest developments in web and social media technologies.

For location, contact and other information please visit: www.arts.usyd.edu.au/artsdigital/.

Asian Studies

The Asian Studies Program is in the School of Languages and Cultures (SLC).

Program structure and content
Asia is a vital region of the globe today that has been experiencing dynamic cultural transformations and astounding growth in economic power. The task of understanding Asia requires a comprehensive program, including the ancient histories of Asian societies, the diversity of Asian languages and cultures, the importance of their colonial and postcolonial histories, and the complexities of their modern rural and urban societies.

Australia today is tied into Asia more than ever before, through intensifying cultural contacts, immigration, tourism, commerce and trade, and strategic alliances. Thus, the study of Asia has become vital to Australia's future, and all educated Australians need to learn more about their neighbours in the region.

The undergraduate program in Asian Studies offers students:

1. an interdisciplinary approach in understanding Asia;
2. a comparative perspective in the study of different Asian societies and histories;
3. an introduction to cultural and social theories as tools to approach Asia.

Students do not need to speak, read, or write an Asian language to enrol in units of study offered by the Asian Studies Program, as all classes are conducted in English and use English-language texts. However, we encourage study of an Asian language and deepening of cultural knowledge and understanding through a period of exchange study at one of the many University of Sydney partner universities in Asia.

When structuring their program, undergraduates in Asian Studies may choose to focus on:

I. Five Disciplinary/Thematic clusters:

1. Politics, Economics and Environment
2. History and the Present
3. Religion and Philosophy
4. Arts, Culture and Media
5. Society, Gender and Sexuality

II. Five Geographical/Cultural areas of concentration:

1. China
2. Japan
3. Korea
4. Southeast Asia
5. South Asia

The University of Sydney holds exchange agreements with universities in the Asian region including China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia and Thailand.

Requirements for a major
There are two compulsory first year junior units of study which are prerequisites for the Asian Studies senior level units (these junior level units may be waived by the department if students have taken other Faculty of Arts Table A junior units):

• ASNS1601 Introduction to Asian Cultures
• ASNS1602 Modernity in Asia

To obtain a major in Asian Studies, students must successfully complete 36 senior credit points. A minimum of 18 senior credit points must be made up of ASNS units; the other 18 senior credit points may be taken from approved cross-listed units of study offered by other Faculty of Arts departments.

Cross-listing
Please check the cross-listing schedule located on the Faculty of Arts website, and consult the relevant departments regarding availability of units of study for 2010. Some of these units may have prerequisites. No language units of study may be counted towards the major. Only units with historical, cultural, social or political-economic content on Asia may be cross-listed to Asian Studies.

Sample pathway
Pathway 1 Major with a thematic concentration in History and the Present:

• First year: ASNS1601 Introduction to Asian Cultures; ASNS1602 Modernity in Asia.
• Second year: ASNS2642 Traditional Korea; ASNS2664 Southeast Asia Transformed.
• Third year: ASNS2623 India: Tradition and Modernity; ASNS2635 Samurai and Merchants; ASNS2618 Remaking Chinese Society; ASNS3690 Approaches to Research in Asian Studies.

Pathway 2 Major with a country/region concentration

• First year: ASNS1601 Introduction to Asian Cultures; ASNS1602 Modernity in Asia.
• Second year: ASNS2619 Origins of Japanese Tradition; ASNS2636 Enigma of Japanese Power.
• Third year: ASNS2672 Japan in East Asia; ASNS2642 Modern Korea; ASNS2677 Beyond the Geisha/Samurai Binary; ASNS3690 Approaches to Research in Asian Studies.

Honours (see chapter 9 for further information)
Intending Honours students must have qualified for the award of the pass degree with a major in Asian Studies. They will have completed 12 additional credit points beyond the minimum 36 senior credit points required for a major, including ASNS3690 Approaches to Research in Asian Studies, with a 'Credit' average or better.

The Honours program consists of two seminars and a 15,000-20,000 word thesis on a topic in their area of interest. As with the undergraduate Asian Studies major, all units and the thesis will be in English. However, we encourage students with Asian-language proficiency to utilise sources in that language for their thesis research, and to substitute Asian-language Honours-level coursework in their coursework component.

Contact/further information
Program website: www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/asianstudies/
Program Director: TBA
Email:
Phone: +61 2 9351 4718

Australian Literature

Australian Literature is situated within the Department of English and forms part of the School of Letters, Art and Media (SLAM). The Australian Literature resources Room (N411) is situated on level 4 of the John Woolley Building. This is a valuable collection of reference works and files relating to Australian Literature designed for the use of students, staff and visiting scholars. It includes works of Australian poetry, prose, drama and fiction, reference books of literary criticism and literary history, doctoral theses, and files of the leading Australian literary journalists.

The Australian Literature program commences at senior level after the completion of two junior units of study (12 credit points). Students are not restricted in their choice of subjects at junior level, although units offered by the Department of English, particularly ENGL1008 Australian Texts: International Contexts, form an appropriate basis for entry into an Australian Literature major (six senior units of study). Students are offered a wide range of approaches to the discipline and are prepared for entry into an honours year in which they specialise in an area of their choice.

Australian Literature units are designed for students with native-language ability and, although there are no formal prerequisites, all units are based on the assumption that students will have completed one of the more demanding courses for the Higher School Certificate, or the equivalent. Senior level units are normally rotated on a two-year basis to allow full-time students a larger number of choices in their two senior years.

Major
Students wishing to major in Australian Literature begin with two junior level units in any subject area (12 credit points). At senior level they complete six Australian Literature units of study (36 credit points).

ENGL1008 Australian Texts: International Contexts is a particularly good foundation for entry to the major in Australian Literature or to individual units in Australian Literature, eg ASLT2609 Australian Writing in the Postmodern Age and ENGL2619 Australian Gothic.

Cross-listing
A number of units in other departments are cross-listed to the Australian Literature major and up to three cross-listed units may be included as part of the major (18 credit points). For information on cross-listed units please see the Faculty of Arts website www.arts.usyd.edu.au.

Pathways
Students with junior units in other disciplines, including English, History, Art History and Film Studies, Media and Performance Studies will find interest in senior units such as ASLT2616 Stage and Screen, ASLT2620 Writing and Justice and ASLT2609 Australian Writing and the Postmodern Age.

Students majoring in other disciplines may also return to individual ASLT units of study at later stages in their degree.

Honours
Honours in Australian Literature allows students to specialise further in their area of interest. It offers students the opportunity to work independently and creatively in a community of scholars that includes both their peers and the staff of the department. A number of honours graduates each year continue to postgraduate study in Australia or abroad.

Students wishing to enter honours must have achieved grades of Credit or above in their senior units and there is one compulsory unit, ENGL3655 The Literary in Theory. Units of study include Australian Poetry and the Symbolists, Undisciplined Histories, Australian Classic Works, and Reading Suburbia.

During their honours year students will write a thesis as well as completing four honours options. The detail regarding prerequisites and the nature of the honours year is described in chapter 9 of this handbook.

Contact/further information
For comprehensive information see the English department website: www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/english
Convenor: Professor Robert Dixon, phone +61 2 9036 7231, email

Australian Studies

The Australian Studies program enables students with an interest in Australian society, history and culture to pursue a program of study at senior level across a wide range of subject areas.

In addition, it offers one core interdisciplinary unit of study in Australian Studies, ASTR2601, worth six credit points, which can also be taken independently of an Australian Studies major. The entry requirement for this unit is 18 junior credit points.

Students who wish to major in Australian Studies (a minimum of 36 credit points at senior level) must complete the core unit of study, ASTR2601. The remaining units of study may be chosen from a list of cross-listed units of study in the Australian Studies area, offered by participating departments.

Further information is available from the Director of the Australian Studies Program, Dr Brigid Rooney, Room N327, Woolley Building. Phone +61 2 9351 2349 or +61 2 9351 4517.

Cross-listing (units of study from other subject areas)

Please check the cross-listing schedule located on the Faculty of Arts website.

Biblical Studies

Biblical Studies is located in the School of Languages and Cultures (SLC).

Biblical Studies is an interdisciplinary approach to the books of the Bible, including the Hebrew Bible/tanach, the apocrypha and the Dead Sea scrolls. The program provides tools for understanding the historical, literary, and cultural background of these ancient books.

Program structure and content
The Hebrew Bible in translation forms the major focus of this program. The two junior units provide an introduction to the study of the texts. The formation of the Bible, literary, religious and historical elements of the texts of Law and early Prophets, and the relationship between Ancient Israel and surrounding peoples and cultures are examined and analysed. An important aim is the development of the ability to read texts critically, with an awareness of the range of scholarly approaches.

In the four senior units of study, the focus moves to an exploration of the phenomenon of prophecy and particular prophetic works, narrative, poetic and wisdom texts from the Writings, post-biblical material, and apocalyptic literature found in the Hebrew Bible, the Christian Scriptures and in apocryphal and pseudepigraphic works. All sections of the program consider relevant material from the Qumran discoveries (the Dead Sea Scrolls).

Requirements for a major
Students who wish to major in BBCL must complete 36 senior credit points normally consisting of BBCL2603 Prophets; BBCL2604 Writings; BBCL2605 Literature of the second temple era; BBCL2606 Jewish apocalyptic literature; as well as two units in Classical Hebrew (normally HBRW2631 and 2632, students with some background in Classical Hebrew should consult the course coordinator). RLST2611 may be substituted for one of the senior units.

Cross-listings
Up to 12 credit points from approved cross-listable units of study may be cross-listed towards the Biblical Studies major. Please check the cross-listing schedule located on the Faculty of Arts website.

Sample Pathway:
The following is an example only.

• First year: BBCL1001 Biblical Studies 1 and BBCL1002 Biblical Studies 2.
• Second year: BBCL2603 Prophets and BBCL2604 Writings (note that BBCL2605 and BBCL2606 can be studied before BBCL2603 and BBCL2604). Plus HBRW231 Hebrew Accelerated C1 and HBRW2632 Hebrew Accelerated C2.
• Third year: BBCL2605 Writings of the Second Temple Era and BBCL2606 Jewish Apocalyptic Literature.

There is a full exchange program with a number of universities, and students can spend a semester or a year on exchange.

Honours (see chapter 9 for more information)
Intending Honours students must obtain a credit average or better in their Biblical Studies major (36 senior credit points) and take at least an additional 12 credit points (two units of study) from courses offered in the Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish studies. Exemptions may be granted if the proposed Honours thesis topic does require a knowledge of another relevant language or field of study. Honours students will undertake four seminars, and write a 15,000 word thesis.

Contact/further information
Department Website: http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/hbjs/
Course Coordinator: Dr Leonard Lobel, Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies, Room 623, Brennan MacCallum Building A18, Phone: +61 2 9351 3511, Email: , or contact the SLC office .

Celtic Studies

Celtic studies is part of the School of Letters, Art and Media (SLAM).

Celtic Studies is concerned with the academic study of the Celtic languages, past and present, and the culture and history of the Celts. The aim is to enable students who have developed an interest in various aspects of Celtic Studies to pursue a program of study that offers a representative range of subject areas. It is offered at senior level only, and students are admitted if they have successfully completed 18 junior credit points from part A of the Table of units of study.

Major
A major in Celtic Studies consists of at least 36 senior credit points from the units of study in Celtic Studies including:
CLST2601 Defining the Celts and CLST2605 The Celts in History and two CLST language units, that is:
CLST2606 Old Irish 1; CLST2602 Old Irish 2; CLST2604 Middle Welsh 1; CLST2603 Middle Welsh 2; CLST2607 Modern Irish Linguistics; CLST2608 Modern Welsh Language and Culture 1; CLST2609 Modern Welsh Language and Culture II; CLST2610 Modern Irish Language and Culture I; CLST2611 Modern Irish Language and Culture II; CLST2612 Scottish Identity, History and Culture, or no more than 18 senior credit points of cross-listed units to the major.

Cross-listing
A range of units are available from other departments for cross-listing. For students counting units of study in other departments towards a major in Celtic Studies, the prerequisites are those of Celtic Studies, not of the departments in which the units are offered, except in obvious cases, such as in a language department, where language ability is required. For cross-listed units see the information on the Faculty of Arts website www.arts.usyd.edu.au.

Honours
For admission into Celtic Studies IV Honours, students must have completed units of study to the value of at least 48 senior credit points from the units of study for Celtic Studies and from the cross-listed units of study (including CLST2601, CLST2605 and two CLST language units). Further detail regarding prerequisites and the nature of the honours year is described in chapter 9 of this handbook.

Contact/further information
For further information see the department website: www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/celticstudies/
Undergraduate Student Advisor: Professor Anders Ahlqvist, phone +61 2 9351 3841, email .

Chinese Studies

The department of Chinese Studies is in the School of Languages and Cultures (SLC).

Program structure and content
The Chinese Studies program teaches Chinese culture, literature, society and linguistics in addition to modern and classical Chinese languages. It provides students with a solid understanding of Chinese society and culture, the skills essential to function with confidence in the Chinese speaking world, the ability to work in China-related professions and the competence to conduct research in Chinese studies.

The modern Chinese language program caters for students with a wide range of language abilities from complete beginners, advanced learners to background speakers of Chinese Languages from different regions. The program focuses on developing effective communicative skills at the lower and intermediate levels, including Chinese for business purposes. At the advanced levels, we teach students research and academic writing skills in the Chinese language. The teaching of the classical Chinese language is integrated with the study of literature and philosophy in premodern China.

Enrolment information
Students enrolling in the junior Chinese language units CHNS1101 Chinese 1A (For Beginners) and CHNS1201 Chinese 1C (For Advanced Beginners) no longer require placement interviews. Please read the unit of study descriptions carefully to decide which one is right for you. If you would like advice on which unit to choose, please contact a member of staff.

Placement interviews are still required for new students who wish to enrol directly into senior Chinese language units, that is, units with a '2' or '3' as the first number. This will apply, for example, to students who can already read and write Chinese well. In the week before the beginning of Semesters 1 and 2, there will be staff members available on Level 6 of the Brennan MacCallum Building from 10.00am to 1.00pm and 2.00pm to 4.00pm Monday to Friday to interview students and answer enrolment inquiries. Check the department's website for further details.

In the initial weeks of the semester students may be further assessed by a teaching staff member to make sure that they are enrolled in the right class. Students may be required to show their high school or other relevant transcripts. The department will assist students who have enrolled in an inappropriate unit of study to correct their enrolment. It reserves the right to place students in the unit of study that it deems most suitable. Students who fail to withdraw from an inappropriate enrolment when directed to do so will be reported to the Dean.

Requirements for a major
All students who intend to major in Chinese Studies are advised to take as many CHNS units of study as possible (up to a maximum of 60 senior credit points) and are strongly advised to take CHNS1601 Understanding Contemporary China in their first year. They must complete a minimum of 36 senior credit points in Chinese Studies, or selected units of study cross-listed from other programs.

Cross-listing
For information on cross-listed units of study please see the table of cross-listed units on the Faculty of Arts website.

Sample Pathways (3 or 4 year degrees):
Pathways to a Chinese Studies major differ from student to student, depending on your level of Chinese language ability at entry to the program. It is important that you start at the appropriate level. Students are strongly encouraged to discuss their level of entry with Dr Linda Tsung, the undergraduate co-ordinator for Chinese Studies (, tel: 9351 2868).

1. For speakers of non-Chinese languages

Sample Pathways (3 or 4 year degrees):

Beginner
Year 1: CHNS1101 and CHNS1102 and CHNS1601.
Year 2: CHNS2601 and CHNS2602 plus options from CHNS363X or CHNS364X.
Year 3: CHNS3601 and CHNS3602 plus CHNS3608 and CHNS3609 or options from CHNS363X or CHNS364X.
Year 4: CHNS3603 and CHNS3604 plus options from CHNS363X or CHNS364X.

School Leaver
Year 1: CHNS2601 and CHNS2602 and CHNS1601.
Year 2: CHNS3601 and CHNS3602 plus CHNS3608 and CHNS3609 plus options from CHNS363X or CHNS364X.
Year 3: CHNS3603 and CHNS3604 plus options from CHNS363X or CHNS364X.
Year 4: CHNS3603 and CHNS3604 plus options from CHNS363X or CHNS364X.

Advanced Learner
Year 1: CHNS3601 and CHNS3602 and CHNS1601.
Year 2: CHNS3603 and CHNS3604 plus CHNS3608 and CHNS3609 or options from CHNS363X.
Year 3: CHNS3605 and CHNS3606 or CHNS363X and/or CHNS364X or optional China-focused units of study from other programs with permission.

Only units designated with a '2' or higher number in the first digit count towards the major. Units of study that focus on China offered by other departments may not be counted towards a Chinese Studies major for students in this stream, except for those who begin at the CHNS3601 level or higher.

The 36-credit-point major offers a basic introduction to the Chinese speaking world. A semester (or at least a summer program) in China or Taiwan is strongly recommended to students who want to develop advanced communication skills in Chinese.

Students interested in Chinese thinking, philosophy and literature are strongly encouraged to take classical Chinese language units: CHNS2611 and CHNS2612.

2. For speakers of Chinese languages

Sample pathways (3 or 4 year degrees):

Background Speaker (with low literacy)
Year 1: CHNS1201 and CHNS1202 and CHNS1601.
Year 2: CHNS3601 and CHNS3602 plus options from CHNS3608, CHNS3609, CHNS2612, CHNS363X.
Year 3: CHNS3605 and CHNS3606 plus options from CHNS363X or CHNS364X or China-focused units of study from other programs with permission.
Year 4: CHNS 363X or CHNS364X.

Background Speaker (with intermediate literacy)
Year 1: CHNS3603 and CHNS3604 and CHNS1601. Optional CHNS3608 and CHNS3609.
Year 2: CHNS363X and CHNS364X. Optional China-focused units of study from other programs with permission.
Year 3: CHNS363X and CHNS364X. Optional China-focused units of study from other programs with permission.

Background Speaker (with advanced literacy)
Year 1: CHNS1601 and CHNS2612.
Year 2: CHNS363X and CHNS364X. Optional China-focused units of study from other programs with permission.
Year 3: CHNS363X or CHNS364X. Optional China-focused units of study from other programs with permission.

