5. Arts units of study
American Studies
AMST2601 American Foundations
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Melissa Hardie, Department of English Session: Semester 1 Classes: Two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Prerequisites: 12 junior level credit points in the departments of English, and/or History and/or Art History and Film, in the Faculty of Arts Assessment: Close-reading exercise (1000 words); essay (2000 words); take-home exam (1500 words)
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
This unit introduces students to the contradictory richness of 'Americanness' from an interdisciplinary standpoint and prepares them for the Major in American Studies. It is divided into different modules, each addressing a core national myth. We will approach each module from a variety of angles: historiographical, literary and visual, opening lines of interrelation between historical and imaginary forms in the construction and ongoing redefinition of the United States.
AMST2801 American Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Clare Corbould Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Students enrolled at Sydney University who wish to take the equivalent of a 6 credit-point senior unit of study in American Studies at an approved overseas university should enrol in this unit. Such students must seek approval for their proposed course of study from the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the American Studies Program.
AMST2802 American Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
See AMST2801
AMST2803 American Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
See AMST2801
AMST2804 American Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
See AMST2801
AMST2805 American Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
See AMST2801
AMST2806 American Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
See AMST2801
USSC1010 America: Rebels, Heroes & Renegades
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2,Summer Main Assessment: Journal scrapbook 1500 words; Character profile 1500 words; Case study 1500 words; Critical analysis 1500 words.
Note: This unit is available to year 11 students only.
This unit introduces students to the complexity and diversity of the United States. The US is a powerful force in an increasingly globalised world and its people (throughout history and today) provide some insight into why this is so. The unit views the US through the lens of its influential people: male and female, ordinary and extraordinary, leaders in all walks of life, rebels with and without a cause, those who can be defined loosely as rebels, heroes and renegades.
USSC2601 US in the World
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Professor Geoffrey Garrett Session: Semester 2 Classes: one 1.5 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points Assessment: Four critical reviews in weeks 2, 5, 8, 11 (each 800 words) 40%; Synthesis of semester's activities relating to opinion-formation, problem-solving and argument-defence (2000 words) 35%; Tutorial Participation 15%; Lecture Participation 10%
This unit of study introduces students to the key global transformations of the contemporary era, focusing on the role of the United States amid the challenges posed by: globalisation, the rise of Islamic extremism, nuclear proliferation, and the emergence of China and India as world powers. The unit is designed to give students the ability to look behind today's news headlines to understand the underlying forces driving them, particularly the behaviour and views of key policy makers and opinion leaders.
USSC2602 Introduction to US Politics
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: one 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points from Table A Assessment: Tutorial exercise 500 words 10%; Essay 2000 words 40%; 2 hour Exam (eqv. 2000 words) 40%; Tutorial participation 10%
This unit introduces students to US political institutions and political culture. The American electoral system and recent presidential elections will be examined as will the careers of American presidents from the 1960s onwards. Lastly, US public policies in the areas of race, welfare, and criminal justice will be examined. By the end of the unit students should have a comprehensive understanding of American domestic politics.
Ancient History
ANHS1600 Foundations for Ancient Greece
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Alastair Blanshard Session: Semester 1,Winter Main Classes: two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prohibitions: ANHS1003 Assessment: Assessable tasks (1000 words), participation, one 1000 word research exercise and one 2 hour exam
Delphic oracles, epic stories of heroes, graceful temples, tales of lust and tyranny - the Greek world has much to delight and surprise. This unit of study will introduce you to the study of ancient Greek history and culture and provides a springboard for further studies in history, archaeology and literature. It is informed by a cross-disciplinary approach that combines a variety of perspectives to achieve a holistic view of the ancient world.
Textbooks
B. Powell and I. Morris. The Greeks: History, Culture and Society. Prentice Hall 2006
ANHS1601 Foundations for Ancient Rome
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Richard Miles Session: Semester 2 Classes: two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prohibitions: ANHS1004, ANHS1005 Assessment: one 500 word exercise, participation, one 1500 word research exercise and one 2 hour exam
From Spain to Turkey, from Britain to Africa, ancient Rome has left physical and cultural reminders of its role as ancient superpower. This unit of study will introduce you to the city of Rome itself, its turbulent history, its empire and its vibrant culture. It will provide a springboard for further studies in history, archaeology and literature. It is informed by a cross-disciplinary approach that combines a variety of perspectives to achieve a holistic view of the ancient world.
Textbooks
Kamm A. The Romans: An Introduction. London. Routledge 2003
ANHS1602 Greek and Roman Myth
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Eric Csapo Session: Semester 1 Classes: one 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prohibitions: CLCV1001 Assessment: one 1500 word written assignment, and one 2 hour exam, assessable tasks (1000 words)
Stories about Greek and Roman gods, heroes, and monsters occupy an important place in Western culture. Greco-Roman mythology is the fount of inspiration for masterpieces of art, music, and literature. This unit examines these enduring ancient narratives, symbols, and mythical ideas in their historical, cultural and religious context. Learn about the manifold meanings of myth, its transformations and transgressions, its uses and abuses from antiquity to the present day.
Textbooks
Powell B. Classical Myth. 6th ed. Prentice Hall 2009
ANHS1801 Ancient History Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ANHS2607 Rome 90 BC-AD 14: Making a World City
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Kathryn Welch Session: Semester 1 Classes: one 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points of Ancient History or History OR 6 junior credit points of Ancient History and 6 junior credit points of either Classical Studies, Latin, Greek (Ancient), or Archaeology Prohibitions: ANHS2007 Assessment: one 3000 word essay and one 1500 word exam
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
'For the Romans, the extent of the City is the world'. So wrote Ovid late in the lifetime of Augustus. But Rome was not always a world city. It had to become one. The century in which the city established itself as the leading urban centre of the Mediterranean was one marked by civil wars and social upheaval. We focus in this unit on the lives and careers of key figures, on contemporary works of literature and above all on the physical transformation of Rome into a world capital.
ANHS2608 The World Turned Upside Down
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Lyn Olson Session: Semester 2 Classes: one 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points of Ancient History or History or Asian Studies OR 6 junior credit points of Ancient History or History or Asian Studies and 6 junior credit points of either Classical Studies, Latin, Greek (Ancient), or Archaeology Prohibitions: HSTY2024 Assessment: one 2500 word essay, one 2.5 hour exam and tutorial participation
This is the story of the transformation from the Roman to the medieval European world c.AD150-800, told mainly through the word and artefacts of those who lived the transformation. We shall focus on three themes: authority structures, identities and frontiers; and shall test two propositions: that the Roman underworld and the barbarian outerworld turned the old world upside down in the formation of medieval culture and that this world underwent deep structural change in the third and seventh centuries AD.
ANHS2612 Historiography Ancient and Modern
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Julia Kindt Session: Semester 1,Summer Main Classes: one 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points of Ancient History or History or Asian Studies OR 6 junior credit points of Ancient History or History or Asian Studies and 6 junior credit points of either Classical Studies, Latin, Greek (Ancient), or Archaeology Prohibitions: ANHS2691, ANHS2692 Assessment: one 3000 word essay, one 1500 word exam
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
Greco-Roman historiography remains a central object of inquiry for students of the ancient world. This unit examines samples of Greco-Roman historiography in light of their original contexts and of modern approaches. Topics will include: Why did the ancients invent and how did they exploit literary representations of the past? What were their methods and their criteria for ascertaining historical truths? How was history implicated in Greco-Roman literature and in Greco-Roman culture? How can modern historiographical theories illuminate ancient practices?
ANHS2613 Ancient Greece and Rome on Film
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Alastair Blanshard Session: Semester 2 Classes: one 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points of Ancient History, Classical Studies, Ancient Greek or History OR 6 junior credit points of Ancient History and 6 junior credit points of either Latin, Greek (Ancient), Classical Studies, History, Philosophy, Archaeology (Classical) or Archaeology (Near Eastern) Assessment: one 2000 word essay, one 2 hour exam, and tutorial participation
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
This unit examines the relationship between cinematic visions of antiquity and the writing of ancient history. In particular, it aims to look at how different schools, ideas, and methodologies in ancient history are reflected in cinematic production. Topics to be discussed include the role of historical consultants in film production, archaeological remains and the creation of 'the antique', cinema as an alternate site for the production of 'ancient history', and the utility of filmic metaphors for the practice of history.
ANHS2614 The Emperor in the Roman World 14-117 AD
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Paul Roche Session: Semester 1 Classes: two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points of Ancient History, Classical Studies, Ancient Greek or History OR 6 junior credit points of Ancient History and 6 junior credit points of either Latin, Greek (Ancient), Classical Studies, History, Philosophy, Archaeology (Classical) or Archaeology (Near Eastern) Assessment: one 2500 word essay, one 2 hour exam and tutorial participation
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
The first century AD is a fascinating and important period of tension and negotiation between the emperor, senate, and people of Rome. The empire expanded to its physical apogee, and new avenues of power and arenas of competition emerged to transform politics. This unit examines the period 14-117 AD, comprising the reigns of the Julio-Claudians (Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero), Flavians (Vespasian, Titus, Domitian), Nerva, and Trajan. It will treat politics, court culture, the imperial family, foreign policy, conspiracy and propaganda.
ANHS2804 Ancient History Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ANHS2805 Ancient History Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ANHS2806 Ancient History Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ANHS2810 Ancient History Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ANHS2811 Ancient History Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ANHS3609 Herodotus and His World
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Julia Kindt Session: Semester 2 Classes: One 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points of Ancient History, Classical Studies, Ancient Greek or History OR 6 junior credit points of Ancient History and 6 junior credit points of either Latin, Greek (Ancient), History, or Archaeology Assessment: one 2000 word essay, one 2000 word take-home exam
Herodotus' outlook is equally grounded in the archaic and classical periods. Influenced by various authors and genres he created something new and highly original: a work of enormous scope that blends history, literature, ethnography, cultural and military history. This unit looks at the rich and eventful history of the 5th century BC though the lens of Herodotus' work. We explore the different intellectual worlds Herodotus inhabited and relate them to the world he created in his Histories.
ANHS4011 Ancient History Honours A
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Alastair Blanshard Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: two seminars, each seminar meeting for 2 hours per week for one semester Prerequisites: Credit average in 48 credit points of senior Ancient History including ANHS2612 (or equivalent) Assessment: a thesis of 18,000-20,000 word and 6,000 words of written work or its equivalent for each seminar
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in Ancient History consists of:
1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
2. two seminars that meet weekly for two hours for one semester.
The thesis should be of 18,000-20,000 words in length. Each seminar requires 6,000 words of written work or it equivalent.
The thesis is worth 50% of the final Honours mark and each of the seminars is worth 25%.
The following seminars are on offer in 2010:
Tragedy and Society (Dr Julia Kindt)
The Mediterranean World 88-49BC (Dr Kathryn Welch)
For more information, contact Dr Alastair Blanshard, Honours coordinator.
1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
2. two seminars that meet weekly for two hours for one semester.
The thesis should be of 18,000-20,000 words in length. Each seminar requires 6,000 words of written work or it equivalent.
The thesis is worth 50% of the final Honours mark and each of the seminars is worth 25%.
The following seminars are on offer in 2010:
Tragedy and Society (Dr Julia Kindt)
The Mediterranean World 88-49BC (Dr Kathryn Welch)
For more information, contact Dr Alastair Blanshard, Honours coordinator.
ANHS4012 Ancient History Honours B
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Alastair Blanshard Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: Refer to ANHS4011 Corequisites: ANHS4011 Assessment: Refer to ANHS4011
Refer to ANHS4011
ANHS4013 Ancient History Honours C
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Alastair Blanshard Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: Refer to ANHS4011 Corequisites: ANHS4012 Assessment: Refer to ANHS4011
Refer to ANHS4011
ANHS4014 Ancient History Honours D
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Alastair Blanshard Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: Refer to ANHS4011 Corequisites: ANHS4013 Assessment: Refer to ANHS4011
Refer to ANHS4011
Anthropology
ANTH1001 Cultural Difference: An Introduction
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Erin Taylor/Dr Yasmine Musharbash Session: Semester 1,Summer Late Classes: two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week, occasional hour-long optional film-screenings and workshops Prohibitions: ANTH1003 Assessment: Short and long essays, total 2500 words, plus one 2 hour exam
Anthropology explores and explains cultural difference while affirming the unity of humankind. It provides accounts of cultural specificity that illuminate the world today. Lectures will address some examples of cultural difference from the present and the past. These examples will introduce modern Anthropology, the method of ethnography, and its related forms of social and cultural analysis.
Textbooks
readings will be available at the University Copy Centre
ANTH1002 Anthropology and the Global
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Terry Woronov Session: Semester 2 Classes: two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prohibitions: ANTH1004 Assessment: 2500 words of written work (60%) and one 2 hour exam (40%)
Anthropology's long-term ethnographic method, within a specific cultural setting, allows for a particularly intimate understanding of people's experiences of the social worlds they inhabit. This course shows the importance of this experiential intimacy for understanding some of the key issues associated with globalisation: the culturally diverse forms of global capitalism, the transnational communities emanating from global population movements, the transformations of colonial and post-colonial cultures, the rise of global movements and the corresponding transformation of Western nationalism.
Textbooks
readings will be available at the University Copy Centre
ANTH1801 Social Anthropology Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ANTH1802 Social Anthropology Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ANTH2601 The Ethnography of Southeast Asia
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: one 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of Anthropology Assessment: 2500 words of written work (60%) and 2 hour exam (40%).
Southeast Asia comprises a broad spectrum of social and ecological landscapes, from primate cities to primary forests. This unit of study examines how humans have made meaningful lives in these contexts in terms of productive activities, social units, political formations and cultural representations. This unit also examines the various approaches anthropologists have used for the task of conceptualising of and writing about these.
Textbooks
Readings available from the University Copy Centre.
ANTH2605 Aboriginal Australia: Cultural Journeys
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Yasmine Musharbash Session: Semester 1 Classes: two 1 hour lectures, one optional film hour and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of Anthropology Prohibitions: ANTH2010, ANTH2025 Assessment: 2500 words of written work (60%) and 2 hours of examination (40%)
This unit examines the societies and cultural practices of Australian Aboriginal peoples in two different areas of Australia, the central/western Australia desert and the riverine areas of central/western New South Wales. These regions are distinctive - culturally, ecologically and historically - yet share commonalities in their practices of kin-relatedness and its 'writing' onto country, and their experiences of incorporation into the nation-state. The journeys to be explored are spatial and historical to understand how mobility and mutability characterise Aboriginal practice.
Textbooks
Readings will be available at the University Copy Centre
ANTH2621 Initiation Rituals
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Jadran Mimica Session: Semester 2 Classes: one 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of Anthropology Prohibitions: ANTH2021 Assessment: 2500 words of written work (60%) and one 2 hour exam (40%)
This unit examines and elucidates a wide range of phenomena commonly known as "initiation rituals". Through a wealth of ethnographies the course surveys male and female forms of these practices and appraises their various interpretations by anthropologists, psychoanalysts and scholars of comparative religion. A special focus is on the psycho-dynamics and meanings of self-transformations which these radical practices effect upon the practitioners themselves. The unit also articulates a general theory of ritual action grounded in phenomenology and psychoanalysis.
Textbooks
reading lists will be available at the beginning of lectures
ANTH2623 Gender: Anthropological Studies
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Summer Late Classes: two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points of Anthropology Prohibitions: ANTH2020, ANTH2023 Assessment: 2500 words of written work (60%) and one 2 hour exam (40%)
This unit explores the social and cultural dimensions of gender and sexuality in non-western societies. The main focus is the body in two interrelated senses. Firstly, how the body is culturally constructed by giving aspects of gender and sexuality meanings that do not simply reflect biology. Secondly, how bodies are socially constructed, for example through ritual. The relations of the dimensions of the body to the articulation of power and social change are also considered.
Textbooks
readings will be available at the University Copy Centre
ANTH2625 Culture and Development
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: one 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of Anthropology Assessment: Mid term long answer questions (1500 words), essay (2500 words), tutorial presentation (500 words)
Development is the tension between new forms of wealth, human wants and structures of inequality generated by capital; the attempts through state and international political and legal systems to control that process; and the specificity of the local social systems they seek to 'develop'. This unit compares the variety of local forms of this process in colonial, post-colonial, third- and fourth world settings. Key themes include: resource politics, religion, the politics of the family, ethnicity, corruption and contemporary violence.
ANTH2626 The City: Global Flows and Local Forms
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Terry Woronov Session: Semester 2 Classes: one 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of Anthropology Prohibitions: ANTH2026 Assessment: 2500 words of written work (60%) and one 2 hour exam (40%)
Modern cities are produced in two ways: (a) as types of city responsive to their larger social and cultural environment - the metropolis, the trading or rural centre and the city of sprawling shanty towns; (b) as types of ordered urban space that allocate different identities to a city's inhabitants. This unit focuses on ethnographic and historical studies of urbanism around the world. Lectures will also discuss the method of ethnography and its many uses for research in urban environments.
ANTH2627 Medical Anthropology
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: one 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of Anthropology Prohibitions: ANTH2027 Assessment: 2,500 words of written work (60%) and 2 hours of examination (40%)
Medical anthropology is a comparative and ethnographic response to the global influence of biomedicine within diverse cultural worlds. This unit will examine major theoretical approaches, their respective critiques, and the methods that underpin them. Concepts such as 'health/illness', 'disease', 'well-being', 'life-death', and 'body/mind' will be located in a variety of cultural contexts and their implications for different approaches to diagnosis and treatment considered. The unit will include culturally located case studies of major contemporary health concerns such as AIDS.
ANTH2628 Migration and Migrant Cultures
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: one 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of Anthropology Prohibitions: ANTH2120, ANTH2121 Assessment: 2500 words of written work and one 2 hour exam
This unit of study examines human migration and settlement from an anthropological perspective. It is framed by three general and connecting themes: (a) anthropology's turn from bounded cultures to the study of movement and contested identities; (b) the role of migration in transnational relations with a focus on middle and late modernity; and (c) the relation between the growth of migration populations and race relations, especially as this has unfolded in Australia.
Textbooks
readings will be available at the University Copy Centre
ANTH2629 Race and Ethnic Relations
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: one 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of Anthropology Prohibitions: ANTH2117 Assessment: one 2500 word essay (60%) and one 2 hour exam (40%)
A comparative study of race and ethnic group relations. The unit will consider the history of ideas of 'race' and practices of racialising and their relationship to ethnicity. It will draw on studies from various areas including North America, the Caribbean, Japan and Australia.
Textbooks
Reading lists will be available at the beginning of lectures
ANTH2631 Being There: Method in Anthropology
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Yasmine Musharbash Session: Semester 2 Classes: one 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of Anthropology Assessment: one 1500 word essay, one 3000 word fieldwork-based project, participation
Anthropology's distinctive method, termed ethnography, is grounded in long term participation in the cultural contexts that anthropologists describe and analyse. This unit explores the disciplined but open nature of anthropological research and the radically contextual modes of interpretation that are embedded in the lives of its subjects. Issues include: the history of the method; the diverse situations in which anthropologists practice; the way that fieldwork experience shapes the method. Students will devise and report on their own project.
ANTH2653 Economy and Culture
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Neil Maclean Session: Semester 2 Classes: one 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points of Anthropology Assessment: one 2500 word essay (60%) and one 2 hour exam (40%)
Economic anthropology teaches that there are different kinds of economy, grounded in different forms of value (gift, commodity) and on different rationalities (kinship, chiefly, market). The nature of these differences is explored through ethnographic studies, as are the conflicts that arise from their articulation within a global system. Characterisations of economic practice are as corrupt, irrational, informal, black, profit as the work of the devil, money as bitter are treated as signs of such systemic conflict.
Textbooks
reading lists will be available at the beginning of semester
ANTH2655 The Social Production of Space
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: One 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points in Anthropology. Prohibitions: ANTH3911 Assessment: 2,500 words of written work (60%) and 2 hours of examinations (40%)
Space/place appears in anthropology as both a product of historically specific social practice and as an irreducible dimension of any social formation. This theoretical tension will be explored through examination of such themes as: the contradiction between the global as abstract space and the local as qualitatively distinct place; struggles over the definition and control of space; space/time as an aspect of any world; centre/periphery and inside/outside as pervasive tropes of social analysis.
Textbooks
Reading lists will be available at the beginning of lectures.
ANTH2804 Social Anthropology Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ANTH2805 Social Anthropology Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ANTH2806 Social Anthropology Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ANTH2810 Social Anthropology Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ANTH2811 Social Anthropology Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ANTH3601 Contemporary Theory and Anthropology
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Jadran Mimica Session: Semester 1 Classes: one 2 hour seminar per week Prerequisites: 12 credit points of Senior Anthropology at Credit level or above Prohibitions: ANTH3921, ANTH3922 Assessment: 6000 words of written work
This honours preparation unit will assist students to define their objectives in anthropology and anticipate their honours year through: 1) exploring key concepts of anthropological analysis and critique, 2) increasing their knowledge of the ethnographic method and its contemporary challenges, 3) developing library research skills and experience in formulating a research project.
ANTH3602 Reading Ethnography
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Linda Connor Session: Semester 2 Classes: one 2 hour seminar per week Prerequisites: 12 Credit Points of Senior Anthropology completed at Credit level or above Prohibitions: ANTH3611, ANTH3612, ANTH3613, ANTH3614 Assessment: 6000 words of written work
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
Ethnography is grounded on the 'participant observation' of social practice and the interpretation of values and experience in particular social contexts. It makes the strange familiar, and the familiar strange. This unit will focus on the relationship between research methods and design and the development of regionally and thematically specific debates in anthropology.
ANTH4011 Social Anthropology Honours A
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Terry Woronov Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: consult department Prerequisites: Students must have a Credit average in Senior level Anthropology units totalling at least 48 credit points. Units must include ANTH3601 and at least one of the following: ANTH3602, ANTH3611, ANTH3613 or ANTH3614. Assessment: all of the major components of the Honours year will be assessed
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Honours consists of a number of seminars, coursework and the completion of a substantial research thesis. For details please contact the Chair of Department or the Honours Co-ordinator (where applicable).
ANTH4012 Social Anthropology Honours B
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Jadran Mimica Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: consult department Corequisites: ANTH4011 Assessment: all of the major components of the Honours year will be assessed
Please refer to ANTH4011
ANTH4013 Social Anthropology Honours C
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Neil Maclean Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: consult department Corequisites: ANTH4012
Please refer to ANTH4011
ANTH4014 Social Anthropology Honours D
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Neil Maclean Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: consult department Corequisites: ANTH4013
Please refer to ANTH4011
Arabic Language, Literature and Culture
ARBC1611 Arabic Introductory 1B
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Nijmeh Hajjar Session: Semester 1 Classes: 4 hours per week Prohibitions: ARBC1311, ARBC1312, ARBC1101, ARBC1102 Assessment: 2.5-hour exam equivalent to 2000 words (50%), regular assignments and class assessment equivalent to 2000 words (50%).
This unit aims to teach Arabic as a living language. It is meant for students with no previous learning experience of the language. The unit is designed to introduce and build up basic language skills: listening and speaking, reading and writing, using modern standard and educated every-day Arabic. Students will learn basic vocabulary, language structures, morphology and syntax of Arabic in context, through lively dialogues, realistic conversational situations, story lines, exercises and drills, rather than formal grammar. On completion of this unit, students progress to ARBC1612 in second semester.
Textbooks
Nijmeh Hajjar, Living Arabic in Context: An Introductory Course, Beirut, 2005
ARBC1612 Arabic Introductory 2B
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Nijmeh Hajjar Session: Semester 2 Classes: 4 hours per week Prerequisites: ARBC1101 or ARBC1611 or equivalent Prohibitions: ARBC1311, ARBC1312, ARBC1102 Assessment: 2.5-hour exam equivalent to 2000 words (50%), regular assignments and class assessment equivalent to 2000 words (50%).
This unit aims to strengthen students' listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in living Arabic. Emphasis will be on building up communicative ability as well as extending the vocabulary and language structures through realistic dialogues and story lines in modern standard and educated every-day Arabic. Morphology and syntax of Arabic are gradually introduced in context through a structured method of progression, using realistic patterns, exercises and drills, rather than formal grammar. On completion of this unit, students progress to ARBC2613.
Textbooks
Nijmeh Hajjar, Living Arabic in Context: Arabic for Beginners, Stage 2, Sydney, 2004. (Consult the department for textbook and audio CDs.)
ARBC2613 Arabic Language and Literature 3B
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Nijmeh Hajjar Session: Semester 1 Classes: 4 hours per week for 9 weeks and 3 hours per week for 1 week Prerequisites: ARBC1102 or ARBC1612 or equivalent Prohibitions: ARBC1311, ARBC1312, ARBC2633, ARBC2634, ARBC2103 Assessment: Regular assignments (equivalent to 2000 words, 50%), 2.5-hour end of semester exam (equivalent to 2500 words, 50%).
This unit aims to extend students' language skills in Arabic and enable them to appreciate Arabic literary texts. Students will be able to build up their communicative ability and extend their knowledge of modern Arabic vocabulary and structures, through realistic dialogues and class activity, including role-playing. They will be introduced to modern Arabic literature through reading and discussing selected texts by prominent authors, in their societal context. On completion of this unit, students progress to ARBC2614.
Textbooks
Language material and a selection of literary texts will be available. (Consult the department.)
ARBC2614 Arabic Language and Literature 4B
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Nijmeh Hajjar Session: Semester 2 Classes: 4 hours per week for 9 weeks and 3 hours per week for 1 week Prerequisites: ARBC2103 or ARBC2613 or equivalent Prohibitions: ARBC2104, ARBC1311, ARBC1312, ARBC2313, ARBC2314, ARBC2633, ARBC2634, ARBC3635, ARBC3636, ARBC3637, ARBC3638 Assessment: Regular assignments (equivalent to 2000 words, 50%), 2.5-hour end of semester exam (equivalent to 2500 words, 50%).
This unit aims at further strengthening students' communicative skills in Arabic, both aural/oral and written, as well as building up their ability to read, appreciate and discuss samples of Arabic literature by prominent authors in their societal context. Students will be able to extend their knowledge of Arabic vocabulary and structures through realistic dialogues, role-playing and the use of a range of recorded material in Arabic. On completion of this unit, students progress to ARBC3615.
Textbooks
Language material and a selection of literary texts will be available. (Consult the department.)
ARBC2633 Arabic Advanced Language & Literature 3A
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Nijmeh Hajjar Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3 hours per week Prerequisites: HSC Arabic Extension or Arabic Continuers or 70% or above in Arabic Beginners (subject to placement test) or equivalent Prohibitions: ARBC1311 Assessment: Regular assignments (equivalent to 2500 words), essay/exam (equivalent to 2000 words).
This unit aims to strengthen practical language skills, including writing and translation, to enrich the student's understanding of Arabic literature and culture, develop their analytical and critical skills through reading of a variety of Arabic texts by writers from different Arab countries, focusing on themes of modernity and identity as reflected in modern Arabic essays on political, social and cultural issues and in contemporary Arabic literature in general.
Textbooks
A dossier of texts will be provided.
ARBC2634 Arabic Advanced Language & Literature 4A
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Nijmeh Hajjar Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3 hours per week Prerequisites: ARBC1311 or ARBC2633 Prohibitions: ARBC1312, ARBC1101, ARBC1102, ARBC1611, ARBC1612 Assessment: Regular assignments (equivalent to 2500 words), essay/exam (equivalent to 2000 words).
This unit aims to strengthen practical language skills in Arabic, building on the approach followed in semester 1, including writing and translation skills to enrich students' understanding of Arabic literature and culture, and to develop their analytical and critical skills through reading of modern Arabic writers from various Arab countries.
Textbooks
A dossier of texts will be provided.
ARBC2811 Arabic Exchange
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Nijmeh Hajjar Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARBC2812 Arabic Exchange
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Nijmeh Hajjar Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARBC2813 Arabic Exchange
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Nijmeh Hajjar Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARBC2814 Arabic Exchange
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Nijmeh Hajjar Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARBC3615 Arabic Language and Literature 5B
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Nijmeh Hajjar Session: Semester 1 Classes: 4 hours per week for 9 weeks and 3 hours per week for 1 week Prerequisites: ARBC2104 or ARBC2614 or equivalent Prohibitions: ARBC2105, ARBC1311, ARBC1312, ARBC2313, ARBC2314, ARBC2315, ARBC2316, ARBC2633, ARBC2634, ARBC3635, ARBC3636, ARBC3637, ARBC3638 Assessment: Regular assignments (equivalent to 2000 words, 50%), 2.5-hour end of semester exam (equivalent to 2500 words, 50%).
This unit aims to consolidate students' communicative skills, using realistic dialogues in modern standard and educated every-day Arabic, and samples of the Arabic press and electronic media. It equally aims to extend students' knowledge and appreciation of Arabic literature and culture through reading and discussion of representative texts by major Arabic authors in their societal context, with examples from different genres. On completion of this unit, students progress to ARBC3616.