The 36-credit-point major offers a basic introduction to the Chinese speaking world. A semester (or at least a summer program) in China or Taiwan is strongly recommended to students with low and intermediate literacy who want to develop advanced communication skills in Chinese.

If you are already fluent in a Chinese language (eg Putonghua or Cantonese) but have very limited knowledge of characters, you may enter the language program beginning with CHNS1201. If you already have some degree of literacy in Chinese, you may enter the language program, beginning with CHNS3601 level.

If you can already read Chinese fluently, you can move straight to the study of Chinese society and culture, beginning with CHNS1601 Understanding Contemporary China in Semester 1 and perhaps also learn some Classical Chinese CHNS2612 in Semester 2.

Honours (for further information see chapter 9)
The honours program in Chinese Studies provides students with an opportunity to engage in in-depth study of social, political, cultural, literary or linguistic topics related to Chinese Studies.

All students with good academic records in Chinese Studies should consider an honours year. There will be a range of options for students with different levels of Chinese language proficiency; however, the more Chinese you have learned before you start, the more interesting the options that will be available to you. The minimum requirements for admission to honours are as follows:

1. a major in Chinese studies plus sufficient additional credit points selected from other China-focused units of study to reach 48 senior credit points; and
2. a credit or better average in all qualifying units of study.

Students are advised to consider taking ASNS3690 Approaches to Research in Asian Studies, in the semester before they intend to commence honours.

It is also possible to enrol in a joint honours program with Chinese Studies and another department.

For further information see the department website.

Contact/further information
Department website: www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/chinese
Chair of Department: Dr Yiyan Wang;
Undergraduate Co-ordinator: Dr Linda Tsung;

Comparative Literature

See International and Comparative Literary Studies

Cultural Studies

Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary major offered by the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, within the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI).

The Cultural Studies major enables students to undertake a broad study of culture in Media and Communications, English, Art History and Theory, Sociology and Anthropology as well as dedicated Cultural Studies units on topics such as: media and cultural practice; youth cultures; everyday cultures; consumer identities and practices; popular genre studies; and critical cultural theory.

Cultural Studies allows students to explore their own and other cultures, providing them with the tools to analyse a wide range of issues. The department is committed to equipping students with research and writing skills that will assist in opening up a range of career prospects. The study of contemporary culture also complements all forms of study in the humanities and social sciences as well as law, the sciences, the arts, government, economics, commerce and education.

Cultural Studies is available at second and third year and at fourth year honours level. A major in Cultural Studies requires passes in units totalling at least 36 senior credit points (chosen from Cultural Studies units and units cross-listed for the major). These must include:

• GCST2601 Introducing Media and Popular Culture

plus at least two of the following:

• GCST2606 Genres in Cultural Context
• GCST2612 Youth Cultures
• GCST2614 Everyday Life
• GCST3603 Consumer Cultures

and at least two of the following:

• ANTH2626 The City: Global Flows and Local Forms
• GCST2608 Gender, Communities and Belonging
• GCST3604 Cultural Theory
• MECO3605 Media Globalisation (subject to Departmental Approval)
• SCLG2609 Contemporary Cultural Issues

Further units may be chosen from the list above, or from a list of cross-listed units available on the Faculty of Arts website.

Honours
To proceed to fourth year honours in Cultural Studies, students must have a credit average in senior level Cultural Studies units (including cross-listed units) totalling at least 48 senior credit points, one of which must be GCST2601 Introducing Media and Popular Culture.

It is also possible to do joint honours in Gender and Cultural Studies. Prospective students for this joint program should see the departmental website.

Contact/further information
Information on our units of study and staff with whom to discuss the program is available at www.arts.usyd.edu/departs/gcs, or by phoning the School office on +61 2 9351 2862.

Digital Cultures

Digital Cultures is in the School of Letters, Art and Media (SLAM).

Digital Cultures is an innovative trans-disciplinary program. It critically investigates the cultural and social changes associated with new media and digital technologies. Our classes combine hands-on learning in labs with related studies in media, cultural studies, aesthetics, textual criticism, sociology and technology studies.

The Digital Cultures Program puts intelligent, interactive, mobile and networked technologies into context, drawing on media studies, sociology, history, philosophy, cultural studies, games studies and cyber culture studies. The program combines face-to-face coursework with exercises in computer labs using web production tools, social software, blogs and wikis.

At the Undergraduate level the Digital Cultures program currently offers

• a major in Digital Cultures,
• individual units of study that students may take as elective units within other degree programs,
• an Honours program in Digital Cultures.

Students graduating with this major not only have competencies in using digital media, but have the breadth of understanding and critical insight to understand where these technologies fit in a rapidly changing world.

Major
To complete a major in Digital Cultures, students must complete 36 senior credit points in Digital Cultures units of study including up to 12 credit points from approved cross-listed units of study. Information on Digital Cultures units of study can be obtained in the Unit of Study chapters in this handbook.

Crosslisting
For further information on cross-listed units of study, please consult the Table of Crosslisted units available on the Faculty of Arts website www.arts.usyd.edu.au.

Pathways
Students can continue their interest in Digital Cultures by going on to study at postgraduate coursework level with the Master of Digital Communication and Culture or at a postgraduate research level.

Honours
The Honours program allows students to undertake a research project and become an expert in a recent development in digital media. Students need to complete 48 senior credit points in the Digital Cultures program comprising ARIN and cross-listed units of study. The ARIN units must include ARIN2600 Technocultures and ARIN3620 Researching Digital Cultures. An average of credit or above is required for the 48 credit points. Further detail regarding prerequisites and the nature of the Honours year is described in chapter 9 of this handbook.

Contact/further information
For further information see the department website: www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/digitalcultures
Undergraduate Student Advisor: Dr Katharine Cleland, email

Education

Arts students may enrol in Education units of study as listed in Part B of the table of units of study for the BA.

The Faculty offers a wide range of units of study. These are not designed to prepare students for teaching but rather seek to promote the understanding of education as a social phenomenon. As such they open up for analysis the complexities of education through study in a number of fields. For example, there is the study of the nature, context and processes of education through historical, psychological, philosophical and sociological perspectives; of human growth and development and their implications for education; and, across different societies and cultures, of the relationship between education and politics, social organisation and economic development.

Details of the diploma and degree courses supervised by the Faculty of Education and Social Work such as the BEd, MTeach and MEd programs, may be found in the Education and Social Work Handbooks (postgraduate and undergraduate).

Pass and special entry units of study
Junior units of study in Education are available to Arts students. However, entry into intermediate and senior units in Education is possible, subject to completion of junior units in a range of other disciplines (see table of units of study in Education).

EDSE3047 and EDSE3048 are available to students with 28 credit points in a language other than English. Enrolment in these units will be restricted to students in the fourth and fifth year of their candidature for the BA (Languages) by Education and Social Work.

Noticeboards and phone numbers
Students should check on the noticeboard in the foyer of the Education Building Complex A35, for staff locations and phone numbers.

Coordinators
Education I, II and III: Dr Nigel Bagnall
Honours Coordinator: Dr Robyn Gibson

Advice
Members of staff will be available in the Education Building Complex at pre-enrolment time in October to give advice on planning units and sequences of units. Students should consult the relevant noticeboards for details of appropriate advisers.

Bachelor of Arts (Honours in Education)
Program Director: Dr Robyn Gibson, Sub-Dean
Undergraduate/Pre-Service Programs
Phone: +61 2 9351 6423
Fax: +61 2 9351 4580
Email:

Suitably qualified Arts candidates are invited to undertake honours in Education. The honours thesis involves an investigation of a topic of students' choice relevant to their own interests, and will be supervised directly by a member of the Faculty. Though the length of the thesis will vary with the nature of the investigation, and length does not indicate quality, the thesis will normally comprise 20,000–25,000 words.

Prerequisites
Students intending to take Honours in Education must have achieved a Credit average result or higher in an Arts subject area, for example History, Anthropology, etc.

Enrolment
Students enrol in the following Education units of study.

Second Year
Pass units
EDUF2006 Educational Psychology. 6 credit points
EDUF2007 Social Perspectives on Education. 6 credit points

BA Hons units
6 credit points from those Education units offered at 300 level

Total for Second Year: 18 credit points

Third Year
Pass units
Three pass units of study from Education 300 Level. 18 credit points.

Fourth Year
Honours units of study (EDUF4215/4216). 48 credit points

Total for Fourth Year: 48 credit points

English

English is one of the largest departments in the Faculty of Arts and forms part of the School of Letters, Art and Media (SLAM).

The department offers a wide range of approaches to the study of English literature and language. Students can choose to read a range of texts from Old and Middle English, to Renaissance and Early Modern, to Romantic and Victorian, through to contemporary Australian, Caribbean, American and British works.

In their first year, students are offered a choice of four or five junior level units and can, if they wish, take up to three junior level units in English. Senior level units are normally rotated on a two-year basis to allow full-time students a larger number of choices in their two senior years.

There are also 'advanced' units of study available, normally in a student's third year, for those who have achieved grades of Credit or above in senior units. Students taking advanced units are normally positioning themselves to enter the honours year in English or Australian Literature.

Classes are taught in a variety of ways, sometimes combining formal lectures with one-hour tutorial classes, sometimes through two-hour seminars, sometimes with a significant web-based component, according to the best practice appropriate to the nature of the unit itself. Some classes, both at junior and senior level, are taught in the evening as well as in day timeslots to allow for greater flexibility.

Units taught in the department are designed for students with native-language ability, and although there are no formal prerequisites, all units are based on the assumption that students will have completed one of the more demanding courses for the Higher School Certificate, or the equivalent.

Major
Students wishing to major in English must take two junior level units in the subject area (12 credit points). At senior level they complete six English units of study (36 senior credit points).

Cross-listing
A number of units in other departments are cross-listed to English and up to three cross-listed units may be included in an English major (18 senior credit points). All ASLT (Australian Literature) and CLST (Celtic Studies) units are cross-listed to English. For other cross-listed units see the information on the Faculty of Arts website at www.arts.usyd.edu.au


Pathways
There are no compulsory units in English, except for entry to honours, but there are pathways that open up from the junior level units to senior level units through which students can develop a number of interests. The examples that follow here give a general indication of the department's policy of providing such pathways for students. Students do not have to follow pathways and can construct their major in whatever way best suits their inclinations and needs. A wide variety of choices can lead students to advanced units and honours in English and Australian Literature.

• ENGL1002 Narratives of Romance and Adventure - to units covering all periods of English Literature, e.g. ENGL2657 Myths, Legends and Heroes, ENGL2660 Shakespeare, ENGL2658 Love and Desire in Early Modern England.
• ENGL1007 Language, Texts and Time - to units in Modern Language Studies, e.g. ENGL2652 Modern Rhetoric, ENGL2653 Varieties of English Grammar.
• ENGL1008 Australian Texts: International Contexts - to units in Australian Literature, e.g. ASLT2609 Australian Writing in the Postmodern Age, ENGL2619 Australian Gothic.
• ENGL1025 Fiction, Film and Power - to units in film and modern American literature, e.g. ENGL2638 Literature and Cinema, ENGL2660 Reading the Nation: Modern U.S. Writing.

Honours
Honours in English or Australian Literature allows students to specialise further in their area of interest. It offers students the opportunity to work independently and creatively in a community of scholars that includes both their peers and the staff of the department. A number of honours graduates each year continue to postgraduate study in Australia or abroad.

Students wishing to enter honours in 2011 must have achieved grades of Credit or above in their senior units and there is one compulsory unit, ENGL3655 The Literary in Theory. Students who have completed the honours entry units in ENGL3962 and ENGL3964 will also be eligible to enter honours in 2011. During their honours year students will write a thesis as well as completing four honours options. Further details regarding prerequisites for 2010 and the nature of the honours year are described in chapter 9 of this handbook.

Summer and Winter School
The department offers the following units in the 2010 Summer and Winter Schools.
Summer School - ENGL2611 Jane Austen and Her Contemporaries
Winter School - WRIT1002 Academic Writing
For further details see the Summer School webpage: www.summer.usyd.edu.au

Contact/further information
For comprehensive information see the English department website:
www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/english
Undergraduate Student Adviser: Dr Lawrence Warner, phone +61 2 9351 4286, email

e-Learning

The Arts eLearning unit provides support to the Faculty of Arts in the innovative use of new technologies in its teaching and learning, research and student support activities. A major focus at the unit is the development of flexible, learner-centred, technology-mediating learning environments in the Humanities and Social Sciences, as well as the development and management of effective information and communication systems in the Faculty.

European Studies

The European Studies program is an interdisciplinary program administered by the School of Languages and Cultures (SLC) with participation by other Departments.

Students must register with the European Studies Director and then, if necessary, with the department(s) from which they are selecting a unit of study. This is in addition to their normal University enrolment in the unit of study.

Program structure and content
European Studies is a vibrant and innovative interdisciplinary program taught by staff from nine departments covering European and Middle Eastern language-based disciplines in SLC as well as other Departments. This rich and diverse program guarantees that a major in European Studies will both be personally rewarding and prepare future graduates for a range of possible career paths. The major is designed to equip students with interdisciplinary and cross-cultural knowledge related to historical and contemporary Europe. Students are able to specialise in streams such as Medieval, Renaissance, Early Modern, Modern and Contemporary Europe. They can also choose from a broad range of units of study dealing with European society, politics, culture and history combining different streams.

Students wishing to take EUST units of study at a senior level must have completed 48 junior credit points. There are no specific EUST units of study at junior level, however, students intending to major in European Studies are advised to include 12 junior credit points of European History and 12 junior credit points of an appropriate language in their program. European Studies students intending to take units of study offered by the department of Philosophy are strongly advised to have completed at least 6 junior credit points of Philosophy before enrolling in any senior Philosophy units of study.

EUST senior units of study can be credited towards the major, taken as electives or can be cross-listed towards other majors in SLC, or towards a major in other departments, in accordance with the cross-listed requirements of those departments.

Four core EUST units of study are offered in 2010: European & Middle Eastern Myth & Legend; Regionalisms in Europe & the Middle East; Romanticism and Revolution; Contested Histories of Eastern Europe.

Requirements for a major
In order to complete the requirements for the major in European Studies, students need to have done the following:

• completed at least 36 senior credit points in relevant non-languages acquisition units
• completed at least three of the designated core units
• completed EITHER 12 credit points of a European or Middle Eastern Language other than English at junior advanced level OR 24 credit points of a European or Middle Eastern Language other than English at Beginners, Introductory and Senior Intermediate level. Languages that can be studied include Arabic, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Ancient Greek, Modern Greek, Latin, Spanish and Yiddish.

Sample Pathway
The following in an example only; there are many possibilities.
Second year: 2 x EUST core units, SPAN2611 Spanish Level 1, SPAN2612 Spanish Level 2.
Third year: 1 x EUST core unit, plus 3 other non-language acquisition units of study of the student's choice.

Students are strongly advised to consult the European Studies Director for advice on coordinating a program of study.

Summer and Winter School
Relevant units of study offered as part of Summer and Winter School may be counted towards a major in European Studies.

Honours (see chapter 9 for more information)
Honours in European Studies consists of coursework and the completion of a substantial research thesis. Students entering honours must have a credit average in 36 senior credit points of European Studies units, plus either 12 advanced level credit points OR 24 introductory/intermediate level credit points of a non-English European or Middle-Eastern language. Students intending to do honours are also strongly advised to undertake an exchange semester during their major.

Contact/further information
Department Website: www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/europmideast
Program Director: Professor Peter Morgan; or contact the SLC office .

Film Studies

Film Studies is an interdisciplinary subject area of the Faculty of Arts and is part of the School of Letters, Art and Media (SLAM).

The Film Studies major is an interdisciplinary program of study coordinated from the Department of Art History and Film Studies. Students are able to study the history of cinema, film theory and criticism, film aesthetics and style as well as the relationship between film and other disciplines.

Major
The entry requirements for the major are 18 junior credit points taken from Part A of the table of units of study, including either ARHT1002 Modern Times: Art and Film or ENGL1025 Fiction Film and Power. A major in Film Studies consists of at least 36 credit points at senior level which must include the compulsory core unit of study: ARHT2652 Silent to Sound Cinema and at least three of the following four units of study:

• ARHT2653 Memory of the World: Key Films and Directors;
• ARHT2655 Modern Cinema: Modes of Viewing;
• ARHT2656 National and Transnational Cinema; and
• ARHT2657 Contemporary Hollywood.

Crosslisting
The remaining units can be selected from a list of cross-listed units of study offered by the participating departments. Art History is a complementary subject area to Film Studies.

Film Studies Honours
The prerequisite for Film Studies honours is a credit average in 48 senior credit points of Film Studies. If you do not have this prerequisite average please contact the Film Studies coordinator or office to determine possible waiving of the prerequisite. The honours year comprises two semester-long units of study and a thesis of 18,000 - 20,000 words in length. Film Studies honours students can commence their study either at the beginning of the year or mid-year. Further detail regarding prerequisites for 2010 and the nature of the honours year is described in chapter 9 of this handbook.

Summer School
Film Studies will be offering undergraduate units of study as part of the 2010 University of Sydney Summer School.

ARHT2657 Contemporary Hollywood

Please check the Film Studies website for details: www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/filmstudies/

Contact/further information
For comprehensive information see the Film Studies program website:
www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/filmstudies
Undergraduate Student Advisor: Dr Richard Smith, phone
+61 2 9351 4208, email

French Studies

The department of French Studies is in the School of Languages and Cultures (SLC).

Program structure and content
Units of study in the department of French Studies are concerned with French language, linguistics, literature, cinema, culture and society, including many Francophone cultures outside France. All units in the department deal with authentic French language material and foreground the indissociability of language and culture. Most classes are conducted in French. The modular structure of the units allows great flexibility of choice for students, who may be taking the subject as a major or who may be taking it as an adjunct to other studies.

The first year units focus on practical language acquisition by developing speaking, reading, writing and comprehension skills, as well as an understanding of French culture and civilisation.

In later years, in addition to practical language classes, students are able to improve their language and cultural knowledge by specialising in one or more of four strands:

1. French linguistics and applied linguistics
2. French literature and cinema
3. French society and culture
4. Francophone studies

The department will advise students who may have completed units that are no longer listed as to their equivalences in terms of the units shown in this handbook.