Textbooks
Language material and a selection of literary texts will be available. (Consult the department.)
ARBC3616 Arabic Language and Literature 6B
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Nijmeh Hajjar Session: Semester 2 Classes: 4 hours per week for 9 weeks and 3 hours per week for 1 week Prerequisites: ARBC2105 or ARBC3615 or equivalent Prohibitions: ARBC2106, ARBC1311, ARBC1312, ARBC2313, ARBC2314, ARBC2315, ARBC2316, ARBC2633, ARBC2634, ARBC3635, ARBC3636, ARBC3637, ARBC3638 Assessment: Regular assignments (equivalent to 2000 words, 50%), 2.5-hour end of semester exam (equivalent to 2500 words, 50%).
This unit aims to consolidate the students' competence in Arabic through dialogues in modern standard and educated every-day Arabic, reading and listening to material from the contemporary Arabic media, as well as writing and translation tasks relevant to real life situations. This unit equally aims to extend the students' knowledge and appreciation of Arabic literature and culture through reading and discussion of further representative texts by major Arabic authors in their societal context, with examples from different genres.
Textbooks
Language material, a selection of literary texts will be available. (Consult the department.)
ARBC3635 Arabic Advanced Translation & Writing 5A
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Nijmeh Hajjar Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2 hours per week Prerequisites: ARBC1312 or ARBC2633 or equivalent Prohibitions: ARBC2313, ARBC1101, ARBC1102, ARBC1611, ARBC1612 Assessment: Regular assignments (equivalent to 2000 words), 2000 word essay, exam (equivalent to 2000 words).
This unit aims to develop written fluency in Arabic and English through translation methodology and skills. The course is designed to further develop students' advanced writing, reading and interpreting skills. Practical tasks will include translation from Arabic into English and vice versa, using a wide range of texts, including creative literature, the press, business and diplomatic correspondence and basic scientific, technical and literary documents.
Textbooks
Consult the department.
ARBC3636 Arabic Advanced for Media Studies 6A
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Nijmeh Hajjar Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2 hours per week Prerequisites: ARBC1311 or ARBC2633 or equivalent Prohibitions: ARBC1101, ARBC1102, ARBC1611, ARBC1612, ARBC2314 Assessment: Regular assignments (equivalent to 2000 words), 2000 word essay, exam (equivalent to 2000 words).
This unit aims to strengthen advanced practical language skills in Arabic, including writing and communication, with focus on living Arabic for media studies to enrich the students' understanding of Arabic media and culture and to develop their practical and critical skills through dealing with a range of Arabic media.
Textbooks
Consult the department.
ARBC3637 Arabic Advanced Translation & Writing 7A
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Nijmeh Hajjar Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2 hours per week Prerequisites: ARBC1312 or ARBC2634 Prohibitions: ARBC2315, ARBC1101, ARBC1102, ARBC1611, ARBC1612 Assessment: Regular assignments (equivalent to 2000 words), 2000 word essay, exam (equivalent to 2000 words).
This unit aims to further develop written fluency in Arabic and English through translation methodology and skills. The unit is designed to further strengthen students' advanced writing, reading, translation and interpreting ability. Practical tasks will include translation from Arabic into English and vice versa, using realistic contexts and a wide range of texts, including creative literature, the press, business and diplomatic correspondence and basic scientific, technical and literary documents.
Textbooks
Consult the department.
ARBC3638 Arabic Advanced for Media Studies 8A
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Nijmeh Hajjar Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2 hours per week Prerequisites: ARBC1311 or ARBC2633 Prohibitions: ARBC2316, ARBC1101, ARBC1102, ARBC1611, ARBC1612 Assessment: Regular assignments (equivalent to 2000 words), 2000 word essay, exam (equivalent to 2000 words).
This unit aims to strengthen advanced practical language skills in Arabic, including writing, translation and communication, with focus on living Arabic for media studies to enrich the students' understanding of Arabic media and culture and to develop their practical and critical skills through dealing with a range of material related to the Arabic media, both written and electronic.
Textbooks
Consult the department.
Arab World, Islam and The Middle East
ARIS1671 Arabs, Islam & Middle East: Introduction
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Nijmeh Hajjar Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3 hours per week Assessment: 2000 word essay, class presentation, final exam.
This unit provides an introduction to the study of the Arab world, Islam and the Middle East. It focuses on Arab and Islamic society and culture in the Middle East. Main themes include: Geographical setting and historical orientations; environment and society, the Arabs and the world of late antiquity; the importance of Arab trade and seafaring; the rise of Islam: the Prophet Muhammad and the Qur'an, Pillars of Islam and Community, the early Arab Islamic Caliphate; religion and politics in the Islamic tradition, Islamic law and society, aspects of Middle Eastern socio-economic and cultural life in the age of the Caliphate as a background to the early modern Middle East up to Ottoman times. On completion of this unit, students proceed to ARIS1672 in Semester 2.
Textbooks
Course readings and bibliography will be available.
ARIS1672 Arab-Islamic Civilisation: Introduction
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Nijmeh Hajjar Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3 hours per week Prerequisites: ARIS1001 or ARIS1671 Assessment: 2000 word essay, class presentation, final exam.
This unit focuses on Arab and Islamic Learning, Spirituality and Art. Themes include: The scope of classical Arabic learning: Qur'anic studies and Prophetic traditions, the Hellenistic legacy in Arabic learning, Islamic philosophy and sciences, geographical writings and historiography, issues in Islamic theology, role of scholars, the concept of knowledge; contribution of Arabic-speaking Christian scholars to classical Arab intellectual life; Islamic asceticism, mysticism and the Sufi orders; Arab and Islamic aesthetics: religious and secular art, architectural design and decoration, the role of calligraphy, geometry and arabesque. On completion of this unit, students should proceed to ARIS3675 and ARIS3676 in the year 2010 and to ARIS2673 and ARIS2674 in the year 2011.
Textbooks
Course readings and bibliography will be available.
ARIS2801 Arab World Islam & Middle East Exchange
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Nijmeh Hajjar Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARIS2802 Arab World Islam & Middle East Exchange
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Nijmeh Hajjar Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARIS2803 Arab World Islam & Middle East Exchange
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Nijmeh Hajjar Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARIS2804 Arab World Islam & Middle East Exchange
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Nijmeh Hajjar Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARIS2805 Arab World Islam & Middle East Exchange
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Nijmeh Hajjar Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARIS2806 Arab World Islam & Middle East Exchange
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Nijmeh Hajjar Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARIS3675 Society and Politics in the Middle East
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Nijmeh Hajjar Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2 hours per week Prerequisites: ARIS1001 or ARIS1671 or equivalent Prohibitions: ARIS2005 Assessment: Essay (equivalent to 2400 words, 40%), presentation (equivalent to 1200 words, 20%), final exam or assignments (equivalent to 2400 words, 40%).
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
This unit focuses on the dynamics of society and politics in the modern Middle East, including the Arab world, Iran and Turkey. It investigates issues of diversity, commonality, continuity and change, Ottoman legacy and European colonial impact, traditional and modern elites, the role of oil, regional conflicts, Arab regional system and responses to globalisation, US policies and Western interests, dynamics of state, society and religion, women's rights, civil society and democratisation in the Middle East.
Textbooks
Course readings, bibliography and brief notes will be available.
ARIS3676 Issues and Debates in Arab Culture Today
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Nijmeh Hajjar Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2 hours per week Prerequisites: ARIS1001 or ARIS1671 or equivalent Prohibitions: ARIS2006 Assessment: Essay (equivalent to 2400 words, 40%), presentation equivalent to 1200 words, 20%), final exam or assignments (equivalent to 2400 words, 40%).
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
This unit investigates how issues are debated in the contemporary Arab world, focusing on questions of pan-Arabism, the nation-state, regionalism and traditional loyalties, the Arabic language and cultural identity, history and attitudes to the past, 'authenticity', modernity, westernisation, attitudes to the West and the rest of the world, debates on secularism, 'neo-patriarchy', peace, progress, freedom, absenting and assertion of women's role, human rights, democracy, highlighting the role of intellectuals, the media and dynamics of public space in Arab countries.
Textbooks
Course readings, bibliography and brief notes will be available.
ARIS3680 Approaches to Arabic and Islamic Studies
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Nijmeh Hajjar Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2 hours of seminars per week Prerequisites: Credit in ARIS2673 or ARIS3675 or ARIS2003 or ARIS2005, and credit in ARBC2613 or ARBC3635 or ARBC2103 or ARBC2313 Assessment: Essay in English (3000 words) with a summary in Arabic (500 words or an additional 1000 word assignment in English), 15 minute presentation in either Arabic or English (equivalent to 2000 words).
This unit, which is a prerequisite for intending honours students, will provide students with a grounding in approaches, research tools and critical methodologies in various aspects of Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies today and familiarise them with a range of available resources to support research in this field. It will enable students to discuss issues with established researchers and to carry out practical exercises aimed at developing their critical and analytical skills and their ability to embark on their own individual research projects under supervision in specific areas of Arab, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies.
Textbooks
Course readings, bibliography and brief notes will be available.
ARIS4011 Arabic and Islamic Studies Honours A
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Nijmeh Hajjar Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: Two seminars, each seminar meets weekly for 2 hours for one semester Prerequisites: A total of 48 credit points in a combination of ARBC and ARIS senior units, with at least a Credit average. These include the 36 credit points of the major in Arabic and Islamic Studies, plus two more senior units, (including the special entry unit, ARIS3680 Approaches to Arabic and Islamic Studies). Assessment: A thesis of 18000-20000 words and 2500 words of written work or its equivalent for each seminar.
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in Arabic and Islamic Studies consists of:
1.a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
2. two seminars that meet for two hours a week for one semester.
The thesis should be of 18000-20000 words in length. Each seminar requires 2500 words of written work or its equivalent.
The thesis is worth 50% of the final Honours mark and each of the seminars are worth 25%.
The following seminars are on offer in 2010:
Methodology of Research in Arabic and Islamic Studies (Dr Nijmeh Hajjar)
Practical Advanced Language for Research Purposes (Dr Nijmeh Hajjar)
For more information contact, Dr Nijmeh Hajjar, Honours coordinator.
1.a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
2. two seminars that meet for two hours a week for one semester.
The thesis should be of 18000-20000 words in length. Each seminar requires 2500 words of written work or its equivalent.
The thesis is worth 50% of the final Honours mark and each of the seminars are worth 25%.
The following seminars are on offer in 2010:
Methodology of Research in Arabic and Islamic Studies (Dr Nijmeh Hajjar)
Practical Advanced Language for Research Purposes (Dr Nijmeh Hajjar)
For more information contact, Dr Nijmeh Hajjar, Honours coordinator.
ARIS4012 Arabic and Islamic Studies Honours B
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Nijmeh Hajjar Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ARIS4011
Refer to ARIS4011
ARIS4013 Arabic and Islamic Studies Honours C
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Nijmeh Hajjar Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ARIS4012
Refer to ARIS4011
ARIS4014 Arabic and Islamic Studies Honours D
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Nijmeh Hajjar Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ARIS4013
Refer to ARIS4011
Archaeology
ARCA1001 Ancient Civilisations
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Alison Betts Session: Semester 1,Summer Late Classes: two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week Assessment: one 500 word assignment, one 1500 word essay, one 2 hour exam
This unit is a general introduction to the major civilisations of the ancient world - Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome, China, South East Asia, the Indus Valley, Bactria and Margiana (Central Asia). No prior knowledge of any of these societies is presumed. We aim to balance discussing broad issues relevant to all ancient civilisations, and specific cases (sites, material remains) from specific civilisations. By the end of this unit, you should have gained an appreciation of the major achievements and characteristics of many of the world's earliest civilisations.
ARCA1002 Archaeology: An Introduction
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Martin Gibbs Session: Semester 2 Classes: two 1 hour lectures, and 2 hours of workshops per week (weeks 4-9) Prohibitions: ARPH1001 Assessment: two class tests (equivalent to 1000 words) and six workshop exercises (equivalent to 3500 words)
Archaeology is a dynamic world-wide discipline which draws on both the sciences and humanities to interpret material remains of the human past. This unit introduces key aspects of archaeological method and theory and explores links between archaeological practice and heritage issues of wide public interest based on archaeological case studies. It provides an essential introduction for senior units of study in Archaeology and will also interest anyone with a more general interest in this fascinating and topical field of study.
ARCA2602 Field Methods
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Martin Gibbs Session: Semester 1 Classes: one 3 hour workshop per week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points of Archaeology Prohibitions: ARPH3921 Assessment: one 3000 word report/lab book and one 1000 word class test
This unit is an essential introduction to the basic principles and skills involved in archaeological fieldwork. A special focus is on the practical aspects of archaeological research design, including sampling and survey strategies. The unit includes lectures and on-campus training in core survey techniques, including site descriptions and field-plans, tape and compass site recording and surveys using dumpy-level. The ethical and legal aspects of archaeological field investigations will also be considered.
ARCA2603 Archaeology of Sydney
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Martin Gibbs Session: Semester 1 Classes: two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points of Archaeology Assessment: one 2500 word essay, one 1000 word seminar paper, one 500 word in-class test
Beneath the surface of the large, vibrant city we call Sydney lie many remains of our Indigenous and colonial past. The unit provides an introduction to ways that archaeology, in conjunction with documentary and other evidence, can be used to provide new interpretations of Sydney's hidden past. Histories of the Sydney region revealed through archaeological research are placed in the broader context of the history and archaeology of European and British colonial expansion after AD1500.
ARCA2605 Archaeology of Aboriginal Australia
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Sarah Colley Session: Semester 2 Classes: one 2 hour lecture per week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points of Archaeology Prohibitions: ARPH2607 Assessment: one 3500 word essay, one 1500 word seminar paper and one 1000 word in-class test
An introduction to major research questions and issues in Australian Aboriginal archaeology. The unit examines archaeological evidence for over 40,000 years of Australia's pre-colonial Indigenous history and for interactions between Aboriginal peoples and outsiders from Indonesia, Britain and elsewhere over the last 300 years or so of Australia's colonial history. Case studies will be used to discuss issues of professional ethics and Indigenous community involvement in Australian archaeology.
ARCA2607 Digital Methods
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Ian Johnson Session: Semester 2 Classes: one 1 hour lecture and one 2 hour workshop per week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points of Archaeology Prohibitions: ARPH3690 Assessment: creation and documentation of two on-line class discussions, weekly wiki entries and discussions describing project research steps Practical field work: online discussion and wiki contributions
Every part of life today is touched by digital methods, not least Archaeology and other historical disciplines. This course reviews the ways in which digital methods and global connectivity are changing the practice of historical disciplines. Practical sessions will give students the opportunity to develop skills in basic data management (recording systems, bibliographies, databases), creating and manipulating images (digital photographs, maps and diagrams) and dissemination on the web (web sites, blogs, wikis and social systems).
ARCA2611 Ancient Mediterranean Lives
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Meg Miller Session: Semester 2 Classes: one 2 hour lecture per week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points of Archaeology or 6 junior credit points of Archaeology plus 6 junior credit points of Ancient History or Classical Studies Assessment: one 3000 word essay, one 1 hour test and one 2 hour exam
The archaeology of Greek urban settlement encompasses the range from early Iron Age villages through the complex planned cities of the Hellenistic and Roman eras. Such themes as house design and interior, evidence for the religious life of the polis, streets, evolution of public architecture, and the extent to which social structure can be deduced from archaeological remains, are addressed.
ARCA2613 Athenian Art, Architecture and Society
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Lesley Beaumont Session: Semester 1,Summer Main Classes: two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points of Archaeology or 6 junior credit points of Archaeology plus 6 junior credit points of Ancient History or Classical Studies Prohibitions: ARCL2601 Assessment: one 2000 word essay, one slide test and one 2 hour exam
Athenian art and architecture are examined within their topographical and socio-political context. The chronological focus of study is the Archaic and Classical periods, a time of great and dynamic cultural and socio-political change. Lectures are complemented by regular "hands-on" tutorials in the Nicholson Museum.
ARCA2615 Etruscans and Romans
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Ted Robinson Session: Semester 1 Classes: two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points of Archaeology or 6 junior credit points of Archaeology plus 6 junior credit points of Ancient History or Classical Studies Assessment: one 2000 word essay, one 1.5 hour exam, tutorial/workshop based exercises
The Etruscans were one of the superpowers of the Archaic Mediterranean, but the reconstruction of their civilization falls mainly to Archaeology, since so little Etruscan literature survives. This Unit will begin by surveying Etruscan civilisation, concentrating on social, economic, political and artistic developments. Similar themes will be pursued for the Romans, but the scale of the enquiry will increase vastly as the Romans take control of Italy, the Mediterranean, and lands far beyond.
ARCA2616 Early East and Southeast Asian Cultures
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Roland Fletcher Session: Semester 1 Classes: one 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points of Archaeology Assessment: two 2000 word essays
Southeast Asia is an expansive region with a wide and varying prehistory and a dynamic historic period. This introduction to the archaeology of east and southeast Asia covers the period from the Holocene to the rise of chiefdoms. This unit explores the ancient cultures of Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam as well as Burma and Laos. Chinese archaeology from the earliest times is also covered up to the Qin dynasty. Particular attention is paid to the beginnings of agriculture in the region.
ARCA2801 Archaeology Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARCA2802 Archaeology Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARCA2803 Archaeology Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARCA2804 Archaeology Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARCA2805 Archaeology Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARCA2806 Archaeology Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARCA2807 Archaeology Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARCA2808 Archaeology Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARCA3601 Research in Australasian Archaeology
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Roland Fletcher Session: Semester 2 Classes: one 2 hour seminar per week Prerequisites: Credit average in 24 senior credit point of Archaeology Assessment: one 4000 word research report, one 1500 word seminar write up, one seminar presentation (equivalent to 500 words)
An advanced seminar for students who wish to develop their research, analytical, writing and presentation skills by investigating a key area of contemporary archaeological research. Specific topics will vary from year to year with primary emphasis on Australasian archaeology (Australia, the Pacific and Asia) placed in global perspective and/or current issues in archaeological theory, method and practice relevant to staff research projects (e.g. history and philosophy of archaeology, spatial analysis, digital methods, public archaeology and heritage studies, historical archaeology, archaeozoology, archaeologies of colonialism).
ARCA3603 Ionia and the East Greek World
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Lesley Beaumont Session: Semester 2 Classes: one 2 hour seminar per week Prerequisites: Credit results in two of ARCA2610, ARCA2612 and ARCA2615 Assessment: one 3500 word essay, one exam equivalent to 1500 words, one seminar presentation equivalent to 1000 words
This unit investigates the archaeology and society of Ionia and its East Greek neighbours. Now located partly in modern Greece and partly in Turkey, Ionia since antiquity has always formed an important bridge between East and West. Students will be encouraged to explore the resulting cultural identity and influence of Ionia as expressed in the archaeological record.
ARCA4011 Archaeology Honours A
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Ted Robinson Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: two seminars, each seminar meets weekly for 2 hours for one semester (or equivalent) Prerequisites: Credit average or better in 48 senior credit points in Archaeology (including cross-listed units for students doing Honours in Heritage Studies topics (see separate Heritage Studies entry). The following information is for Honours entry for 2010.
Students who intend to specialise in Classical Archaeology at Honours should normally have obtained (a) credit or better result in ARCA3600, (b) credit or better result in ARCA3602 or ARCA 3603 or ARCA 3604 (or equivalent), (c) credit or better average results in ARCA 2610 and ARCA2612 and ARCA2615 (or equivalent), (d) credit average results in any three other senior Archaeology or Heritage Studies units (including those in the list above and senior Archaeology exchange units), and (e) HSC 2-unit or equivalent knowledge of at least one of the following languages: French, German, Italian and Modern Greek.
Students who intend to specialise in Near Eastern and/or West Asian Archaeology at Honours should normally have obtained (a) credit or better results in ARCA3600, (b) credit or better results in ARNE2691 and ARNE3691, and (c) credit average results in 5 additional senior units of Archaeology including at least 2 of the following: ARCA2604; ARCA2608; ARCA2609; ARNE2601; ARNE2602; ARNE2606; ARNE2606; ARNE2607.
Students who intend to specialise at Honours in other regional archaeology (e.g. Australia, Asia, Pacific), Heritage Studies or a thematic topic should normally have obtained (a) credit or better results in ARCA3600, (b) credit or better results in at least two of the following hands-on practical units ARPH2602, ARCA2601, ARCA2602, ARCA2606, ARCA2607, ARCA2617 (or equivalent), (c) credit or better results in at least three of the following ARPH2603, ARPH2612, ARPH 2616, ARCA2603, ARCA2605, ARCA2616 (or equivalent), and c) credit average results in any two other senior Archaeology or Heritage Studies units (including those listed above and senior Archaeology exchange units). The Department will only approve Honours research topics which are considered appropriate to the content of senior units of study obtained by the student.
ARCA3600 will not be offered in 2010. For 2011 Honours entry students should complete at least one subject specific pre-Honours unit of study and gain credit results or better: ARCA3602, 3603 or 3604 for Classical Archaeology; ARNE3691 (or equivalent) for Near Eastern and/or West Asian Archaeology; ARCA3601 (or equivalent) for all other Honours topics (e.g. Australian, Asian, Pacific, Heritage Studies or other thematic research). These exact pre-requisites will be waived where students are unable to meet the new requirements due to curriculum changes. For Classical Archaeology at Honours students should also have obtained HSC 2-unit or equivalent knowledge of at least one of the following languages: French, German, Italian and Modern Greek. 2011 Honours pre-requisites are listed here for general guidance only. Exact pre-requisites will be advised in 2010. Please contact relevant Department staff for advice and assistance. All students with credit or above results are encouraged to apply for Honours. Assessment: a thesis of 18,000-20,000 words and 6,000 words of written work or its equivalent for each seminar
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in Archaeology consists of:
1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
2. two seminars that meet weekly for two hours (or equivalent) each for Semester 1.
The thesis should be of 18,000-20,000 words in length. Each seminar requires 6,000 words of written work or its equivalent.
The thesis is worth 60% of the final Honours mark and each of the seminars is worth 20%.
The following seminars are on offer in 2010:
History and Philosophy of Archaeology (Dr Sarah Colley)
Approaches to Archaeological Research (Dr Javier Alvarez-Mon)
For more information, contact Dr Ted Robinson (Chair of Department).
1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
2. two seminars that meet weekly for two hours (or equivalent) each for Semester 1.
The thesis should be of 18,000-20,000 words in length. Each seminar requires 6,000 words of written work or its equivalent.
The thesis is worth 60% of the final Honours mark and each of the seminars is worth 20%.
The following seminars are on offer in 2010:
History and Philosophy of Archaeology (Dr Sarah Colley)
Approaches to Archaeological Research (Dr Javier Alvarez-Mon)
For more information, contact Dr Ted Robinson (Chair of Department).
ARCA4012 Archaeology Honours B
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Ted Robinson Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: Refer to ARCA4011 Corequisites: ARCA4011 Assessment: Refer to ARCA4011
Refer to ARCA4011
ARCA4013 Archaeology Honours C
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Ted Robinson Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: Refer to ARCA4011 Corequisites: ARCA4012 Assessment: Refer to ARCA4011
Refer to ARCA4011
ARCA4014 Archaeology Honours D
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Ted Robinson Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: Refer to ARCA4011 Corequisites: ARCA4013 Assessment: Refer to ARCA4011
Refer to ARCA4011
Archaeology (Classical)
ARCL1801 Archaeology (Classical) Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARCL2605 The Archaeology of the Roman East
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Kate da Costa Session: Semester 1 Classes: one 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points of Archaeology or 6 junior credit points of Archaeology plus 6 junior credit points of Ancient History or Classical Studies Assessment: one 2500 word essay, class work in tutorials, one 1 hour exam
Between the inheritance of Pergamon in 133BC and the Islamic conquest of the Levant in 640AD, Rome gained political control over territory stretching from Asia Minor, through the Levant to Egypt. This course introduces significant sites and material culture showing the interaction of Rome and local cultures. It examines evidence from settlement patterns, architecture, trade and manufacture, luxury and humble products, domestic and sacred contexts in order to understand the nature and functioning of the Roman Eastern Empire.
ARCL2804 Archaeology (Classical) Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARCL2805 Archaeology (Classical) Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARCL2806 Archaeology (Classical) Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARCL2810 Archaeology (Classical) Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARCL2811 Archaeology (Classical) Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARCL4011 Archaeology (Classical) Honours A
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Ted Robinson Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: one 2 hour seminar per week Prerequisites: (a) Credit results in ARCL2600 Special Topics in Classical Athens and ARCL3691 Research Issues in Classical Archaeology (or equivalent); (b) Credit average in two of the following units: ARCL 2601 (The World of Classical Athens), ARCL 2602 (Cities and Sanctuaries), ARCL 2603 (The Archaeology of Pre-Roman Italy), ARCL 2604 (Aegean Prehistory [ca. 3000-1100 BC]), ARCL 2605 (The Archaeology of the Roman East) (or equivalent); (c) Credit average in any two other Senior Archaeology or Heritage Studies units (including those in the list above and senior Archaeology exchange units); (d) HSC 2-unit or equivalent knowledge of at least one of the following languages: French, German, Italian and Modern Greek. Assessment: All of the major components of the Honours year will be assessed.
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: All intending Honours students should complete ARCA3600 Archaeological Research Principles.
Available only to students who commenced Archaeology (Classical) Honours prior to 2010
ARCL4012 Archaeology (Classical) Honours B
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Ted Robinson Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ARCL4011 Assessment: As ARCL4011
Available only to students who commenced Archaeology (Classical) Honours prior to 2010
ARCL4013 Archaeology (Classical) Honours C
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Ted Robinson Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ARCL4012 Assessment: As ARCL4011
Available only to students who commenced Archaeology (Classical) Honours prior to 2010
ARCL4014 Archaeology (Classical) Honours D
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Ted Robinson Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ARCL4013 Assessment: As ARCL4011
Available only to students who commenced Archaeology (Classical) Honours prior to 2010
Archaeology (Near Eastern)
ARNE1801 Archaeology (Near Eastern) Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARNE2601 Egyptian Archaeology
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Wendy Reade Session: Semester 1,Winter Main Classes: 2 hours of lectures per week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points of Archaeology or 6 junior credit points of Archaeology plus 6 junior credit points of Ancient History or Classical Studies Prohibitions: ARNE2010 Assessment: one 1 hour test, one 3000 word essay and one 2 hour exam
This unit offers the student an introduction to the rich cultures of ancient Egypt, examining the rise of complex society in Egypt and the development, floruit and regional impact of the Egyptian state. It will explore Egyptian art, architecture, material culture, religion, kinship and attitudes to death and burial through examination of archaeological, textual and iconographic evidence.
ARNE2602 Ancient Mesopotamia
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Javier Alvarez-Mon Session: Semester 2 Classes: one 1 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points of Archaeology or 6 junior credit points of Archaeology plus 6 junior credit points of Ancient History or Classical Studies Assessment: one 2 hour exam and two 2000 word essays
This unit will examine the archaeology and early history of Mesopotamia, focussing on: climate and the evolution of landforms; evidence for early settlement; subsistence and natural resources; production; kinship; religion; mortuary practices; writing; and contact with adjacent peoples, particularly concentrating on Iran, the Gulf, and the Indus Valley.
ARNE2804 Archaeology (Near Eastern) Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARNE2805 Archaeology (Near Eastern) Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARNE2806 Archaeology (Near Eastern) Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARNE2810 Archaeology (Near Eastern) Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARNE2811 Archaeology (Near Eastern) Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARNE3691 Special Topics in West Asian Archaeology
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Javier Alvarez-Mon Session: Semester 2 Classes: one 2 hour seminar per week Prerequisites: Credit average in 24 senior credit points of Archaeology Prohibitions: ARNE3901 Assessment: one 3000 word essay and one 3000 word take-home exam
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
An advanced seminar for students who wish to develop their research, analytical, writing and presentation skills by investigating a body of material from selected excavations in the Near East. Specific topics will vary from year to year with an emphasis on ancient technology, iconography, chronology and spatial distribution.
ARNE4011 Archaeology (Near Eastern) Honours A
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Ted Robinson Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: one 2 hour seminar per week Prerequisites: (a) Credit results in ARNE 2901/2691 (Material Culture) and ARNE 3901/3691 (Special Topics in West Asian Archaeology); (b) Credit average in two further senior units of Archaeology or Heritage Studies; (c) reading ability in a relevant modern European language (French, German, Italian). Assessment: All of the major components of the Honours year will be assessed.
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: All intending Honours students should complete ARCA3600 Archaeological Research Principles.