The department offers two language streams: one for students who already have knowledge of the language (Advanced French) and another for beginners (Introductory French in the first year; French in later years). In the first year only, a stream (Intermediate French) has been designed for students whose competence falls between these two levels.

Placement of students in the three first year levels is usually as follows:

• FRNC1611/FRNC1612: complete beginners; or less than two years of French; or less than 65 per cent in Beginners HSC French
• FRNC1621/FRNC1622: less than 80 per cent in French Continuers; or more than 65 per cent in Beginners French
• FRNC1631/FRNC1632: French Extension or more than 80 per cent in Continuers HSC French

Students should be aware that a 'gap' year between the HSC exam and University entry does not normally affect the placement. Students should therefore ensure that their language skills remain active during this year.

Students who do not fall easily into one of the categories above, including advanced and native speakers of French, should contact the coordinators of the relevant units so that their level can be assessed.

Requirements for a major
Students who already have a knowledge of the French language and are in the French Advanced stream, as well as those who are in the beginners/intermediate stream, can complete a major in French Studies. The requirements are 36 credit points to be taken from senior units of study:

• Students who completed the first year Introductory Stream should include FRNC2622 or equivalent.
• Students who completed the first year Intermediate Stream should include FRNC2622 or equivalent.
• Students in the Advanced Stream should include FRNC3631 or equivalent.

Foreign language requirement for major
Apart from the French language component necessarily attained in units of study required for the major, no further language is required.

Crosslisting policy
Up to 6 credit points from approved cross-listable units of study may be cross-listed towards a French major. Please check the cross-listing schedule located on the Faculty of Arts website.

Sample pathways:
Introductory stream
For students intending to specialise in French Studies who enter at Introductory level, a typical program of units (12 in first year, and 36 or more credit points in later years) would be as follows:

• First Year: FRNC1611 and FRNC1612 Junior French Introductory 1 and 2.
• Second Year: FRNC2611 and FRNCH2612 Senior French Intermediate 1 and 2. FRNC2614 and FRNC2615 French Reading 1 and 2.
• Third Year: FRNC2621 and FRNC2622 Senior French Intermediate 3 and 4.

Intermediate stream
For students intending to specialise in French Studies and who enter at Intermediate level, a typical program of units (12 credit points in first year, and 36 or more credit points in later years) would be as follows:

• First Year: FRNC1621 and FRNC1622 Junior French Intermediate 3 and 4.
• Second and Third Year: Students in this stream will generally follow the pattern of the Introductory French stream in their choice of senior units.

Advanced stream
For students intending to specialise in French Studies and who enter at advanced level, a typical program of units (12 credit points in first year, and 36 or more credit points in later years) would be as follows:

• First Year: FRNC1631 and FRNC1632 Junior French Advanced 5 and 6.
• Second Year: FRNC3621 and FRNC3622 Senior French Language Advanced 5 and 6 together with 6 or more credit points from units within the four strands mentioned above.
• Third Year: FRNC3631 Senior French Advanced 7 together with 12 or more credit points from units within the four strands mentioned above.

Honours (see chapter 9 for more information)
All students may qualify for fourth year honours, regardless of the language level at which they commenced in the department.

The requirement for entry to fourth year honours is a credit average or better in the major (36 senior credit points) plus 12 credit points including FRNC3631 Senior French Language (or equivalent) and FRNC2666 Research Methods in French Studies.

Contact/further information
Department website: www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/french
Chair of Department: Dr Alice Caffarel;
Undergraduate Coordinator: Caroline Lipovsky; .

Gender Studies

The Gender Studies program is offered by the department of Gender and Cultural Studies, within the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI).

The interdisciplinary Gender Studies major enables students to undertake a broad study of sex and gender in contemporary and past cultures. Some of the areas that are studied include: bodies, sexualities and identities; masculinity; the intersection of gender, ethnicity and class; theories of love and friendship; constructions and representations of violence; feminism and globalisation; and theories of gender.

Gender Studies allows students to explore how sex and gender are understood and lived in their own and other cultures, providing students with the tools to analyse a wide range of issues. The department is committed to equipping students with research and writing skills that will assist in opening up a range of career prospects. The study of gender also profoundly enriches studies in the humanities and social sciences and provides an important complement to degrees specialising in law or legal studies, the sciences, the arts, government and policy-making, and international relations.

Gender Studies is available at second and third year and at fourth year honours level. A major in Gender Studies requires passes in units totalling at least 36 senior credit points (chosen from Gender Studies units and units cross-listed for the major). These must include:

• GCST2602 Introducing Gender

plus at least two of the following:

• GCST2604 Sex, Violence and Transgression
• GCST2607 Bodies, Sexualities, Identities
• GCST2609 Cultures of Masculinity
• GCST2610 Intimacy, Love and Friendship
• GCST3690 Transnationalism: Gender and Globalism

Further units may be chosen from the list above, or from a list of cross-listed units available on the Faculty of Arts website.

Honours
To proceed to fourth year honours in Gender Studies, students must have a credit average in senior level Gender Studies units (including cross-listed units) totalling at least 48 senior credit points. These units must include GCST2602 Introducing Gender (Previously named From Suffragettes to Cyborgs).

It is also possible to do joint honours in Gender and Cultural Studies. Prospective students for this joint program should see the departmental website or handbook.

Please note that WMST honours units are only available to continuing students who have been enrolled in an honours program before 2007.

Contact/further information
Information on our units of study and staff with whom to discuss the program is available at www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/gcs, or by phoning the School Office on +61 2 9351 2862.

Germanic Studies

The department of Germanic Studies is in the School of Languages and Cultures (SLC).

Program structure and content
The department offers units of study in both the German language and in the culture for which that language is the medium. Language teaching is regarded as a central part of the curriculum and the department endeavours to place all students who wish to study the German language in a language class that will improve to the maximum their competence in the skills of speaking, reading, writing and listening to German. The cultural studies available in the department extend across the field of German literature, culture and society, in the German-speaking countries.

All students, however much or however little prior experience they have of the language, have access to the full range of units of study in German, subject only to normal rules of progression. All students, whether they come to the department as beginners in the language, or with an HSC in German, or even as native-speakers, can take a major in German and from there proceed to an honours year and/or postgraduate study in the subject.

The University of Sydney holds exchange agreements with several universities in the German speaking countries, including those at Freiburg, Bamberg, Berlin, Cologne and Vienna. Various scholarships exist to assist students with the cost of airfares and accommodation while studying abroad. (Details of scholarships and assistance schemes can be obtained from the office of the School of Languages and Cultures.)

Units of study in German language
The department distinguishes three broad levels of study in its language units. In all cases, students will be directed by the department as to the appropriate language unit for them to enrol in (advice to commencing students as to the unit they should initially enrol in can be found in the section Junior units of study.)

The department’s language courses are aligned with both the European and International reference framework. Students of each level will reach the equivalent of one of the internationally recognised German certificates, Start Deutsch 2 (on level A2), Zertifikat Deutsch (on level B1), the Zertifikate Deutsch Plus (on level B1+) or TestDaF (on level B2/C1).

Units of study in German literature and culture
At senior level these units normally require prior completion of 12 credit points of German at junior level, in order to ensure that students have a sufficient command of the language. Students lacking the formal prerequisite who nevertheless believe their knowledge of German is sufficient are invited to discuss the matter with the department, when the prerequisite may be waived. Some of these senior units of study may be counted for a major in European Studies or International Comparative Literature Studies and Film Studies, and in some cases in other interdisciplinary areas of study.

Junior units of study
In all the department's junior units of study, the language content and the cultural content are combined. Junior students will enrol initially in semester 1 in a 6 credit points unit of study at their appropriate level.

All students with very little or no experience of the language should enrol in Junior German 1 (GRMN1111). Students who completed the HSC German Beginners Course or German Continuers (with a mark below 70 per cent or equivalent) should initially enrol in Junior German 3 (GRMN1211). Students who completed the HSC German Extension course or the HSC German Continuers course (with a mark above 70 per cent or equivalent) should initially enrol in the unit of study Junior German 5 (GRMN1311). Students who have successfully completed GRMN1211, GRMN2611, GRMN2613, GRMN1322 or higher may sit for the additional examinations and thus obtain the internationally recognised certificate of German language proficiency (see units of study in German language above).

Requirements for a major
The major in German comprises both the German language and the culture for which that language is the medium. To obtain a major in German, students must complete senior units of study in German to the value of 36 senior credit points.

1. For students coming from Junior German 3 and 4 and from Junior German 5 and 6, the department advises that of the 36 senior credit points required for the major, 18 credit points must be gained in language units of study and 18 must be gained in non-language units of study.

2. For students coming from Junior German 1 and 2, the department advises that of the 36 credit points required for the major, 24 credit points must be gained in language units of study. Such students must also include “Reading Comprehension and Text study” (GRMN2631) as part of their non-language units of study.

Cross-listing
Units of study from other departments may be cross-listed towards the Germanic Studies major. The list of 2010 units that are officially cross-listed to the major will be available from the Faculty of Arts website.

Pathways
Pathway 1: For students with very little or no experience of the language

• First year: GRMN1111 and GRMN1122 Junior German 1 and 2.
• Second year: GRMN2611 and GRMN2612 Senior German 1 and 2 plus GRMN2631 Reading Comprehension and Text Study.
• Third year: GRMN2613 and GRMN2614 Senior German 3 and 4 plus 6 senior credit points in other eligible units of study.

Pathway 2: for students who completed the HSC Beginners course or German Continuers (with a mark below 70 per cent or equivalent)

• First year: GRMN1211 and GRMN1222 Junior German 3 and 4.
• Second year: GRMN2613 and GRMN2614 Senior German 3 and 4 plus 6 senior credit points in other eligible units of study.
• Third year: GRMN2615 Senior German 5 plus 12 senior credit points in other eligible units of study.

Pathway 3: for students who completed the HSC German Extension course or the HSC German Continuers course (with a mark above 70 per cent or equivalent)

• First year: GRMN1311 and GRMN1322 Junior German 5 and 6.
• Second year: GRMN2616 and GRMN2617 Senior German 6 and 7 plus 6 senior credit points in other eligible units of study.
• Third year: GRMN2618 Senior German 8 plus 12 senior credit points in other eligible units of study.

Students progressing into senior levels of language study are advised to pre-enrol according to the above progressions; however some variation of enrolment may be required at commencement of the next semester of study should the department, at its discretion, deem it appropriate. In all cases the department reserves the right to determine the level of senior German language to be taken by a student.

Honours (see chapter 9 for more information)
All students may qualify for the honours year, regardless of the language level at which they commenced in the department. (For a formal statement of entry requirements for German IV honours the Table of Units of Study should be consulted). Students must complete a major in German with a credit average in 48 senior credit points of German including 12 credit points at 2680 level.

Contact/further information
Department website: www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/german
Chair of Department: Dr Andrea Bandhauer, email:
UG Co-ordinators: Junior units of study - Dr Andrea Bandhauer; Senior units of study - Dr Yixu Lu, email: ; Honours - Dr Birte Giesler, email:

Government and International Relations

The department of Government and International Relations is part of the School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS).

Program structure and content
Government and International Relations is a comprehensive political science department. It offers systematic and extended study in all major aspects of government and politics in the many forms each takes. It covers national, comparative, and international. It focuses on Australian politics: parties, federalism, elections, and the like; it considers regional relations with particular reference to Asia and the Pacific; it examines the international systems of state and other actors in international relations. Students are invited to follow their interest through the range of elective units the Department offers. These electives include Australian politics, Australian foreign and defence policy, international relations, international business and politics, the state and the economy, politics in Asia and the Pacific, American politics, European politics, communist and post-communist systems, public policy and public management, international security, human rights, political institutions, political theory, and more. The junior units offer fundamental concepts and structures that support further study in senior units. Honours preparation offers an additional opportunity for high achieving students who wish to concentrate more.

Requirements for a major
For a major in Government and International Relations, students must complete the following units of study:

1. 12 credit points of compulsory junior units in Government and International Relations.
2. At least 6 units of study (36 credit points) of senior elective units of study selected from the units offered.

Cross-listing
Up to 12 credit points of units from the approved Table of cross-listed units on the Faculty of Arts website may be counted towards the major.

Honours (see chapter 9 for more information)

Contact/further information
Department Website: www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/government
Chair of Department: Professor Michael Jackson
Email:
Undergraduate Coordinator: Dr Benjamin E. Goldsmith
Email:

Greek (Ancient)

Ancient Greek is taught by the department of Classics and Ancient History within the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI).

The department of Classics and Ancient History offers three separate majors in ancient world studies: Ancient History, which has a history-centred disciplinary approach to the ancient world; and Latin and Ancient Greek, language-based majors which allow for progression from complete beginners to an advanced mastery of the language and literature. Students are encouraged to supplement the focus of their particular major by drawing on the wide range of units of study available within the department (and in related departments, such as Archaeology and Philosophy) to build an Arts degree with a deep, cross-disciplinary grounding in the ancient world.

The study of Ancient Greek focuses mostly on Classical Greek, with some coverage also of the post-Classical period and biblical Greek. Initial emphasis is placed on mastery of the language, and study of the literature and other aspects of Greek culture is approached primarily through the reading of texts, but the more advanced units provide an opportunity for study in greater depth of core subject areas within Greek language, literature, history, philosophy, culture and religion. The elementary unit also provides a suitable foundation for those who wish to read the New Testament.

The department offers a full range of units in Greek for both the pass and the honours degrees. The Greek 1600 units of study assume no previous study of Greek and aim at providing students with basic knowledge of the language. Those who have achieved the appropriate level of Ancient Greek at the HSC or equivalent examination will be granted Senior status and be admitted to Greek 2600. 3600 level units focus on texts which cover literary genres and features of language or society. These are intended to prepare students for more advanced work and are prerequisites for entry into Greek IV honours.

Honours in Ancient Greek
Qualifying for Honours
If you are considering an honours year in Ancient Greek, it is best to seek early advice on all the pathways open to you and the skills you will need to do your best. Our formal prerequisites are a credit or better average in 42 senior credit points of Greek including two of GRKA3603, 3604, 3605, 3606 plus 6 additional senior credit points of Greek, Latin, or Ancient History. The Honours Coordinator can advise you on acceptable equivalents to our standard requirements.

Undertaking Honours
An extra year of Greek allows students to specialise in a particular field and to write a major piece of research. The honours year can be the culmination of your study of Greek or a pathway to further research in our postgraduate program (though in this case you should also consider doing at least two years of Latin). Our program consists of two seminars, an unseen translation exam and a thesis of 15,000 words on a topic decided by you in consultation with your supervisor.

Full details of the program, its prerequisites and its relationship to other majors taught by the department may be found on the Departmental website at www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/cah.

Honours in Classics (joint Greek and Latin)
Qualifying for Honours
If you are considering an Honours year in Classics it is best to seek early advice on all the pathways open to you and the skills you will need to do your best. Our formal prerequisites are EITHER credit average in 36 senior credit points of Latin including two of LATN3603, 3604, 3605, 3606 plus 18 additional senior credit points of Greek OR credit average in 36 senior credit points of Greek including two of GRKA3603, 3604, 3605, 3606 plus 18 additional senior credit points of Latin. The Honours Coordinator can advise you on acceptable equivalents to our standard requirements.

Undertaking Honours
An extra year of Classics allows students to specialise in a particular field and to write a major piece of research. The Honours year can be the culmination of your study of Classics or a pathway to further research. Our program consists of two seminars, an unseen translation exam and a thesis of 15,000 words on a topic decided by you in consultation with your supervisor.

Full details of the program, its prerequisites and its relationship to other majors taught by the department may be found on the Departmental website at www.arts.usyd.edu.au/cah/.

Cross-listing (units of study from other subject areas)
Please check the cross-listing schedule located on the Faculty of Arts website.

Contact/further information
Students seeking further information about units of study, or about the books recommended for study, should call at the School office on level 3 of the Quadrangle, phone +61 2 9351 2862 or consult our website at www.arts.usyd.edu.au/cah/.

Greek (Modern) Studies

See Modern Greek

Hebrew (Classical)

Hebrew (Classical) is in the School of Languages and Cultures (SLC).

Classical Hebrew is best known as being the language of the Old Testament/Tanakh of the Bible. However, it is also well known as the language of the majority of the Dead Sea Scrolls, as well as other ancient sources such as inscriptions unearthed by archaeologists.

Program structure and content
The Classical Hebrew program at the University of Sydney offers a fascinating introduction to all varieties of ancient Hebrew in the biblical period through the reading of texts from all major sources. At all stages the prime focus is on the language of the Bible, but this is set in the broader context of the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Hebrew inscriptions and Rabbinic Hebrew.

The junior units of study do not require a previous knowledge of the language, and are intended to give a firm grounding in the practical language skills on which all senior studies will be based. From the beginning, students will learn to read Biblical texts, and by the end of the first year will have acquired the skills to translate biblical texts with the aid of a dictionary.

Students entering the department with HSC Hebrew should consult the department in regard to placement at an appropriate level.

At the senior level, students improve their language skills and broaden their knowledge of biblical and non-biblical texts and language. During the senior level, it is also possible to study Hebrew's nearest related languages, such as Aramaic/Syriac. Classical Hebrew may be studied up to a fourth honours year.

Requirements for a major
Students who wish to major in Classical Hebrew must complete a minimum of 36 senior credit points, consisting of 24 senior credit points from HBRW2623, HBRW2624, HBRW2625 and HBRW2626, plus 12 further senior credit points from HBRW units (Classical).

Cross-listing
Up to 12 credit points from approved cross-listable units of study may be cross-listed towards the Classical Hebrew major. For further information please see the table of cross-listed units on the Faculty of Arts website.

Sample pathway
For students intending to major in Classical Hebrew, below is a sample program for the major.

• First year: HBRW1111 Hebrew Classical 1 and HBRW1112 Hebrew Classical 2.
• Second year: HBRW2623 Hebrew Classical 3 and HBRW2624 Hebrew Classical 4 (note that HBRW2625 and HBRW2626 may be studied before HBRW2623 and HBRW2624). Plus HBRW2641 Aramaic 1 and HBRW2642 Aramaic 2 or HBRW2651 Syriac 1 and HBRW2651 Syriac 2.
• Third year: HBRW2625 Hebrew Classical 5 and HBRW2626 Hebrew Classical 6.