Available only to students who commenced Archaeology (Near Eastern) Honours prior to 2010
ARNE4012 Archaeology (Near Eastern) Honours B
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Ted Robinson Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ARNE4011
Available only to students who commenced Archaeology (Near Eastern) Honours prior to 2010
ARNE4013 Archaeology (Near Eastern) Honours C
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Ted Robinson Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ARNE4012
Available only to students who commenced Archaeology (Near Eastern) Honours prior to 2010
ARNE4014 Archaeology (Near Eastern) Honours D
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Ted Robinson Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ARNE4013
Available only to students who commenced Archaeology (Near Eastern) Honours prior to 2010
Archaeology (Prehistoric and Historical)
ARPH1801 Archaeology (Prehistoric & Historic) Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARPH2602 Scientific Analysis of Materials
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Melanie Fillios Session: Semester 1 Classes: one 3 hour lecture/seminar per week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points in Archaeology Prohibitions: ARPH2621 Assessment: four 1000 word assignments and practical participation
This unit examines the structure and properties of archaeological materials, with an emphasis on bone. It focuses on the methodology and approaches to scientific analysis. A range of analytical techniques, including spectroscopic and electron microscopy methods, are introduced. The focal point is on archaeological applications and interpretation. Assessment is by assignment and practical sessions.
ARPH2603 The Archaeology of Society
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Roland Fletcher Session: Semester 1 Classes: one 2 hour lecture per week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of Archaeology Prohibitions: ARPH2003 Assessment: two 2000 word essays and one 2 hour class test
A global introduction to the processes and issues involved in the major transformation of human settlement behaviour since the end of the last glacial phase. Essay and project topics are arranged on an individual basis in consultation with the coordinator to suit the interests of students. Topics may be chosen on a worldwide basis. This unit of study can be used to conduct a detailed study of one region or to gain experience of a diversity of regions and topics.
ARPH2617 Analysis of Stone Technology
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Nina Kononenko Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3 laboratory hours per week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points of Archaeology Prohibitions: ARPH2517 Assessment: one 1000 word laboratory notebook, one 1500 word in-class test, one 2000 word report/essay
This unit introduces students to the methods and theory behind the analysis and interpretation of flaked stone technology. Students will develop skills in the identification, classification and recording of stone artefacts which are valuable in consultancy and research archaeology worldwide. Topics will include the origin and development of stone technology in world prehistory, the reductive nature of artefact manufacture, identifying artefact attributes, implement typology and theoretical links between artefacts and human behaviour.
ARPH2804 Archaeology (Prehistoric & Historic) Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARPH2805 Archaeology (Prehistoric & Historic) Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARPH2806 Archaeology (Prehistoric & Historic) Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARPH4011 Archaeology (Prehist/Historical) Hons A
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Ted Robinson Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: Semester 1: one 2 hour class per week, one 2 hour weekly seminar;
Semester 2: one 2 hour weekly seminar Prerequisites: (a) Credit results in ARPH3692 (Archaeological Research Principles) and ARPH3693 (Archaeological Practice) (or equivalent); (b) Credit results in two of the following units: ARPH2614 (Archaeological Methods), ARPH2602 (Scientific Analysis of Materials), ARPH2617 (Analysis of Stone Technology), ARPH3690 (Archaeological Applications of Computing) (or equivalent); (c) Credit results in two of the following units: ARPH2006 (Australian Archaeology), ARPH2605 (The Archaeology of Modern Times), ARPH2612 (Historical Archaeology), ARPH2611 (Archaeology of Asia), ARPH2603 (The Archaeology of Society), ARPH2616 (Public Archaeology), ARHT2641 (Art & Archaeology of SE Asia) (or equivalent); (d) Credit average in any two other Senior Archaeology or Heritage Studies units (including those in the lists above). Due to curriculum review students may be admitted to Honours, at the discretion of the Department, if they have Credit results in equivalent Archaeology units previously taught but now discontinued. Assessment: All of the major components of the Honours year will be assessed.
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: All intending Honours students should complete ARCA3600 Archaeological Research Principles.
Available only to students who commenced Archaeology (Prehistoric and Historical) Honours prior to 2010
ARPH4012 Archaeology (Prehist/Historical) Hons B
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Ted Robinson Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ARPH4011
Available only to students who commenced Archaeology (Prehistoric and Historical) Honours prior to 2010
ARPH4013 Archaeology (Prehist/Historical) Hons C
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Ted Robinson Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ARPH4012
Available only to students who commenced Archaeology (Prehistoric and Historical) Honours prior to 2010
ARPH4014 Archaeology (Prehist/Historical) Hons D
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Ted Robinson Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ARPH4013
Available only to students who commenced Archaeology (Prehistoric and Historical) Honours prior to 2010
Art History
ARHT1001 Art and Experience
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc. Prof. M Roberts Session: Semester 2,Summer Late Classes: One 2-hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Assessment: Essay and tutorial paper (total of 4,000 words) Practical field work: The Art Workshop.
Students undertaking the Art History and Theory First Year Program are encouraged to enrol in a practical unit of study offered at the Art Workshop in the Faculty of Architecture. Only one introductory level workshop (worth 6 junior level credit points) is permitted.For more details please consult the Art Workshop on 9351 3115.
ARHT1001 and ARHT1002 offer an introduction to the study of art history and theory as it is taught at the Senior and Honours levels in the Department. The subject matter covers a wide range of art practices and media, film, design and costume, and includes the examination of art from different cultures. In each semester unit, historical analysis will be combined with discussions of the different methodologies and approaches to the interpretation and study of these visual materials.
Art and Experience: the European Tradition will focus on the history of art and architecture in Western Europe from classical antiquity to the early modern period. A key focus will be on recognising the importance of the social, cultural, political and religious purpose an object or building was designed to serve, and the range of meanings the work was intended to embody - and how these change across time.
Art and Experience: the European Tradition will focus on the history of art and architecture in Western Europe from classical antiquity to the early modern period. A key focus will be on recognising the importance of the social, cultural, political and religious purpose an object or building was designed to serve, and the range of meanings the work was intended to embody - and how these change across time.
Textbooks
ARHT1001 Course Reader
ARHT1002 Modern Times: Art and Film
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr C Moore Session: Semester 1 Classes: One 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Assessment: One 2,500 word essay and one short answer exam
This unit of study will focus upon the art and visual culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, examining this historical period in relation to the thematic of the modern. Visual material studied will include painting, film, architecture and costume. As with ARHT1001, historical analysis will be combined with discussions of the different methodologies and approaches to the interpretation and study of these visual materials.
Textbooks
Recommended Reading:
ARHT1801 Art History and Theory Exchange
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof J Milam Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Students enrolled at Sydney University who wish to take the equivalent of a 6 credit-point Junior unit of study in Art History and Theory at an approved overseas university should enrol in this unit. Such students must seek approval for their proposed course of study from the Director of Undergraduate Studies.
ARHT2616 High Renaissance Art
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr L Marshall Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2hr lecture and 1hr tutorial a week Prerequisites: ARHT1001 and ARHT1002 Prohibitions: ARHT2016 Assessment: One essay and one visual test to a total of 4000-4500 words
The Unit of Study will explore a range of alternative approaches to some of the most famous works of art in the Western tradition, including works by Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo and Titian. Topics to be investigated include: problems of definition in High Renaissance and Mannerist art; Rome under Julius II and the creation of an imperial capital; Venetian visual poesie; art and dynastic display in Medicean Florence; civic ritual and public space; eroticism and mythology at princely courts; portraiture and gender.
Textbooks
Recommended Readings:
ARHT2618 French Art, Salon to Post-Impressionism
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof R Benjamin Session: Semester 1 Classes: One 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: ARHT1001 and ARHT1002 Prohibitions: ARHT2018 Assessment: One essay and one 2 hour slide test or written exercise totalling 4000-4500 words
This course treats a familiar area of French Art in terms of the cultural structures that allowed academic art, Realism, Impressionism, and Post-Impressionism to emerge. Mainstream art will be studied alongside emerging avant-garde spaces. The language of art criticism will provide a key to the politics of the painted surface and ethics of the female nude. Other topics for study will include nationalism, exoticism, and peripheral as opposed to metropolitan modernism.
ARHT2621 Modernism
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr K Broadfoot Session: Semester 2 Classes: One 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: ARHT1001 and ARHT1002 Prohibitions: ARHT2021 Assessment: Essay and paper to a total of 4000-4500 words
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
This unit of study will examine the origins of Modernism in the nineteenth century and its evolution in the twentieth, focusing on Modernism between the World Wars. It will consider Dada and Surrealism's radical threat to the 'call to order' - their invocation of the absurd, of the anarchic, of irreason, madness and desire. It will also consider the relationship between the arts and contemporary philosophical and theoretical investigation and will take into account Postmodernism's disruption of the concept of Modernism. The focus of the course will be on European modernism. Australian and American modernism are examined in other advanced options.
ARHT2631 Australian Painting, Colony to Nation
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr A Callaway Session: Semester 2 Classes: One 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: ARHT1001 and ARHT1002 Prohibitions: ARHT2031, ARHT2664 Assessment: One 3000 word essay, one short-answer visual exam
The unit investigates recurring themes in representation including identity and race, sexuality and gender, landscape, the city and urban society. The program moves between nineteenth century images and approaches adopted by artists to portray similar twentieth century concerns. We will follow some of art's central debates and use key concepts to pursue relevant issues in Australian art history and theory.
Textbooks
Daniel Thomas & Ron Radford (eds), Creating Australia: 200 Years of Australian Art, AGSA, 1988 Bernard Smith, European Vision and the South Pacific, 1985 edition The Dictionary of Australian Artists Online, www.daao.org.au
ARHT2641 Art and Archaeology of South East Asia
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Adrian Vickers, Dr Martin Polkinghorne, Dr Dougald O'Reilly Session: Semester 2,Summer Main Classes: 2 one hour lectures per week or offered as an intensive 18-day unit of study in Cambodia in summer. Prerequisites: The pre-requisites are any of ARHT1001 and ARHT1002 or ASNS1001/1601 and ASNS1002/1602 or ASNS1001/1601 and ASNS1101 or any one of ARPH1001, ARPH1002, ARPH1003 Prohibitions: ARHT2041 Assessment: One site, building or artwork report (1500 words) and one long essay (4500 words).
The focus of this course is the art and archaeology of the medieval civilizations of mainland Southeast Asia that continue to have an effect on the contemporary issues of the region. Through explorations of text and material culture this course will examine major themes in the development and transformation of these 'states'. Themes addressed include; the influence of Indian and China, Hindu-Buddhist religious syncretism in early Southeast Asia, the development of trade links in the first millennium BCE, peripheral communities and minorities, and the historiography of Southeast Asia.
Textbooks
Recommended Readings:
ARHT2645 China: Art and Empire
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr T Berghuis Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3 hrs per week Prerequisites: ARHT1001 and ARHT1002 or ASNS1001 and ASNS1002 or ASNS1001 and ASNS1101 Assessment: 1 x 1hr visual test, Presentation - 1,000 words, Final essay - 2,500 - 3,000 words
This unit aims to offer students a profound understanding of major developments in art and material culture of pre- modern China during the entire period between the Shang Dynasty and the height of the Qing Dynasty in the 18th Century. Building on a basic knowledge of disciplinary skills in Art History, Asian studies, Archaeology and Anthropological, such as contextual analyses of visual culture, material culture and cultural development, the unit of study offers opportunities for students to develop skills in contextual and stylistic analysis of visual art and culture in China. This unit will offer specific skills in focused interpretations of individual artworks, profound research skills in thematic issues, as well as into the social, historical and literary context surrounding art and material culture during the time of the Chinese Empire. The unit of study provides a contextual chronological framework that connects historical perspectives with theoretical methods and links the development of art and material culture in pre-modern China to specific contexts of communal use and social conditions. This unit develops analytical research skills for students who are interested in art and material culture of pre-modern China, as well as to students who are interested in exploring the art historical background to the unique development of Chinese civilisation.
ARHT2652 From Silent to Sound Cinema
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr L Jayamanne Session: Semester 1 Classes: One 2 hour lecture, one 1 hour tutorial and one 2 hour film screening per week Prerequisites: ARHT1001 and ARHT1002 (For Art History Major) ARHT1002 or ENGL1025 (For Film Major) Prohibitions: ARHT2052 Assessment: One essay, one film analysis and one tutorial presentation totalling 4000-4500 words
Note: Film Studies Core Unit. This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
This course examines film/cinema as a manifestation of modernity i.e. as commodity, industry, institution and mass production of the senses (aesthetics). These concepts integral to modernity will be explored through a study of Early American cinema and the Weimar cinema of Germany in the 1920s. Detailed work will be done on the following genres, Slapstick & Melodrama (in Hollywood), and Horror/Fantasy (in Weimar cinema). While the focus will be on the aesthetics of these films, the historical and industrial context of each national cinema will form an essential background.
The course will introduce a selection of major classical and contemporary film theories such as those of Sergei Eisenstein and Gilles Deleuze as well as the recent scholarship on silent film aesthetics and spectatorship within the wider intellectual tradition of theorising modernity and vernacular modernisms.
An emphasis will be placed on the idea of filmic performance (film as an art of movement and time) which includes camera rhetoric, editing, acting, mise-en-scene. The course will study the phenomenon of stardom through one of cinema's very first global icons, Charlie Chaplin whose work will enable us to cross the technological divide between silent and sound cinema in the last segment of the course.
The course will introduce a selection of major classical and contemporary film theories such as those of Sergei Eisenstein and Gilles Deleuze as well as the recent scholarship on silent film aesthetics and spectatorship within the wider intellectual tradition of theorising modernity and vernacular modernisms.
An emphasis will be placed on the idea of filmic performance (film as an art of movement and time) which includes camera rhetoric, editing, acting, mise-en-scene. The course will study the phenomenon of stardom through one of cinema's very first global icons, Charlie Chaplin whose work will enable us to cross the technological divide between silent and sound cinema in the last segment of the course.
Textbooks
Recommended Readings:
ARHT2653 Memory of the World: Film and Directors
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr L Jayamanne Session: Semester 2 Classes: one 2hr lecture, one 2hr film screening, one 1hr tutorial Prerequisites: ARHT1001 and ARHT1002 (For Art History Major) ARHT1002 or ENGL1025 (for Film Majors) Prohibitions: ARHT2053 Assessment: one essay, one film analysis, one tutorial presentation totalling 4000-4500 words
This course has three primary foci:
1. A historical study of independent cinema, or New Wave movements in post-World War II Europe, including Italian Neo- Realism, the French New Wave and New German Cinema among others.
2. The study of Gilles Deleuze's thesis about these cinematic movements and the cinematic concepts that they gave rise to as elaborated in his books, Cinema 1, Movement Image and Cinema II, The Time Image.
3. A study of the idea of Epic cinema as distinct from Dramatic cinema through a selection of films cross-culturally.
In addition there will also be a selection of films of auteurs who help formulate cinematic ideas and concepts, such as for example the gothic, in innovative ways.
Despite the historical component of the course it is not structured chronologically but rather, conceptually. And the main concept is that of non-chronological time. This approach will enable an exploration of cinematic invention of new images of time itself. As such it is primarily concerned with cinematic aesthetics across different film cultures and the cultural politics essential to such invention will form an essential background to the course.
1. A historical study of independent cinema, or New Wave movements in post-World War II Europe, including Italian Neo- Realism, the French New Wave and New German Cinema among others.
2. The study of Gilles Deleuze's thesis about these cinematic movements and the cinematic concepts that they gave rise to as elaborated in his books, Cinema 1, Movement Image and Cinema II, The Time Image.
3. A study of the idea of Epic cinema as distinct from Dramatic cinema through a selection of films cross-culturally.
In addition there will also be a selection of films of auteurs who help formulate cinematic ideas and concepts, such as for example the gothic, in innovative ways.
Despite the historical component of the course it is not structured chronologically but rather, conceptually. And the main concept is that of non-chronological time. This approach will enable an exploration of cinematic invention of new images of time itself. As such it is primarily concerned with cinematic aesthetics across different film cultures and the cultural politics essential to such invention will form an essential background to the course.
Textbooks
Recommended Readings:
ARHT2657 Contemporary Hollywood
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr R Smith Session: Semester 1,Summer Late Classes: One 2 hour lecture, one 1 hour tutorial and one 2-3 hour film-screening per week Prerequisites: ARHT1001 and ARHT1002 (For Art History Major) ARHT1002 or ENGL1025 (for Film Majors) Prohibitions: ARHT2057 Assessment: Research essay and review essay to a total of 4000-4500 words
This unit of study will investigate the last two decades of the cinema of the USA, including Hollywood. Students will be introduced to the work of a number of established and emerging American filmmakers, to the work of a number of important film critics, and to issues concerning the theory and practice of film criticism. Critical and analytical focus will centre on the changing relation of subjectivity and time in independent cinema. Films that explore questions of subjectivity and that experiment with narrative structure will be featured.
Textbooks
No set texts. Subject reader will be available for purchase at the University Copy Centre
ARHT2664 Special Studies: Costume and Fashion
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof J Milam Taught by Dr M Carter Session: Semester 1 Classes: one 2hr lecture and one 1hr tutorial Prerequisites: Credit and above in 12 Junior Credit points from any two ARHT units OR consent of Chair of Department Prohibitions: ARHT2064 Assessment: 1hr 1000 word tutorial paper based on a tutorial topic.
One 3000 word essay selected from list provided by lecturer.
Note: Note: Only one Special Studies course may be taken at senior level.
Special Studies: Clothing, Costume and Fashion.
This unit focuses EITHER on the specialist field of a visiting lecturer OR on the problematic of a special exhibition.
Above keeping us dry, cool and warm, what is it that clothes do? In 2010 the unit examines various aspects of human appearance as well as introduces students to some of the current ways of thinking about clothing and fashion.
Note: Only one Special Studies course may be taken once at senior level.
This unit focuses EITHER on the specialist field of a visiting lecturer OR on the problematic of a special exhibition.
Above keeping us dry, cool and warm, what is it that clothes do? In 2010 the unit examines various aspects of human appearance as well as introduces students to some of the current ways of thinking about clothing and fashion.
Note: Only one Special Studies course may be taken once at senior level.
Textbooks
Course reader available for purchase from University Copy Centre
ARHT2810 Art History and Theory Exchange
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof J Milam Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Students enrolled at Sydney University who wish to take the equivalent of a 6 credit-point senior unit of study in Art History and Theory at an approved overseas university should enrol in this unit. Such students must seek approval for their proposed course of study from the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Art History and Theory.
ARHT2811 Art History and Theory Exchange
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof J Milam Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Students enrolled at Sydney University who wish to take the equivalent of a 6 credit-point senior unit of study in Art History and Theory at an approved overseas university should enrol in this unit. Such students must seek approval for their proposed course of study from the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Art History and Theory.
ARHT2812 Art History and Theory Exchange
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof J Milam Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Students enrolled at Sydney University who wish to take the equivalent of a 6 credit-point senior unit of study in Art History and Theory at an approved overseas university should enrol in this unit. Such students must seek approval for their proposed course of study from the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Art History and Theory.
ARHT2813 Art History and Theory Exchange
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof J Milam Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Students enrolled at Sydney University who wish to take the equivalent of a 6 credit-point senior unit of study in Art History and Theory at an approved overseas university should enrol in this unit. Such students must seek approval for their proposed course of study from the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Art History and Theory.
ARHT2814 Art History and Theory Exchange
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof J Milam Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Students enrolled at Sydney University who wish to take the equivalent of a 6 credit-point senior unit of study in Art History and Theory at an approved overseas university should enrol in this unit. Such students must seek approval for their proposed course of study from the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Art History and Theory.
ARHT2815 Art History and Theory Exchange
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof J Milam Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Students enrolled at Sydney University who wish to take the equivalent of a 6 credit-point senior unit of study in Art History and Theory at an approved overseas university should enrol in this unit. Such students must seek approval for their proposed course of study from the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Art History and Theory.
ARHT2816 Art History and Theory Exchange
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof J Milam Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Students enrolled at Sydney University who wish to take the equivalent of a 6 credit-point senior unit of study in Art History and Theory at an approved overseas university should enrol in this unit. Such students must seek approval for their proposed course of study from the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Art History and Theory.
ARHT2817 Art History and Theory Exchange
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof J Milam Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Students enrolled at Sydney University who wish to take the equivalent of a 6 credit-point senior unit of study in Art History and Theory at an approved overseas university should enrol in this unit. Such students must seek approval for their proposed course of study from the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Art History and Theory.
ARHT4011 Art History and Theory Honours A
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr K Broadfoot Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 2-hour weekly seminars; a series of half-day workshops Prerequisites: Results of a credit average or better in 48 credit points in Art History and Film Studies senior units. If you do not have this prerequisite please contact the Honours coordinator to determine possible waiving of the prerequisite. Students may commence their study either at the beginning of the year or mid-year. Assessment: A thesis of 18,000-20,000 words; a weekly 2-hour seminar for one semester with 6000-8000 words of written works; a series of half-day workshops that meet four times with 6000-8000 words of written work.
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in Art History and Theory consists of:
a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
1 seminar (either Art is the Issue or Film is the Issue) that meets weekly for two hours for one semester.
1 workshop (Analysing the Visual) that meets four times during one semester
The thesis should be of 18,000-20,000 words in length. Each seminar and the workshop requires 6000-8000 words of written work or its equivalent.
The thesis is worth 60% of the final Honours mark and each of the seminars and workshop is worth 20%.
The following seminars are on offer in 2010:
Art is the Issue (Assoc Prof Jennifer Milam)
Film is the Issue (Dr Keith Broadfoot)
The following workshop is on offer in 2010:
Analysing the Visual (Assoc Prof Jennifer Milam)
For more information, contact Dr Keith Broadfoot, Honours coordinator
a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
1 seminar (either Art is the Issue or Film is the Issue) that meets weekly for two hours for one semester.
1 workshop (Analysing the Visual) that meets four times during one semester
The thesis should be of 18,000-20,000 words in length. Each seminar and the workshop requires 6000-8000 words of written work or its equivalent.
The thesis is worth 60% of the final Honours mark and each of the seminars and workshop is worth 20%.
The following seminars are on offer in 2010:
Art is the Issue (Assoc Prof Jennifer Milam)
Film is the Issue (Dr Keith Broadfoot)
The following workshop is on offer in 2010:
Analysing the Visual (Assoc Prof Jennifer Milam)
For more information, contact Dr Keith Broadfoot, Honours coordinator
ARHT4012 Art History and Theory Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ARHT4011
Refer to ARHT4011
ARHT4013 Art History and Theory Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ARHT4012
Refer to ARHT4011
ARHT4014 Art History and Theory Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ARHT4013
Refer to ARHT4011
Arts (No major available)
ARTS2600 Internship 1
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Fiona Tschaut Session: Semester 1,Semester 2,Summer Main Assessment: 4 workshops of 2 hours, 4 reflective journals (400 words each) and one final project report (2500 words).
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: only available to incoming Study Abroad students
This unit is based around a project report arising from issues encountered during a 15-day internship project and through a professional development program designed to provide students with the resources to enhance their intern experience.
Students are required to attend 4 workshops which cover: Australian business culture, management styles, cross cultural business communication, teamwork and reflective learning. An interactive approach will be used in the workshops to enable students to draw on their own experiences.
Students are required to attend 4 workshops which cover: Australian business culture, management styles, cross cultural business communication, teamwork and reflective learning. An interactive approach will be used in the workshops to enable students to draw on their own experiences.
ARTS2801 Arts Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARTS2802 Arts Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARTS2803 Arts Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARTS2804 Arts Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Asian Studies
ASNS1601 Introduction to Asian Cultures
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Matthew Stavros Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2 lectures and 1 tutorial per week Assessment: 1500-word essay (40%), 2-hour exam (40%), 1000 word tutorial presentation and abstract (20%).
This unit introduces key features of traditional Asian societies and cultures across different periods, up to the present. It lays the groundwork and provides a basis of comparison for students to understand the social transformations that these different Asian societies later underwent in modern times. Issues and themes may include: religion, ritual, and philosophical thought; sacred kings and capitals; hierarchy and social order; family, kinship and gender systems; art, architecture, and archaeology.
ASNS1602 Modernity in Asia
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Lionel Babicz Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3 hours per week Assessment: 1500-word essay (40%); 2-hour exam (40%); 1000 word tutorial presentation and abstract (20%).
Asia has undergone dramatic and rapid modernisation since the eighteenth century. Religious change, state-formation, political and social movements, gender and family, consumer culture, rural development, urban culture, and modern class structure are some of the cultural, social, economic and political aspects of Asia's social transformation. Through the study of selected Asian societies, this unit will examine some of these aspects in the contexts of colonialism, nationalism, postcolonial economic development, and globalisation.
ASNS1801 Asian Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ASNS2618 Remaking Chinese Society, 1949-Present
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr David Bray Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2 lectures and 1 tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 credit points from junior level Asian Studies, or other subject areas listed in Table A in the Faculty of Arts Handbook. Prohibitions: ASNS2118 Assumed knowledge: Students with no prior knowledge of modern Chinese history are encouraged to read an introductory textbook (e.g., Edwin E. Moise. Modern China: A History. Second edition. Longman, 1994) before the start of the semester. Assessment: Classwork (15%); 2000-word essay (35%), oral presentation (15%); 1000 word writing assignment (15%); one-hour test (20%).
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program. The information provided here applies to the version of this unit offered in the regular semester. Appropriate adjustments are made for the Summer School version when available.
The history of the People's Republic of China comprises two periods. In the Maoist era (1949-1978), the Communist-led government attempted to build a centrally planned, socialist society in which politics dominated people's daily lives. In the post-Mao era (since 1978), by contrast, the socialist institutions have largely been dismantled in pursuit of a market-based alternative. This unit of study explores key social, political, cultural and economic features of both periods and analyses the problems and paradoxes of transition.
Textbooks
Maurice Meisner. Mao's China and After: A History of the People's Republic. Third edition. New York: Free Press, 1999
ASNS2620 Classical Indian Philosophy
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Andrew McGarrity and Dr Paul Fuller Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3 hours per week Prerequisites: 12 credit points from junior level Asian Studies, or other subject areas listed in Table A in the Faculty of Arts Handbook. Prohibitions: ASNS2212 Assessment: 3000 word essay, 1200-1500 word tutorial paper.
After a brief introduction to Indian religious thought the unit concentrates on the main currents in classical Indian philosophy and the schools which flourished between the third and twelfth century C.E. The focus of this unit will be on the 'orthodox' Hindu schools but extensive reference will be made on competing Buddhist and Jain ideas. Arguments concerning the nature of consciousness and the ontological status of the physical world, logic and epistemology, and theories of language will be covered.
ASNS2626 Religious Traditions of South Asia
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Andrew McGarrity and Dr Paul Fuller Session: Semester 1 Classes: Two 1 hour lectures and 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 credit points from junior level Asian Studies, or other subject areas listed in Table A in the Faculty of Arts Handbook. Prohibitions: RLST2003 Assessment: 2500 word essay (40%), tutorial paper and presentation equivalent to 1000 words (25%), exam (30%), class participation (5%).
This unit introduces themes in South Asian religions from the Indus Valley Civilisation onward. Attention is paid to the social and cultural contexts in which Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism emerged. Goddess traditions are discussed, as are concepts such as tantra, yoga and meditation, karma and rebirth and dharma. Texts such as Bhagavat Gita are also introduced. A focus will be on the implications of Classical India for an understanding of contemporary Asian cultures, particularly those of South and Southeast Asia.
ASNS2631 The Origins of Japanese Tradition
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Matthew Stavros Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3 hours per week Prerequisites: 12 credit points from junior level Asian Studies, or other subject areas listed in Table A in the Faculty of Arts Handbook. Assessment: 1500 word essay, tutorial presentation, 2 hour exam, in-class activities and online component (equivalent to 500 words).
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
This unit explores the historical validity of key motifs of Japanese 'tradition'. Through the liberal use of primary sources (texts, pictorial sources and archaeological artifacts) students will gain first-hand knowledge of such diverse topics as the lives of the samurai, imperial authority, Zen monastic life, Japanese architecture, geisha, and the tea ceremony. By attempting to separate stereotype and cliché from history, we will seek to construct a more sober yet ultimately more viable narrative of early Japanese history and culture.
ASNS2641 Traditional Korea
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3 hours per week (one 2 hour lecture & one 1 hour tutorial). Prerequisites: 12 credit points from junior level Asian Studies, or other subject areas listed in Table A in the Faculty of Arts Handbook. Prohibitions: ASNS2501 Assessment: Presentation and contribution to tutorial discussions (20%), one 2500 word essay (40%), and a 2 hour final exam (or essay) (2000 words, 40%).
This unit of study aims to introduce Korea's historical experience from antiquity to the early phase of the Choson dynasty (1392-1910). Topics include sources and historiography of early Korea; foundation myths and legends of the Three Korean Kingdoms; process of state formation and subsequent political developments; religious ideology, focusing on Buddhism; and cultural and social traditions of Korea from the 4th to the 15th century. These topics will enable students to understand and appreciate the uniqueness of Korean identity.
Textbooks
Carter J. Eckert, et. al., Korea Old and New: A History (Seoul: Ilchokak Publishers)
ASNS2642 Modern Korea
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2 hour lecture and 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 credit points from junior level Asian Studies, or other subject areas listed in Table A in the Faculty of Arts Handbook. Prohibitions: ASNS2502 Assessment: Presentation and contribution to tutorial discussions (20%), 2500 word essay (40%), 2 hour final exam (40%).
This unit aims to introduce some of the major issues in the history of Korea in the late 19th century and the last century. Topics include contradictions of the late Choson dynasty society; opening of Korea to the West and Japan and the attendant wave of reforms and rebellions; Japan's colonial rule; Korea's fight for freedom; liberation and division of Korea in 1945 and the subsequent process of nation-building in the two Koreas.
ASNS2651 Asian Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ASNS2652 Asian Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ASNS2653 Asian Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ASNS2654 Asian Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ASNS2655 Asian Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ASNS2656 Asian Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ASNS2660 Islam, Trade & Society-Arabia to SE Asia
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Ahmad Shboul, Prof Adrian Vickers Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3 hours per week (2 lectures and 1 tutorial) Prerequisites: 12 credit points from junior level Asian Studies, or other subject areas listed in Table A in the Faculty of Arts Handbook. Prohibitions: ASNS2402 Assessment: Attendance and participation in tutorials (15%), tutorial writing tasks and essays (equivalent to 2500 words, 45%), 2-hour final exam (equivalent to 2000 words, 40%).
This unit of study will examine the commercial, religious and cultural relations between the Islamic world of West Asia and Southeast Asia between the ninth century and the present day. Some attention will be paid to the role of India in these relationships. The unit of study will explore the development of Islamic commercial, political, religious and social ideas and practices in West Asia and examine the economic, political, religious and social conditions associated with the localisation of these ideas and practices in Southeast Asia.
ASNS2661 History of Modern Indonesia
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Adrian Vickers Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3 hours per week Prerequisites: 12 credit points from junior level Asian Studies, or other subject areas listed in Table A in the Faculty of Arts Handbook. Prohibitions: INMS2901, ASNS2401 Assessment: 2000 word essay (45%), 2-hour exam (equivalent to 2000 words, 45%), class participation (10%).
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
This unit examines the history of Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous country, emphasizing the interaction between Islam, nationalism and democracy. The unit traces these forces impact on the formation of modern Indonesia from the late nineteenth century, highlighting the experience and legacy of colonialism, the independence struggle, and the rise and fall of military rule. Particular attention is given to changing notions of national identity, debates about the place of Islam in the polity and authoritarianism and democratisation.
ASNS2670 Mass Media in East Asia
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Ki-Sung Kwak Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3 hours per week Prerequisites: 12 credit points from junior level Asian Studies, or other subject areas listed in Table A in the Faculty of Arts Handbook. Prohibitions: KRNS2600, ASNS2600 Assessment: 1000 word tutorial paper, 1500 word essay, final exam (equivalent to 2000 words).
This unit introduces students to the media industry and policies in selected countries in East Asia, namely Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan. In addressing the topics, the main features of media in the region are discussed and compared. The unit will be multi-disciplinary, covering various aspects of mass media in the region. These include the social and cultural role of the media, political and economic justification of state control, and implications of the emergence of new communication technologies.
ASNS2672 Japan in East Asia from 1840 until Today
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Lionel Babicz Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3 hours per week Prerequisites: 12 credit points from junior level Asian Studies, or other subject areas listed in Table A in the Faculty of Arts Handbook. Assessment: Two in class quizzes, (equivalent to 500 words each), 2-hour exam, group presentation (equivalent to 500 words), group essay (1000-words).
This unit inserts the modern and contemporary history of Japan inside its East Asian context. We will examine a dozen key events and subjects pertaining to the relations between Japan, China and Korea, from the 1840 Opium War until today. Doing so, we will touch many sensitive and controversial topics, become aware of the differing historical consciousness prevalent in these three countries, and understand why the historical question constitutes a major political issue in East Asia.
ASNS2676 Gender and Sexuality in Modern Asia
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2 hour lecture and 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 credit points from junior level Asian Studies, or other subject areas listed in Table A in the Faculty of Arts Handbook. Assessment: Mid-semester exam consisting of short identification questions, approximately 750 words (20%), 2 hour final exam (40%), tutorial performance (10%), 1750 word essay (30%).
This unit of study examines changes in gender relations and gender construction in modern and contemporary Asian societies - China, Japan, South Korea, India, Singapore, and Taiwan. Major issues include: changes in the family; the role of the state in shaping gender (family and population policies, women's employment programs etc.); popular culture and mass media images of femininity, masculinity, and sexuality; the gendered construction of Asian nationalisms; gendered division of labour and economy; gay cultures; and the commoditisation of sex.
ASNS2677 Beyond the Geisha/Samurai Binary
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Mats Karlsson and Dr Rebecca Suter Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2 lectures and 1 tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 credit points from junior level Asian Studies, or other subject areas listed in Table A in the Faculty of Arts Handbook. Assessment: 2 in-class quizzes, equivalent to 500 words each, 1000 word mid-semester essay, a research-orientated essay (2500 words)
Foreign perceptions of Japan cluster around two stereotypes: feminized images of elegance and submissiveness, epitomized by geisha, and hypermasculine images of violence, exemplified by samurai. A long tradition of gender subversion, cross-dressing, and androgyny in Japanese culture speaks for a more nuanced vision of masculinity and femininity. Throughout the unit, we will examine the formation and subversion of gender roles as they emerge in a variety of classical and contemporary Japanese fiction and nonfiction genres.
Textbooks
The Changelings (Torikaebaya Monogatari), trans. Rosette F. Willig. Stanford University Press, 1983
ASNS3618 Popular China
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Yiyan Wang Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2 hours of lectures and one 1-hour tutorial per week. (A separate 1-hour tutorial option for students who have advanced Chinese language skills may be provided.) Prerequisites: 12 credit points from junior level Asian Studies, or other subject areas listed in Table A in the Faculty of Arts Handbook. Assessment: Classwork (20%); 2500 word essay (40%); oral presentation based on work for essay (10%); other writing assignment (e.g. portfolio with essay, total of 2000 words, 30%).
This unit of study introduces students to popular culture in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Chinese Diaspora. From film to television, from music to theatre, from print media to the Internet and from popular literature to visual arts, this unit explores popular Chinese culture as it is generated in Chinese societies and lived by Chinese people. It will cover a range of critical and theoretical perspectives to analyse these phenomena.
ASNS3690 Approaches to Research in Asian Studies
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Olivier Ansart and others Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2 hours per week Prerequisites: Credit average or above in a minimum of 30 senior credit points of Asian studies or Asian language. Prohibitions: ASNS3902, JPNS3902, CHNS3902, INMS3902 Assessment: Classwork (20%), 3000 word research proposal (40%), bibliographical exercise (equivalent to 1000 words, 10%), presentation based on draft proposal (10%) and critical reviews or other written assignments (2000 words, 20%).
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
This unit gives students the opportunity to undertake broad background reading in preparation for the honours thesis. The unit trains students to discuss published work exemplifying a range of approaches to humanistic and/or social scientific research. It thus provides models on which students can draw in creating their own research proposal.
Textbooks
Course reader available from the University Copy Centre.
ASNS4011 Asian Studies Honours A
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Olivier Ansart Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: Two seminars, each seminar meets weekly for 2 hours for one semester Prerequisites: A Credit average or better in the major, plus 12 additional senior credit points, including ASNS3690 Approaches to Research in Asian Studies Assessment: A thesis of 15000-20000 words and 6000-8000 words of written work or its equivalent for each seminar.
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in Asian Studies consists of:
1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
2. two seminars that meet weekly for two hours for one semester.
The thesis should be of 15000-20000 words in length. Each seminar requires 6000-8000 words of written work or its equivalent.
The thesis is worth 50% of the final Honours mark and each of the seminars is worth 25%.
The following seminars are on offer in 2010:
ASNS6900 Contemporary Asian Societies (Dr Olivier Ansart)
ASNS6904 Human Rights in Asia (Dr Andrew McGarrity)
ASNS6905 Asian Popular Culture
ASNS6908 Media Industries in East Asia (Dr Ki-Sung Kwak)
CHNS5982 Approaches to Research on Modern China (Dr Yiyan Wang)
JPNS6909 The Underside of Modern Japan (Dr Mats Karlsson)
GCST6904 Asian Diasporic Cultural Studies (Drs Rebecca Suter and Jane Park)
With departmental permission, students may cross-list one of the seminars from units of study offered in other departments and faculties. They should check the availability of those units with the different departments.
For more information, contact Dr Olivier Ansart, Honours coordinator.
1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
2. two seminars that meet weekly for two hours for one semester.
The thesis should be of 15000-20000 words in length. Each seminar requires 6000-8000 words of written work or its equivalent.
The thesis is worth 50% of the final Honours mark and each of the seminars is worth 25%.
The following seminars are on offer in 2010:
ASNS6900 Contemporary Asian Societies (Dr Olivier Ansart)
ASNS6904 Human Rights in Asia (Dr Andrew McGarrity)
ASNS6905 Asian Popular Culture
ASNS6908 Media Industries in East Asia (Dr Ki-Sung Kwak)
CHNS5982 Approaches to Research on Modern China (Dr Yiyan Wang)
JPNS6909 The Underside of Modern Japan (Dr Mats Karlsson)
GCST6904 Asian Diasporic Cultural Studies (Drs Rebecca Suter and Jane Park)
With departmental permission, students may cross-list one of the seminars from units of study offered in other departments and faculties. They should check the availability of those units with the different departments.
For more information, contact Dr Olivier Ansart, Honours coordinator.
ASNS4012 Asian Studies Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ASNS4011
See ASNS4011
ASNS4013 Asian Studies Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ASNS4012
See ASNS4011
ASNS4014 Asian Studies Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ASNS4013
See ASNS4011
Australian Literature (See English)
Australian Studies
ASTR2601 Australia: Land and Nation
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr B Rooney Session: Semester 1 Classes: Two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points Prohibitions: ASTR2001 Assessment: One 1000 word essay (25%), one oral presentation with a 1000 word oral report (25%), one 2000 word take-home exam (40%) and class participation (10%)
Note: May be cross listed to a major in Australian Literature. This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
A study of some of the interactions between two major meanings of the term 'Australia':
1) the name now given to a large island in the South Pacific and
2) a nation which came into being on 1 January 1901. Three major themes will be followed:
1. Naming and representing land by Indigenous people and early European settlers.
2. Changing European perceptions of the Australian environment and landscape.
3. Changing debates about nation from 1901 to the present.
1) the name now given to a large island in the South Pacific and
2) a nation which came into being on 1 January 1901. Three major themes will be followed:
1. Naming and representing land by Indigenous people and early European settlers.
2. Changing European perceptions of the Australian environment and landscape.
3. Changing debates about nation from 1901 to the present.
Textbooks
A course reader containing essential reading and information will be available for purchase from the Copy Centre.
Biblical Studies
BBCL1001 Biblical Studies 1
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Ian Young Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3 hours per week. Attendance and participation in all lectures and tutorials is mandatory. Assessment: Class participation (10%), tutorial presentation and report (30%), research essay (30%), written exam (30%).
This unit provides an introduction to the study of the Bible including: textual, literary and structural criticism; the relevance of other academic disciplines to the study of the Bible; material from the Dead Sea Scrolls, the ancient Near East and other non-biblical texts. The first five books of the Bible are the focus of textual study in this semester. There are weekly tutorials at which students present papers.
BBCL1002 Biblical Studies 2
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Ian Young Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3 hours per week. Attendance and participation in all lectures and tutorials is mandatory. Assessment: Class participation (10%), tutorial presentation and report (30%), research essay (30%), written exam (30%).
This unit focuses specifically on historical books of the Hebrew Bible such as Judges, Samuel and Kings. The course explores events of the period, the historiography of the texts, and religious and historical viewpoints conveyed. Attention will be directed to other relevant writings of the period in the Ancient Near East. There are weekly tutorials at which students present papers.
BBCL2603 Prophets
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Leonard Lobel Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3 hours per week Prerequisites: BBCL1001 and BBCL1002 Prohibitions: BBCL2003 Assessment: 1.5 hour exam (equivalent to 1500 words, 35%), 2000 word essay (35%), other written assignments (equivalent to 1000 words, 30%).
This unit presents an overview of prophetic works of the Hebrew Bible, examining literary, socio-political, and religio-historical aspects of the texts.
BBCL2604 Biblical Writings
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Leonard Lobel Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3 hours per week Prerequisites: BBCL1001 and BBCL1002 Prohibitions: BBCL2004 Assessment: 1.5 hour exam (equivalent to 1500 words, 35%), 2000 word essay (35%), other written assignments (equivalent to 1000 words, 30%).
This unit examines the third and final section of the Tanakh, the 'Ketuvim', or 'Writings'. Such works as the book of Job, Psalms, and the Song of Songs provide a rich field of investigation into areas of narrative, poetry, philosophy, and religious belief.
BBCL2801 Biblical In-Country Study A
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
BBCL2802 Biblical In-Country Study B
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
BBCL4011 Biblical Studies Honours A
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Leonard Lobel Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: Four seminars, two per semester, each two hours per week Prerequisites: Credit average in 48 senior credit points from Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies. These credit points must include 24 senior credit points from Biblical Studies and at least 12 senior credit points in Classical Hebrew. Assessment: A thesis of 15000 words and 5000 words of written work or its equivalent for two seminars and a 2-hour exam for two seminars.
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in Biblical Studies consists of:
1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
2. four seminars that meet weekly for two hours for one semester.
The thesis should be of 15000 words in length. Two seminars will require 5000 words of written work or its equivalent and two seminars will require a two hour exam.
The thesis is worth 40% of the final Honours mark and each of the seminars is worth 15%.
The following seminars are on offer in 2010:
Biblical Themes I (Dr Leonard Lobel)
Biblical Themes II (Dr Leonard Lobel)
Biblical Texts in Hebrew Megillot I (Prof Alan Crown)
Biblical Texts in Hebrew Megillot II Dr Ian Young)
For more information, contact Dr Leonard Lobel, Honours coordinator.
1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
2. four seminars that meet weekly for two hours for one semester.
The thesis should be of 15000 words in length. Two seminars will require 5000 words of written work or its equivalent and two seminars will require a two hour exam.
The thesis is worth 40% of the final Honours mark and each of the seminars is worth 15%.
The following seminars are on offer in 2010:
Biblical Themes I (Dr Leonard Lobel)
Biblical Themes II (Dr Leonard Lobel)
Biblical Texts in Hebrew Megillot I (Prof Alan Crown)
Biblical Texts in Hebrew Megillot II Dr Ian Young)
For more information, contact Dr Leonard Lobel, Honours coordinator.
BBCL4012 Biblical Studies Honours B
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Yael Avrahami Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: BBCL4011
See BBCL4011
BBCL4013 Biblical Studies Honours C
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Yael Avrahami Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: BBCL4012
See BBCL4011
BBCL4014 Biblical Studies Honours D
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Yael Avrahami Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: BBCL4013
See BBCL4011
Celtic Studies
CLST2601 Defining the Celts
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof A Ahlqvist Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2 x 1hr lecture and 1 x 1hr tutorial per week Prerequisites: 18 Junior Credit Points Assessment: one 2500 word essay and 2 hour (2000 word) exam
The 'Celts' are any of those peoples of Europe who speak or spoke a Celtic language. By the Iron Age the Celtic peoples were spread across Europe, and across the course of millennia have given rise to a number of European nations and cultures-including the Irish, the Welsh and the Bretons. This unit explores definitions of the Celts, examining their history and development, and provides an overview of their languages.
CLST2602 Old Irish 2
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Anders Ahlqvist Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2 x 1hr lecture per week. 1 x 1hr tutorial per week. Prerequisites: CLST2606 Assessment: One 2500 wd grammar, metrics and translation exercise. One 2hr/2000 wd exam.
The course seeks to give the students further insights about Old Irish, building on those achieved by taking Beginners' Old Irish (or equivalent elsewhere). The main focus remains on the grammar of the language, as well as its phonology and orthography; an outline is provided of the history of Irish. Further key texts are read and explicated; the complex metrical patterns of the magnificent poetry are presented.
CLST2603 Middle Welsh 2
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Anders Ahlqvist Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2 x 1hr lectures per week; 1 x 1hr tutorial per week. Prerequisites: CLST2604 Assessment: One 2500 wd grammar, metrics and translation exercise; one 2hr/2000 wd examination.
Building on the knowledge acquired by following Beginners' Middle Welsh (or equivalent elsewhere), the course seeks to give the students further insights about Middle Welsh. The main focus remains on the grammar of the language, as well as its phonology and orthography; an outline is provided of the history of Welsh. Further key texts are read and explicated; the complex metrical patterns of the beautiful poetry are presented.
CLST2604 Middle Welsh 1
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof A Ahlqvist Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2 x hr lecture and 1 x 1hr tutorial per week Prerequisites: 18 Junior Credit Points Assessment: 2500 word Grammar and translation exercise and 2 hour (2000 word) exam
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (advanced) degree programme
Middle Welsh was the language spoken and written in Wales in the Middle Ages (from about the twelfth to the fourteenth century). The most famous text surviving in Middle Welsh is the Mabinogion, a compilation of mythical and legendary material often of much earlier date. In this unit students will develop a knowledge of Middle Welsh grammar and vocabulary, and learn to read texts in Middle Welsh.
CLST2605 Celts in History
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr L Olsen Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1 x 2hr seminar per week Prerequisites: 18 Junior credit points Assessment: One 3500 word Seminar Paper and 2500 word Weekly Journal
Finding the Celts in History from c.500 B.C. to the present raises issues of the extent of invasion or migration that has occurred in the past and its role in cultural change, indeed the very nature of cultural change itself. These will be addressed from written sources, material remains and genetic evidence. While this unit stands on its own, its topics have been carefully selected to allow students who have done CLST1001 to explore further the Celtic world.
CLST2606 Old Irish 1
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof A Ahlqvist Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2 x 1hr lecture and 1 x 1hr tutorial per week Prerequisites: 18 Junior credit points Assessment: 2500 word grammar and translation exercise and 2 hour ( 2000 word) exam
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (advanced) degree programme
Old Irish was the language spoken and written in Ireland in the early Middle Ages, and is preserved in a range of records, from Ogham stones to manuscripts. In this unit students will develop a knowledge of Old Irish grammar and vocabulary, and learn to read texts in Old Irish.
CLST2607 Modern Irish Linguistics
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof A Ahlqvist Session: Semester 2 Classes: Two 2 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Prerequisites: 12 Senior Credit Points Assessment: One 2 hour/2000 word exam. One 2000 word end-of-course homework essay.
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (advanced) degree programme
The unit develops students' knowledge of linguistics through the detailed study of Modern Irish. The grammar and linguistics of Modern Irish form the major focus; students will bring to the unit a background in language study and/or linguistics. The unit will consider the ways in which Modern Irish differs from other Western European languages, studying syntax and phonology.
CLST2608 Modern Welsh Language and Culture 1
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof A Ahlqvist Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2 x hr lecture and 1 x 1hr tutorial per week Prerequisites: 18 Junior Credit Points Assessment: Essay - 1000 words, Essay - 1,000 words, Exam - 2,000 words, Oral exam 500 words
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (advanced) degree programme
The Welsh language has one of the oldest literary traditions in Europe. This unit will introduce students to this culture by providing them with the basic structure and vocabulary of the language, with an emphasis on the acquisition of oral and written skills of communication through functionally oriented language activities. The language will be studied in the context of Welsh history, literature and society.
CLST2609 Modern Welsh Language and Culture 2
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof A Ahlqvist Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2 x hr lecture and 1 x 1hr tutorial per week Prerequisites: 18 Junior Credit Points; CLST2608 Assessment: Essay - 1000 words, Essay - 1,000 words, Exam - 2,000 words, Oral exam 500 words
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (advanced) degree programme
The Welsh language has one of the oldest literary traditions in Europe.The language is widely used today and is the vehicle for a rich culture. In this course the Irish language will be studied in depth (in the context of Welsh history and culture), building on the insights achieved through attending CLST2608.
CLST2610 Modern Irish Language and Culture 1
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof A Ahlqvist Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2 x hr lecture and 1 x 1hr tutorial per week Prerequisites: 18 Junior Credit Points Assessment: Essay - 1000 words, Essay - 1,000 words, Exam - 2,000 words, Oral exam 500 words
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (advanced) degree programme
The Irish language has one of the oldest literary traditions in Europe.The language is widely used today and is the vehicle for a rich culture. In this course the Irish language will be studied in depth in the context of Irish history and culture.
CLST2611 Modern Irish Language and Culture 2
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof A Ahlqvist Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2 x 1 hour lecture and 1 x 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 18 Junior Credit Points; CLST2610 Assessment: Essay - 1000 words, Essay - 1,000 words, Exam -2,000 words, oral exam 500 words
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (advanced) degree programme
The Irish language has one of the oldest literary traditions in Europe. The language is widely used today and is the vehicle for a rich culture. In this course, following up on the insights provided by course CLST2610 the Irish language will be studied in further in the context of Irish history and culture.
CLST2612 Scottish Identity, History and Culture
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof A Ahlqvist Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2 x hr lecture and 1 x 1hr tutorial per week Prerequisites: 18 Junior Credit Points Assessment: Essay - 3,000 words, Tutorial presentation - 1,000 words, Exam - 2000 words
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (advanced) degree programme
This unit will examine key defining moments in the history of Scottish self-awareness from the Picts to the Enlightenment. Topics may include internal conflict between different groups with different languages, external conflict with the country's nearest neighbours and cultural changes that arose from Scotland's part in the wider events of Europe such as the Reformation. It will concentrate on teaching students to use a variety of primary sources written, artistic and archaeological to elucidate problematic aspects of Scotland's culture.
CLST4011 Celtic Studies Honours A
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof A Ahlqvist Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: Two seminars that meet weekly for two hours for one semester. Prerequisites: A major in Celtic Studies plus 12 additional credit points, all with a credit average Assessment: A thesis of 18-20,000 words and 6000-8000 words of written work or its equivalent for each seminar.
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours programme in Celtic Studies consists of:
a thesis written under the supervision of the Professor of Celtic Studies;
two seminars that meet weekly for two hours for one semester each.
The thesis should be of 18-20,000 words in length; each seminar requires 6000-8000 words of written work or its equivalent.
The thesis is worth 60% of the final Honours mark and each of the seminars is worth 40%.
The following seminars may be on offer in 2010:
Selected Old and Middle Irish texts (Prof A Ahlqvist)
Selected Early Welsh texts (Prof A Ahlqvist)
Note: Department permission is required for enrolment. Celtic Studies IV Honours is a 2-semester programme consisting of: a thesis of 18,000-20,000 words, written under the supervision of a member of staff nominated by the Professor of Celtic Studies, and two 1-semester seminar (or equivalent) units of study. It is important that prospective IV-Honours students consult the Professor of Celtic Studies to ensure that their choice of Senior-level units of study is appropriate to their intentions for IVth Year.
a thesis written under the supervision of the Professor of Celtic Studies;
two seminars that meet weekly for two hours for one semester each.
The thesis should be of 18-20,000 words in length; each seminar requires 6000-8000 words of written work or its equivalent.
The thesis is worth 60% of the final Honours mark and each of the seminars is worth 40%.
The following seminars may be on offer in 2010:
Selected Old and Middle Irish texts (Prof A Ahlqvist)
Selected Early Welsh texts (Prof A Ahlqvist)
Note: Department permission is required for enrolment. Celtic Studies IV Honours is a 2-semester programme consisting of: a thesis of 18,000-20,000 words, written under the supervision of a member of staff nominated by the Professor of Celtic Studies, and two 1-semester seminar (or equivalent) units of study. It is important that prospective IV-Honours students consult the Professor of Celtic Studies to ensure that their choice of Senior-level units of study is appropriate to their intentions for IVth Year.
CLST4012 Celtic Studies Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: CLST4011
Refer to CLST4011
CLST4013 Celtic Studies Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: CLST4012
Refer to CLST4011
CLST4014 Celtic Studies Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: CLST4013
Refer to CLST4011
Chinese Studies
CHNS1101 Chinese 1A (For Beginners)
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Summer Main Classes: 5 class hours per week of which one is required for on-line or individual learning. Corequisites: Students are strongly advised to take CHNS1601 Understanding Contemporary China. Prohibitions: HSC Chinese for Background Speakers; eligibility for CHNS1201 or higher Assumed knowledge: This unit of study is suitable for complete beginners and for those students who, in the department's judgement, are best advised to go back to the beginning. Assessment: (Subject to revision) on-line or individual learning (20%); oral presentations (40%); writing projects (40%).
This unit is an introduction to basic communication skills in Modern Standard Chinese for beginners. Foundation work on pronunciation, pinyin romanisation, elementary grammar and the Chinese writing system will be followed by conversational drills, comprehension, reading and writing practice in classwork and homework.
Textbooks
Ted Yao and Yuehua Liu. Integrated Chinese. Level One, Part One. Textbook, Workbook and Character Workbook. 2nd edition. Boston: Cheng and Tsui, 2005
CHNS1102 Chinese 1B (For Beginners)
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2,Summer Late Classes: 5 class hours per week of which one is required for on-line or individual learning. Prerequisites: CHNS1101 Prohibitions: HSC Chinese for Background Speakers, eligibility for CHNS1201 or higher Assumed knowledge: One semester of Chinese at introductory level. Assessment: (Subject to revision) on-line or individual learning. (20%); oral presentations (40%); writing projects (40%).
This unit is a continuation of Chinese 1A. Emphasis will be on grammar patterns that facilitate speaking and reading skills. On completion, students should have a good grasp of common grammatical patterns and be able to communicate with Chinese native speakers in daily contexts.
Textbooks
Ted Yao and Yuehua Liu. Integrated Chinese. Level One, Part Two. Textbook, Workbook and Character Workbook. 2nd edition. Boston: Cheng and Tsui, 2005
CHNS1201 Chinese 1C (For Advanced Beginners)
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 4 class hours per week. Language laboratory work will be required Corequisites: Students are strongly advised to take CHNS1601 Understanding Contemporary China. Prohibitions: HSC Chinese for Background Speakers; eligibility for higher-level classes Assumed knowledge: Native- or near-native fluency in a spoken Chinese language (e.g., Putonghua, Cantonese) combined with no, or very limited, knowledge of characters. Assessment: (Subject to revision) classwork (20%); oral presentations (20% each); composition tests or exercises (20%) and major reading/writing tests (40%).
A fast-paced intermediate unit of study intended primarily for native and fluent "background" speakers of Chinese languages, including Cantonese, who know few (up to about 200) characters or none at all. The objective is rapid development of Chinese-language proficiency to equip students for advanced work in Chinese Studies. Emphases include reading and writing skills and standard Putonghua pronunciation.
Textbooks
Chou Chih-p'ing, Perry Link and Wang Xuedong. Oh China: Elementary Reader of Modern Chinese for Advanced Beginners. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997
CHNS1202 Chinese 1D (For Advanced Beginners)
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 4 class hours per week. Language laboratory work will be required. Prerequisites: CHNS1201 Prohibitions: HSC Chinese for Background Speakers; eligibility for higher-level classes Assumed knowledge: Native- or near-native fluency in a spoken Chinese language (e.g., putonghua, Cantonese) combined with full mastery (reading and writing) of about 400 to 500 characters; at least basic communicative skills in Putonghua. Assessment: (Subject to revision) classwork (20%); oral presentations (20%); vocabulary quizzes (10%); four composition tests or exercises (20%); two major reading/writing tests (15% each).
Continuation of Chinese 1C, with similar objectives, pace and workload. By the end of the year, students should be able to read Chinese-language materials of limited complexity, and to discuss them in Putonghua.
Textbooks
Chou Chih-p'ing, Perry Link and Wang Xuedong. Oh China: Elementary Reader of Modern Chinese for Advanced Beginners. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997
CHNS1601 Understanding Contemporary China
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Y. Wang Session: Semester 1 Classes: Two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week. Prohibitions: ASNS1101 Assessment: 2000 word essay (40%), in class test (30%), class presentation equivalent to 1000 words (20%), tutorial participation (10%).
This unit of study introduces key topics essential to understanding contemporary Chinese society and culture, including geography and environment, recent social and political change, art, literature and cultural practice, population and economic structure, education systems and issues of gender and sexuality. As a foundational unit in Chinese studies, it assumes no background knowledge of China or the Chinese language. It will be taught in English with an interdisciplinary approach.
Textbooks
Consult the department.