There is a full exchange program with a number of universities, and students can spend a semester on exchange.

Honours (see chapter 9 for further information)
Intending honours students must obtain a credit average in their HBRW major and take at least another 12 senior credit points (two units of study) from courses offered in the Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies. Honours students will undertake four seminars, and write a 15,000-20,000 word thesis.

Contacts/further information
Course coordinator: Dr Ian Young, Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies, Room 621, Brennan MacCallum Building A18, phone +61 2 9351 6671, email , or contact the SLC office .
Program website: www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/hbjs

Hebrew (Modern)

Hebrew (Modern) is in the School of Languages and Cultures (SLC). It is an interdisciplinary program for second/foreign language learning. The program's major aim is the development of the ability to converse and communicate with other users of the language both orally and in writing. The program facilitates and nurtures communicative use of Modern Hebrew, as well as covering a range of Modern Hebrew discourse and literary texts.

Program structure and content
Modern Hebrew is the main official language of the State of Israel. It is a continuation and expansion of Hebrew in its various historical manifestations, as well as being inextricably bound up in Zionism and modern Israel. The units of study offered facilitate 'language in use' as it is spoken in Israel, as well as issues of contemporary Israeli society and culture. The two junior units provide an introduction to the Hebrew alphabet, alongside conversing, reading, and writing in simple every day Hebrew. In the senior units of study, oral communication continues to be fostered, whilst further developing spoken skills, as well as engaging in a variety of texts and text types from higher registers of the language.

The program offers several entry points depending on students’ proficiency in using the language. All prospective students must contact the Coordinator to arrange for a placement test.

Requirements for a major
Students who wish to major in Modern Hebrew must complete 36 senior credit points from among HBRW2603 to HBRW2612. This means that students with no prior knowledge of the language, who are placed in the junior units HBRW1011 and/or HBRW1102, are required to complete 36 senior credit points over and above the junior units.

Cross-listing
Up to 12 credit points from approved cross-listable units of study may be cross-listed towards the Modern Hebrew major. Students should, however, plan their cross-listings carefully: no units of study can count towards more than one major.

Sample Pathway
The following are examples only.

Sample one: Complete Beginners

• First year junior units: HBRW1011 and HBRW1102 Modern Hebrew B1 and B2.
• Second year: HBRW2603 and HBRW2604 Modern Hebrew 3 and 4, plus 12 senior credit points completed through overseas study as approved by the department.
• Third year: HBRW2605 and HBRW2605 Modern Hebrew 5 and 6.

Sample two: Previous knowledge

• First year: HBRW2607 and HBRW2608 Modern Hebrew 7 and 8.
• Second year: HBRW2609 and HBRW2610 Modern Hebrew 9 and 10.
• Third year: HBRW2611 and HBRW2612 Modern Hebrew 11 and 12.

There is a full exchange program with a number of universities, and students can spend up to a semester or a year on exchange.

Honours (see chapter 9 for further details)
Intending honours students must obtain a credit average in their Modern Hebrew major from among HBRW2605 - HBRW2612. Exemptions may be granted if the proposed honours thesis topic does require knowledge of another relevant field of study. Honours students will undertake four seminars, and write a 10,000 or 12,000 word thesis for Hebrew or English respectively.

Contact/further information
Program website: http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/hbjs/
Course Coordinator: Ms Yona Gilead, Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies, Room 625, Brennan MacCallum Building A18, phone: +61 2 9351 4829, email: , or contact the SLC office .

Heritage Studies

The Heritage Studies program is offered by the department of Archaeology, within the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI).

The Heritage Studies major facilitates an interdisciplinary approach to a field which is of special interest to students in many disciplines, including architecture, history, environmental science, museum studies, archaeology and anthropology. This major will prepare students for employment in a range of heritage related industries and government organisations. It also acts as a feeder into postgraduate coursework programs in Museum Studies and History. No knowledge of Heritage Studies is assumed. The program examines the historical, theoretical and political issues associated with the interpretation of historic sites and environments and involves an overview of the history and role of museums as they relate to the collection and display of cultural heritage.

The Heritage Studies major consists of 36 senior credit points including HRTG2601 and at least 12 other credit points of Heritage Studies. The remaining credit points may be made up from the approved cross-listed units. Contact Dr Annie Clarke for further details or check the cross-listing schedule located on the Faculty of Arts website.

Honours
Heritage Studies students complete Honours through the Department of Archaeology - see separate Archaeology entry.

Contact/further information
Enquiries should be directed in the first instance to the SOPHI Office, phone +61 2 9351 2862. Further information about units of study in the Heritage Studies major may be sought from Dr Annie Clarke.

Hindi-Urdu

Please see Indian Sub-Continental Studies.

History

The Department of History is part of the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI). To study history in our department is to equip oneself with the knowledge and analytical skills necessary for global citizenship. The questions we ask of, say, early modern China, medieval and modern Europe, the US civil war, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and colonial Australia, are those we pose to make sense of our world today: how did these societies function? How were they experienced by their members? How and why did they change over time? Who wielded power in them? Equally important are the enduring facets of human experience that literally make us who we are today - individual and collective violence, political ideologies, love, sex, and work - which we consider across cultures at the local, national, transnational and international levels. Last but not least, there are the many different means by which we explain our place in the world to ourselves: strategies of remembering (and forgetting), forms of ritualised behaviour, and patterns of everyday life, both conscious and unconscious.

In taking our units, students learn to work as individuals and in groups, to communicate effectively using verbal and written forms, and to analyse problems and present answers in a scholarly manner.

The History junior units of study offer broad overviews of geographical areas (eg. nineteenth-century Europe), emphasising important transitions in social, economic, political and cultural life.

The History senior units of study examine particular societies in greater detail (eg. the cultural history of New York), or they highlight a particular theme (eg. gender, eugenics, medicine, nationalism, genocide). They aim to develop critical, situated awareness of the varieties of historical interpretation; to accumulate, assimilate and evaluate primary research data and historiographical debates; to understand the relationship between research and argument in history; and to cultivate communication skills appropriate to the variety of fora in which history is debated in the academic and wider community.

The senior curriculum offered at the University of Sydney includes the following components:

A variety of contextualised local/national studies: predominantly in the areas of American, Australian, Chinese, and Medieval, Early and Late Modern European history.

A variety of thematic and/or transnational studies: predominantly in the areas of cultural history, race, transnational/imperial/global history, war and society, politics, urban and social history, and gender, identity and social life.

To major in History, students who enrolled after 2005 must complete at least 36 senior credit points of History (i.e. 6 units of study). Up to 18 credit points (i.e. 3 units of study) may be cross-listed units. The cross-listing schedule is located on the Faculty of Arts website.

In selecting their units of study for a major, students are encouraged to build concentrations (i.e. three or more units of study) that cover particular national studies or thematic areas. They should also aim to include all the skill emphases in their selection.

Those seeking further training in historical research and method, and who have at least a credit average can take honours, which is a one-year program undertaken at the end of the Bachelor of Arts degree. Intending honours students must enrol in HSTY2691: Writing History. In fourth-year honours, students undertake supervised research and seminars designed to further develop skills in the theory and practice of history. Students also write a major thesis based on original research.

Departmental Information
All History students should obtain a copy of the History booklet, available free of charge from the SOPHI office, level 3, Quadrangle A14.

Reading in foreign languages
Reading in foreign languages is a valuable asset in many history units of study. Students should note that the Faculty of Arts offers introductory and senior units of study in many languages. Some History Honours thesis topics require reading knowledge in a particular language.

Contact/further information
The SOPHI office is on Level 3, Quadrangle A14, phone +61 2 9351 2862, fax +61 2 9351 3918, email: or consult our website at www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/history.

Indian Sub-Continental Studies

The department of Indian Sub-Continental Studies is in the School of Languages and Culture (SLC).

Program structure and content
The Department of Indian Sub-Continental Studies offers programs of study in language and non-language areas, introducing traditional and modern cultures, religions (especially Hinduism and Buddhism), history, literature, politics and social structures of South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan) as well as Tibet. Language-based units of study devoted to traditional and modern Indian culture and society, religious and philosophical traditions are taught as part of the Asian Studies program.

The study of the Sanskrit language is central to the Indian Studies program. It is the language of the Hindu scriptures, and much Buddhist and Jain literature. It is also the language of a huge body of Indian poetry, drama, epics, law books, as well as political and scientific literature. Sanskrit may be taken as a major into fourth year Honours. An emphasis is placed upon equipping students with the necessary linguistic and methodological skills to carry out higher level research in the language. Units of study in Pali, an important canonical language of Buddhism, are offered at first and second year level. Hindi and Urdu, the official languages of India and Pakistan respectively, are currently offered at senior level.

Requirements for a major
Entry requirements
Students who wish to major in Sanskrit must complete 36 senior credit points in Sanskrit units of study including both Sanskrit Research Preparation units (SANS2312 and SANS3612).

A major is not currently offered in Hindi/Urdu or Pali.

Crosslisting policy
Please check the cross-listing schedule located on the Faculty of Arts website.

Foreign language requirement for major
Apart from the Sanskrit necessarily attained in units of study required for the major, no further language is required.

Pathways towards major
SANS1001, SANS1002, SANS2601, SANS2602, SANS3601, SANS3602, SANS2612 and SANS3612 must be completed. Units of study may only be waived due to prior experience or expertise subject to departmental approval.

Honours
Sanskrit Honours entry requires the completion of 8 senior units of study: a major at credit average in Sanskrit language units of study and two additional units of study chosen from:

• ASNS2620 Classical Indian Philosophy
• ASNS2621 Buddhist Philosophy
• ASNS2623 India: Tradition and Modernity
• ASNS2624 Understanding Buddhist Literature
• ASNS2625 Buddhism in Modern Asia
• ASNS2626 Religious Traditions of South Asia

and/or any senior unit of Hindi/Urdu or equivalent as determined by the Department.

Honours is not currently available in Hindi/Urdu or Pali.

Contact/further information
Department website: www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/indian
Chair of Department: Dr Mark Allon;
Undergraduate coordinator: Dr Andrew McGarrity; .

Indigenous Australian Studies

Koori Centre
Academic Coordinator
Ms Lynette Riley

Indigenous Australian Studies is a multi-disciplinary field aimed at providing students with an understanding of the major issues impacting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Units of study focus on: the writing of Indigenous histories; Indigenous cultures, economics, politics and health; the nature of European colonisation and the status of Indigenous Australians in contemporary Australian society; Indigenous writing; relationship to the Australian justice system; religions; performing and visual arts; language and literature; archaeology and contemporary cultural heritage and ethnographic issues.

The Koori Centre coordinates the Indigenous Australian Studies major of the Bachelor of Arts and teaches core units of study within this program. The Centre also teaches Indigenous Australian Studies subjects within other faculties as elective and compulsory subjects.

18 junior credit points are required to enrol in Introduction to Indigenous Australia (KOCR2600). This unit of study is also a prerequisite for most other KOCR units of study. Check the unit of study outlines for prerequisite and co-requisite details.

For an Indigenous Australian Studies major, students must complete 36 credit points of Indigenous Australian Studies. This can include up to 18 credit points of cross-listed study.

Enrolment and registration
Students enrol in the Indigenous Australian Studies major through the Faculty of Arts. Students will be allocated tutorial sessions automatically as part of the enrolment procedure online.

Advice on units of study
The Koori Centre office is open for enquiries in September/October for enrolment information during the SWOT/ o-Week period. The Koori Centre can provide information regarding the Indigenous Australian Studies major, as well as specific information on the units offered through the Koori Centre.

For further information contact the Koori Centre.
Location: Level 2, Old Teachers College A22
Phone: +61 2 9351 6113
Fax: +61 2 9351 6923
Website: http://www.koori.usyd.edu.au/studying/aborig_studies

Indonesian Studies

The department of Indonesian Studies is in the School of Languages and Cultures (SLC). It offers Indonesian language and social science based units of study.

Program structure and content
The Indonesian language program is designed to provide students with the communication skills to use Indonesian in a variety of social settings. It also introduces students to the study of Indonesian culture, politics and society, through the use of Indonesian-language source material. The program caters for students with a range of language backgrounds, including beginners, school leavers, and background speakers of Indonesian.

Many students of Indonesian combine their study of the language with a separate major sequence in Asian Studies, where in addition to studying Asian societies in comparative perspective, they are able to specialise in the study of Indonesia and its people through studies in English. Indonesian language is also a valuable addition to vocational degrees like law and business. It can be taken either as an elective within another degree or as part of a Diploma in Language Studies, which allows students to complete an entire major in Indonesian Studies concurrently with their degree.

Entry requirements
Two junior units of language study are offered for absolute beginners or those with a very limited exposure to Indonesian language. These units introduce students to the study of Indonesian language, culture and society and equip them to undertake a major in the program. Students who have studied Indonesian language at high school, have lived in Indonesia for any period of time or speak Indonesian fluently can enrol directly into senior units of study in the major.

Senior units of study
Students who have a minimum of 12 junior credit points in Indonesian or an equivalent mastery of Indonesian can enrol in senior units of study at the 2000 level or above. School leavers may enrol in 2000 (or 3000 level units with departmental approval). Background speakers and students with advanced language level may enrol in Advanced Studies units.

Major in Indonesian Studies
A major in Indonesian Studies consists of senior units of study totalling 36 credit points. A major may consist entirely of Indonesian language units or combine language study with some of the following units about Indonesia and Southeast Asia taught in English through the Asian Studies program:

• ASNS2660 Islam, Trade and Society: Arabia to Southeast Asia
• ASNS2661 History of Modern Indonesia
• ASNS2663 Social Activism in Southeast Asia
• ASNS2664 Southeast Asia Transformed
• ASNS3690 Approaches to Research in Asian Studies

Note that in order to acquire a major in Indonesian, at least 24 of your senior credit points must be selected from units bearing an INMS code.

The major may also include in-country study. Students have access to a range of options for in-country studies, from summer intensive programs at an Indonesian university to full semester or year long programs offered through the Australian Consortium for In-County Indonesian Studies (ACICIS).

Sample pathways (3 year degree)

	Beginner	School Leaver	School Leaver (Advanced)	Background speaker
Year 1	INMS1101 + INMS1102	INMS2601 + INMS2602	INMS3601 + INMS3602	INMS3603 + INMS3604
Year 2	INMS2601 + INMS2602 ASNS2661	INMS3601 + INMS3602 (ASNS2661 optional)	INMS3603 + INMS3604 (ASNS2661 optional)	INMS3605 + INMS3606
Year 3	INMS3601 + INMS3602 ASNS2663	INMS3603 + INMS3604 (ASNS2663 optional)	INMS3605 + INMS3606 (ASNS2663 optional)	ASNS2661 + ASNS2664

All students may incorporate a semester in Indonesia into their major. Those taking longer degrees should consult the undergraduate coordinator for information about enhanced programs of study.

Honours
The honours program in Indonesian and Malay Studies provides students with an opportunity to engage in in-depth study of social, political, cultural, legal or linguistic topics related to Indonesia or other locations in the Malay world. Although it is not compulsory, many of our students undertake fieldwork as part of their honours program.

All students with good academic records in Indonesian Studies should consider an honours year. Most intending honours students will have completed ASNS2661, ASNS2663 or ASNS2664 as part of their pass degree. Students are also advised to consider taking ASNS3690 Approaches to Research in Asian Studies in the semester before they intend to commence honours.

Recent theses are available on the department website.

Contact/further information
Department website: arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/indonesian
Undergraduate Coordinator and Acting Chair of Department: Dr Novi Djenar, by email on or by phone on +61 2 9036 9512.

International and Comparative Literary Studies (ICLS)

ICLS is an interdisciplinary program administered by the School of Languages and Cultures with participation by the Department of English.

Program structure and content
ICLS is a vibrant and innovative interdisciplinary program in the School of Languages and Cultures. Taught by staff from ten different departments covering European, Asian, Latin American and Middle Eastern language-based disciplines in SLC as well as the Department of English in SLAM, this rich and diverse program provides a major that is both personally rewarding and prepares future graduates for a range of possible career paths. The major is designed to equip students with cross-literary, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary knowledge, understanding and expertise needed to live, work and succeed in an increasingly global society. A literary education in particular provides important cultural insights, as literature both reflects and shapes a society's cultural and intellectual life.

There are no specific ICLS units of study at junior level. Students wishing to study ICLS at senior level must have completed at least 18 junior credit points from part A of the table of units of study, of which 12 credit points are from one subject; or have obtained special permission from the Director of ICLS. ICLS units of study can be credited towards a major, taken as electives or cross-listed towards other majors in SLC, including European Studies, or towards an English major, in accordance with the cross-listing requirements of those departments.

Four senior undergraduate units of study are offered per year, on a two to three year rotating curriculum. At least one unit of study is offered from each of the following clusters every year: Great Books of the World; Literature and Society; Literary Genres, Movements and Styles; Theoretical Approaches in Comparative Literature. Each unit is taught by a team of three to four staff from different departments among the ten participating departments.

Requirements for a major
Students who wish to major in ICLS must complete 36 senior credit points normally consisting of either 36 senior credit points from ICLS units of study (i.e. 6 units over 2 years), or at least 24 senior credit points from ICLS units of study (i.e. at least 4 units over 2 years) plus 12 senior credit points from approved cross-listed units of study (consult Faculty list for cross-listable units of study available each year).

There are no foreign language requirements for undergraduate study as all units of study are conducted in English and use texts in English translation. Study of a language other than English is, however, encouraged in conjunction with ICLS units of study, and reading knowledge of at least one language other than English is required for Honours and Postgraduate study.

Cross-listing
Up to 12 credit points from approved cross-listable units of study may be cross-listed towards an ICLS major. Students should, however, plan their cross-listings carefully, particularly if completing two majors, for example in ICLS and a foreign language: no unit of study can count towards more than one major. Please check the cross-listing schedule located on the Faculty of Arts website.