CHNS1801 Chinese Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
This unit exists solely as an enrolment option for students who wish to study elementary Chinese while on exchange. Students who plan to study intermediate or advanced Chinese in China or Taiwan should seek department permission to enrol in a "Chinese In-Country Study" unit instead.
CHNS1802 Chinese Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
See under CHNS1801.
CHNS2601 Chinese 2A (Lower Intermediate)
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 4 or 5 hours per week. Additional language laboratory work may be expected Prerequisites: CHNS1102 Prohibitions: HSC Chinese for Background Speakers or equivalent, CHNS2101 Assumed knowledge: One year (approx. 5 hours per week for 26 weeks) of Chinese at introductory level. Assessment: Classwork (10%); short compositions equivalent to 1000 words (20%); group performance, including written script (20%); in-class tests (50%).
Intermediate unit of study in Modern Standard Chinese. Rapid vocabulary expansion, strengthening of reading, writing, listening and speaking skills, and sophistication of grammatical knowledge will be pursued in integrated fashion. Students must expect to work hard, using private study time to full advantage. On completion of this unit of study, students should have active use of up to about 1000 characters and be able to engage in simple discussions, write short compositions and read fluently within their vocabulary range.
Textbooks
Ted Yao and Yuehua Liu. Integrated Chinese. Level Two. Textbook and Workbook. 2nd edition. Boston: Cheng and Tsui, 2005
CHNS2602 Chinese 2B (Lower Intermediate)
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 4 or 5 hours per week. Additional language laboratory work may be expected Prerequisites: CHNS2601 or CHNS2101 Prohibitions: HSC Chinese for Background Speakers or equivalent, CHNS2102 Assumed knowledge: Sound intermediate knowledge of Modern Standard Chinese, including full mastery of about 1000 characters (preferably full-form). Assessment: Classwork (10%); short compositions equivalent to 1000 words (20%); group performance, including written script (20%); in-class tests (50%).
Continuation of Chinese 2A, with similar workload. Rapid enhancement and expansion of essential Chinese-language skills (proficiency in listening and speaking, reading comprehension, dictionary use, character knowledge, etc.). On completion of this unit of study, students will know up to about 1300 characters and be able to read Chinese-language materials of limited complexity and to discuss their content orally and in short compositions.
Textbooks
Ted Yao and Yuehua Liu. Integrated Chinese. Level Two. Textbook and Workbook. 2nd edition. Boston: Cheng and Tsui, 2005
CHNS2611 Classical Chinese A
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr D Herforth Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3 class hours per week Prerequisites: CHNS1102 or CHNS1202 or CHNS2602 or CHNS3602 or CHNS3604 or CHNS2102 or CHNS3104 or CHNS2204 or department permission Prohibitions: HSC Chinese for Background Speakers (or equivalent), CHNS2111, CHNS2903, CHNS1313 Assumed knowledge: Minimum of one year of Chinese at introductory level, preferably using full-form characters. Assessment: Classwork (10%); two 30-minute tests (5% each); three 40-minute tests (20% each); cultural exploration project resulting in an essay of 1500 words (20%).
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Foundation work in Classical Chinese, an ancient language that still plays a role in modern China and that often challenges Western notions of how languages behave. Students will develop a basic understanding of the grammar and vocabulary, thus equipping themselves for exploration of China's distinctive philosophical and literary traditions in the original language. They will undertake supplementary reading in English on a topic of their choice, thus enriching their knowledge of premodern Chinese culture.
Textbooks
Robert L. Chard, Helen Dunstan and Derek Herforth. Foundations in Classical Chinese: A Constructional Approach. Available from the University Copy Centre.
CHNS2612 Classical Chinese B
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr D. Herforth Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3 class hours per week Prerequisites: CHNS2611; or CHNS2111; or HSC Chinese for Background Speakers (or equivalent) plus department permission; or CHNS1313 plus department permission or CHNS2903 Prohibitions: CHNS2112, CHNS2904, CHNS1314 Assessment: Classwork (10%); three 50-minute tests (20% each); homework exercises (10%); cultural exploration project resulting in an essay of 1500 words (20%).
Continued study of Classical Chinese grammar and vocabulary through original texts. Students will gain the knowledge and confidence to explore a wider range of ancient and early-imperial Chinese philosophical and literary writings, including some poetry, thereby acquainting themselves with certain major authors in the Chinese tradition. Supplementary reading in English will enable them to broaden and deepen their understanding of Chinese culture while practising some basic research skills.
Textbooks
Robert L. Chard, Helen Dunstan and Derek Herforth. Foundations in Classical Chinese: A Constructional Approach. Available from the University Copy Centre.
CHNS2650 Chinese In-Country Study A
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: CHNS1102 or CHNS1202 (or a sequel within the same stream); or any senior CHNS unit of study whose numeric code has 60 as the second and third digits. Native speakers of Chinese who can read Chinese fluently and seek special permission to undertake in-country study after first year must present a coherent academic rationale to the department. Assumed knowledge: At least a year of Modern Standard Chinese at tertiary level (or equivalent). The department recommends that students complete at least two semesters of Chinese prior to undertaking a full semester of in-country study. Assessment: As prescribed by the host institution. On successful completion of this unit of study, students will receive a "Satisfied Requirements" result at the University of Sydney.
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Enrolment in an approved semester-based program of study (normally intermediate or advanced Modern Standard Chinese language) at a tertiary institution in China or Taiwan. Students can earn 6 credit points for every 52 hours of Chinese-language class in China or Taiwan, to a maximum of 24 credit points in any one semester. Credit may also be awarded at the rate of 6 credit points per 4 full weeks of intensive study after completion of an approved summer in-country Chinese-language program.
CHNS2651 Chinese In-Country Study B
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
All details as for CHNS2650.
CHNS2652 Chinese In-Country Study C
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
All details as for CHNS2650.
CHNS2653 Chinese In-Country Study D
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
All details as for CHNS2650.
CHNS2654 Chinese In-Country Study E
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
All details as for CHNS2650.
CHNS2655 Chinese In-Country Study F
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
All details as for CHNS2650.
CHNS2656 Chinese In-Country Study G
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
All details as for CHNS2650.
CHNS2657 Chinese In-Country Study H
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
All details as for CHNS2650.
CHNS2810 Chinese Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
This unit exists solely as an enrolment option for students who wish to study Chinese while on exchange at a university elsewhere than in China or Taiwan. Students who plan to study intermediate or advanced Chinese in China or Taiwan should seek department permission to enrol in a "Chinese In-Country Study" unit instead.
CHNS2811 Chinese Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
See under CHNS2810.
CHNS2812 Chinese Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
See under CHNS2810.
CHNS2813 Chinese Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
See under CHNS2810
CHNS3601 Chinese 3A (Upper Intermediate)
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 4 class hours per week. Language laboratory work will be required Prerequisites: CHNS2602 or CHNS2102 Prohibitions: HSC Chinese for Background Speakers or equivalent; CHNS3103 Assumed knowledge: Two years of university-level Chinese-language instruction for students without prior knowledge of Chinese. Assessment: Classwork (20%); oral presentations (20%); writing assignments (20%); in-class tests (40%).
Upper-intermediate unit of study in Modern Standard Chinese. Proficiency in reading will be developed through study of Chinese-language texts on a range of social and cultural topics. Speaking, listening, reading and writing will be enhanced through advanced language exercises, including composition and discussion, with due attention to the more sophisticated skills (e.g., use of appropriate registers, intelligent dictionary use, expressing ideas on more complex issues than at lower-intermediate level).
Textbooks
Hong Gang Jin et al. China Scene: An Advanced Chinese Multimedia Course. (Traditional & Simplified Character edn.), Boston: Cheng & Tsui Company, 2007
CHNS3602 Chinese 3B (Upper Intermediate)
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 4 class hours per week. Language laboratory work will be required Prerequisites: CHNS3601 or CHNS3103 Prohibitions: HSC Chinese for Background Speakers or equivalent; CHNS3104 Assumed knowledge: Two and a half years of university-level Chinese-language instruction for students without prior knowledge of Chinese. Assessment: Classwork (20%); oral presentations (20%); writing assignments (20%); in-class tests (40%).
Continuation of Chinese 3A (Upper Intermediate). Continuing development of Chinese-language literacy through study of texts on a range of social and cultural topics, including some authentic literary texts. Further enhancement of speaking, listening and writing skills through advanced language exercises, including composition and discussion. Upon completion, students should be comfortable with both full-form and simplified characters, use dictionaries and language registers discerningly, and be confident of their ability to express ideas and arguments effectively in Chinese.
Textbooks
Hong Gang Jin et al. China Scene: An Advanced Chinese Multimedia Course. (Traditional & Simplified Character edn.), Boston: Cheng & Tsui Company, 2007
CHNS3603 Chinese 4A (Advanced)
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3 hours per week Prerequisites: CHNS1202 or CHNS3602 or CHNS3104 Prohibitions: HSC Chinese for Background Speakers or equivalent; CHNS2203; CHNS2204 Assessment: (Subject to revision) classwork (10%); in-class tests (40%); oral presentation (20%); Chinese-language writing assignments, at least one of which may be done under test conditions (30%).
Advanced training in modern Chinese language, with a focus on reading. By studying a range of literary and non-literary texts, graded for difficulty, students will acquire the reading skills necessary for advanced work in Chinese Studies. They will enrich their knowledge of Chinese as a vehicle for discussion of important issues, while developing their own skills in oral and written expression of relatively complex subject matter. They will also acquaint themselves with some major Chinese authors.
Textbooks
Chou, Chih-p'ing, et al, Anything Goes: An Advanced Reader of Modern Chinese, Princeton University Press, 2006.
CHNS3604 Chinese 4B (Advanced)
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3 hours per week Prerequisites: CHNS3603 or CHNS2203 Prohibitions: HSC Chinese for Background Speakers or equivalent; CHNS2204 Assessment: (Subject to revision) classwork (10%); in-class tests (40%); oral presentation (20%); Chinese-language writing assignments, at least one of which may be done under test conditions (30%).
Continuation of Chinese 4A (Advanced). Further training in the reading skills necessary for advanced work in Chinese Studies or professional work requiring Chinese-language literacy. Students will gain familiarity with a broader range of literary and non-literary texts reflecting the concerns of Chinese people in the modern world, while enhancing their ability to discuss complex subject matter in both spoken and written Chinese.
Textbooks
Chou, Chih-p'ing, et al, Anything Goes: An Advanced Reader of Modern Chinese, Princeton University Press, 2006
CHNS3605 Advanced Chinese Studies A
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3 class hours per week Prerequisites: CHNS3604 or Distinction in CHNS3602. (Note: students who have earned a Distinction in CHNS3602 will be permitted to take this subject either with or instead of Chinese 4A). Prohibitions: HSC Chinese for Background Speakers (or equivalent). Assessment: (Subject to revision): Classwork (10%); in-class tests (40%); one presentation based on research project (20%); one essay resulting from research project (30%).
This unit is designed for advanced learners and near native speakers of the Chinese language. It emphasizes analysis and discussions in Chinese on topics that reflect aspects of modern Chinese society, culture and politics. Students will gain practice in independent library-based research through associated research project and essay work.
Textbooks
Liu, Qiangong, Topics on Contemporary China: Advanced Reading and Expression Course. Beijing: Peking University Press, 2004
CHNS3606 Advanced Chinese Studies B
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2 class hours per week Prerequisites: CHNS3605 Advanced Chinese Studies A, or department permission. [Note: students who have earned a Distinction in CHNS3603 Chinese 4A (Advanced) will be permitted to take this subject either with or instead of CHNS3604 Chinese 4B (Advanced)] Assessment: (Subject to revision): Classwork (10%); in-class tests (40%); one presentation based on research project (20%); one essay resulting from research project (30%).
This unit is a continuation of CHNS3605. It emphasizes analysis and discussions in Chinese on topics that reflect aspects of modern Chinese society, culture and politics. Students will gain research skills through associated research project and essay work.
Textbooks
Liu, Qiangong, Topics on Contemporary China: Advanced Reading and Expression Course. Beijing: Peking University Press, 2004
CHNS3608 Chinese for Business Purposes (A)
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2 class hours per week Prerequisites: CHNS2602, CHNS1202 or CHNS2102 Corequisites: CHNS3601 or CHNS3603 Prohibitions: HSC Chinese for Background Speakers or equivalent; CHNS3421 Assumed knowledge: Sound intermediate knowledge of Modern Standard Chinese Assessment: Classwork (10%); in-class tests (40%); writing exercises (20%); research-based oral presentation (15%); vocabulary quizzes (15%).
Introduction to Business Chinese for students with sound intermediate knowledge of Modern Standard Chinese. Basic training in reading Chinese-language newspaper articles, business reports and advertisements, as well as conducting business negotiation, discussion and analysis. Students will gain understanding of the organisation and characteristics of the Chinese economy, using concepts that describe recent changes in government policy, industry, banking, the stock market and import and export trades, as well as the development of consumerism.
Textbooks
Jane C. M. Kuo. Open for Business: Lessons in Chinese Commerce for the New Millennium. Vol. 1. Textbook and Workbook. Boston: Cheng and Tsui, 2001
CHNS3609 Chinese for Business Purposes (B)
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2 class hours per week Prerequisites: CHNS3608 or CHNS3421 Corequisites: CHNS3602 or CHNS3604 Prohibitions: HSC Chinese for Background Speakers or equivalent; CHNS3422 Assumed knowledge: Sound intermediate to advanced knowledge of Modern Standard Chinese; basic grounding in Chinese for business purposes. Assessment: Classwork (10%); in-class tests (40% in total); writing exercises (20%); research-based oral presentation (15%); vocabulary quizzes (15%).
Continuation of Chinese for Business Purposes (A). Further development of the skills acquired during First Semester. New topics introduced will include Chinese systems of management; the information technology, real estate and insurance industries; and issues regarding the Internet, intellectual property rights, and environmental protection.
Textbooks
Jane C. M. Kuo. Open for Business: Lessons in Chinese Commerce for the New Millennium. Vol. 2. Textbook and Workbook. Boston: Cheng and Tsui, 2001
CHNS3632 The Novel in Premodern China
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Y. Wang Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3 hours per week. Prerequisites: 12 credit points from Table A of the Table of Units of Study in the Faculty of Arts or equivalent Prohibitions: CHNS3532 Assumed knowledge: No knowledge of the Chinese language or Chinese literature is required. Assessment: Classwork 10%; class presentation 20%; in-class test 30%; 2000-word essay 40%.
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
Beauty, fantasy, satire, eroticism, humour, historical romance, apt character depiction, monumental scale, reflection of popular taste, appeal to refined sensibility... The numerous novels written in pre-modern China have diverse characteristics, and some are better known than others. Students will read one or more novels in the original and/or translation. Intensive study of selected chapters, read in the original, will be combined with consideration of Chinese and/or Western scholarship on the texts in question.
Textbooks
Will include readings available from the University Copy Centre and/or online.
CHNS3639 Chinese Cinema
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Y. Wang Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2 hours lectures per week, 1 hour of tutorials per week and 2-3 hours film screening. Prerequisites: 12 credit points from Part A of the Table of Units of Study in the Faculty of Arts or equivalent. Assumed knowledge: No knowledge of the Chinese language or cinema is required. Assessment: Classwork (10%); oral presentation plus written report of 500 words (30%); one-hour in-class test (20%); one essay (2000 words) 40%.
This unit introduces students to the cinema of mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. We will view representative films of different periods and different regions, and read them within their historical and cultural context. We will explore how these films blend "traditional Chinese" and local elements -- plots, symbols, sound, music, performance styles and others -- with "modern" and "global" devices. We will also examine how Chinese cinema thus creates new definitions of Chinese identity and modernity.
CHNS3641 Chinese Philosophy
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr D. Herforth Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2 class hours per week Prerequisites: 12 credit points of Chinese language; or 12 non-language credit points from Table A of the Table of Units of Study in the Faculty of Arts; or department permission. (Note: students who hope to attend the Chinese-language tutorials must have successfully completed one of the following: CHNS2612, CHNS2112, CHNS2904, CHNS1314). Prohibitions: CHNS3551, CHNS3451 Assumed knowledge: No knowledge of the Chinese language or of Chinese philosophy is required. Assessment: Classwork (15%); 1-hour test (25%); 20-minute oral presentation (15%); 2500-word essay (25%); additional written assignments to a total of 1500 words, at least part of which may be done under test conditions (20%).
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
This unit offers students the opportunity to explore China's great philosophical traditions through readings of important texts either in the original or in English translation. While the coverage will be broad, there may be some focus on one or more of the following: pre-Qin philosophical diversity; Daoism and Neo-Daoism; the Song and Ming Neo-Confucian schools; Chinese political philosophy; Chinese contributions to Buddhist philosophy. Students will be expected to read relevant secondary scholarship in the areas selected for study.
Textbooks
Readings available from the University Copy Centre and/or online.
CHNS3646 Classical Chinese Fiction
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr D. Herforth Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3 hours per week Prerequisites: CHNS2612 or CHNS2112 or CHNS1314 or CHNS2904 Prohibitions: CHNS3543, CHNS3443 Assumed knowledge: Good grounding in Classical Chinese Assessment: Classwork (20%); two 40-minute tests (15% each); 2000-word essay (25%); oral presentation based on work for essay (10%); other exercises (e.g. translation) equivalent to 1000 words of essay (15%). The essay may be in Chinese (consult instructor for the required number of characters).
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
How does the lean prose of Classical Chinese express complexities of feeling or imagination? What issues does fiction in this ancient language raise about traditional Chinese society, beliefs and values? This unit of study examines samples of such fiction from one or more historical periods (e.g., pre-Tang tales of the supernatural, the chuanqi fiction of the Sui and Tang, the "strange stories" of the seventeenth-century scholar Pu Songling) in light of these questions and of modern scholarship.
Textbooks
Readings available from the University Copy Centre and/or online.
CHNS4011 Chinese Honours A
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Linda Tsung, Dr Wei Wang, Dr Yiyan Wang, Dr Yi Zheng Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: 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 average in all qualifying units of study. In addition, ASNS3690, Approaches to Research in Asian Studies is strongly recommended and may be counted towards the required 48 senior credit points by all students except those whose qualifying senior credit points include CHNS2601 (or 2101) and/or CHNS2602 (or 2102). Intending Honours students are advised to take as many senior credit points as possible in Chinese language and China-related subjects. Assessment: A thesis of 12000-16000 words and 5000 words of written work or its equivalent for each seminar.
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in Chinese Studies consists of:
1. a thesis written in English under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
2. four coursework components
The thesis should be of 12000-16000 words in length. Each coursework component requires 5000 words of written work or its equivalent.
The thesis is worth 33.33% of the final mark and each of the coursework components is worth 16.66%
As part of their coursework, students need to complete the following seminar which is offered in first semester:
Approaches to Research on Modern China
A further coursework component may comprise supervised reading in an area that especially interests the student and/or participation in a joint thesis research seminar (subject to confirmation). Students can also select coursework components from other programs in the Faculty of Arts. The coursework components will be selected in consultation with the chair of department according to the student's proficiency in Chinese. Advanced language work will be available for students who have completed only the basic three-year sequence in Chinese language from beginning level.
For more information, contact Dr Yiyan Wang, Honours coordinator.
1. a thesis written in English under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
2. four coursework components
The thesis should be of 12000-16000 words in length. Each coursework component requires 5000 words of written work or its equivalent.
The thesis is worth 33.33% of the final mark and each of the coursework components is worth 16.66%
As part of their coursework, students need to complete the following seminar which is offered in first semester:
Approaches to Research on Modern China
A further coursework component may comprise supervised reading in an area that especially interests the student and/or participation in a joint thesis research seminar (subject to confirmation). Students can also select coursework components from other programs in the Faculty of Arts. The coursework components will be selected in consultation with the chair of department according to the student's proficiency in Chinese. Advanced language work will be available for students who have completed only the basic three-year sequence in Chinese language from beginning level.
For more information, contact Dr Yiyan Wang, Honours coordinator.
CHNS4012 Chinese Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: See under CHNS4011. Corequisites: CHNS4011
See under CHNS4011.
CHNS4013 Chinese Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: See under CHNS4011. Corequisites: CHNS4012
See under CHNS4011.
CHNS4014 Chinese Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: See under CHNS4011. Corequisites: CHNS4013
See under CHNS4011.
Classical Studies
CLCV1801 Classical Civilisation Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
CLCV1802 Classical Civilisation Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
CLSS2804 Classical Civilisation Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
CLSS2805 Classical Civilisation Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
CLSS4011 Classics Honours A
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Alastair Blanshard Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: two seminars, each seminar meeting for 3 hours per week for one semester Prerequisites: 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. Assessment: a thesis of 15,000 words, 6,000 words of written work or its equivalent for each seminar and one exam
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in Classics consists of:
1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
2. two seminars that meet weekly for three hours for one semester
3. one unseen exam on either a Greek or a Latin text.
The thesis should be of 15,000 words in length. Each seminar requires 6,000 words of written work or it equivalent.
The thesis is worth 45% of the final Honours mark, each of the seminars is worth 22.5% and the unseen exam is worth 10%.
The following seminars are on offer in 2010:
Greek Oratory and Historiography (Prof Peter Wilson)
Greek Drama (Dr Sebastiana Nervegna)
Latin Republican Poetry (Assoc Prof Lindsay Watson)
Latin Imperial Prose (Dr Paul Roche)
For more information, contact Dr Alastair Blanshard, Honours coordinator.
1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
2. two seminars that meet weekly for three hours for one semester
3. one unseen exam on either a Greek or a Latin text.
The thesis should be of 15,000 words in length. Each seminar requires 6,000 words of written work or it equivalent.
The thesis is worth 45% of the final Honours mark, each of the seminars is worth 22.5% and the unseen exam is worth 10%.
The following seminars are on offer in 2010:
Greek Oratory and Historiography (Prof Peter Wilson)
Greek Drama (Dr Sebastiana Nervegna)
Latin Republican Poetry (Assoc Prof Lindsay Watson)
Latin Imperial Prose (Dr Paul Roche)
For more information, contact Dr Alastair Blanshard, Honours coordinator.
CLSS4012 Classics Honours B
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Alastair Blanshard Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: Refer to CLSS4011 Corequisites: CLSS4011 Assessment: Refer to CLSS4011
Refer to CLSS4011
CLSS4013 Classics Honours C
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Alastair Blanshard Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: Refer to CLSS4011 Corequisites: CLSS4012 Assessment: Refer to CLSS4011
Refer to CLSS4011
CLSS4014 Classics Honours D
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Alastair Blanshard Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: Refer to CLSS4011 Corequisites: CLSS4013 Assessment: Refer to CLSS4011
Refer to CLSS4011
Comparative Literary Studies (See International Comparative Literary Studies)
Cultural Studies
GCST2601 Introducing Media and Popular Culture
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Guy Redden Session: Semester 1,Winter Main Classes: one 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points Prohibitions: WMST2001 Assessment: one 1500 word textual analysis, one 2500 word essay and tutorial participation
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
This unit of study will introduce students to the discipline of Cultural Studies through the analysis of media and popular culture. The unit of study will draw on a range of interdisciplinary theories in order to explore how contemporary media and popular culture is analysed within Cultural Studies, including focus on magazines, advertising, cinema and televisual genres, popular music and video, and the internet.
GCST2608 Gender, Communities and Belonging
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Fiona Allon Session: Semester 1 Classes: one 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 18 Junior credit points Prohibitions: WMST2008 Assessment: one 500 word tutorial assignment, one 1500 word essay and one 2000 word take-home exam
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
This unit examines experiences of gender, difference, and belonging within formations of community. It looks at the operation of power and at how power produces and regulates communities, places and identities. It questions the assumption that community is based on the unity and similarity of citizens and their location in bounded cultures and places, and examines alternatives such as difference, cultural diversity, and sociality. Specific debates about the production of community, place and culture within globalisation and contemporary operations of democracy, governance and power are examined. The course is divided into 3 sections: Community and Identity; Community, Difference and Belonging; and Cosmopolitanism and Hospitality.
GCST2812 Cultural Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GCST2813 Cultural Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GCST2814 Cultural Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GCST2815 Cultural Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GCST2816 Cultural Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GCST2817 Cultural Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GCST2818 Cultural Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GCST2819 Cultural Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GCST3603 Consumer Cultures
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Ruth Barcan Session: Semester 1 Classes: one 1.5 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 18 Junior credit points, including 6 credit points in GCST Prohibitions: WMST3003 Assessment: journal exercises (equivalent to 1500 words), one 1500 word essay, and one 2000 word essay
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
From the theoretical basis of cultural studies, this unit examines the ways in which identities are increasingly formed through consumption. It looks both at critiques of consumer societies and at more optimistic theories about the different forms of life that are promoted by consumer culture, including the forms of identity and belonging they engender. We will consider elements of both material culture (e.g. possessions) and media culture.
GCST3604 Cultural Theory
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Catherine Driscoll Session: Semester 2 Classes: one 1 hour lecture, one 1.5 hour tutorial and 30 minutes of online learning per week Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points including at least 6 credit points GCST Assessment: Three 500 word responses to readings, choice of exam or 2500 word research essay, and participation in class and online
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
Cultural Studies was widely discussed as one of the "New Humanities" in the 1990s, but a long history of debates about and theories of culture precede the discipline, and the processes of deciding what are the key texts and concepts of Cultural Studies is ongoing. This unit overviews core and the most frequently referenced critical and theoretical texts from the Cultural Studies "canon". Students will also undertake reading and analysis exercises designed to help them come to grips with using "theory" in their own work.
GCST4011 Cultural Studies Honours A
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Fiona Allon Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: one class of 2-3 hours per week for each seminar Prerequisites: Credit average in 48 senior credit points of Cultural Studies, including GCST2601 (or WMST2001) Assessment: a thesis of 15,000 words and 6,000 words of written work or its equivalent for each seminar
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in Cultural Studies consists of:
1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
2. one seminar that meets weekly for 3 hours for one semester and two seminars that meet weekly for 2 hours for one semester
3. non-assessable participation in an Honours "mini-conference" that runs for half a day early in semester 2.
The thesis should be of 15,000 words in length. Each seminar requires 6,000 words of written work or its equivalent.
The thesis is worth 40% of the final Honours mark and each of the seminars is worth 20%.
The following seminars are on offer in 2010:
Arguing the Point (Dr Melissa Gregg)
Natures and Cultures of Bodies (Dr Kane Race)
Modernism, Modernity and Modern Culture (Dr Catherine Driscoll)
Identity, Place and Culture (Prof Meaghan Morris)
For more information, contact Dr Fiona Allon, Honours coordinator.
1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
2. one seminar that meets weekly for 3 hours for one semester and two seminars that meet weekly for 2 hours for one semester
3. non-assessable participation in an Honours "mini-conference" that runs for half a day early in semester 2.
The thesis should be of 15,000 words in length. Each seminar requires 6,000 words of written work or its equivalent.
The thesis is worth 40% of the final Honours mark and each of the seminars is worth 20%.
The following seminars are on offer in 2010:
Arguing the Point (Dr Melissa Gregg)
Natures and Cultures of Bodies (Dr Kane Race)
Modernism, Modernity and Modern Culture (Dr Catherine Driscoll)
Identity, Place and Culture (Prof Meaghan Morris)
For more information, contact Dr Fiona Allon, Honours coordinator.
GCST4012 Cultural Studies Honours B
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Fiona Allon Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: Refer to GCST4011 Corequisites: GCST4011 Assessment: Refer to GCST4011
Refer to GCST4011
GCST4013 Cultural Studies Honours C
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Fiona Allon Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: Refer to GCST4011 Corequisites: GCST4012 Assessment: Refer to GCST4011
Refer to GCST4011
GCST4014 Cultural Studies Honours D
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Fiona Allon Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: Refer to GCST4011 Corequisites: GCST4013 Assessment: Refer to GCST4011
Refer to GCST4011
GCST4101 Arguing the Point
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Melissa Gregg Session: Semester 1 Classes: one 2 hour seminar per week Prerequisites: Credit average in 48 senior credit points of Gender Studies, including GCST2602 (or WMST2002) OR credit average in 48 senior credit points of Cultural Studies, including GCST2601 (or WMST2001) Prohibitions: WMST4011 Assessment: 4000-6000 words of written work or its equivalent
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: The Honours in Gender Studies and Honours in Cultural Studies programs are structured in the same way. For each, a student must enrol in GCST4101 Arguing the Point and GCST4102 Research Skills. Every student then takes four Honours Thesis units and two Honours Seminar units, in Gender Studies or Cultural Studies respectively.
It is also possible to do combined Honours by enrolling in one Seminar and two Thesis units from each discipline.
All Honours students are also expected to attend the Departmental research seminar series.
Available only to students who commenced Cultural Studies or Gender Studies Honours prior to 2010.