Sample pathway:
The following in an example only; there are many possibilities.
Second year: 2 x ICLS units of study from Clusters 1 and 3, 1 x cross-listed unit of study from French Studies
Third Year: 2 x ICLS units of study from Clusters 2 and 4, 1 x ICLS Exchange Unit.

Honours (see chapter 9 for more information)
Intending Honours students must obtain a credit average in their ICLS major and take at least 6 credit points (one unit of study) from Thematic Cluster 4: Theoretical Approaches in Comparative Literature. Students should have at least reading knowledge of a language other than English; exemptions may be granted if the proposed Honours thesis topic demonstrates sufficient cross-cultural content (e.g. a postcolonial topic). Intending Honours students are also strongly advised to undertake an exchange semester. Honours students will take two core seminars in ICLS and one seminar from a department in SLC or, with permission, English, and write a 12,000 – 15,000 word thesis.

Contact/further information
Program Website: www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/ICLS
Program Director: Dr Bronwyn Winter; or contact the SLC office .

International and Global Studies

The International and Global Studies program is based in the School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS), located in the RC Mills Building. It includes majors from other areas in the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Economics and Business.

Program structure and content
The Bachelor of International and Global Studies is three years full time; four years full time (honours).

The ability and skills to interpret and operate effectively in an increasingly integrated world are critical to graduates' success in a range of professional fields. Accordingly, in 2009 the University of Sydney developed this new degree to give students interested in a range of disciplines a way to focus their studies on international and global perspectives. The degree consolidates the University's position as a leading institution for the study of international and global issues within the humanities and social sciences.

In recognition of the range of internationally-focused career paths that students may wish to follow, this degree provides students with increased flexibility to reach across a range of subjects in their chosen areas of interest.

Students undertake a core of degree-specific units of study as well as specialisation in their chosen disciplines.

The degree-specific units give students access to a range of academic disciplinary approaches, emphasising the inherently inter-disciplinary nature of the subject area. In first year this includes the perspective of politics, sociology, political economy and anthropology. In addition, students complete a core major, with the choice of focusing on any of the above disciplines, an area studies or international business. Combined, the core ensures that students have both an inter-disciplinary perspective, and a strong foundation within a conventionally-defined discipline. This provides a strong foundation for employment or a range of postgraduate programs.

Students can complement their core major by studying another of the core disciplines or choose from a wider range of discipline areas within the University. This provides the opportunity to add a second language, but students can look to disciplines elsewhere in the Faculty of Arts or in other Faculties, subject to meeting entry requirements.

Requirements for a major
The requirements for the Bachelor of International and Global Studies are:

24 credit points from compulsory requirements comprising:

• INGS1001 Power and Money in Global Society
• INGS1002 Global Culture and Society
• INGS2601 Transnational Spaces and Networks
• INGS3601 Current Global Issues

A compulsory major to be chosen from one of:

• American Studies
• Anthropology
• Arab World, Islam and the Middle East
• Asian Studies
• Australian Studies
• European Studies
• Government and International Relations
• International Business
• Political Economy
• Sociology

A second major or elective units may be chosen from any one of the above mentioned subject areas, or from Table A or B as listed in this handbook, except if International Business is undertaken as a core major, a second major from the Faculty of Arts (Table A) must able be completed.

Foreign language requirement
Students are encouraged, but not required, to study a language relevant to the areas of international and global studies they are pursuing in their degree.

Notable, studies may be undertaken in any of the following languages: Chinese Studies, French Studies, Germanic Studies, Hebrew (Modern) or Hebrew (Classical), Indonesian Studies, Italian Studies, Japanese Studies, Korean Studies, Modern Greek, Sanskrit, Spanish and Latin American Studies and Yiddish.

Honours (see chapter 9 for further information)
An honours year may be undertaken in any of the Departments listed under the compulsory major. It is available to students who have successfully completed the pass degree and honours prerequisites at a standard determined by the relevant department.

Contact/further information
Further information is available from the Faculty of Arts Office in the Quadrangle A14, ph: +61 2 9351 5436, or email .

Italian Studies

The department of Italian Studies is in the School of Languages and Cultures (SLC). Italian staff offices are located on level 7 of the Brennan MacCallum Building A18.

Program structure and content
The Italian Studies program is designed to develop the four language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) in the target language, standard Italian, along with the analytical and critical skills necessary to pursue studies in all areas in which the department has special competence. These encompass Italian literary history and criticism, philology, literary culture of the 14th and 16th centuries (Middle Ages and the Renaissance), literary culture of the 19th century, 20th century literature and society in European context, Italian language studies, sociolinguistics, language acquisition, and language teaching methodologies.

Italian language units are structured in seven different levels. Students start at the most appropriate level and progress systematically through the levels. Students with previous knowledge of the language from both formal and informal sources are required to identify themselves to the department as soon as possible.

Students majoring in Italian are encouraged to spend a semester on exchange as part of their studies. Scholarships are offered by the School of Languages and Cultures and the Department of Italian Studies to support students during their study abroad.

Enrolment information
The two junior introductory units of Italian language and culture, ITLN1611 and ITLN1612, are 6 credit points junior level units for students with no prior knowledge of Italian. Students who have completed ITLN1612 proceed to ITLN2611 and ITLN2612.

Students who have already studied Italian at HSC level, or who have substantial previous knowledge of the language, as established by the department, cannot take these junior units. Students with previous knowledge of Italian who enrol in ITLN1611 or ITLN1612 without checking their eligibility may be requested by the coordinator to withdraw and enrol in a more appropriate unit of study.

Students who have successfully completed HSC Beginners (or IB Ab Initio) enter directly into ITLN2611. Those who have achieved more than 70 per cent in Italian Continuers at HSC (or IB Standard) enter directly into ITLN2631. No special permission is required.

Students who have successfully completed IB Advanced should identify themselves with the department. Students who are not sure about their language level should contact the Chair of the Department.

In addition to language acquisition units, students with intermediate or advanced language skills may select from a range of specialist units in Italian culture and linguistics. For further details about the contents of these units and the language of instruction (either English or Italian) please contact the unit coordinator.

Requirements for a major
Students who wish to major in Italian Studies must take at least 36 senior credit points from both language and specialist units. The 36 senior credit points normally include: either (a) 18 credit points of senior language acquisition units and 18 senior credit points of specialist units for students who entered as beginners; or (b) 12 credit points of senior language acquisition units and 24 senior credit points of specialist units for students who entered with prior study of Italian. Students with very advanced Italian language competence, as established by the department, must choose their units in consultation with the Chair of the Department.

Cross-listing
Students are permitted to take up to 12 credit points of cross-listed units. The list of units on offer in 2010 that are officially cross-listed to the major will be available from the Faculty of Arts website. Students, however, are advised to develop their language skills through ITLN code units of study.

Sample pathways
Please note that where the description refers to 'other units of study' this means specialist units in Italian, or approved cross-listed units.

Pathway 1: for students who have no substantial prior knowledge

• First year: ITLN1611 and ITLN1612.
• Second year: ITLN2611 and ITLN2612 plus 6 or 12 senior credit points in other units of study.
• Third year: ITLN3611 and ITLN3612 plus 6 or 12 senior credit points in other units of study; or ITLN3611 and 12 senior credit points in other units of study.

Pathway 2: for students who have successfully completed HSC Beginners (or IB Ab Initio)

• First year: ITLN2611 and ITLN2612 plus 6 senior credit points in other units of study.
• Second year: ITLN3611 and ITLN3612 plus 6 senior credit points in other units of study.
• Third year: ITLN3687 and 6 senior credit points in other units of study.

Pathway 3: for students who have achieved 70 per cent or more in HSC Continuers Italian (or IB Standard), or equivalent prior study

• First year: ITLN2631 and ITLN2632.
• Second year: ITLN3631 plus 12 senior credit points in other units of study.
• Third year: ITLN3687 and 12 senior credit points in other units of study.

Honours (see chapter 9 for further information)
To qualify for honours, students must have taken 48 senior credit points of Italian Studies and must have achieved a credit or better average in those units. As part of these units students would normally include ITLN3691 or other units - including exchange units - as approved by the department. The honours program consists of seminar courses on specific areas of Italian Studies and a thesis on a topic chosen by the student in consultation with the department.

Contact/further information
A comprehensive overview of the Italian Studies program is available on the website: www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/italian. There is also an Italian Studies noticeboard on Level 7 of the Brennan MacCallum Building A18. Other administrative information will be emailed directly to students or provided via WebCT.

The Chair of the Department is Dr Antonia Rubino (, phone +61 2 9351 4608). For further information on a particular unit of study please contact the named unit coordinator listed with the relevant unit of study description in chapter 9 of this handbook.

As early as possible each semester, a timetable will be posted on the department's web page. Parts of the timetable and courses offered may change in the period between the first posting and the first week of semester, in response to changes in student numbers or for any other reason.

All classes in the department meet in the first week of semester. In addition to Faculty enrolment, students must register with the department in the first class of each Italian unit of study.

For general information about language study please contact the School of Languages and Cultures, phone +61 2 9351 2869, email .

Japanese Studies

The department of Japanese Studies is in the School of Languages and Cultures (SLC).

Program structure and content
The department of Japanese Studies aims for graduates to achieve an understanding of Japan through the medium of the Japanese language and to acquire the critical intellectual skills needed to communicate that understanding effectively. It also seeks to prepare students to participate actively in an increasingly intercultural world.

Units of study are categorised as Japanese 'language' units of study or specialist Japanese 'studies' units of study. Japanese language units of study aim at developing skills in reading, writing, speaking and listening, but with emphasis on speaking and listening, while Japanese studies units of study require development of a higher level of reading and writing skills, socio-cultural knowledge and generic skills, such as critical and analytical thinking, independent learning, essay writing, and cooperative group skills.

Language units of study are arranged in ten levels. Students may enter any level depending on their proficiency, which is determined by the department. Most students will enter at 1, 3 or 5:

• Japanese 1: Students with no assumed knowledge
• Japanese 3: 65 per cent or higher in HSC Japanese Beginners or less than 70 per cent in HSC Japanese Continuers or equivalent with departmental permission
• Japanese 5: HSC Japanese Extension or more than 70 per cent in HSC Japanese Continuers or equivalent with departmental permission.

Students who do not meet the standard entry criteria must consult with the department. Native and near-native speakers of Japanese are not permitted to take language units of study, but it may be possible for them to complete a major in Japanese Studies – see below.

Units of study appropriate for the various language levels are:

1. Japanese 3 – 4: JPNS2660
2. Japanese 5 – 6: JPNS2670 series
3. Japanese 7 – 10: JPNS3670 series

Japanese exchange units are available for students completing approved official exchange programs with a partner university in Japan.

Requirements for a major
Units of study at 1000 level are junior units of study. Students who wish to major in Japanese Studies must take at least 36 senior credit points (2000 or 3000 level) from a combination of language and studies components. A minimum of 24 credit points must be taken from language components and a minimum of 12 credit points must be taken from studies components at the appropriate Japanese language levels.

Sample pathways
The following are examples only; there are many possiblities.

Pathway 1:

• First Year: JPNS1611 and JPNS1612 Japanese 1 and 2.
• Second Year: JPNS2611 and JPNS2612 Japanese 3 and 4, plus one unit of study from JPNS2660 series.
• Third Year: JPNS2621 and JPNS2622 Japanese 5 and 6, plus one unit of study from JPNS2680 series.

Pathway 2:

• First Year: JPNS2621 and JPNS2622 Japanese 5 and 6.
• Second Year: JPNS3621 and JPNS3622 Japanese 7 and 8, plus one unit of study from JPNS3670 series.
• Third Year: JPNS3621 and JPNS3622 Japanese 9 and 10, plus one unit of study from JPNS3670 series and for IV Honours ASNS3690 Approaches to Research.

Native and near-native speakers
Native speakers and near-native speakers of Japanese must obtain permission to enrol from the department. Students who took HSC Japanese Background Speakers are regarded as native speakers and near-native speakers of Japanese.

Native speakers and near-native speakers of Japanese will not be permitted to take language units of study. Provided they have completed at least 36 junior credit points in other subject areas, they may complete a major in Japanese Studies by taking 36 senior credit points made up of a maximum of four Japanese Studies (JPNS) units in the JPNS3670 series and the remainder in Japan-related Asian Studies units.

Honours
In order to qualify for entry into the honours IV program, students must have completed the requirements for a BA degree or equivalent. In addition they must have achieved a credit average or better in the major plus 12 additional senior credit points which must include ASNS3690 Approaches to Research in Asian Studies. They may include one 6-credit points Japan-related Asian Studies unit of study.

Honours IV students are required to enrol in all four generic units of study: JPNS4011, JPNS4012, JPNS4013, JPNS4014. The program is comprised of 50 per cent coursework and 50 per cent thesis. Coursework consists of two units of study at postgraduate level. The thesis is a 15,000 – 20,000 word original piece of research and writing using English and Japanese language sources appropriate to the student's level of Japanese language proficiency.

Intending honours students must consult the department during Orientation Week regarding the coursework.

Contact/further information
Department Website: www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/japanese/
Chair of Department: Yasuko Claremont, Brennan MacCallum, room 550, phone:+61 2 9351 4500; fax: +61 2 9351 2319; email: .

Administrative enquiries should be directed to the School of Languages and Cultures by phone: +61 2 9351 2869; fax: +61 9352 2319; email: . Staff offices and Japanese Studies notice boards are located on level 5 of the Brennan MacCallum Building (A18).

Jewish Civilisation, Thought and Culture

Jewish Civilisation, Thought and Culture is an interdisciplinary program which covers history, philosophy, literature, religion, ethics and cultural studies, administered by the School of Languages and Cultures (SLC).

Program structure and content
This course is a fascinating study of two millennia of Jewish Civilisation. Students will explore the development of the Jewish people from the time of Alexander the Great, experiencing their history, philosophy, literature and ethics. The course focuses on the historical evolution of Judaism, and how Jewish identity has been moulded by key Jewish thinkers and the Jewish historical experience. It traces this experience over five continents – Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas and Australia, looking at communities as far flung as the Jews in Kaifeng in China, Spanish Jewry and the history of Jews in Australia. The first year JCTC options can also lead to options in Modern Middle East and the Arab-Israeli conflict offered through the discipline of Government and International Relations (in the Faculty of Economics and Business) and the Department of History, Faculty of Arts.

Requirements for a major
Students who wish to major in Jewish Civilisation, Thought and Culture must complete 36 senior credit points normally consisting of JCTC2603 Jews Under the Crescent and the Cross, JCTC2604 From Expulsion to Regeneration, JCTC2605 From Emancipation to the Holocaust, JCTC2606 The Holocaust: History and Aftermath, JCTC2607 Israel in the Modern Middle East and one cross-listed unit of study, either HSTY2607 Approaches to the Arb-Israeli Conflict or GOVT2702 The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. There are prerequisites, either JCTC1001 Palestine: From Rome to Islam, or Department of History prerequisites. This course is highly recommended to students with an interest in history, government or religion. Students can undertake specific individual units of study of interest to them within the four year program.

There are no foreign language requirements for undergraduate study as all units of study are conducted in English and use texts in English. Study of Hebrew is, however, encouraged in conjunction with JCTC units of study, and a basic knowledge of at least one language associated with the Jewish experience (either Hebrew Classical or Modern, or Yiddish, or German) is required for honours and postgraduate study.

Crosslisting
Up to 12 credit points from approved cross-listable units of study may be cross-listed towards the Jewish Civilisation, Thought and Culture major. Students should, however, plan their cross-listings carefully as no units of study can count towards more than one major. Please check the cross-listing schedule located on the Faculty of Arts website.

Sample pathway
The following is an example only.
Second year: JCTC2603, JCTC2604 and JCTC2607
Third year: 2 x JCTC units of study + HSTY2607 or GOVT2607.

There is a full exchange program with a number of universities, and students can spend a semester or a year on exchange.

Honours (see chapter 9 for more information)
Intending honours students must obtain a credit average or better in their JCTC majors and take at least 12 credit points (two units of study) in one relevant language. Exemptions may be granted if the proposed honours thesis topic does not require knowledge of Hebrew or another language. Intending honours students are also strongly advised to undertake an exchange semester. Honours students will undertake three seminars and write a 15,000 word thesis.

Contact/further information
Department website: http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/hbjs/
Course Coordinator: Associate Professor Suzanne Rutland, Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies, Room 618 Brennan MacCallum Building A18, phone: +61 2 9351 6662, email: , or contact the SLC office .

Korean Studies

The Department of Korean Studies is located in the School of Languages and Cultures (SLC). It offers Korean language units and Korean studies units.

Program structure and content
The Korean Studies program provides a broad foundation in Korea-related fields, encompassing not only 'language' units but also a range of 'studies' units such as Korean history, media and communication, culture and society, translation and interpretation, and linguistics.

Junior units of study
KRNS1621 Korean 1 and KRNS1622 Korean 2 are offered for complete beginners or those with very limited exposure to Korean language. These units introduce students to the study of Korean language, culture and society and equip them to undertake a major in the program. Students who have studied Korean language at high school, have lived in Korea for any period of time or speak Korean fluently can enrol directly into senior units of study.

Senior units of study
Students who have a minimum of 12 junior credit points in Korean or an equivalent mastery of Korean can enrol into senior units of study at the 2000 level or above.

Requirements for a major
Students who wish to major in Korean Studies must complete at least 36 senior credit points from a combination of language and studies units in Korean Studies (course code KRNS) and/or the following Korea-related Asian Studies (ASNS) units:

• ASNS2640 Mass Media in Korea
• ASNS2641 Traditional Korea
• ASNS2642 Modern Korea
• ASNS2670 Mass Media in East Asia

Beginners:
Learners of Korean as a foreign language (hereafter KFL), who start KRNS1621 Korean 1 and KRNS1622 Korean 2, must take a minimum of 24 credit points from senior language units and a minimum of 12 senior credit points from Korean studies units and/or the fore-mentioned Asian Studies units.

Heritage speakers:
Heritage speakers of Korean, who have Korean parents and have less than two years of formal education in Korea must take 36 credit points from senior Korean studies units and/or the fore-mentioned Asian Studies units.

Native or near-native speakers
Native or near-native speakers of Korean, who have more than two years of formal education in Korea, are not permitted to take language units of study, but to major in Korean Studies they should take 36 credit points from senior Korean studies units and/or the fore-mentioned Asian Studies units.

	Beginner	Heritage speaker	Native/near native speaker
Year 1	KRNS1621 + KRNS1622
Year 2	KRNS2621 + KRNS2622 Plus one senior KRNS unit or eligible cross-listed unit	18 credit points from senior Korean studies units and/or eligible cross-listed units	18 credit points from senior Korean studies units and/or eligible cross-listed units
Year 3	KRNS3621 + KRNS3622 Plus one senior KRNS unit or eligible cross-listed unit	18 credit points from senior Korean studies units and/or eligible cross-listed units	18 credit points from senior Korean studies units and/or eligible cross-listed units

Honours (See chapter 9 for further information)
Students who achieve results of credit or better in their first year Korean units are encouraged to pursue honours in Korean Studies. In order to enter the fourth year Bachelor of Arts (Honours) (Honours IV) in Korean Studies, candidates must obtain a credit or better average in their Korean Studies major and have taken an additional 12 credit points from Korean studies units, including ASNS3690: Approaches to Research in Asian Studies. Intending honours students should consult with the course coordinator as early as possible.

Contact/further information
Department Website: www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/korean
Chair of Department: Dr Ki-Sung Kwak , phone: +61 2 9351 4490 or contact the SLC office .

Latin

Latin is taught by the department of Classics and Ancient History within the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI).

The department of Classics and Ancient History offers three separate majors in ancient world studies: Ancient History, which has a history-centred disciplinary approach to the ancient world, and Latin and Ancient Greek, language-based majors which allow for progression from complete beginners to an advanced mastery of the language and literature. Students are encouraged to supplement the focus of their particular major by drawing on the wide range of units of study available within the department (and in related departments, such as Archaeology and Philosophy) to build an Arts degree with a deep, cross-disciplinary grounding in the ancient world.

Units of study in Latin deal with various aspects of Roman language and culture. The Latin 1600 units of study assume no previous knowledge of Latin and aim to provide students with a basic knowledge of the language. Those who have achieved the appropriate level of Latin at the HSC or equivalent examination will be granted senior status and admitted to Latin 2600. Senior units focus on a variety of literary genres from both the Republic and the Empire. Study of the language is regarded not merely as an end in itself but as a critical tool for the understanding of Latin literature, history and society.

Honours in Latin
Qualifying for Honours
If you are considering an honours year in Latin, it is best to seek early advice on all the pathways open to you and the skills you will need to do your best. Our formal prerequisites are a credit or better average in 42 senior credit points of Latin including two of LATN3603, 3604, 3605, 3606 plus 6 additional senior credit points of Greek, Latin, or Ancient History. The Honours Coordinator can advise you on acceptable equivalents to our standard requirements.

Undertaking honours
An extra year of Latin allows students to specialise in a particular field and to write a major piece of research. The honours year can be the culmination of your study of Latin or a pathway to further research in our postgraduate program (though in this case you should also consider doing at least two years of Ancient Greek). Our program consists of two seminars, an unseen translation exam and a thesis of 15,000 words on a topic decided by you in consultation with your supervisor.

Full details of the program, its prerequisites and its relationship to other majors taught by the department may be found on the Departmental website at www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/cah.

Honours in Classics (joint Greek and Latin)
Qualifying for honours
If you are considering an honours year in Classics it is best to seek early advice on all the pathways open to you and the skills you will need to do your best. Our formal prerequisites are either credit average in 36 senior credit points of Latin including two of LATN3603, 3604, 3605, 3606 plus 18 additional senior credit points of Greek OR credit average in 36 senior credit points of Greek including two of GRKA3603, 3604, 3605, 3606 plus 18 additional senior credit points of Latin. The Honours Coordinator can advise you on acceptable equivalents to our standard requirements.

Undertaking honours
An extra year of Classics allows students to specialise in a particular field and to write a major piece of research. The honours year can be the culmination of your study of Classics or a pathway to further research. Our program consists of two seminars, an unseen translation exam and a thesis of 15,000 words on a topic decided by you in consultation with your supervisor.

Full details of the program, its prerequisites and its relationship to other majors taught by the department may be found on the Departmental website www.arts.usyd.edu.au/cah.

Cross-listing (units of study from other subject areas)
Please check the cross-listing schedule located on the Faculty of Arts website.

Contact/further information
Students seeking further information about units of study, or about the books recommended for study, should call at the School office on level 3 of the Quadrangle, phone +61 2 9351 2862 or consult our website at www.arts.usyd.edu.au/cah.

Cross-listing (units of study from other subject areas)

Please check the cross-listing schedule located on the Faculty of Arts website.

Linguistics

The Linguistics Department is part of the School of Letters, Art and Media (SLAM).

Linguistics studies the full range of aspects of human language, from sign to speech, to writing, from their structure, to their use, from the history of language, to how they are used in every day talk, as well as the psychological and neurological aspects of language. It investigates how people convey meanings using language resources (sounds, signs, words, grammar, genre), but through this seeks to uncover features common to all human languages, the 'linguistic universals'. So linguists study international languages like English, and endangered languages with fewer than 100 speakers. Such study reveals that languages, which seem on first view to be different, on closer scrutiny, share many important deeper similarities.

The great range of human language requires a corresponding diversity of methods to study languages and their users. These include descriptive grammatical analysis, formal logic, speech science technologies, neurolinguistic and psycholinguistic experimentation, discourse analysis, statistical approaches, computational methods, ethnographic investigation and sociological methods. A linguistics major trains students to use the tools of many disciplines.

Linguistics is relevant to the study of anthropology, sociology, psychology, philosophy and literary criticism, as well as for individual languages. Practical applications abound in fields like computer science, development studies, language teaching, general education, speech pathology, editing, legal drafting, translation and intercultural communication.

The Linguistics Department offers units of study at junior, senior and IV honours level, as well as postgraduate programs. The entry requirements for undergraduate units are set out in the table of units of study in Chapter 8 of this handbook. Junior units of study introduce the study of linguistics and provide the foundation for senior level units. As self-contained units they may be useful for students who want to know more about language but are majoring in other disciplines. Some senior units may form part of majors in other departments through crosslisting.

Major
To major in linguistics students must complete 36 senior credit points, including 12 credit points from two of the following units of study offered in 2010: Semester 1 - LNGS2620, LNGS2602 or LNGS3601, Semester 2 - LNGS2604 or LNGS2621.

Crosslisting
You may choose to count towards the major not more than 18 senior credit points from particular units of study offered in other departments. For full details please check the Table of Crosslisted units available on the Faculty of Arts website at www.arts.usyd.edu.au.

Pathways
Students may choose to specialise in one of five distinct areas of linguistics by completing a recommended pattern of units of study.

Areas of Specialisation
Theoretical Descriptive Studies: This area of specialisation will be useful to anyone with an interest in the structure of language and especially professionals whose work requires them to have a good insight to the way language is built and is used to express ideas. Professions range from law, computer science and language teaching to publishing and intercultural communication. Relevant units offered in 2010 include:

• LNGS2602 Syntax
• LNGS2613 Computer Applications in Linguistics
• LNGS2620 Phonetics
• LNGS2621 Phonology
• LNGS3601 Semantics and Pragmatics
• LNGS3604 Field Methods
• LNGS3607 Phonological Theory

Social Discourse Analysis: This area offers a range of theoretically informed approaches to discourse analysis informed by functional, corpus and applied linguistics. Those completing this major will not only be up to date on cutting-edge discourse theory, but also be positioned to use that knowledge in relation to ongoing initiatives in educational, forensic and medical institutions. Relevant units offered in 2010 include:

• LNGS2603 Functional Grammar
• LNGS2604 Discourse Analysis
• LNGS2620 Phonetics
• LNGS3608 Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory

Psychology and Linguistics: The combined study of Psychology and Linguistics is a particularly exciting field of research bringing two complementary perspectives together on the study of language and cognition. Studying a major from both Psychology and Linguistics is particularly well suited for students interested in pursuing a graduate career in Cognitive Psychology, Linguistics, Communication, Cognitive Science, or Speech and Hearing Sciences. Relevant units offered in 2010 include:

• LNGS2614 Language Acquisition
• LNGS2615 Language Brain and Mind
• LNGS2620 Phonetics
• LNGS2621 Phonology

Languages and Linguistics: Students studying languages or English are encouraged to take Linguistics to provide an underpinning of linguistic theory to their studies. Joint honours in both languages and linguistics is possible.

Computation and Linguistics: This is a growing area of research and development with prospects for employment in modern language technology industries. it requires people trained both in linguistic analysis and in information technology. Students interested in this area of specialisation are asked to contact both the Linguistics coordinator and the School of Information Technologies for information about which units to undertake for the development of a joint program of study in computation and linguistics. Relevant units offered in 2010 include:

• LNGS2602 Syntax
• LNGS2603 Functional Grammar
• LNGS2613 Computer Applications in Linguistics
• LNGS2620 Phonetics
• LNGS2621 Phonology
• LNGS3601 Semantics and Pragmatics
• LNGS3608 Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory

Honours
Students considering enrolling in Linguistics IV honours are encouraged to consult with the Linguistics Honours Coordinator as early as possible, preferably towards the end of their third year. The Department of Linguistics encourages joint honours programs. To enter the honours year you will need: Credit average in 48 senior credit points, including at least three of the five units LNGS3601, LNGS2602, LNGS2604, LNGS2620 or LNGS2621.

For further details regarding the honours program see chapter 9 of this handbook or contact the honours coordinator, Toni Borowsky: .

Contact/further information
For comprehensive information see the Linguistics department website:
www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/linguistics
Undergraduate Student Adviser: Toni Borowsky.

Media and Communications

Media and Communications is part of the School of Letters, Art and Media (SLAM).

The Bachelor of Arts (Media and Communications) is an interdisciplinary degree offered at both pass and honours levels. The media and communications component of the four-year pass degree offers students professional training in the main areas of media production and an advanced education in the history and theory of the field. Core units of study focus on digital media production and consumption, the structure of the media and communications industries, the media's role in culture and politics, globalisation and legal and ethical issues in the field. Students will explore these areas through a diverse array of disciplinary perspectives and relevant critical theories. They will develop professional skills in the fields of print, radio, video, online media and media relations. In the fourth year of their study, students will undertake an industry internship. The degree will equip students for entry into areas such as print, broadcast and online journalism, international communications, media regulation and public policy, media and public relations and corporate communications. The four-year structure of the Pass degree also qualifies students to apply to those programs in the United States that require a four year undergraduate degree.

Major
The Bachelor of Arts (Media and Communications) requires the completion of 192 credit points over four years of full-time study. The degree consists of compulsory units of study in Media and Communications (78 credit points), a major in Part A and further units of study which may add up to a second major in either Part A or B. The compulsory units of study in Media and Communications include two junior units of study (12 credit points), a prescribed junior unit in the area of language and communication (6 credit points), eight senior units of study (48 credit points) and an Internship (12 credit points). The compulsory units may vary as determined by the department and the Faculty. A standard pathway through the Bachelor of Arts (Media and Communications) degree is four units of study per semester for eight semesters.

Media and Communications Compulsory Units 2010

• MECO1001 Australian Media Studies
• MECO1003 Principles of Media Writing
• MECO2601 Radio Broadcasting
• MECO2603 Media Relations
• MECO3601 Video Production
• MECO3602 Online Media
• MECO3603 Media Law and Ethics
• MECO3605 Media Globalisation
• MECO3606 Advanced Media Writing
• MECO3609 Critical Practice in Media and Communications
• MECO3671 Media and Communications Internship
• MECO3672 Internship Project

Honours
An honours program is also available in Media and Communications. Further detail regarding prerequisites and the nature of the honours year is described in chapter 9 of this handbook.

Contact/further information
For comprehensive information see the department website:
www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/media/
Undergraduate Student Advisor: Dr Marc Brennan, phone +61 2 9036 6030, email .

Medieval Studies

Medieval Studies is an interdisciplinary program of study administered by the Centre for Medieval Studies and forms part of the School of Letters, Art and Media (SLAM).

The Centre aims to promote all aspects of the study of, and research on, the civilisation of medieval Europe and its neighbours to the north, east, and south. It offers a major in undergraduate Medieval Studies consisting of units which it offers itself and others offered in various departments which are cross-listed to Medieval Studies. Students can also undertake honours and postgraduate research in Medieval Studies.

Undergraduate units are offered at senior level only and students are admitted if they have successfully completed a minimum of 18 junior credit points in any two subject areas from Part A of the Table of Units of Study.

Junior-level students prospectively interested in Medieval Studies should consult the coordinator about their choice of junior units of study.

Major
A major in Medieval Studies consists of at least 36 senior credit points from Medieval Studies units of study or from cross-listed units of study (including at least two MDST units of study to the value of 12 credit points).

For students counting units of study in other departments towards a major in Medieval Studies, the prerequisites are those of Medieval Studies, not of the departments in which the units are offered, except in obvious cases; for example, in a language department or in music, where an appropriate level of language or musical ability is necessary.

Crosslisting
For details regarding crosslisted units of study please see the Table of crosslisted units available on the Faculty of Arts website www.arts.usyd.edu.au.

Pathways
The purpose of the Centre is to enable students who have developed an interest in various aspects of medieval civilisation to pursue a program of study that offers a wide range of subject areas and removes as many departmental prerequisite and corequisite barriers as possible. Thus students can combine individual Medieval Studies units with their interests in other disciplines.

Honours
For admission to Medieval Studies IV Honours, students must have completed units of study to the value of at least 48 senior credit points from Medieval Studies units of study or from cross-listed units of study (including at least two MDST units of study to the value of 12 credit points), all with at least a credit average.

Further details regarding prerequisites and the nature of the honours year is described in chapter 9 of this handbook.

Contact/further details
For comprehensive information see the department website: www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/medieval
Director: Associate Professor John Pryor; email .

Modern Greek

The department of Modern Greek is located in the School of Languages and Cultures (SLC).

Program structure and content
The department is centred around the Sir Nicholas Laurantus Chair of Modern Greek, which was endowed by the benefactor whose name it bears, supported by many other individuals and organisations, particularly from the Greek community of New South Wales.

Units of study in the department are mainly concerned with contemporary Greek language, history, literature and society in the last two centuries. Earlier periods (i.e. Byzantium or the New Testament period), however, are not neglected, especially in senior units.

All students, whatever their previous contact with Greek, have the opportunity to take a major in the subject and to progress to the honours year and postgraduate work. The major may begin either at the basic level with MGRK1601, or at the post-HSC level with MGRK1621. For details of first-year placement and the major, see below.

MGRK2691 and MGRK3692 can be taken as additional senior units by students who meet the entry requirements. They are a prerequisite for the honours year. There is also a full range of postgraduate courses.

All students, including those who have Greek as their first language, should purchase dictionaries. The following are recommended:

• English-Greek: DN Stavropoulos and AS Hornby, Oxford English-Greek Learner's Dictionary (Oxford UP). DN Stavropoulos, Oxford Greek-English Learner's Dictionary (Oxford UP).
• Greek-Greek: Tegopoulos-Fytrakis Elliniko lexiko (Armonia). Kriaras, Lexiko tes sychrones Ellinikes Demotikes Glossas.

All students will need an English-Greek dictionary and either a Greek-English dictionary (if your first language is English) or a Greek-Greek dictionary (if your first language is Greek). Not all published dictionaries are satisfactory. If you wish to purchase a dictionary not on the list above, please check with the department first.

A Greek Grammar in English is available from the department: it is highly recommended for purchase by all students.

First Year placement
The department will place all students enrolling in Modern Greek for the first time in one of the following units of study:

• MGRK1601: For students with very little or no prior knowledge of Greek.
• MGRK1621: For students with some proficiency in both spoken and written Greek.

Placement in these units of study and groups is made by the department on the basis of students' HSC results and their general level of proficiency in the language. In borderline cases placement tests may be held at the beginning of the year. Arrangements for placement tests will be made at the time of departmental registration during the orientation period. The department reserves the right to take the final decision regarding the placement of students in appropriate units, and in the appropriate group within a unit.

Cross-institutional students
Subject to observance of final dates for application there should be places available in 2010 for students undertaking a degree, especially in Arts or Education, at another tertiary institution, if they wish to take units of study from this department and count them towards that degree. It is recommended that students inquire at the Arts Faculty Office as early as possible.

Non-degree students
Other non-degree students, not enrolled in degree courses at tertiary institutions, should apply to the Arts Faculty Office for details of application procedures and fees payable by the closing dates.

Requirements for a major
To complete a major you must complete senior units of study in Modern Greek to the value of at least 36 credit points. Of these, no less than 18 should be in language units (i.e. MGRK2603, 2604, 2605 and 2609) and no less than 18 in non-language units. The 6 credit point Intermediate Modern Greek units (MGRK2601, 2602), for the purposes of the major, are counted as 6 credit points of language and 6 credit points of non-language study.

Crosslisting
Units of study from other departments may be cross-listed towards the Modern Greek major. The list of units on offer in 2010 that are officially cross-listed to the major will be available from the Faculty of Arts.

Sample pathways
Pathway 1: For students who have no prior or elementary knowledge of Modern Greek:

• MGRK1601/2
• MGRK2601/2, MGRK2603, MGRK2604, MGRK2605 (and other units available at senior level)
• MGRK2691

Pathway 2: For students who have finished HSC or have special permission:

• MGRK1601/2, MGRK1621/2, MGRK2621, MGRK2622 (and other units)
• MGRK3692

Pathway 3: For students with some knowledge of Greek below a level defined by placement tests or oral examination by the Chair of Department:

• MGRK2601/2, MGRK2603, MGRK2604, MGRK2605 (and other units available at senior level)

Prerequisites and corequisites have been drawn up to direct students' progress through the units in logical sequence, ensuring that they have the necessary knowledge and skills at each step. However, they may cause questions in some cases: students who feel that the rules are excluding them from a unit are invited to put their case to the Chair of the Department.