GCST4102 Research Skills
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Fiona Allon Session: Semester 1 Corequisites: GCST4101 Assessment: Satisfactory completion Practical field work: Workshop lengths at times vary across the semester. A program is provided at the beginning of semester.
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: Available only to students who commenced Cultural Studies or Gender Studies Honours prior to 2010.
See GCST4101
GCST4111 Cultural Studies Honours Seminar A
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Fiona Allon Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: one 2 hour seminar per week Corequisites: GCST4101 Assessment: 4000-6000 words of written work or its equivalent
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: Available only to students who commenced Cultural Studies or Gender Studies Honours prior to 2010.
See GCST4101
GCST4112 Cultural Studies Honours Seminar B
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Fiona Allon Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: one 2 hour seminar per week Corequisites: GCST4101 Assessment: 4000-6000 words of written work or its equivalent
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: Available only to students who commenced Cultural Studies or Gender Studies Honours prior to 2010.
See GCST4101
GCST4113 Cultural Studies Honours Thesis A
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Fiona Allon Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: Consultations with a supervisor appointed by the Department, as determined between the student and the supervisor Corequisites: GCST4101 Assessment: 15000 word thesis
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: Available only to students who commenced Cultural Studies or Gender Studies Honours prior to 2010.
See GCST4101
GCST4114 Cultural Studies Honours Thesis B
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Fiona Allon Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: Consultations with a supervisor appointed by the Department, as determined between the student and the supervisor Corequisites: GCST4101 Assessment: See GCST4113
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: Available only to students who commenced Cultural Studies or Gender Studies Honours prior to 2010.
See GCST4101
GCST4115 Cultural Studies Honours Thesis C
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Fiona Allon Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: Consultations with a supervisor appointed by the Department, as determined between the student and the supervisor Corequisites: GCST4101 Assessment: See GCST4113
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: Available only to students who commenced Cultural Studies or Gender Studies Honours prior to 2010.
See GCST4101
GCST4116 Cultural Studies Honours Thesis D
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Fiona Allon Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: Consultations with a supervisor appointed by the Department, as determined between the student and the supervisor Corequisites: GCST4101 Assessment: See GCST4113
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: Available only to students who commenced Cultural Studies or Gender Studies Honours prior to 2010.
See GCST4101
Digital Cultures
ARIN2600 Technocultures
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr C Chesher Session: Semester 1 Classes: One 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points Prohibitions: ARIN3000 Assessment: Review (1500 words); Presentation & Discussion Resource (500 words equiv); Essay (2500 words); Participation
Technocultures explores how technology and culture are bound together in increasingly complex ways. Information and communication technologies in particular contribute to widespread reconfigurations of writing, sociality, politics, embodiment, aesthetics, perception, memory and thought itself. Drawing on recent critical theory and cultural research, this unit unravels the complex interplay between humans and technologies.
Textbooks
ARIN2600 Course Reader
ARIN2610 Web Production
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Mr J Tonkin Session: Semester 2,Summer Main Classes: One 1 hour lecture and one 2 hour workshop per week Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points Prohibitions: ARIN2100 Assessment: One 1500 word website review, one 1500 word essay, one project / website (equivalent to 1500 words) and participation
Where web production was once the domain of technical specialists, it has become an everyday activity. The challenge now is to do it well. Learn key concepts and skills for the analysis and production of media for the World Wide Web. Critically examine contemporary writing practices and design methodologies in emerging forms of internet content authoring and distribution. Learn a range of content creation tools and develop strategies for building and managing web content in ways appropriate to specific contexts.
Textbooks
Readings will be supplied online
ARIN2620 Cyberworlds
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr K Cleland Session: Semester 1 Classes: One 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points Prohibitions: ARIN2200 Assessment: One 2000 word essay, One 2500 word report.
Note: May be cross-listed for a Sociology major
Are online encounters different from face-to-face encounters? Are online communities 'real' communities? How do online identities relate to offline identities? This unit of study introduces students to key perspectives, themes and debates in the expanding world of cyberspace and cyberworld communities including social networking sites, games and virtual worlds. Students will also investigate how new forms of user-generated content and participatory media are shaping our cyberworld experiences.
Textbooks
ARIN2620 Course Reader
ARIN2630 Digital Arts
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr K Cleland Session: Semester 2 Classes: One 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points Prohibitions: ARIN2300 Assessment: One 2000 word essay, one 1000 word review and one research project (equivalent to 1500 words)
Note: May be cross-listed for an Art History and Theory major.
This unit of study introduces students to a diverse range of art practices that utilise new digital media including: interactive art works, digital media installations, net art and art and science projects. Students will learn about the aesthetic and technical dimensions of new digital technologies and will develop the critical and analytical tools with which to discuss and evaluate digital art works.
Textbooks
ARIN2630 reader
ARIN2801 Digital Cultures Exchange
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr C Chesher Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Students enrolled at Sydney University who wish to take the equivalent of a 6 credit-point senior unit of study in Digital Cultures at an approved overseas university should enrol in this unit. Such students must seek approval for their proposed course of study from the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Digital Cultures.
ARIN2802 Digital Cultures Exchange
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr C Chesher Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Students enrolled at Sydney University who wish to take the equivalent of a 6 credit-point senior unit of study in Digital Cultures at an approved overseas university should enrol in this unit. Such students must seek approval for their proposed course of study from the Director of Undergraduate Studies in Digital Cultures.
ARIN2803 Digital Cultures Exchange
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr C Chesher Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Students enrolled at Sydney University who wish to take the equivalent of a 6 credit-point senior unit of study in Digital Cultures at an approved overseas university should enrol in this unit. Such students must seek approval for their proposed course of study from the Director of Undergraduate Studies in Digital Cultures.
ARIN2804 Digital Cultures Exchange
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr C Chesher Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Students enrolled at Sydney University who wish to take the equivalent of a 6 credit-point senior unit of study in Digital Cultures at an approved overseas university should enrol in this unit. Such students must seek approval for their proposed course of study from the Director of Undergraduate Studies in Digital Cultures.
ARIN2805 Digital Cultures Exchange
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr C Chesher Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Students enrolled at Sydney University who wish to take the equivalent of a 6 credit-point senior unit of study in Digital Cultures at an approved overseas university should enrol in this unit. Such students must seek approval for their proposed course of study from the Director of Undergraduate Studies in Digital Cultures.
ARIN2806 Digital Cultures Exchange
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr C Chesher Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Students enrolled at Sydney University who wish to take the equivalent of a 6 credit-point senior unit of study in Digital Cultures at an approved overseas university should enrol in this unit. Such students must seek approval for their proposed course of study from the Director of Undergraduate Studies in Digital Cultures.
ARIN2807 Digital Cultures Exchange
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr C Chesher Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Students enrolled at Sydney University who wish to take the equivalent of a 6 credit-point senior unit of study in Digital Cultures at an approved overseas university should enrol in this unit. Such students must seek approval for their proposed course of study from the Director of Undergraduate Studies in Digital Cultures.
ARIN2808 Digital Cultures Exchange
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr C Chesher Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Students enrolled at Sydney University who wish to take the equivalent of a 6 credit-point senior unit of study in Digital Cultures at an approved overseas university should enrol in this unit. Such students must seek approval for their proposed course of study from the Director of Undergraduate Studies in Digital Cultures.
ARIN3620 Researching Digital Cultures
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr C Chesher Session: Semester 2 Classes: One 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 18 senior credit points Prohibitions: ARIN2000 Assessment: Paper/review (750 words); Research proposal and ethics form (3000 words); Journal (750 words)
How do people use new media technologies? To answer this question you need to know how to conduct research: a systematic investigation using carefully chosen and ethically sound methods. In this unit students prepare a research proposal to improve knowledge about the social implications of the latest developments in information technologies. They build their methodology by choosing a combination of methods: ethnography, interviews, surveys, online methods, discourse analysis, content analysis or case studies.
Textbooks
ARIN3620 Course Reader
ARIN3640 Computer Games and Simulation
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Mr J Tonkin Session: Semester 1 Classes: One 1 hour lecture and one 2 hour seminar per week Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points Assessment: One 1500 word review, one 1500 word exercise and one design project (equiv 1500 words)
From first person shooters to massively multiplayer environments, computer games are rapidly emerging as distinctive cultural forms. The screen languages of interaction and simulation are diverging from and complicating cinematic and televisual conventions. Simulation and visualisation technologies and techniques have developed across many fields. This unit of study introduces students to key concepts and methodologies in computer games and simulation. It combines critical and historical readings in games studies, new media theory and interaction design with hands-on exercises.
Textbooks
Readings will be supplied online
ARIN3650 Digital Cultures Project 1
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr K Cleland Session: Semester 1 Classes: One 2 hour seminar and one 1 hour consultation with supervisor per week Prerequisites: ISYS3403 (ISYS3113), ISYS3400 (ISYS3207) and ARIN3620 (ARIN2000) Prohibitions: ARIN3500, ARIN3600 Assessment: One 1000 word article, one 1500 report and one 3000 word project proposal
In this unit, students work in groups to research and develop a detailed proposal for a Digital Cultures project. They identify an actual client and prepare the scope and design for the project. This gives BA (Digital Technology and Culture) students the opportunity to apply, extend and inter-relate skills and knowledge gained from their Information Systems major, Arts major, and Digital Technology and Culture units. The proposal forms the basis of the ARIN3660 project.
Textbooks
No set texts
ARIN3660 Digital Cultures Project 2
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr C Chesher Session: Semester 2 Classes: One 2 hour seminar per week Prerequisites: ISYS3403 (ISYS3113), ISYS3400 (ISYS3207), ARIN3620 (ARIN2000) and ARIN3650 Prohibitions: ARIN3500, ARIN3600 Assessment: Project presentation (1000 words); Project prototype and documentation (2500 word equiv.); Project report (1000 words); participation.
In this unit of study students develop a prototype of the Digital Cultures project that they proposed in ARIN3650. Through this project they will demonstrate strategies, skills and knowledge from their studies in Information systems, the Arts, including units in the Digital Technology and Culture Program.
Textbooks
Rosenfeld, L. and Morville, P. (2006) Information architecture for the World Wide Web. Beijing; Cambridge, MA: O'Reilly.
ARIN3670 Digital Cultures Internship
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr K Cleland Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: ARIN1000 and either ISYS1003 or INFO1000 or INFO1003; 36 senior credit points of ARIN and ISYS/INFO Corequisites: ARIN3680 Prohibitions: Enrolment is subject to approval by the Director of the BA (Digital Technology and Culture) program and locating an appropriate match between student and organisation. Assessment: Students must satisfy the requirements of an internship contract with their workplace, including attendance and performance, as evaluated through a workplace supervisor report. Students will also be required to keep an online journal during the duration of the internship. The internship and journal are assessed on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis.
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: Students will usually not enrol in ARIN3670 until the second semester of their 3rd year.
The internship consists of a work placement comprising a minimum of 20 working days in an appropriate organisation, assisted and supervised by both the workplace and staff from the Digital Technology and Culture Program. Placements may include arts and cultural organisations and information and communication technology organisations. Students will be required to keep an online journal documenting and analysing their experiences during the internship. In consultation with their supervisor, students will formulate a topic for their research essay for the co-requisite unit ARIN3680 Digital Cultures Internship Project.
ARIN3680 Digital Cultures Internship Project
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr K Cleland Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: One 2 hour seminar per week Prerequisites: ARIN1000 and either ISYS1003 or INFO1000 or INFO1003; 36 senior credit points of ARIN and ISYS/INFO Corequisites: ARIN3670 Assessment: One 1000 word annotated bibliography and one 3500 word research essay
The Digital Cultures Internship Project follows on from the ARIN3670 Digital Cultures Internship where students are placed within an appropriate workplace. The major assessment for this unit of study is a research essay where students critically reflect on these experiences.
ARIN4011 Digital Cultures Honours A
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr K Cleland Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: One 2 hour seminar per semester-long unit per week Prerequisites: Completion of 48 senior credit points in the Digital Cultures Program comprising ARIN and cross-listed units of study.
For 2008, the ARIN units must include ARIN2600 Technocultures and ARIN3620 Researching Digital Cultures.
An average of credit or above must be achieved for the 48 credit points. Assessment: Thesis (15,000 words); 2 x Essay (9000 words equivalent each)
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in Digital Cultures consists of:
a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
two seminars that meet weekly for two hours for one semester.
The thesis should be of 15,000 words in length. Each seminar requires 9,000 words of written work or its equivalent.
The thesis is worth 50% of the final Honours mark and each of the seminars is worth 25%.
The following seminars are on offer in 2010:
Digital Research and Publishing (Dr Chris Chesher)
Internet Cultures and Governance (Mr Amit Kelkar)
Network Society (Mr Jeffrey Cook)
Computers as Culture (Dr Kathy Cleland)
Remixable Media (Ms Michela Ledwidge)
For more information, contact Dr Kathy Cleland, Honours coordinator.
a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
two seminars that meet weekly for two hours for one semester.
The thesis should be of 15,000 words in length. Each seminar requires 9,000 words of written work or its equivalent.
The thesis is worth 50% of the final Honours mark and each of the seminars is worth 25%.
The following seminars are on offer in 2010:
Digital Research and Publishing (Dr Chris Chesher)
Internet Cultures and Governance (Mr Amit Kelkar)
Network Society (Mr Jeffrey Cook)
Computers as Culture (Dr Kathy Cleland)
Remixable Media (Ms Michela Ledwidge)
For more information, contact Dr Kathy Cleland, Honours coordinator.
ARIN4012 Digital Cultures Honours B
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Ms K Cleland Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ARIN4011
See ARIN4011
ARIN4013 Digital Cultures Honours C
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Ms K Cleland Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ARIN4012
See ARIN4011
ARIN4014 Digital Cultures Honours D
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr K Cleland Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ARIN4013
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English
ENGL1002 Narratives of Romance and Adventure
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr L Warner Session: Semester 1 Classes: Two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week Assessment: One 1500 word essay, end of semester exam (1500 words), assignment (1000 words), one debate performance, and tutorial participation
This unit explores the art of narrative from Greek and Roman antiquity to the present. What makes Homer's Odyssey and Ovid's Metamorphoses defining texts for the history of narrative? Why are the early masters of English narrative so compelling? How does a film like O Brother, Where Art Thou? fit in? Issues of particular relevance include the nature of epic, myth and satire; the unfolding of adventure and gender relations; the history of Britain; and the nature of humankind.
Textbooks
Homer, The Odyssey; Malory, Le Morte Darthur (seventh and eighth tales); Shakespeare, The Tempest; Swift, Gulliver's Travels; Coen brothers (film), O Brother, Where Art Thou?; Unit Resource Book, including: Ovid, Metamorphoses, extracts; Weland; Chaucer, Wife of Bath's Tale; Marlowe, Hero and Leander; Narrative theory readings
ENGL1007 Language, Texts and Time
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr N Riemer Session: Semester 2 Classes: Two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week Assessment: Two 500 word assignments, one 2000 word essay and one 1.5 hour exam
This course equips students with some general tools for the close analysis of literary language. Grammatical concepts will be introduced and applied to the description of prose, poetry and drama, and students will explore the changing relations between form and meaning in English from the earliest times up to the present. A number of key strands in contemporary language study will also be presented, including semiotic theory, rhetoric and discourse studies and theorizations of the relationship between texts and subjectivity.
Textbooks
Collins, Peter & Carmella Hollo: English Grammar,An Introduction (Palgrave, 2000) A course reader will be available from the University Copy Centre.
ENGL1008 Australian Texts: International Contexts
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr B Brennan Session: Semester 1 Classes: Two 1hour lectures and one 1hour tutorial per week Assessment: 1000 word tutorial task (20%); 1500 word essay (40%); 1.5 hour exam (40%)
This unit explores how Australian authors write in, to and about the wider world. It will open up a range of questions: how international influences work in Australian writing; how Australian texts rewrite authoritative texts of other cultures; how Australian texts imagine other places; how careers, reputations, publication and reception take place within and beyond the nation. In addressing these questions, the unit will focus on issues of authority, identity, representation, translation, borders and authenticity.
Textbooks
Brian Castro, After China
ENGL1025 Fiction, Film and Power
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr S Gleeson-White Session: Semester 2 Classes: Two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week Assessment: One tutorial presentation, one 1000 word essay and one 1500 word essay and a 1 1/2 hour exam.
A fundamental feature of the modern world is the predominance of media and communication technologies over older, and increasingly anachronistic, "book" cultures. This course looks at the consequences of such a shift for our sense of identity and place by focusing on translations from text to film. A principal theme will be the relations between narrative form and visual experience, with an eye always on the social contexts in which images become a form and source of power. The course will also serve as an introduction to the critical vocabulary used to understand late modern society.
Textbooks
Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
ENGL1801 English Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Students enrolled at Sydney University who wish to take the equivalent of a 6 credit-point junior unit of study in English at an approved overseas university should enrol in this unit. Such students must seek approval for their proposed course of study from the Undergraduate Student Advisor.
ENGL1802 English Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Students enrolled at Sydney University who wish to take the equivalent of a 6 credit-point junior unit of study in English at an approved overseas university should enrol in this unit. Such students must seek approval for their proposed course of study from the Undergraduate Student Advisor.
ENGL2603 American Literature: Imagining America
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr D Kelly Session: Semester 1 Classes: one 1hr lecture and one 1hr tutorial Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of English Prohibitions: ENGL2003 Assessment: One 2000 word essay, one 2 hr exam and one in-class presentation or equivalent (6000 words in total)
This course takes as its point of departure the notion of America as fashioned by diverse and even conflicting acts of imagination. Beginning in the mid-19th century and working our way to the mid-20th and beyond, we will examine the various ways in which major writers both constructed and challenged the 'imagined community' of their nation.
Textbooks
Poe: selected poems and stories
ENGL2607 Drama: Classical to Renaissance
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr H Griffiths Session: Semester 1 Classes: Two 1 hr lectures and one 1hour tutorial Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of English Prohibitions: ENGL2007 Assessment: Participation (10%) 1,500 word essay (30%) Take Home Test (60%)
This unit begins with a survey of the beginnings of western theatre in the Classical era (texts include Greek and Roman tragedy and comedy). The various traditions of medieval theatre - farce, mystery play, morality play - may then be examined, to illuminate the rich inheritance utilised by English Renaissance drama. Plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries conclude the unit. Lectures will include the physical and social conditions of theatre; performance; and film and other modern versions of selected texts.
Textbooks
Renaissance Drama: An Anthology of Plays and Entertainments, (Second Edition) Ed. AF. Kinney.
ENGL2611 Jane Austen and Her Contemporaries
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr N Parsons Session: Semester 1,Summer Main Classes: Two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of English Prohibitions: ENGL2011 Assessment: One 1,000 annotated bibliography (15%), One 2,000 word essay (40%), One 1,500 take home exam (35%), Preparation for, and participation in, tutorial discussion across the semester (10%)
This unit studies the formative influences on Austen as a novelist by tracking some of her reading in eighteenth century poetry, novels, prescriptive literature, and drama. We look at her development as a writer, paying particular attention to the historical moment of her emergence into print. Topics to be covered include: the history of the novel; women writers, Austen's relationship to the fashionable genres of gothic and sentimental fiction; late eighteenth century debates about slavery; class, gender, and generational conflict.
Textbooks
Texts include:
ENGL2619 Semiotics of Language
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr N Riemer Session: Semester 1 Classes: Two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of English Prohibitions: ENGL2019, SMTC2001, SMTC2002 Assessment: One 2500 word essay, one 2 hr exam, tutorial participation.
How have the relations between the world, language and subjectivity been conceived in semiotic theories? In what ways have thinkers like Saussure, Peirce and Bakhtin analysed the meaningfulness of semiotic systems like language? In this unit we will examine different theories of the sign and the nature of semiotic processes through a consideration of some fundamental themes in semiotic research: the nature of meaningfulness; language as system, communication and action; and signification and the problem of representation.
Textbooks
Saussure, Course in General Linguistics.
ENGL2635 Contemporary American Literature
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr M Hardie Session: Semester 2 Classes: Two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points of English Prohibitions: ENGL2035 Assessment: One 15 minute presentation and tutorial mark (20%), one 1500 word essay (30%) and one 2 hour exam (50%)
Looking at cinematic, written, and hypermedia texts of the last decade, this unit asks these questions: how were "dark places" and pathologies imagined and equilibrated in popular and literary imaginaries? In an era of bust and boom, and in the "wake" of postmodernism, how do texts track their own fortunes and investments? What happens to the written text in the age of hypermedia? In short, this unit of study asks students to speculate: Whose stocks are up? Whose down?
Textbooks
DeLillo Falling Man
ENGL2648 Literature of Travel and Discovery
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr V Smith Session: Semester 2 Classes: Two 1hr lectures and one 1hr tutorial per week. Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of English Prohibitions: ENGL2048 Assessment: One 3000 word written assignment and one 1.5 hour examination
This unit explores a range of texts, from the Ancient world to the twentieth century, encompassing real and imaginary voyages. The focus will shift from the classic voyages of the western imaginary to works focused on the Pacific region and Australia, as we consider the ways in which generic themes and literary structures find articulation in particular contexts. Students will sample a broad spectrum of narrative modes, complemented by visual resources including maps, illustrations, colonial photographs and film.
Textbooks
Homer: The Odyssey
ENGL2650 Reading Poetry
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr B Spurr Session: Semester 1 Classes: Two 1hr lectures and one 1hr tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of English Prohibitions: ENGL2050 Assessment: One 2500 word essay; one 2 hour examination.
A different range of poetry will be offered each year concentrating on an historical period, an individual poet, and a close study of a poetic form. Readings of individual poems will involve both intensive study of technical and linguistic characteristics, as well as of the broader historical, social, ideological and personal contexts and issues which they reflect. As well, there will be discussion of on-going literary-critical debate about poetry and its function.
Textbooks
The Norton Anthology of Poetry, 5th edn
ENGL2651 Transatlantic Negotiations
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr P Marks Session: Semester 2 Classes: One 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points of English Assessment: Assignment-1,000 words, Essay-2,000 words, Exam- 1,500 words
This unit uses literary and film texts as maps with which to explore the cultural negotiations between Europe (especially Britain) and the United States over several centuries. You will consider the changing geopolitical order of things over that time, examining how literature and film reflected and contributed to transnational relationships that were both combative and collaborative. The unit employs comparative theories and practices in critically assessing international cultural intersections through topics such as Europe's cultural dominance, the decline of the British Empire and the contested rise of the political and cultural power of the United States.
Textbooks
Wyndham Lewis, Tarr
ENGL2655 Modern British Literature
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr P Marks Session: Semester 1 Classes: Two 1 hr lecture per week, one 1hr tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of English Assessment: 2000 word essay, 1500 assignment and in-class presentation written up
This unit explores some of the most exciting cultural texts produced in post-WWII Britain. Ranging over fiction, drama, poetry and film, the unit investigates how such texts reflect and contributed to the massive cultural and political changes that have transformed Britain in the period. Topics considered will include realism and experimentation, changing national identity, the rise of youth culture, Americanisation, questions of class and gender, regions versus the metropolis, the collapse of empire and the promise of emerging talent.
ENGL2656 From the Metaphysicals to Milton
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof B Spurr Session: Semester 2 Classes: Two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points of English excluding ENGL1000 Assessment: One 2500 word essay and one 2 hour exam
The English Renaissance of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries presents an extraordinary variety of literary themes and styles, from love lyrics to the most profound religious meditations, from the brief utterances of songs and sonnets to the epic scope of Paradise Lost, from personal revelation to urgent political and social commentary.
This unit of study offers a survey of the period, in historical, cultural and aesthetic terms, and focuses closely on the poetry of Spenser, Donne, Herbert, Milton and Marvell.
This unit of study offers a survey of the period, in historical, cultural and aesthetic terms, and focuses closely on the poetry of Spenser, Donne, Herbert, Milton and Marvell.
Textbooks
The Norton Anthology of Poetry, 5th edn
ENGL2657 Myths, Legends and Heroes
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr D Anlezark Session: Semester 2 Classes: One 1hour lecture and one 1hour tutorial per week. Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of English Assessment: Essay (2500 words), Exam 2 hours (2000 words), Tutorial exercise (1500 words)
Students will study (in modern English translation) the literature of two closely related peoples of the Early Middle Ages -- the Anglo-Saxons and the Scandinavians (some of whom became Vikings). Lectures and tutorials will cover the literature, history, religion and language of these nations, focusing on representations of the heroic ideal, as this is embodied in mythic, legendary and historical writing. Texts to be studied include Beowulf, The Wanderer, The Dream of the Rood, and selections from the Edda.
Textbooks
Beowulf (trans. R. Liuzza)
ENGL2661 Imagining Camelot
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr D Anlezark Session: Semester 1 Classes: One 1 hour lecture and 1 hour tutorial Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of English Prohibitions: ENGL2601 Assessment: Class Participation 500 words, Essay 1000 words, Essay 2500 words amd 2 hour Exam
The legend of Camelot and Kind Arthur emerged from the so-called 'Dark Ages', and grew through imaginative story-telling to become one of the most enduring narratives of western literature. In this unit students will study a range of texts which develop the fantastic world of Camelot, from medieval texts in translation to recent film. the unit will consider the legend's transformation across the tradition, from its organs in the Middle Ages, to Tolkein and John F. Kennedy's White House.
Textbooks
Marion Zimmer Bradley, Mists of Avalon
ENGL2811 English Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Students enrolled at Sydney University who wish to take the equivalent of a 6 credit-point senior unit of study in English at an approved overseas university should enrol in this unit. Such students must seek approval for their proposed course of study from the Undergraduate Student Advisor in the Department of English.
ENGL2812 English Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Students enrolled at Sydney University who wish to take the equivalent of a 6 credit-point senior unit of study in English at an approved overseas university should enrol in this unit. Such students must seek approval for their proposed course of study from the Undergraduate Student Advisor in the Department of English.
ENGL2813 English Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Students enrolled at Sydney University who wish to take the equivalent of a 6 credit-point senior unit of study in English at an approved overseas university should enrol in this unit. Such students must seek approval for their proposed course of study from the Undergraduate Student Advisor in the Department of English.
ENGL2814 English Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Students enrolled at Sydney University who wish to take the equivalent of a 6 credit-point senior unit of study in English at an approved overseas university should enrol in this unit. Such students must seek approval for their proposed course of study from the Undergraduate Student Advisor in the Department of English.
ENGL2815 English Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Students enrolled at Sydney University who wish to take the equivalent of a 6 credit-point senior unit of study in English at an approved overseas university should enrol in this unit. Such students must seek approval for their proposed course of study from the Undergraduate Student Advisor in the Department of English.
ENGL2816 English Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Students enrolled at Sydney University who wish to take the equivalent of a 6 credit-point Senior unit of study in English at an approved overseas university should enrol in this unit. Such students must seek approval for their proposed course of study from the Undergraduate Student Advisor in the Department of English.
ENGL2817 English Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Students enrolled at Sydney University who wish to take the equivalent of a 6 credit-point Senior unit of study in English at an approved overseas university should enrol in this unit. Such students must seek approval for their proposed course of study from the Undergraduate Student Advisor in the Department of English.
ENGL2818 English Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Students enrolled at Sydney University who wish to take the equivalent of a 6 credit-point Senior unit of study in English at an approved overseas university should enrol in this unit. Such students must seek approval for their proposed course of study from the Undergraduate Student Advisor in the Department of English.
ENGL3603 Contemporary British Literature
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr P Marks Session: Semester 2 Classes: One 2 hour seminar per week Prerequisites: Credit or above in 12 senior credit points of English Assessment: One 4000 word essay, annotated bibliography (1500 word equivalent), one in-class oral presentation written up as a 500 word report
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
This unit examines literary texts produced in Britain in the past two decades, exploring their relationship to significant social and political changes occurring in Britain over that period. We will investigate a variety of literary, social, and cultural issues, each of which have contributed to contemporary British culture.
ENGL3605 Canonical Poetry
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof B Spurr Session: Semester 2 Classes: One 2hour seminar per week Prerequisites: Credit or above in 12 senior credit points of English Assessment: One 3000 word essay, one 1000 word class discussion paper and one 2 hour exam.
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
This unit examines the concept of canonicity, with regard to poetry in English, from the Renaissance to the present. Issues to be addressed include: What does 'canonical' mean? How and why have certain poems (and poets) come to be (and ceased to be) 'canonical'? What qualities of theme and technique determine canonicity and by whom are they determined? How (if at all) has the potential for canonicity influenced the composition of poetry?
Textbooks
The Norton Anthology of Poetry, fifth edn.
ENGL3611 Issues in the Semiotics of Language
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr N Riemer Session: Semester 2 Classes: One 2 hour seminar per week Prerequisites: Credit or above in 12 senior credit points of English Prohibitions: ENGL3915 Assessment: One two thousand word and one four thousand word essay.
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
This unit examines some key historical and theoretical topics in the semiotics of language. We begin with an investigation into the structuralist legacy, concentrating on exegetical and theoretical questions raised by Saussurean "valeur" and "difference". We then discuss analyses of lexical polysemy and alternatives to the Saussurean paradigm provided in the Humboldtian and Soviet traditions and in Relevance Theory. The course ends by assessing the desirability and difficulties of accommodating emotion in theories of linguistic signification.
Textbooks
V.V. Voloshinov, Marxism and the Philosophy of Language. (New York: Seminar Press, 1973). A course reader will be available from the University Copy Centre.
ENGL3615 The Rhetoric of the Streets
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr R Johinke Session: Semester 1 Classes: One 2-hour seminar per week (plus occasional film screenings) Prerequisites: Credit or above in 12 senior credit points of English Assessment: One 2-hour seminar per week (plus occasional film screenings)
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
This unit will map the performative journeys of the drivers, passengers, and pedestrians who patrol our streets, pages, and screens. Flaneurs, fetishists, poets, petty criminals, predators, and despairing shift-workers will all jostle for space. Students will reconfigure the streets as rhetorical spaces and consider how authors, artists and filmmakers use urban streetscapes as sites to construct representations of class, gender, race, sanity and sexuality. Students will be challenged to reconsider concepts of authorship and to interrogate different kinds of texts.
Textbooks
Lilian's Story, Kate Grenville
ENGL3633 Introduction to Old English
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr D Anlezark Session: Semester 1 Classes: One 2hour seminar per week. Prerequisites: Credit or above in 12 senior credit points of English Prohibitions: Students who have completed ENGL3621, ENGL3622, ENGL3631, ENGL3632 must consult co-ordinator. Assessment: Class exercises, one 3000 word essay and one 2 hour examination.
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
Old English was the language of England from the fifth century until the twelfth. This earliest phase of the English literary tradition evolved against a background of cultural encounters: as the Anglo-Saxons encountered the culture of Rome, as they adopted and adapted the Christian religion, and as they reflected on their origins on the European continent. This unit introduces students to the language spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons, and presents the opportunity to translate and read Old English texts.
Textbooks
A Guide to Old English (Mitchell and Robinson, 7th edition)
ENGL3634 Continuing Old English
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr D Anlezark Session: Semester 2 Classes: One 2hour seminar per week. Prerequisites: ENGL3633 Prohibitions: Students who have completed ENGL3621, ENGL3622, ENGL3631, ENGL3632 must consult co-ordinator Assessment: Class exercises, one 3000 word essay and one 2hour examination.
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
The literature of the Anglo-Saxons offers an insight into a range of understandings of the place of human beings in the world and its history. This course will build on students' elementary knowledge of the Old English language, and offer students the opportunity to translate and read a range of texts including historical prose, love poetry and religious texts. These texts will be studied in a range of contexts, from the cultural and historical to their manuscript setting.
Textbooks
A Guide to Old English (Mitchell and Robinson, 7th edition)
ENGL3635 Introduction to Old Norse
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof G Barnes Session: Semester 1 Classes: One 2 hour seminar per week. Prerequisites: Credit or above in 12 senior credit points of English Prohibitions: Students who have completed ENGL3621, ENGL3622, ENGL3631, ENGL3632 must consult co-ordinator. Assessment: Class exercises, one 3000 word essay and one 2hour examination.
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
Old Norse is the name given to the language of medieval Scandinavia, and was the language of the Viking invaders of Britain in the early Middle Ages. Old Norse literature presents a rich variety, from mythological and legendary poetry to Icelandic sagas. This unit introduces students to the language spoken and written in medieval Scandinavia, and offers the opportunity to translate and read Old Norse texts.
Textbooks
A New Introduction to Old Norse (Faulkes)
ENGL3636 Continuing Old Norse
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof G Barnes Session: Semester 2 Classes: One 2hour seminar per week. Prerequisites: ENGL3635 Prohibitions: Students who have completed ENGL3621, ENGL3622, ENGL3631, ENGL3632 must consult co-ordinator Assessment: Class exercises, one 3000 word essay and one 2hour examination
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
Old Norse is the name given to the language of medieval Scandinavia, and was the language of the Viking invaders of Britain in the early Middle Ages. Old Norse literature presents a rich variety, from mythological and legendary poetry to Icelandic sagas. This unit offers students the opportunity of developing their knowledge of the Old Norse language and its cultural contexts, and to translate and read Old Norse prose and poetic texts.
Textbooks
A New Introduction to Old Norse (Faulkes)
ENGL3642 Studies in Medieval Literatures
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr D Anlezark Session: Semester 1 Classes: One 2 hour seminar per week Prerequisites: Credit or above in 12 senior credit points of English Assessment: Written work totalling 6000 words
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
This unit is devoted to linguistic, literary, critical and cultural studies of Medieval English and other literatures from 1066 to 1550. The particular topic will be closely related to the research and scholarly interest of the teacher offering the unit. In 2010 the topic will be "Dreams and Visions". This unit will study the literature of dreams and visions of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period against a range of literary and social backgrounds. The unit will begin with a survey of the classical and biblical background to works which may be defined as dreams or visions, as well as examining the relationship between the two genres and their transformations from the Middle Ages into the Renaissance.
Textbooks
The Dream of the Rood
ENGL3653 Political Speech in Early Modern Drama
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr H Griffiths Session: Semester 1 Classes: One 2 hour seminar per week Prerequisites: Credit or above in 18 senior credit points of English Assessment: Entry for online glossary - 500 words, scene analysis - 1,500 words, Essay proposal - 500 words, Essay - 3,500 words
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
The drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries was part of an early modern revival of interest in rhetoric as a powerful political tool. This unit focuses on early modern plays (Shakespeare's in particular) where the success or failure of different forms of rhetoric are important features. Who is allowed to speak? Who listens? and what is considered dangerous about the ability to persuade? This unit will appeal to students interested in rhetoric and politics, as well as Shakespeare.
ENGL3654 Libertine Literature: Sex and Liberty
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr N Parsons Session: Semester 1 Classes: One 2 hour seminar per week Prerequisites: Credit or above in 18 senior credit points of English Assessment: Oral presentation, 1 x research proposal - 1,000 words,1 x peer review of another student's research proposal - 1,000 words, 1x Essay - 4,000 words
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
This unit of study examines libertinism as a social and literary foundation in the years following the restoration of Charles II (1660-1685). Through an examination of the fictional and non - fictional texts, we will be investigating libertinism from two perspectives: as a set of unruly social and sexual practices, and as a philosophical movement. In addition, we will consider what it means to perform private acts (such as sex, sedition and sacrilege) in the public sphere.
ENGL3655 The Literary in Theory
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr M Hardie Session: Semester 2 Classes: One 2 hour seminar per week Prerequisites: Credit or above in 18 senior credit points of English Assessment: Seminar presentation of research proposal - 2000 words, Research Essay - 4,000 words.
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
This unit will introduce students to significant movements in modern and contemporary literary theory to think about what It means to speak of the literary. The unit of study begins by examining the question of "literariness" through its exposition and defence by number of scholars. We will pursue the applications of their arguments through selection of theoretical models, including queer and gender theory, psychoanalysis, and race theory, to consider the cultural and ideological work imaginative literature undertakes.
ENGL3656 Rethinking the Thirties
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr S Gleeson-White Session: Semester 1 Classes: One 2 hour seminar per week Prerequisites: Credit or above in 18 senior credit points of English Assessment: One 1000 word annotated bibliography, One 5000 word essay.
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
Many British and US writers responded to the trauma of the Great Depression with works of documentary realism and naturalism. However, the 1930s was also the Golden Age of Hollywood and an era of literary experimentalism. In this Advanced unit, we analyse both visual and literary texts to compare the way in which writers and filmmakers responded to the crisis, consider the relationship between politics and aesthetics, and challenge conceptions of the decade's creative output as exclusively and overtly political.
ENGL3657 The Brontes
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr. V Smith Session: Semester 2 Classes: Two 1hr lectures and one 1hr tutorial per week Prerequisites: Credit or above in 18 senior credit points of English Assessment: Assignment-2,000 words, Essay Proposal-500 words, Essay-3,5000 words
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
The novels of the Bronte Sisters are among the most enduringly popular Victorian texts, yet they have an ambiguous critical status. The perception that the Brontes are labile and cloistered writers, best interpreted psychoanalytically, raises questions about the relationship between biography and literature, and the ways in which notions of social and historical relevance play into judgments about literary value. We will think about canonical and popular literary status, biography and authorship, gender and writing, and Victorian society.
ENGL4101 English Honours A
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr H Griffiths Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: Four 2 hour seminars (2 in each semester) meeting once a week Prerequisites: For 2010 Students : Credit average in 48 senior English credit points (8 units of study), including the two special entry units ENGL3962 and ENGL3964, and two advanced units on topics other than twentieth-century literature and film (that is, any except ENGL3601, ENGL3603, ENGL3604). Students wishing to commence their honours year in 2011 should consult Section 4 of this handbook for new prerequisites that will apply from that year onwards. Assessment: A thesis of 15,000 words and 24,000 words of written work or its equivalent for each seminar.
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in English consists of:
a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
two seminars that meet weekly for two hours in semester one and two seminars that meet weekly for two hours in semester two, i.e. a total of four seminars during the year.
The thesis should be 15,000 words in length. Each seminar requires 6,000 words of written work or its equivalent. One of the March semester seminars is assessed, in part, through participation in the English department's honours conference.
The thesis is worth 40% of the final Honours mark and each of the four seminars is worth 15% (60% in total).
Seminars will be offered from the following list in 2010:
Medieval Languages 1: Old English (Dr Daniel Anlezark)
Medieval Languages 2: Old English (Dr Daniel Anlezark)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Dr Lawrence Warner)
Language and Subject (Dr Nick Riemer)
History in English: Lyric, Epic, and Dramatic (Dr Bruce Gardiner)
Milton (Associate Professor Barry Spurr)
Early/Modern (Dr Kate Lilley)
Sentiment and Sensation (Dr Vanessa Smith)
Waterloo to Peterloo (Associate Professor William Christie)
American Gothic (Dr Melissa Hardie)
Reading Whiteness: Contemporary Literature and Film (Dr Victoria Burrows)
Movements in Modern and Contemporary Drama: Theory and Practice (Dr Mark Byron)
Australian Poetry and the Symbolistes (Associate Professor David Brooks)
Undisciplined Histories (Professor Robert Dixon)
Australian Classics (Professor Robert Dixon)
Reading Suburbia (Dr Brigid Rooney)
For more information, contact Dr Huw Griffiths, Honours coordinator.
a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
two seminars that meet weekly for two hours in semester one and two seminars that meet weekly for two hours in semester two, i.e. a total of four seminars during the year.
The thesis should be 15,000 words in length. Each seminar requires 6,000 words of written work or its equivalent. One of the March semester seminars is assessed, in part, through participation in the English department's honours conference.
The thesis is worth 40% of the final Honours mark and each of the four seminars is worth 15% (60% in total).
Seminars will be offered from the following list in 2010:
Medieval Languages 1: Old English (Dr Daniel Anlezark)
Medieval Languages 2: Old English (Dr Daniel Anlezark)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Dr Lawrence Warner)
Language and Subject (Dr Nick Riemer)
History in English: Lyric, Epic, and Dramatic (Dr Bruce Gardiner)
Milton (Associate Professor Barry Spurr)
Early/Modern (Dr Kate Lilley)
Sentiment and Sensation (Dr Vanessa Smith)
Waterloo to Peterloo (Associate Professor William Christie)
American Gothic (Dr Melissa Hardie)
Reading Whiteness: Contemporary Literature and Film (Dr Victoria Burrows)
Movements in Modern and Contemporary Drama: Theory and Practice (Dr Mark Byron)
Australian Poetry and the Symbolistes (Associate Professor David Brooks)
Undisciplined Histories (Professor Robert Dixon)
Australian Classics (Professor Robert Dixon)
Reading Suburbia (Dr Brigid Rooney)
For more information, contact Dr Huw Griffiths, Honours coordinator.
ENGL4102 English Honours B
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr H Griffiths Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ENGL4101
See ENGL4101
ENGL4103 English Honours C
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr H Griffiths Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ENGL4102
See ENGL4101
ENGL4104 English Honours D
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr H Griffiths Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ENGL4103
See ENGL4101
ASLT2609 Australian Literature 1988 to Present
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: A/Prof David Brooks Session: Semester 2 Classes: Two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points Prohibitions: ASLT2009 Assessment: One 1500 word essay (mid-semester 30%), and one 3000 word take-home exam (end of semester 70%)
This unit will introduce students to some major Australian texts and writers of the last two decades. While its main focus will be on fiction, poetry and non-fiction, there will also be an emphasis on texts which aim to subvert or question such generic boundaries. Other issues to be discussed will include the rewriting of Australian history from postcolonial and Indigenous perspectives; the representation of gender and sexuality in recent Australian writing; cross-cultural writing and literature in translation.
Textbooks
Astley, T. Drylands (Viking)
ASLT2616 Australian Stage and Screen
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr P Kirkpatrick Session: Semester 1,Summer Early Classes: Two 1hr lectures and one 1 hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 18 Junior credits points Prohibitions: ASLT2006, ASLT2016 Assessment: One 2000 word essay, one oral presentation, 5-10 minutes, with 500 word written summary, and one 2000 word take-home examination
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
A study of the development of Australian drama and film from 1788 to the present. It will examine selected plays and films within the context of: the history of theatrical and cinema performance; the influence of changing technologies and dramatic styles; cultural concerns with identitiy, gender and race. It will give special emphasis to the continuing links between stage and screen, in particular the ways in which plays have been adapted to film.
Textbooks
Texts may include: plays by Bert Bailey, Louis Esson, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Patrick White, Ray Lawler, Jack Davis, David Williamson, Debra Oswald, Louis Nowra; and films by directors such as Raymond Longford, Ken G. Hall, Peter Weir, Ray Lawrence, Gillian Armstrong, Baz Luhrmann. A resource book will be available.
ASLT2617 Writing and Justice
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr B Brennan Session: Semester 1 Classes: One 2 hr seminar/week Prerequisites: 18 Junior credit points Assessment: One mid-semester essay (2000 wds:30%); one end-semester essay (4000 wds:70%)
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
This unit is designed to encourage students to consider some of the ways writers and filmmakers address issues of moral, legal and social justice. Beginning with consideration of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment it goes on to explore how various forms of writing - essays, poetry, fiction, non-fiction - and film seek to intervene in current political and ethical discussions occurring at a national and international level.
Textbooks
Dostoyevsky, F. Crime and Punishment. New Penguin Classics Edition
ASLT2618 Anatomy of the Literary Hoax
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: A/Prof D.Brooks Session: Semester 1 Classes: two 1-hour lectures and one 1hr tutorial per week Prerequisites: 18 Junior credit points Assessment: One 1500 wd essay, one 3000wd take-home exam, tuorial presentation
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
In 1944 two Australian poets devised what has been called the twentieth century's greatest literary hoax. So many hoaxes have ensued in this country that they can be linked to the national psyche. This unit examines the history, theory and poetics of the literary hoax before exploring its key Australian manifestations, and questioning the relative weight of Australian and international factors (e.g. the postmoodern interrogation of authenticity) in their generation.
Textbooks
Principal texts:
ASLT2620 Writing Australian Nature
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr B Rooney Session: Semester 2 Classes: Two 1hour lectures and one 1hour tutorial per week. Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points Assessment: Oral presentation - 1000words, Portfolio -2000 words, Essay - 1500 words
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
How does Australian writing engage with Australian nature? What roles have writers (in tandem with artists, photographers and others) played in shaping consciousness of the environment - its wonders, complexities and layered human histories? This unit introduces relevant conceptual frames to examine Australian literary and cultural depictions of, and engagements with nature and the environment in a range of Indigenous and non- Indigenous texts. Can literature transform the way we think about and care for the world in which we live.
ASLT4011 Australian Literature Honours A
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Professor Robert Dixon Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: Four 2 hour seminars (2 in each semester) meeting once a week Prerequisites: Credit average in 48 senior Australian Literature credit points (8 units of study), including the two special entry units ASLT3601 (or ASLT3901) and ASLT3602 (or ASLT3902). This may include up to 18 credit points of senior level English and/or Australian Studies. Assessment: A thesis of 15,000 words and 24,000 words of written work or its equivalent for each seminar.
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in Australian Literature consists of:
a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
two seminars that meet weekly for two hours in semester one and two seminars that meet weekly for two hours in semester two, i.e. a total of four seminars during the year.
The thesis should be 15,000 words in length. Each seminar requires 6,000 words of written work or its equivalent. One of the March semester seminars is assessed, in part, through participation in the English department's honours conference.
The thesis is worth 40% of the final Honours mark and each of the four seminars is worth 15% (60% in total).
Seminars will be offered from the following list in 2010:
Australian Poetry and the Symbolistes (Associate Professor David Brooks)
Undisciplined Histories (Professor Robert Dixon)
Australian Classics (Professor Robert Dixon)
Reading Suburbia (Dr Brigid Rooney)
Medieval Languages 1: Old English (Dr Daniel Anlezark)
Medieval Languages 2: Old English (Dr Daniel Anlezark)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Dr Lawrence Warner)
Language and Subject (Dr Nick Riemer)
History in English: Lyric, Epic, and Dramatic (Dr Bruce Gardiner)
Milton (Associate Professor Barry Spurr)
Early/Modern (Dr Kate Lilley)
Sentiment and Sensation (Dr Vanessa Smith)
Waterloo to Peterloo (Associate Professor William Christie)
American Gothic (Dr Melissa Hardie)
Reading Whiteness: Contemporary Literature and Film (Dr Victoria Burrows)
Movements in Modern and Contemporary Drama: Theory and Practice (Dr Mark Byron)
For more information, contact Professor Robert Dixon.
a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
two seminars that meet weekly for two hours in semester one and two seminars that meet weekly for two hours in semester two, i.e. a total of four seminars during the year.
The thesis should be 15,000 words in length. Each seminar requires 6,000 words of written work or its equivalent. One of the March semester seminars is assessed, in part, through participation in the English department's honours conference.
The thesis is worth 40% of the final Honours mark and each of the four seminars is worth 15% (60% in total).
Seminars will be offered from the following list in 2010:
Australian Poetry and the Symbolistes (Associate Professor David Brooks)
Undisciplined Histories (Professor Robert Dixon)
Australian Classics (Professor Robert Dixon)
Reading Suburbia (Dr Brigid Rooney)
Medieval Languages 1: Old English (Dr Daniel Anlezark)
Medieval Languages 2: Old English (Dr Daniel Anlezark)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Dr Lawrence Warner)
Language and Subject (Dr Nick Riemer)
History in English: Lyric, Epic, and Dramatic (Dr Bruce Gardiner)
Milton (Associate Professor Barry Spurr)
Early/Modern (Dr Kate Lilley)
Sentiment and Sensation (Dr Vanessa Smith)
Waterloo to Peterloo (Associate Professor William Christie)
American Gothic (Dr Melissa Hardie)
Reading Whiteness: Contemporary Literature and Film (Dr Victoria Burrows)
Movements in Modern and Contemporary Drama: Theory and Practice (Dr Mark Byron)
For more information, contact Professor Robert Dixon.
ASLT4012 Australian Literature Honours B
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Professor Robert Dixon Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ASLT4011
Refer to ASLT4011
ASLT4013 Australian Literature Honours C
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Professor Robert Dixon Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ASLT4012
Refer to ASLT4011
ASLT4014 Australian Literature Honours D
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Professor Robert Dixon Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ASLT4013
Refer to ASLT4011
European Studies
EUST2611 European & Middle Eastern Myth & Legend
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Andrea Williams Session: Semester 1 Classes: One 1 hour lecture per week, one 1 hour tutorial per week and WebCT-guided reading, worksheets, discussion forum for ongoing development. Prerequisites: 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 permission from the Director of European Studies. Assessment: Presentation (equivalent to 2000 words), 2 essays of 2000 words each.
This course introduces some major myths and legends that constitute the foundations of Western European and Middle Eastern cultures. We consider how legends such as the Grail have evolved cross-culturally from the earliest times to the present day, with recent manifestations like the Da Vinci Code. We also examine the transformation of mythical archetypes such as the Quest (seen also in the voyages of Odysseus and Sindbad) and binary pairs (for instance in Ancient Greek and Arabic myth).
EUST2612 Regionalisms in Europe & the Middle East
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Kathryn Crameri Session: Semester 2 Classes: One 1 hour lecture per week, one 1 hour tutorial per week and guided reading worksheets via WebCT / online postings planned for ongoing development. Prerequisites: 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 permission from the Director of European Studies. Assessment: Oral presentation (1000 words), essay (2000 words), essay (3000 words).
This unit of study is designed to introduce the history of various regions, the nature of regional debate and the role of regional institutions within Europe and the Middle East. It will examine nationalism and community consciousness at levels below the nation-state and will consider the differing relationships between central and regional powers in a number of case studies and the historic reasons for these.
EUST2613 Romanticism and Revolution
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Françoise Grauby Session: Semester 2 Classes: One 1 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 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 permission from the Director of European Studies. Assessment: 2 essays (2000 words each), class presentation (equivalent to 2000 words).
This unit will examine the impact of the Romantic Movement across Europe by examining the historical and cultural connections between three European countries (Germany, England and France) during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. We will consider the different national contexts separately, look at their influence on each other and at the influence of Romantic thought throughout European society, identifying ways in which Romantic ideas and values revolutionised social, cultural and aesthetic ideas, transformed worldviews and shaped the future of Europe.
EUST2614 Contested Histories of Eastern Europe
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Vrasidas Karalis and Dr Andrea Bandhauer Session: Semester 1 Classes: One 1 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 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 permission from the Director of European Studies. Assessment: Two 2000 word essays (30% each), class presentation equivalent to 1000 words (20%), 1000 word essay (20%).
This unit examines through film, literature and media the histories and cultures of Eastern European countries after World War Two, the Cold war, the dissolution of the Soviet empire and the rise of nationalist and fundamentalist movements in various countries. Particular emphasis is given to the former Yugoslavia, Albania, Turkey and Russia. The special case of Greece is discussed. The unit explores the state and nation building processes as implemented during the process of participating in the European Union.
EUST2805 European Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
EUST2806 European Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
EUST2807 European Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
EUST2808 European Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
EUST4011 European Studies Honours A
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Peter Morgan Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: Three seminars, each seminar meets weekly for 2 hours for one semester Prerequisites: 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 European language (other than English) or a Middle Eastern language. Assessment: A thesis of 12000-15000 words and 4000-6000 words of written work or its equivalent for each seminar.
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in European Studies consists of:
1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
2. three seminars that meet weekly for two hours for one semester.
The thesis should be of 12000-15000 words in length. Each seminar requires 4000-6000 words of written work or its equivalent.
The thesis is worth 50% of the final Honours mark and each of the seminars is worth 16.66%.
The following seminars are on offer in 2010:
European Identity and Cultures (Dr Kathryn Crameri)
European Cinema and National Identities (Assoc Prof Judith Keene)
In addition, students will complete one seminar related to historical and / or modern Europe, subject to approval.
For more information, contact Prof Peter Morgan, Honours coordinator.
1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
2. three seminars that meet weekly for two hours for one semester.
The thesis should be of 12000-15000 words in length. Each seminar requires 4000-6000 words of written work or its equivalent.
The thesis is worth 50% of the final Honours mark and each of the seminars is worth 16.66%.
The following seminars are on offer in 2010:
European Identity and Cultures (Dr Kathryn Crameri)
European Cinema and National Identities (Assoc Prof Judith Keene)
In addition, students will complete one seminar related to historical and / or modern Europe, subject to approval.
For more information, contact Prof Peter Morgan, Honours coordinator.
EUST4012 European Studies Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: EUST4011
See EUST4011
EUST4013 European Studies Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: EUST4012
See EUST4011
EUST4014 European Studies Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: EUST4013
See EUST4011
Film Studies
FILM2810 Film Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Students enrolled at Sydney University who wish to take the equivalent of a 6 credit-point junior unit of study in Film at an approved overseas university should enrol in this unit. Such students must seek approval for their proposed course of study from the Undergraduate Studies Coordinator.
FILM2811 Film Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Students enrolled at Sydney University who wish to take the equivalent of a 6 credit-point junior unit of study in Film at an approved overseas university should enrol in this unit. Such students must seek approval for their proposed course of study from the Undergraduate Studies Coordinator.
FILM2812 Film Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Students enrolled at Sydney University who wish to take the equivalent of a 6 credit-point junior unit of study in Film at an approved overseas university should enrol in this unit. Such students must seek approval for their proposed course of study from the Undergraduate Studies Coordinator.
FILM2813 Film Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Students enrolled at Sydney University who wish to take the equivalent of a 6 credit-point junior unit of study in Film at an approved overseas university should enrol in this unit. Such students must seek approval for their proposed course of study from the Undergraduate Studies Coordinator.
FILM2814 Film Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Students enrolled at Sydney University who wish to take the equivalent of a 6 credit-point junior unit of study in Film at an approved overseas university should enrol in this unit. Such students must seek approval for their proposed course of study from the Undergraduate Studies Coordinator.
FILM2815 Film Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Students enrolled at Sydney University who wish to take the equivalent of a 6 credit-point junior unit of study in Film at an approved overseas university should enrol in this unit. Such students must seek approval for their proposed course of study from the Undergraduate Studies Coordinator.
FILM4101 Film Studies Honours A
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr K Broadfoot Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 2-hour weekly seminars; a series of half-day workshops Prerequisites: Results of a credit average or better in 48 credit points in Film Studies senior units. If you do not have this prerequisite please contact the Honours coordinator to determine possible waiving of the prerequisite. Students may commence their study either at the beginning of the year or mid-year. Assessment: A thesis of 18,000-20,000 words; a weekly 2-hour seminar for one semester with 6000-8000 words of written works; a series of half-day workshops that meet four times with 6000-8000 words of written work.
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in Film Studies consists of:
a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
1 seminar (Film is the Issue) that meets weekly for two hours for one semester.
1 workshop (Analysing the Visual) that meets four times during one semester
The thesis should be of 18,000-20,000 words in length. Each seminar and the workshop requires 6000-8000 words of written work or its equivalent.
The thesis is worth 60% of the final Honours mark and each of the seminars and workshop is worth 20%.
The following seminars are on offer in 2010:
Film is the Issue (Dr Keith Broadfoot)
The following workshop is on offer in 2010:
Analysing the Visual (Assoc Prof Jennifer Milam)
For more information, contact Dr Keith Broadfoot, Honours coordinator
a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
1 seminar (Film is the Issue) that meets weekly for two hours for one semester.
1 workshop (Analysing the Visual) that meets four times during one semester
The thesis should be of 18,000-20,000 words in length. Each seminar and the workshop requires 6000-8000 words of written work or its equivalent.
The thesis is worth 60% of the final Honours mark and each of the seminars and workshop is worth 20%.
The following seminars are on offer in 2010:
Film is the Issue (Dr Keith Broadfoot)
The following workshop is on offer in 2010:
Analysing the Visual (Assoc Prof Jennifer Milam)
For more information, contact Dr Keith Broadfoot, Honours coordinator
FILM4102 Film Studies Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: FILM4101
Please refer to FILM4101
FILM4103 Film Studies Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: FILM4102
Please refer to FILM4101
FILM4104 Film Studies Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: FILM4103
Please refer to FILM4101
French Studies
FRNC1611 Junior French Introductory 1
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Alice Caffarel Session: Semester 1,Summer Main,Winter Main Classes: 4 hours per week (1 lecture, 3 tutorials) Prerequisites: Complete beginners, or less than 2 years of French, or less than 65% in Beginners HSC French Prohibitions: FRNC1101 Assessment: Continuous assessments: participation and weekly exercises online and face-to-face equivalent to 900 words (20%), 2 grammar tests equivalent to 1350 words (30%), oral test equivalent to 1350 words (30%), written test equivalent to 900 words (20%). (Total assessment 4500 words.)
This unit is based both on communicative methodology and functional approach to language. Its main objective is to teach the learner how to communicate and use grammar appropriately in a range of situations, while learning about French culture. Speaking, writing, listening and reading comprehension skills, will be developed through communicative activities. In addition, online resources and grammar activities will complement face-to-face teaching. This unit provides the essential skills for negotiating in and understanding everyday situations. FRNC1612 is the standard progression.
Textbooks
Di Giura, M. and Beacco, J-C. (2007). Alors? Méthode de français Niveau A1
FRNC1612 Junior French Introductory 2
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Alice Caffarel Session: Semester 2,Summer Late,Winter Main Classes: 3 hours per week (1 lecture, 2 tutorials) Prerequisites: FRNC1611 or FRNC1101 or equivalent Prohibitions: FRNC1102 Assessment: Continuous assessment: participation and weekly exercises online and face-to-face and written expression (equivalent to 2250 words, 50%), oral exam (20%), written exam (equivalent to 2250 words, 30%).