Honours (See chapter 9 for further information)
To qualify for honours, students must have taken 48 senior credit points of Modern Greek studies and must have a achieved a credit average in those units. Students would normally include MGRK2904 and MGRK3901 and other units, including exchange units, as approved by the department. The honours program consists of seminar courses on specific areas of Modern Greek studies and a thesis on a topic chosen by the student in consultation with the department.

Contact/further information
Department website: www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/moderngreek/
Chair of department: Associate Professor Vrasidas Karalis, , or contact the SLC office , +61 2 9351 2869.

Further information and advice is available from the notice boards in the Brennan MacCallum Building A18.

In addition to enrolling with the Faculty office, students should register with the department in the first class of every Modern Greek unit of study.

Music

The Arts Music Unit has a distinguished record of music scholarship, composition and teaching, and has produced many of Australia’s leading music professionals. Its aim is to enrich Australia through a unique multi-cultural music education, broadly based in studies of society, culture and performance. The unit offers a wide range of units which are designed for both intending professional musicians, students with broad interests in the study of music in culture, and students who will pursue other careers.

Music is offered as part of the Bachelor of Arts degree for up to six semesters of full-time study at pass level and eight semesters of full-time study at honours level. The music curriculum focuses on the study of both western and non-western music from musicological, compositional and performance perspectives.

The Arts Music Unit is now part of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, but still located in the Seymour Centre and all classes are held on the main University campus.

BA Junior units of study

There are two entry levels (advanced and beginners) for first year music. MUSC1501 Concepts of Music (6 credits) is for students who have a minimum HSC Music 2 result of 67 per cent or equivalent. MUSC1503 and 1504 Fundamentals of Music I and II (6 credits each) are beginner entry courses. Students can also choose either MUSC1506 Music in Western Culture or MUSC1507 Sounds, Screens, Speakers: Music and Media (6 credits each). 12 junior music credits permit access to a wide range of senior music units.

BA Senior units of study

Students wishing to take a major in Music must complete a minimum of 36 senior music credit points including MUSC2651 Australian and Asian Music. Many senior music units do not require previous musical study and have no specific prerequisites. All students, whether they come to the Arts Music Unit as beginners, or with an HSC in Music, or even self trained in music, can take a major in Music and from there proceed to an Honours year, and/or postgraduate study in the subject.

Students are permitted to undertake some Sydney Conservatorium of Music units of study which are approved by the Chair of the Arts Music Unit to count towards the Music major in the BA. Students may not exceed requirement limits.


Music Honours

Admission to Music honours is granted to students who have completed a major in Music (credit average) plus 12 special entry credit points as follows: MUSC3609 Musicology and either MUSC2631 Fieldwork, Ethnography and Transcription or an advanced Music Analysis course.

Further information

Room S442 Level 4
Seymour Centre J09
Phone: +61 2 9351 2923
Fax +61 2 9351 7340
Website: http://www.music.usyd.edu.au
Chair of unit: Dr Matthew Hindson

Pali

See Indian Sub-Continental Studies.

Peace and Conflict Studies

Peace and Conflict Studies is an interdisciplinary program offered by the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPACS) in the School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS).

Program structure and content
Peace and Conflict Studies aims to provide students with an understanding of the causes of violence and war, and the means to achieving peace with justice. The Centre combines teaching and research with practice in the fields of conflict resolution and peace building, human rights, nonviolence and social change.

Requirements for a major
CPACS currently offers one senior undergraduate unit 'The History and Politics of War and Peace' jointly with History and an extensive postgraduate program including topics of interest to students in global studies, history, philosophy, sociology, psychology, law, politics and international relations, security studies, studies in religion, gender studies, English literature, human rights, tourism, journalism, media and communications, environmental science and development studies.

Whilst CPACS does not currently offer an undergraduate major or an honours program, honours students in some Arts Faculty programs (such as History) may choose to focus on Peace and Conflict Studies in their honours year and take units from the CPACS postgraduate program.

Contact/further information
Program Website: www.arts.usyd.edu.au/centres/cpacs
Chair of Department: Associate Professor Jake Lynch
Email:
Academic Coordinator: Dr Wendy Lambourne
Email:
Undergraduate Unit Coordinator: Associate Professor Judith Keene
Email:

Performance Studies

Performance Studies is a department within the School of Letters, Art and Media (SLAM), located on level 1 at the rear of the Woolley Building (facing Manning Road).

Performance Studies considers the whole extended field of aesthetic, social and everyday performances across a range of cultural and historical contexts: from practices that we might readily recognise as theatre, dance, popular music, hybrid and/or contemporary performance through to the performative dimensions of rituals, festivals, sport, legal processes, protest actions and other kinds of activity.

This is a highly interdisciplinary program, drawing on anthropology, history, dance and movement studies among other influences. In various ways, all our units of study seek to explain the phenomenon of performance as a complex, collaborative endeavour, involving performers and audiences alike in the production of meaning, feelings, a view of the world as it is and as it might otherwise be.

Performance practice comes into the program in two ways: first, since all of the academic staff have significant professional experience, most units of study will involve a minor strand of practical workshop activities as an adjunct to text-based teaching methods and a way of grounding the major theoretical concerns of the course (Note, however, that there are no practical performance skills as a pre-requisite for Performance Studies, nor are students assessed on any such skills: this is not a vocational training program for actors, dancers, designers etc.).

The second way in which the department engages with performance practice is through our extensive contacts with professional artists and companies, of whom many are involved in a regular artists-in-residence scheme. Particularly for students taking the Special Entry (or 'honours preparation') and Fourth Year Honours courses, these is an emphasis on participant-observation fieldwork and ethnographic research methods. These senior students have the opportunity to observe and analyse training, creative development, rehearsals and other kinds of performance preparation across a wide range of genres.

Major
The Department of Performance Studies does not offer any junior units of study. Instead, students wishing to enrol in senior Performance Studies units need to complete at least 18 junior credit points in no more than two subject areas, including 12 junior credit points from Table A. In most cases, this simply means prospective students will have done two semesters' worth of study in at least one subject area located in the Arts Faculty. We will also consider requests for an exemption of these requirements on the basis of studies completed at other institutions and/or relevant professional experience.

There are two compulsory, senior, core units:

• PRFM2602 Performance: Production and Interpretation (Semester 1) and
• PRFM2601 Being There: Theories of Performance (Semester 2)

These core units are prerequisites for most of the PRFM3600-level units but there will always be a couple of 'easy access' optional senior units of students to take before, after, or alongside the core units (see the 'Yellow Pages' of this handbook for details and visit the departmental website).

Students can thus accumulate the 36 senior credit points (six senior units of study) required for a Performance Studies major in several ways:

• 2 + 4, meaning students take the 2 core units (PRFM2601 and PRFM2602) in one year, then 4 PRFM optional units the following year;
• 3 + 3, meaning the 2 core units and 1 optional unit one year, followed by 3 more optional units the next year;
• 4 + 2, meaning 2 core units and 2 optional units one year, followed by 2 more optional units the next year.

NB. There are two Special Entry units (PRFM3961 Rehearsal Studies and PRFM3962 Rehearsal to Performance) which students who are intending to do PRFM Fourth Year honours need to take in addition to the 36 senior credit points required for a major. Any student who obtains a strong credit or above results in the PRFM core units can enrol in these Special Entry units and we certainly recommend this as a way to keep all options open regarding honours.

Also, any student (whether going onto honours or not) is allowed to do more than the minimum required for a Performance Studies major (up to a total of 60 senior credit points in PRFM units), provided this fits within the overall requirements of their particular degree structure.

Crosslisting
Up to 12 senior credit points from crosslisted subjects may be counted towards a major in Performance Studies. See the information available on the Faculty of Arts website www.arts.usyd.edu.au.

Honours
Our honours year brings theory and practice closely together. It involves specialised seminars, a research thesis on an individual topic and a detailed case study based on first-hand fieldwork. Honours students become a valued part of a research culture which is world renowned and regularly attracts senior international visiting scholars to the department.

The prerequisites for entry into the Performance Studies Fourth Year Honours course are as follows: credit or above results in PRFM3961 and PRFM3962, and a minimum of a credit average in a further 36 senior credit points in PRFM units (or equivalent). For details for course components see chapter 9.

Contact/further information
Chair of Department: Dr Paul Dwyer ()
Undergraduate Coordinator: Associate Professor Ian Maxwell ()
Department website: www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/perform/

Philosophy

The department of Philosophy is part of the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI).

Philosophy is a subject that inquires into fundamental questions about ourselves and the world. Students will develop critical thinking skills and enhance their reading, writing and comprehension skills. Training in philosophy is highly valued by a range of professions including business, law, journalism, politics and management. The Department of Philosophy offers a wide range of units of study in the areas of: History of Philosophy; Epistemology, Metaphysics and Logic; Aesthetics, Ethics and Political Philosophy. Philosophy junior units are introductions to basic areas of philosophy. Senior units may then be taken from a pool of options; 36 senior credit points constitute a major in Philosophy. For those students wishing to continue the study of Philosophy at an advanced level, Philosophy Honours is available to qualified students.

Junior Philosophy units
There are three junior units of study, each worth 6 credit points:

• PHIL1011 Reality, Ethics and Beauty (first semester)
• PHIL1012 Introductory Logic (second semester)
• PHIL1013 Society, Knowledge and Self (second semester)

You can do any one, any two, or all three. The normal requirement for entry to senior philosophy units is 12 junior credit points in Philosophy, and for units with this prerequisite the combination of any two of the above is sufficient. (If you have completed PHIL1016 Mind and Morality in HSC, this can be counted as equivalent to PHIL1011; you may apply for special permission to do a senior Philosophy unit in first semester.)

Senior Philosophy units
The following units of study will be available; all are worth 6 credit points.

History of Philosophy program

• PHIL2600 Twentieth Century Philosophy
• PHIL2605 Locke and Empiricism
• PHIL2629 Descartes and Continental Philosophy
• PHIL2648 German Philosophy: Leibniz to Nietzsche
• PHIL2649 The Classical Mind

Epistemology, Metaphysics and Logic program

• PHIL2606 Knowledge, Reason and Action
• PHIL2615 Intermediate Logic
• PHIL2621 Truth, Meaning and Language
• PHIL2622 Reality, Time and Possibility: Metaphysics
• PHIL2626 Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
• PHIL2642 Critical Thinking
• PHIL2643 Philosophy of Mind
• PHIL2650 Logic and Computation

Aesthetics, Ethics and Political Philosophy program

• PHIL2617 Practical Ethics
• PHIL2623 Moral Psychology
• PHIL2625 Hannah Arendt
• PHIL2633 Theorising Modernity
• PHIL2634 Democratic Theory
• PHIL2635 Contemporary Political Philosophy
• PHIL2644 Critical Theory: from Marx to Foucault
• PHIL2645 Philosophy of Law
• PHIL2646 Philosophy and Literature
• PHIL2647 Philosophy of Happiness

Spanning all three programs

• PHIL3618 Pre-Honours seminar

Philosophy Honours
The requirement for entry to fourth year honours is 48 senior credit points, with a credit average or better, and including at least 6 credit points from each of the three programs above. For details of the Honours year see chapter 9.

Cross-listed units
Please check the cross-listing schedule located on the Faculty of Arts website.

Contact/further information
Information on our units of study and staff with whom to discuss the program is available at www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/philos/ or by phoning the School office on +61 2 9351 2862.

Political Economy

The department of Political Economy is part of the School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS).

Program structure and content
Studies in Political Economy are a focal point for critical inquiry into contemporary economic issues, taking account of their connections with social, political and environmental concerns. Political Economy is an excellent background for a wide range of careers such as journalism and the media, economic research, teaching, public service and management.

Political economists study the relationship between the main players in the economy, like transnational corporations, small businesses, national governments, consumers and trade unions. To get a good understanding of how the economy works, they draw on different currents of economic thought - from the birth of capitalism to the modern globalisation era. They study the sources of economic power and how that power is used to change the lives of millions of people.

Students seeking some general knowledge of economic issues to accompany their studies in other subjects in the humanities or social sciences can take introductory units in their first year. Others who want to go on to more thorough study of the subject may consider taking a major in Political Economy.

Requirements for a major
To obtain a major in Political Economy, students must complete the following units of study:

(i) 2 compulsory junior units of study (12 credit points), of which one must be ECOP1001 Economics as a Social Science. The other may be either ECOP1003 International Economy and Finance or ECOP1004 Economy and Society.

Please note: Bachelor of International and Global Studies students should do ECOP1003 International Economy and Finance; Bachelor of Political Economic and Social Sciences students should normally do ECOP1004 Economy and Society.

(ii) 2 compulsory senior units of study (12 credit points); ECOP2011 Economics of Modern Capitalism and ECOP2612 Economic Policy in Global Context.

(iii) At least 4 other units of study (24 credit points) of senior elective units of study (see units of study entries in this handbook).

Honours
Political Economy honours requires a further year of study, in which students write a thesis on a topic of their own choosing and do two seminar-based units of study. Intending honours students should take the honours preparation units during their second and/or third year units of study.

Contact/further information
Department Website: www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/political/
Chair of Department: Dr Stuart Rosewarne
Email:

Political Economic and Social Sciences

The Political Economic and Social Sciences program is based in the School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS).

Program structure and content
The Bachelor of Political Economic and Social Sciences degree is three years full time; or four years (for the honours degree). Its central focus is on the study of political, economic and social issues. The program combines in-depth analysis with a broad multi-disciplinary approach to important contemporary political, economic and social problems and policies.

Understanding the interactions between economic, social and political processes is crucial for graduates' success in a range of professional fields. In recognition of the range of career paths that students may wish to follow, this degree provides flexibility to specialise in one aspect of the social sciences - economic, social or political - while ensuring a broad-based education across the whole field.

In first year you study three core subject areas: government and international relations, political economy and sociology or anthropology. A fourth subject area is of your own choosing: for example, it could be a humanities subject like history, philosophy, English or a language; or it could be a subject such as economics, industrial relations, geography or psychology. In second year you continue to deepen your studies in three core social science areas (government and international relations, political economy, and sociology or anthropology) and take other electives according to your own interests. In third year you complete your major (selected from one of those core social sciences areas) and the other requirements for the degree.

These studies provide a strong foundation for future employment or entry to a range of postgraduate programs. Particular areas with strong employment prospects include government and public service, management, finance, research, consultancy and current affairs journalism.

Requirements for a major
A major is to be chosen (after you have sampled these subjects in your first year of study) from one of the following:

• Government and International Relations
• Political Economy
• Sociology
• Anthropology

You must also do a minimum of 4 units of study (2 junior units, 2 senior units) in each of Government and International Relations, Political Economy and either Sociology or Anthropology. Given that you will be doing a major in one of these four areas, this supplementary requirement means that you must also have a solid foundation of study in two of the other subject areas. This constitutes the basis for a balanced, multidisciplinary social sciences education.

A second major may be chosen from: Economics, Work and Organisational Studies, Management, Geography, Psychology, Government and International Relations, Political Economy, Sociology or Anthropology. A second major is not compulsory. You may prefer to select a broader array of electives from various subject areas, according to your personal interests.

Honours (see chapter 9 for further information)
An honours degree may be undertaken in any of the departments listed under the compulsory major. The opportunity to stay on for this further year of honours study is available to students who have successfully completed the pass degree and the honours prerequisites at a standard determined by the relevant department. The honours year involves coursework and writing a thesis on a topic of your own choosing, in consultation with, and under the supervision of, the academic staff.

Contact/further information
Further information is available from the Faculty of Arts office in the Quadrangle A14, phone: +61 2 9351 5436, or email: .

Psychology

Psychology, a discipline within the Faculty of Science, is often taken as part of a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Liberal Studies. It can be taken as a major within either of these programs. Students should note that in the Bachelor of Arts degree, Psychology may only be taken as a second major, and students must also take a major from one of the subject areas listed under Part A of the Table of units of study for the BA (refer to chapter 6 of this Handbook). Different rules apply to the Bachelor of Liberal Studies. Under these rules, students may take a major in Psychology as their major in Science and will also take their major in Arts from one of the subject areas listed under Part A of the Table of units of study for the BA.

For a major in Psychology, the minimum requirement is 48 credit points across intermediate and senior Psychology* units of study. The Intermediate Psychology units required for the major are PSYC2011, PSYC2012, PSYC2013 and PSYC2014. No other Intermediate Psychology units can be counted towards the major. The senior units must include at least one of PSYC3011, 3012, 3013 and 3014.

*Note: HPSC3023 History and Philosophy of Science and Psychiatry can be counted towards a Psychology major.

The Psychology units of study are outlined in Part B of the Table of units of study in this Handbook, and further details of all Psychology units of study can be found in the Faculty of Science Handbook. For progression to a fourth year in Psychology at the University of Sydney, please see below for the requirements for entry into Psychology 4 Honours, and see the Faculty of Science Handbook for the requirements for entry into the Graduate Diploma in Science (Psychology).

Students who first enrolled in Psychology within an Arts degree at the University of Sydney prior to 2002 may, upon application to the Faculty of Arts, be permitted to graduate with a major in Psychology with 32 credit points of senior Psychology as normally required for a Part A major. However, this does not qualify students for entry to a fourth year of Psychology study and does not meet the minimum requirements for professional recognition of a Psychology major.

Psychology 4 Honours

Prerequisite for entry: A major in Psychology (as above) with an average of Credit or better across the prescribed PSYC2000 level units of study and across the PSYC3000 level units of study that make up the remainder of the 48 credit points which must include PSYC3010. Permission of the School of Psychology is required. Due to restricted resources for research supervision, the intake to Psychology 4 honours is limited to approximately 55 students and is determined by academic merit in PSYC2000 and 3000 level units of study.

Sanskrit

See Indian Sub-Continental Studies.

Sociology

Sociology is offered by the department of Sociology and Social Policy, which is part of the School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS).

Program structure and content
Sociology is the study of contemporary society. Its concerns range from the local to the global, from the everyday world we live in to the large scale questions about global processes and patterns of social life. Sociology provides theoretical and methodological approaches to investigate and analyse social, economic, political and cultural phenomena. The titles of the units we teach reveal the diversity of the fields of study in Sociology and Social Policy. We aim to provide students with strong conceptual and research training. We also emphasise historical and comparative approaches in understanding our globalising world.

The study of sociology is a rewarding and stimulating enterprise, both intellectually and in terms of future career prospects in a variety of professional fields. It is also an important addition to related disciplines such as Government, Economics, Philosophy, Education, Psychology, Anthropology and History, and it usefully complements studies in English, Art History and Theory, Languages, Law and Science.

Requirements for a major
36 senior credit points in Sociology and Social Policy, including SCLG2601 Sociological Theory and one of the methods units, either SCLG2602 Social Inquiry: Research Methods or SCLG3603 Quantitative Methods for Social Science. This is in addition to the first year requirements of SCLG1001 Introduction to Sociology 1 and SCLG1002 Introduction to Sociology 2 and the other junior and senior units required for your degree.

Double Major in Sociology and Social Policy
Many students undertake majors in both Sociology and Social Policy, allowing for the study of social issues both historically and comparatively in breadth and depth. Students intending to complete a double major in Sociology and Social Policy will need to complete SCLG2601 Sociological Theory, either SCLG2602 Social Inquiry: Research Methods or SCLG3603 Quantitative Methods for Social Science, SCPL2601 Australian Social Policy, SCPL2602 The Principles of Social Policy, SCLG2611 Welfare States: A Comparative Analysis and an additional 42 credit points of senior level Sociology or Social Policy. This is in addition to the first year requirements of SCLG1001 Introduction to Sociology 1 and SCLG1002 Introduction to Sociology 2, and the other junior and senior units required for your degree.

First year Sociology
There are two junior Sociology units:

• SCLG1001 Introduction to Sociology 1
• SCLG1002 Introduction to Sociology 2

Senior Sociology
The senior units of study make it possible for students to build on their junior year and focus on particular fields of sociological theory and research. They are grouped under the following themes (some units cut across themes):

1. Social Theory: Sociological Theory, Violence Imaginaries and Symbolic Power; Contemporary Sociological Theory, Law and Social Theory, Global Transformations, Contemporary Cultural Issues, Sociology of Knowledge.
2. Media, Culture and the Self: Social Construction of Difference, Media in Contemporary Society, Self and Society, Childhood and Youth, Sociology of Sport, Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Friendship, Contemporary Cultural Issues.
3. Social Policy and the Welfare State: Australian Social Policy, Social Movements and Policy-Making, Social Inequality in Australia, The Principles of Social Policy, Welfare States: A Comparative Analysis, Development and Welfare in East Asia, Power, Politics and Society.
4. Social Research: Social Inquiry, Quantitative Methods for Social Science, Sociology of Health and Illness, Social Inequality in Australia, Empirical Sociological Methods, Sociology of Knowledge.
5. Law and Social Change: Social Justice, Law and Society, Social Construction of Difference, Crime, Punishment and Society, Violence, Imaginaries and Symbolic Power, Human Rights and Social Protests, Social Inequality in Australia, Law and Social Theory, Indigenous Social and Legal Justice.
6. Health, Medicine and Science: Sociology of Health and Illness, Social Inequality in Australia, Social Construction of Difference, Science, Technology and Social Change.
7. Globalisation: Global Transformations, Human Rights and Social Protests, Sociology of Terror, Environmental Sociology, Urban Sociology, Science, Technology and Social Change.

Cross-listing
Up to 12 credit points from the approved cross-list may be counted towards a major in Sociology.

Honours
Students intending to process to Sociology IV honours must have completed at least 48 senior credit points of Sociology or Social Policy, including SCPL3602 Empirical Sociological Methods, and have achieved an average mark of credit or better in those units.

Contact/further information
Department website: www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/ssp
Chair of Department: Professor Michael Humphrey
Email:

Social Policy

Social Policy is offered by the Department of Sociology and Social Policy which is part of the School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS).

Program structure and content
Social Policy is the study of a range of policies which affect the social and economic welfare of individuals, families and broader social groupings. The study of social policy enables students to develop and understanding of the arrangements and principles underpinning the provision and administration of social policies and can lead to careers in both government and non-government organisations. Policy areas studied can include: income support, work and unemployment, health, housing, family and children's services, youth, policies for the aged, health policies, policies for women, indigenous and multicultural policies, urban and regional development.

Studies in Social Policy at the University of Sydney are concerned with the history and contemporary institutions and practices of Australian social policies; comparative studies of policies in other countries; and the principles of social policy. Units of study combine studies of theory, research and application of policies to real world issues.

Requirements for a major
36 senior credit points in Sociology or Social Policy, including SCPL2601 Australian Social Policy, SCPL2602 The Principles of Social Policy, SCLG2611 Welfare States: A Comparative Analysis, SCLG2601 Sociological Theory, either SCLG2602 Social Inquiry: Research Methods or SCLG3603 Quantitative Methods for Social Science. This is in addition to the first year requirements of SCLG1001 Introduction to Sociology 1 and SCLG1002 Introduction to Sociology 2, and the other junior and senior units required for your degree.

Double major in Sociology and Social Policy
Many students undertake majors in both Sociology and Social Policy, allowing for the study of social issues both historically and comparatively in breadth and depth. Students intending to complete a double major in Sociology and Social Policy will need to complete SCLG2601 Sociological Theory, either SCLG2602 Social Inquiry: Research Methods or SCLG3603 Quantitative Methods for Social Science, SCPL260 Australian Social Policy, SCPL2602 The Principles of Social Policy, SCLG2611 Welfare States: A Comparative Analysis and an additional 42 credit points of senior level Sociology or Social Policy. This is in addition to the first year requirements of SCLG1001 Introduction to Sociology 1 and SCLG1002 Introduction to Sociology 2, and the other junior and senior units required for your degree.

Cross-listing
Up to 12 credit points of units from the approved cross-list may be counted towards the major in Social Policy.

Honours
The Department of Sociology and Social Policy does not currently offer a specific honours year in Social Policy. However, many Sociology honours students undertake research for their thesis in the field of Social Policy.

Contact/further information
Department website: www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/ssp
Chair of Department: Professor Michael Humphrey
Email:

Socio-Legal Studies

The Socio-Legal Studies program is administered by the department of Sociology and Social Policy. The department of Sociology and Social Policy is part of the School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS).

Bachelor of Arts and Sciences
Students enrolled in the Bachelor of Arts and Sciences are required to complete two junior units in Law/Legal Studies. Two of these are offered by the department of Sociology and Social Policy within the field of socio-legal studies, which encompasses the study of legal ideas, institutions and practices from the perspective of the humanities and social sciences. They are SLSS1001 Introduction to Socio-Legal Studies and SLSS1003 Law and Contemporary Society.

Bachelor of Socio-Legal Studies
The Bachelor of Socio-Legal Studies is designed for students who are interested in studying and understanding legal ideas, institutions and practices from the perspectives of the humanities and social sciences. It is not a professional law degree, but an opportunity to engage with the ever-changing relationship between law and society using the methods of a broad range of humanities and social science disciplines, including history, philosophy, political science, sociology, social policy, performance studies, anthropology, literary studies, and economics. It combines a clear focus on the core socio-legal subjects with the breadth provided by a second major in Arts and Government and International Relations, as well as a pool of related electives.

Whether your interest is participating in the many exciting fields of research studying legal ideas and institutions in their historical, cultural and social contexts, or working in the fields of professional practice that link an understanding of law with other forms of knowledge, the Bachelor of Socio-Legal Studies will provide you with the skills and capacities you need. As well as giving you a solid starting point for a research degree in socio-legal arenas, the degree will provide the foundation for a wide variety of professional fields which lie outside the legal profession itself, but articulate closely with it: social policy, government and business administration and management, non-government organisations, criminology, public advocacy, etc.

The requirements for the Bachelor of Socio-Legal Studies are:

1. A major in Socio-Legal studies comprising:

• SLSS1001 Introduction to Socio-Legal Studies and SLSS1003 Law and Contemporary Society
• SCLG2601 Sociological Theory
• SLSS2601 Socio-Legal Research
• SCLG2615 Law and Social Theory
• PHIL2645 Philosophy of Law

2. A choice of six senior units drawn, provisionally, from the following list:

• SCLG2605 Social Justice, Law and Society
• SCLG2608 Social Construction of Difference
• SCLG2618 Violence, Imaginaries and Symbolic Power
• SCLG2621 Power, Politics and Society
• SCLG2634 Crime, Punishment and Society
• SLSS2603 Medico-Legal and Forensic Criminology
• ASLT2617 Writing and Justice
• HSTY2652 Genocide in Historical Perspective
• HSTY2671 Law and Order in Modern America
• PHIL2635 Contemporary Political Philosophy
• PHIL2617 Practical Ethics
• WORK2207 Labour Law
• WORK2219 Management and Organisational Ethics
• GOVT2665 Ethics and Politics
• GOVT2111 Human Rights and Australian Politics
• GOVT2336 Gender and Human Rights
• ECOP3017 Political Economy of Human Rights
• ECOS3015 Law and Economics

Please note that the exact range of electives offered may differ in 2010.

Students are encouraged to choose complimentary sets of units of study, focusing, for example, on criminology or human rights.

3. A second major from the Part A list of subject areas in the Faculty of Arts.

Honours (see chapter 9 for more information)
Students intending to proceed to Socio-Legal Studies IV honours must meet the requirement for the pass degree with a credit average in 48 senior credit points across their senior Socio-Legal units.

Further information and advice
Department Website: www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/ssp
The director of the Bachelor of Socio-Legal Studies is Dr Rebecca Scott Bray, email

Spanish and Latin American Studies

The department of Spanish and Latin American Studies is in the School of Languages and Cultures (SLC). Spanish staff offices are located on levels 5, 6 and 7 of the Brennan MacCallum Building A18.

Program structure and content
Spanish language units at The University of Sydney are designed to develop the four language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) in Spanish. There are eight levels of Spanish language units, named Spanish Level 1, Spanish Level 2, etc. Students start at the most appropriate level and progress systematically through the levels.

In addition to language studies, the beginners' units contain an introduction to Spanish and Latin American culture, politics and history. Senior language units can be taken together with separate 6 credit point courses which deal with the culture and history of Spain and Latin America in greater depth.

Junior units
SPAN1611 Spanish Level 1 and SPAN1612 Spanish Level 2 are 6 credit point junior level units for students who have no substantial prior knowledge of the language. Students who have already studied Spanish at HSC level, or who have equivalent knowledge, may apply for advanced standing.

Students with prior knowledge of Spanish who enrol in SPAN1611/1612 without checking their eligibility may subsequently be obliged to withdraw and enrol in another unit of study.

Senior units
Students who have successfully completed their HSC or IB Beginners start in SPAN2611 Spanish Level 3. Those who have achieved more than 70 per cent in HSC Continuers start in SPAN2613 Spanish Level 5.   Students who are uncertain about their language level should email a short note in Spanish to Dr Fernanda Peñaloza () setting out their circumstances. She will reply and advise the appropriate level of enrolment (you may be required to sit a short placement test).

As well as the senior language units (levels 3-8), there are a number of units on Spanish and Latin American culture and society. Many of these units are taught in Spanish, although some are taught in English and are available to people with no knowledge of the Spanish language. Please see individual entries for details of which units have Spanish language requirements.

Requirements for a major
Students who wish to major in Spanish must take at least 36 senior credit points from a combination of language units and other units offered by the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies or through cross-listing. A minimum of 24 credit points must be taken from language units and a minimum of 12 credit points must be taken from other units of study.

Cross-listing
Units of study from other departments may be cross-listed towards the Spanish and Latin American Studies major. The list of units on offer in 2010 that are officially cross-listed to the major will be available from the Faculty of Arts website.

Sample pathways
Please note that where the description refers to 'other units of study' this means non-language units in Spanish and Latin American Studies or approved cross-listed units.

Pathway 1: for students who have no substantial prior knowledge of the language

• First year: SPAN1611 and SPAN1612 Spanish 1 and 2.
• Second year: SPAN2611 and SPAN2612 Spanish 3 and 4 plus 6 senior credit points in other units of study.
• Third year: SPAN2613 and SPAN2614 Spanish 5 and 6 plus 6 senior credit points in other units of study.

Pathway 2: for students who have successfully completed HSC or IB Beginners

• First year: SPAN2611 and SPAN2612 Spanish 3 and 4.
• Second year: SPAN2613 and SPAN2614 Spanish 5 and 6, plus 6 senior credit points in other units of study.
• Third year: SPAN3611 and SPAN3612 Spanish 7 and 8 plus 6 senior credit points in other units of study.

Pathway 3: for students who have achieved 70 per cent or more in HSC Continuers Spanish (or equivalent study)

• First year: SPAN2613 and SPAN2614 Spanish 5 and 6.
• Second year: SPAN3611 and SPAN3612 Spanish 7 and 8, plus 6 senior credit points in other units of study.
• Third year: 6 senior credit points in other units of study.

Honours in Spanish and Latin American Studies
To qualify for honours, students must have taken 48 senior credit points of Spanish and Latin American Studies and achieved a credit average or better in those units. The course consists of taught seminar courses on topics in Spanish and Latin American culture and society, advanced language support, and a thesis on a topic chosen by the student in consultation with the department. See chapter 9 of this handbook for further information.

Contact/further information
A comprehensive overview of the Spanish and Latin American Studies program is available on the website www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/spanishlatino. There is a Spanish and Latin American Studies noticeboard on Level 7 of the Brennan MacCallum Building A18.

The Chair of the Department is Dr Vek Lewis (, phone: +61 2 9351 4524). For further information on a particular unit of study please contact the named unit coordinator listed with the relevant unit of study description in chapter 9 of this handbook.

For general information about language study please contact the School of Languages and Cultures, phone +61 2 9351 2869 or email .

Studies in Religion

The Department of Studies in Religion is part of the School of Letters, Art and Media (SLAM) and is located within the John Woolley Building.

The department provides open, serious, scholarly and critical study of religion, aiming to offer the broadest possible curriculum. Units of study covering Celtic and Germanic mythology, history of Christianity, meditation and other spiritual practices, the connections of religion with sexuality and consumer culture, the interface of religion with art and film, Buddhism and a range of new religious phenomena, are offered on a rotating cycle.

The department offers a program in undergraduate, postgraduate coursework and postgraduate research study. Students begin Studies in Religion by completing junior units of study, of which there are three available on rotation. RLST1001 Paths to Enlightenment introduces key concepts in Aboriginal Australian and Asian religions; RLST1002 The History of God charts the rise of monotheism in the cultural context of the Ancient World; and RLST1004 New Religious Movements covers the religions in the West from the 1950s to the present. Two of these three units are offered every year.

Major
A major in Studies in Religion is 36 senior credit points (six senior units of study). It is possible to do fourth year honours in Studies in Religion if you complete a further 12 senior credit points and your average result across the 48 credit points of religion is a Credit or better (65+).

Crosslisting
A number of units in other departments are crosslisted and up to three crosslisted units may be included in a Studies in Religion major (18 senior credit points). For crosslisted units see the information on the Faculty of Arts website www.arts.usyd.edu.au.

Pathways
The study of religion can be fruitfully combined with studies in many other departments within the Faculty of Arts such as Philosophy, Jewish Studies, Ancient History, English, Medieval Studies, Film Studies, Art History and Arabic and Islamic Studies.

Honours
Honours is a stimulating and prestigious way to cap off your undergraduate studies, and involves a methodology seminar and the writing of a thesis in which you personally devise and research a project under the supervision of an academic staff member. Further detail regarding the nature of the honours year is described in chapter 9 of this handbook.

Foreign Language
Staff in the department encourage research work, particularly at an honours level, with original texts in the languages of Latin, Greek, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Chinese and Vietnamese.

Summer School and Winter School
Summer School and Winter School courses are regularly offered.

Contact/further information
For further information about the program see the department website: www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/religion
Undergraduate Student Adviser: Dr Jay Johnston, +61 2 9351 6840, email

Yiddish

(No guarantee of continuing availability)

Yiddish is located in the School of Languages and Cultures (SLC).

Program structure and content
For a millennium, Yiddish has been the spoken and literary language of Ashkenazi/European Jewry. As a language it entails the fusion of three major components: German, Hebrew/Aramaic and Slavic. There is a vast corpus of Yiddish literature published from the 14th century until the present day.

Yiddish at both junior and senior levels is available in the Faculty of Arts. The program concentrates on language acquisition through various media. Throughout the course, students learn about the history and evolution of the language, the development of the various dialects, the growth and dissemination of Yiddish culture around the world and the blossoming of Yiddish literature from the Middle Ages until the present day.

The junior units of study do not require a previous knowledge of the language, and are intended to give a firm grounding in the practical language skills on which all senior studies will be based.

At the senior level, students improve their language skills and broaden their historical and cultural knowledge. During the senior level, it is possible to spend time abroad at an intensive course: in Lithuania, Israel, or the United States. Other programs arise (such as those in Poland and Birobidzhan) and may be applicable as exchange.

In addition to a major in Yiddish, Yiddish can be utilised as a component in other programs such as Jewish Civilisation, Thought and Culture (JCTC), European Studies (EUST) and International and Comparative Literary Studies (ICLS).

Requirements for a major
Students who wish to major in Yiddish must complete 36 senior credit points consisting of 24 senior credit points from Yiddish plus 12 senior credit points in EUST, JCTC or HBRW (Classical) units.

Sample pathway
For students intending to major in Yiddish, below is a sample program incorporating JCTC and EUST.

First Year:
Junior Units

• YDDH1101 Yiddish 1
• YDDH1102 Yiddish 2

Second Year:
Senior Units

• YDDH2603 Yiddish 3
• YDDH2604 Yiddish 4
• JCTC2604 From expulsion to regeneration
• EUST2612 Regionalisms in Europe & the Middle East

Third Year:
Senior Units

• YDDH3605 Yiddish 5
• YDDH3606 Yiddish 6
• JCTC2606 The Holocaust: History and Aftermath
• EUST2611 European & Middle Eastern Myth & Legend

Honours
While it is not presently possible to pursue an Honours in Yiddish, students who are interested can enrol in EUST or JCTC Honours. Consult the handbook or course coordinators for further details on entry requirements.

Contact/further information
Program website: www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/hbjs
Course coordinator: Dr Jennifer Dowling, or contact SLC office