FRNC1612 Junior French 2 is the continuation of FRNC1611 Junior French 1. It aims at strengthening students' oral communication skills and at developing further their written skills (reading and writing). Having completed FRNC1612 Junior French 2, students in their second year will normally enter FRNC2611 Senior French 1.
Textbooks
Robbe-Grillet, A (1985). Djinn. Un trou entre les pavés disjoints
FRNC1621 Junior French Intermediate 3
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3 hours per week Prerequisites: Less than 80% in HSC French Continuers or more than 65% in HSC French Beginners or equivalent Prohibitions: FRNC1201 Assessment: Class participation and written exercises (20%) (800 words), 2 written grammar tests (40%) (2200 words), comprehension test (20%) (1000 words), oral test (20%). (Total assessment 4000 words equivalent.)
This unit is designed for students who have studied some French but have not taken the Higher School Certificate examinations, or have less than 80% in French Continuers or Extension unit, or more than 65% in Beginners. It is based on a communicative approach and provides a systematic review of spoken and written French, building on students' previous experience of the language.
Textbooks
Capelle, G & Gidon, N. (1999) Reflet 1, Paris: Hachette
FRNC1622 Junior French Intermediate 4
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Andrea Williams Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3 hours per week Prerequisites: FRNC1621 or FRNC1201 or equivalent Prohibitions: FRNC1202 Assessment: Class participation and written exercises (20%) (800 words), 2 written grammar tests (40%) (2200 words), comprehension test (20%) (1000 words), oral test (20%). (Total assessment 4000 words equivalent.)
This unit is the continuation of FRNC1621 Junior French 3. It continues to develop speaking, listening, writing and reading skills, while providing further insights into contemporary French culture. Having completed FRNC1622 Junior French 4, students in their second year will usually enter FRNC2611 Senior French 1.
Textbooks
Capelle, G & Gidon, N. (1999) Reflets 1, Paris: Hachette
FRNC1631 Junior French Advanced 5
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Françoise Grauby Session: Semester 1 Classes: Two 1 hour lectures and two 1 hour tutorials per week Prerequisites: HSC French Continuers and Extension or more than 80% in Continuers French Prohibitions: FRNC1301 Assessment: Language: Two 200 word written assignments in French (equivalent to 800 words in English), written class test in French (equivalent to 1500 words in English), 4-5 minute oral test in French (equivalent to 1000 words in English). Reading: Written class test in French (equivalent to 1200 words in English).
This unit is designed for students who have completed HSC French Continuers and Extension or obtained more than 80% in Continuers. It consists of two segments (Practical Language and Reading) that together seek to develop speaking, writing, listening and reading skills, while providing an insight into contemporary French culture.
Textbooks
Course booklets to be purchased from the University Copy Centre.
FRNC1632 Junior French Advanced 6
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Françoise Grauby Session: Semester 2 Classes: Two 1 hour lectures and two 1 hour tutorials per week Prerequisites: FRNC1631 or FRNC1301 or equivalent Prohibitions: FRNC1302 Assessment: Language: Two 200 word written assignments in French (equivalent to 800 words in English), written class test in French (equivalent to 1000 words in English), 3 minute oral test in French (equivalent to 700 words in English). Reading: 1 hour test on medieval literature (equivalent to 1000 words in English), 3 minute oral exercise on theatre in French (equivalent to 1000 words in English).
This unit is the continuation of the first semester unit FRNC1631. Like that unit, it consists of two segments (Practical Language and Reading) that together seek to develop speaking, writing, listening and reading skills, while providing an insight into contemporary French culture.
Textbooks
Aucassin et Nicolette, Garnier Flammarion
FRNC1801 French Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
For students studying overseas.
FRNC1802 French Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
For students studying overseas.
FRNC2611 Senior French Intermediate 1
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Peter Cowley Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3 hours per week Prerequisites: FRNC1622, FRNC1612, FRNC1202, FRNC1102 or equivalent Prohibitions: FRNC2103 Assessment: Classwork 20% (equivalent to 800 words), reading and writing tests 80% (equivalent to 3200 words).
This unit is based on a communicative approach and concentrates on interactive exercises and activities to consolidate speaking, listening, writing and reading skills, reinforce understanding grammar, extend vocabulary and improve confidence in communication. This unit is normally taken by specialist students in conjunction with FRNC2614 French Reading 1.
Textbooks
Collins-Robert French Dictionaries
FRNC2612 Senior French Intermediate 2
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Peter Cowley Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3 hours per week Prerequisites: FRNC2611, FRNC2103 or equivalent Prohibitions: FRNC2104 Assessment: Classwork 15% (equivalent to 600 words), written tests 65% (equivalent to 2600 words), oral tests 20% (equivalent to 800 words).
This unit is based on a communicative approach and concentrates on interactive exercises and activities to develop skill in complex sentence formation and communicative functions, extend vocabulary, learn about aspects of French culture and acquire skills necessary for oral class presentations and essay writing in French. This unit is normally taken by specialist students in conjunction with FRNC2615 French Reading 2. Having completed FRNC2612 Senior French 2, students in their third year will enter FRNC2621 Senior French 3.
Textbooks
Collins-Robert French Dictionaries
FRNC2614 French Reading 1: Text and Society
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Françoise Grauby Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1 hour lecture and 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: FRNC1612, FRNC1622, FRNC1102, FRNC1202 or equivalent Prohibitions: FRNC2621, FRNC3631, FRNC2501, FRNC3621, FRNC3622 Assessment: 3 written assignments, equivalent to 6000 words in English: class test (30%), commentary on text (30%), essay (30%), participation and preparation (10%).
Note: This unit is required for students intending to major or take options in their third year
This unit provides a socio-historical and cultural framework for students' studies within the department and develops reading, analytical and critical skills through the close study of a variety of contemporary, authentic texts. The segment presents an overview of the social transformations France has undergone in the twentieth century and the political challenges it confronts as it attempts to redefine its role in the world and in Europe.
Textbooks
A dossier of texts to be purchased from the University Copy Centre.
FRNC2615 Literature and Theatre
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Andrea Williams Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1 hour lecture and 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: FRNC2614, FRNC2501 or equivalent Prohibitions: FRNC2502, FRNC2622, FRNC3631, FRNC3621, FRNC3622 Assessment: Class test (1000 words), commentary (1000 words), oral presentation (1500 words), essay (2500 words), (total assessment 6000 words equivalent).
Note: This unit is required for students intending to major or take options in their third year
This unit continues the study of French national and cultural identity through the centuries, the development of reading, analytical and critical skills, and the practice of oral and written French. It places greater emphasis on literary texts, including study of narrative fiction and a play. It is designed for students in the second year of the beginner or intermediate streams, to be taken by specialist students in conjunction with FRNC2612.
Textbooks
Aucassin et Nicolette, Garnier-Flammarion
FRNC2621 Senior French Intermediate 3
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Caroline Lipovsky Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1 hour lecture and 2 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: FRNC2612, FRNC2104 or equivalent Prohibitions: FRNC3105 Assessment: 2 written assignments in French (equivalent to 2000 words in English), written class test in French (equivalent to 1500 words in English), 3-4 minute oral test in French (equivalent to 1000 words in English).
This unit follows on from FRNC2612 Senior French 2. It seeks to develop speaking, writing, listening and reading skills while providing an insight into contemporary French culture. The unit uses communicative and cognitive approaches to language learning. Students' active participation through teamwork, role-playing and other interactive techniques is an essential aspect of all classes. This unit is normally taken by specialist students in conjunction with one of the options.
Textbooks
Course booklets to be purchased from University Copy Centre.
FRNC2622 Senior French Intermediate 4
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Caroline Lipovsky Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1 hour lecture and 2 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: FRNC2621, FRNC3105 or equivalent Prohibitions: FRNC3106 Assessment: 2 written assignments in French (equivalent to 2000 words in English), written class test in French (equivalent to 1500 words in English), oral tests in French (equivalent to 1000 words in English).
This unit is a continuation of FRNC2621. It provides further insights into contemporary French culture and will lead to simple discussions on French cultural issues and current affairs.
Textbooks
Course booklets to be purchased from University Copy Centre.
FRNC2666 Research Methods in French Studies
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Michelle Royer Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2 hours per week Prerequisites: Credit in FRNC1632 or FRNC2615 or FRNC1302 or FRNC2502 Assessment: 10-15 minute class presentation in French (equivalent to 3000 words in English); research methodology project in French (equivalent to 3000 words in English).
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
This unit is designed as an 'Advanced' unit for students enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program. This unit is a prerequisite for admission to honours but may also be taken by students with a credit average as an additional unit. It introduces students to research methodologies and practices in various aspects of French Studies and provides them more generally with the basic tools for carrying out research in the humanities and social sciences.
FRNC2682 The Legend of the Holy Grail
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Andrea Williams Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2 hours per week Prerequisites: FRNC1302 or FRNC2502 or FRNC1632 or FRNC2615 or equivalent Prohibitions: FRNC2901 Assessment: 20 minute class presentation (equivalent to 2000 words), 2 essays (1000 words and 1500 words).
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
The Holy Grail is one of the most enduring symbols to have emerged from medieval French tradition. This unit will trace the development of the legend from its earliest expression in French literature through to the present day, via various media: the written text (medieval and modern) and the visual arts (illuminated manuscripts and cinema).
Textbooks
Chrétien de Troyes: Le Conte du Graal (Livre de Poche Lettres Gothiques)
FRNC2692 The Second French Revolution
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Liz Rechniewski Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2 hours per week Prerequisites: FRNC1632, FRNC1302, FRNC2615, FRNC2502 or equivalent Prohibitions: FRNC2702 Assessment: 10 minute class presentation in French (equivalent to 2000 words in English), 2 essays in French of 1000 words each (equivalent to 4000 words in English) (total assessment equivalent to 6000 words).
In the second half of the twentieth century, French society underwent unprecedented changes, which continue to inform political debate in the third millennium. This unit of study examines the nature of those changes, drawing on the work of theorists such as Simone de Beauvoir, Aimé Césaire and Pierre Bourdieu, and explores their impact both on those caught up in them and on contemporary events and debates. FRNC2692 is primarily designed for students at language level FRNC2622 or FRNC3622.
Textbooks
A dossier of texts to be purchased from the University Copy Centre.
FRNC2803 French Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
For students studying overseas.
FRNC2804 French Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
For students studying overseas.
FRNC2805 French Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
For students studying overseas.
FRNC2806 French Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
For students studying overseas.
FRNC2807 French Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
For students studying overseas.
FRNC2808 French Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
For students studying overseas.
FRNC3621 Senior French Advanced 5
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1 hour lecture and 2 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: FRNC1632, FRNC1302 or equivalent Prohibitions: FRNC2303 Assessment: Written assignment in French (equivalent to 1500 words in English, 30%), written class test in French (equivalent to 1000 words in English, 25%), oral class test in French (equivalent to 1500 words in English, 25%), oral presentation (equivalent to 500 words, 10%), preparation and participation (10%).
This unit will provide a review of formal grammar, concentrating on complex sentences, paragraph and text structure, as well as placing emphasis on oral and written receptive and active communicative skills through functionally-oriented language activities. A range of authentic and semi-authentic material will be used, drawn from written and audiovisual media and occasional literary sources, covering topics of contemporary interest and providing vocabulary development. This unit of study is normally taken by specialist students in combination with one of the options.
Textbooks
J. Ollivier, Grammaire Française, 4th edition
FRNC3622 Senior French Advanced 6
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1 hour lecture and 2 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: FRNC3621, FRNC2303 or equivalent. Prohibitions: FRNC2304 Assessment: Written assignment in French (equivalent to 1500 words in English, 30%), 2 written class tests in French (equivalent to 1500 words in English, 35%), oral class test in French (equivalent to 1500 words in English, 25%), preparation and participation (10%).
This unit is a continuation of FRNC3621. It will normally be taken by specialist students in conjunction with one of the specialist options. Having completed FRNC3622 Senior French 6, students in their third year will enter FRNC3631 Senior French 7.
Textbooks
J. Ollivier, Grammaire Française, 4th edition
FRNC3631 Senior French Advanced 7
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Michelle Royer Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3 hours per week Prerequisites: FRNC3622, FRNC2304 or equivalent Prohibitions: FRNC3305 Assessment: Written assignments (equivalent to 2000 words), oral presentations in French (equivalent to 2000 words), classwork (equivalent to 500 words).
In this unit, students will develop further their oral and written skills. Emphasis is placed on improving students' fluency, spontaneity and accuracy in oral French through debates and discussion of contemporary issues. Reading and writing skills are developed through specific exercises, such as text summaries and syntheses, as well as grammar exercises.
Textbooks
Course booklet to be purchased from University Copy Centre.
FRNC3652 Textual Linguistics
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Alice Caffarel and Dr Caroline Lipovsky Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2 hours per week Prerequisites: FRNC1632 or FRNC2615 or FRNC1302 or FRNC2502 or equivalent Prohibitions: FRNC3603 Assessment: 2 small assignments (1000 words each), final text analysis and interpretation (4000 words).
This unit of study explores the French linguistic system in more detail and in particular the semantic system. It focuses on the resources that make a text a cohesive semantic unit, such as logical relations, reference, lexical strings and thematic progression. This unit provides the students with linguistic tools for the analysis and the interpretation of the semantics of French texts in relation to their context of use.
Textbooks
Course booklet to be purchased from the University Copy Centre.
FRNC3681 Genre de l'Invention, Invention du Genre
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Peter Cowley Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1 hour lecture and 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: FRNC1632 or FRNC1302 or FRNC2615 or FRNC2502 Assessment: In-class test (500 words), take-home exam (equivalent to 1500 words), essay (equivalent to 4000 words).
This unit focuses on French and francophone literary science fiction. It will concentrate on foundational texts and writers in the French tradition, exploring the latter's development, and characteristics particular to it. Students will also be introduced to recent genre theory in French Studies and will use it to analyse the development of this genre.
Textbooks
Consult the department for set texts
FRNC3687 French Enlightenment
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Prof Margaret Sankey Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2 hours per week Prerequisites: FRNC1302, FRNC1632, FRNC2502, FRNC2615 or equivalent Prohibitions: FRNC3908 Assessment: 15 minute class presentation in French (equivalent to 2000 words in English), 2500 word essay in French (equivalent to 4000 words in English).
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
The unit explores the origins of modernity and offers a study of French social and political thought in the eighteenth century and of major writers and thinkers of the Enlightenment period.
Textbooks
Montesquieu. Les Lettres persanes (Garnier-Flammarion)
FRNC3689 French Romanticism
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Françoise Grauby Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2 hours per week Prerequisites: FRNC1302, FRNC1632, FRNC2502, FRNC2615 or equivalent Prohibitions: FRNC3909 Assessment: 15 minute class presentation in French equivalent to 2000 words in English, 1000 word written assignment, 3000 word essay.
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
The unit will discuss the literary movement of Romanticism, along the themes of adolescence and regeneration. It will address such questions as the ideology of progress following the French Revolution, the ambiguities of the Napoleonic period, and the emergence of new sources of inspiration for literature.
Textbooks
Chateaubriand. Memoires d'outre-tombe I (Livre de poche)
FRNC3690 French Political Cinema
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Michelle Royer Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1 hour lecture per week, 1 hour tutorial per week and film screenings Prerequisites: FRNC1631 or FRNC2615 or FRNC1302 or FRNC2502 Assessment: 1 hour class test (equivalent to 800 words), tutorial presentation (equivalent to 1200 words), essay (equivalent to 4000 words).
This unit will focus on a type of filmmaking that shows political and social awareness by depicting socio-political events, contemporary social realities in France and issues of marginality and difference. It will consider the contexts in which various trends of political films have emerged, the influence of post-war film history and contemporary events. The unit will explore issues of cinematic representation of marginality, ethnicity, sexuality and difference. Film screenings are an integral part of the course.
FRNC3801 French In-Country Study
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
For students studying overseas.
FRNC4011 French Honours A
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Michelle Royer Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: Three seminars, each seminar meets weekly for 2 hours for one semester Prerequisites: 48 senior credit points (with Credit average or better) including FRNC2666 Research Methods in French Studies and FRNC3631 Senior French Language (or equivalent). Assessment: A thesis of 12000-15000 words in length and 6000-8000 words of written work or its equivalent for each seminar.
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in French Studies consists of:
1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
2. three seminars that meet weekly for two hours for one semester.
The thesis should be of 12000-15000 words. Each seminar requires 6000-8000 words of written work or its equivalent.
The thesis is worth 60% of the final Honours mark and each of the seminars is worth 13.33%.
The following seminars are on offer in 2010:
La Mémoire Culturelle dans la Fiction Contemporaine (Prof Margaret Sankey)
La Représentation des Minorités dans le Cinéma Français (Dr Michelle Royer)
Theory and Practice of Translation (Dr Peter Cowley)
For more information, contact Dr Michelle Royer, Honours coordinator.
1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
2. three seminars that meet weekly for two hours for one semester.
The thesis should be of 12000-15000 words. Each seminar requires 6000-8000 words of written work or its equivalent.
The thesis is worth 60% of the final Honours mark and each of the seminars is worth 13.33%.
The following seminars are on offer in 2010:
La Mémoire Culturelle dans la Fiction Contemporaine (Prof Margaret Sankey)
La Représentation des Minorités dans le Cinéma Français (Dr Michelle Royer)
Theory and Practice of Translation (Dr Peter Cowley)
For more information, contact Dr Michelle Royer, Honours coordinator.
FRNC4012 French Honours B
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Michelle Royer Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: FRNC4011
Refer to FRNC4011
FRNC4013 French Honours C
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Michelle Royer Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: FRNC4012
Refer to FRNC4011
FRNC4014 French Honours D
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Michelle Royer Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: FRNC4013
Refer to FRNC4011
Gender Studies
GCST2601 Introducing Media and Popular Culture
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Guy Redden Session: Semester 1,Winter Main Classes: one 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points Prohibitions: WMST2001 Assessment: one 1500 word textual analysis, one 2500 word essay and tutorial participation
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
This unit of study will introduce students to the discipline of Cultural Studies through the analysis of media and popular culture. The unit of study will draw on a range of interdisciplinary theories in order to explore how contemporary media and popular culture is analysed within Cultural Studies, including focus on magazines, advertising, cinema and televisual genres, popular music and video, and the internet.
GCST2602 Introducing Gender
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Fiona Probyn-Rapsey Session: Semester 1 Classes: one 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 18 Junior credit points Prohibitions: WMST2002 Assessment: one 2000 word essay and one 2500 word essay
What role does gender play in identities, sexualities, in the way we experience our bodies and our social worlds? This unit of study will introduce students to fundamental concepts about gender and principle theorists of gender. We explore debates about gender and difference; between women and men and between women in relation to class, race and ethnicity. Case studies include reproductive technologies, biopolitics, intersex, love, masculinities, cyborgs and theories of embodiment.
GCST2604 Sex, Violence and Transgression
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Natalya Lusty Session: Semester 2,Summer Main Classes: one 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial Prerequisites: 18 Junior credit points Prohibitions: WMST2004 Assessment: one 2000 word case study, one 2000 word take-home exam, online participation
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
Violence is one of the most prevalent themes in popular culture and public discourse today. It shapes our lives in all sorts of ways, both real and imagined. Incorporating concepts and theoretical tools from gender and cultural studies, this course will examine the construction and representation of violence in relation to sexuality, transgression, difference and power.
GCST2607 Bodies, Sexualities, Identities
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Kane Race Session: Semester 1,Summer Late Classes: one 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points. Prohibitions: WMST2007 Assessment: Tutorial attendance and exercises, one 1500 word essay, one 2500 word essay
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
In this unit of study we will examine the ways in which feminist and other cultural theories have used bodies and sexualities in order to theorise difference and identity. The body and sexuality have been shown to be a major site for the operation of power in our society. We will look at how bodies and sexualities have given rise to critical understandings of identity. The unit of study will be devoted to working through some of the major theories of sexuality and embodiment, and the analysis of cultural practices.
GCST2608 Gender, Communities and Belonging
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Fiona Allon Session: Semester 1 Classes: one 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 18 Junior credit points Prohibitions: WMST2008 Assessment: one 500 word tutorial assignment, one 1500 word essay and one 2000 word take-home exam
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
This unit examines experiences of gender, difference, and belonging within formations of community. It looks at the operation of power and at how power produces and regulates communities, places and identities. It questions the assumption that community is based on the unity and similarity of citizens and their location in bounded cultures and places, and examines alternatives such as difference, cultural diversity, and sociality. Specific debates about the production of community, place and culture within globalisation and contemporary operations of democracy, governance and power are examined. The course is divided into 3 sections: Community and Identity; Community, Difference and Belonging; and Cosmopolitanism and Hospitality.
GCST2609 Cultures of Masculinities
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Anna Hickey-Moody Session: Semester 1,Winter Main Classes: one 1 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 18 Junior credit points Prohibitions: WMST2009 Assessment: one 1500 word research proposal, one 1000 word review paper, and one 3500 word essay
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
'Masculine/feminine' is a core binary through which we come to know the world. Ideas of masculinity are implicit in value judgments about 'sex appeal', the appropriateness of employment opportunities and the ways in which families operate. Via foundational theorists in gender and cultural studies, we examine the economic, social and cultural contexts in which masculinity is lived. The first part of the unit establishes positions of core theorists of masculinity studies, the second surveys central themes in the field: protest masculinity, masculinity in crisis, the feminization of labour and the mythopoetic men's movement. The third is comprised of located case studies.
GCST2610 Intimacy, Love and Friendship
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Melissa Gregg Session: Semester 2 Classes: one 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 18 Junior credit points Prohibitions: WMST2010 Assessment: one 500 word tutorial paper, one 1500 word essay and one 2000 word essay
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
This unit examines the representation and practices of intimate relations focusing especially on the intersection between intimacy and constructions of gender. Divided into three sections, the unit will examine theories of love and friendship, contemporary cultural representations of love, desire and friendship, and the ethics and politics of erotics. This unit will also examine new technologies of intimacy, and discuss their implications for gender and sexuality.
GCST2612 Youth Cultures
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Anna Hickey-Moody Session: Semester 2,Summer Early Classes: one 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points Prohibitions: WMST2012 Assessment: one 1500 word case study, one 2000 word essay/exam and one 1000 word work book
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
This unit uses changing ideas about youth and practices of youth culture as a focus for an introduction to contemporary cultural theory. It aims to introduce students to some of the current parameters for studying cultural forms, practices and theories by examining current and past forms of youth culture, representations of youth and youth culture, and cultural studies of youth. Points of focus include media images of youth, popular culture marketed to youth, and youth subcultures.
GCST2613 Everyday Life: Theories and Practices
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Natalya Lusty Session: Semester 1 Classes: one 1 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 18 Junior credit points Prohibitions: GCST2611 Assessment: one 1000 word close reading assignment, one 2000 word observation task assignment, one 2000 word critical essay or photo essay and one 1000 word group presentation
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
While much of our knowledge of everyday life is taken for granted, often considered ordinary or banal, the field of everyday life studies has provided one of the most important contributions to Cultural Studies. Drawing on critical thinkers including Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau and Raymond Williams as well as feminist approaches to the study of the everyday, this unit will explore some of the defining theories, practices and research methods in this exciting new field.
GCST2614 The Body: Theories, Practices, Cultures
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Ruth Barcan Session: Semester 2 Classes: one 1 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 18 Junior credit points Prohibitions: WMST2012 Assessment: one 1000 word critical reflection exercise, one 2000 word close analysis task, and one 3000 word theoretical essay
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
How are bodily life and social worlds intertwined? What meaning can be found in even the most mundane or intimate body practices and cultures? This unit introduces students to the cultural study of embodiment and the body, drawing on a variety of body practices, cultures and functions, including breathing, toileting, nudism, yoga and body modification. Key concepts include: the mind/body split; disgust and taboos; the creation of borders, surfaces and depths; and the plasticity of bodies in culture.
GCST2804 Gender Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GCST2805 Gender Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GCST2806 Gender Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GCST2810 Gender Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GCST2811 Gender Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GCST3603 Consumer Cultures
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Ruth Barcan Session: Semester 1 Classes: one 1.5 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 18 Junior credit points, including 6 credit points in GCST Prohibitions: WMST3003 Assessment: journal exercises (equivalent to 1500 words), one 1500 word essay, and one 2000 word essay
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
From the theoretical basis of cultural studies, this unit examines the ways in which identities are increasingly formed through consumption. It looks both at critiques of consumer societies and at more optimistic theories about the different forms of life that are promoted by consumer culture, including the forms of identity and belonging they engender. We will consider elements of both material culture (e.g. possessions) and media culture.
GCST3604 Cultural Theory
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Catherine Driscoll Session: Semester 2 Classes: one 1 hour lecture, one 1.5 hour tutorial and 30 minutes of online learning per week Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points including at least 6 credit points GCST Assessment: Three 500 word responses to readings, choice of exam or 2500 word research essay, and participation in class and online
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
Cultural Studies was widely discussed as one of the "New Humanities" in the 1990s, but a long history of debates about and theories of culture precede the discipline, and the processes of deciding what are the key texts and concepts of Cultural Studies is ongoing. This unit overviews core and the most frequently referenced critical and theoretical texts from the Cultural Studies "canon". Students will also undertake reading and analysis exercises designed to help them come to grips with using "theory" in their own work.
GCST3690 Transnationalism, Gender & Globalisation
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Fiona Allon Session: Semester 2 Classes: One 2 hour seminar per week Prerequisites: 18 Junior credit points, including 6 credit points in GCST Prohibitions: WMST3090 Assessment: seminar attendance, seminar exercises (equivalent to 1000 words), one 2000 word essay, one 2500 research essay
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
This unit focuses on globalization theory's buzzwords: cosmopolitanism, diasporic communities, 'glocalization', translocality and hybridity. Using case studies (film, literature, Internet activist sites), from around the world we also consider the field of transnational feminism. We examine transnational feminism in the context of challenges to nation-state sovereignty, struggles for decolonisation, changes to individual subjectivity and the challenge to build transnational networks which take into account cultural 'difference'. We consider cross-cultural reading practices and research methodologies, reflecting a critical and practical engagement with issues covered by the unit.
GCST4015 Gender Studies Honours A
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Fiona Allon Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: one class of 2-3 hours per week for each seminar Prerequisites: Credit average in 48 senior credit points of Gender Studies, including GCST2602 (or WMST2002) Assessment: a thesis of 15,000 words and 6,000 words of written work or its equivalent for each seminar
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in Gender Studies consists of:
1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
2. one seminar that meets weekly for 3 hours for one semester and two seminars that meet weekly for 2 hours for one semester
3. non-assessable participation in an Honours "mini-conference" that runs for half a day early in semester 2.
The thesis should be of 15,000 words in length. Each seminar requires 6,000 words of written work or its equivalent.
The thesis is worth 40% of the final Honours mark and each of the seminars is worth 20%.
The following seminars are on offer in 2010:
Arguing the Point (Dr Melissa Gregg)
Natures and Cultures of Bodies (Dr Kane Race)
Modernism, Modernity and Modern Culture (Dr Catherine Driscoll)
Identity, Place and Culture (Prof Meaghan Morris)
For more information, contact Dr Fiona Allon, Honours coordinator.
1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
2. one seminar that meets weekly for 3 hours for one semester and two seminars that meet weekly for 2 hours for one semester
3. non-assessable participation in an Honours "mini-conference" that runs for half a day early in semester 2.
The thesis should be of 15,000 words in length. Each seminar requires 6,000 words of written work or its equivalent.
The thesis is worth 40% of the final Honours mark and each of the seminars is worth 20%.
The following seminars are on offer in 2010:
Arguing the Point (Dr Melissa Gregg)
Natures and Cultures of Bodies (Dr Kane Race)
Modernism, Modernity and Modern Culture (Dr Catherine Driscoll)
Identity, Place and Culture (Prof Meaghan Morris)
For more information, contact Dr Fiona Allon, Honours coordinator.
GCST4016 Gender Studies Honours B
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Fiona Allon Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: Refer to GCST4015 Corequisites: GCST4015 Assessment: Refer to GCST4015
Refer to GCST4015
GCST4017 Gender Studies Honours C
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Fiona Allon Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: Refer to GCST4015 Corequisites: GCST4016 Assessment: Refer to GCST4015
Refer to GCST4015
GCST4018 Gender Studies Honours D
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Fiona Allon Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: Refer to GCST4015 Corequisites: GCST4017 Assessment: Refer to GCST4015
Refer to GCST4015
GCST4101 Arguing the Point
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Melissa Gregg Session: Semester 1 Classes: one 2 hour seminar per week Prerequisites: Credit average in 48 senior credit points of Gender Studies, including GCST2602 (or WMST2002) OR credit average in 48 senior credit points of Cultural Studies, including GCST2601 (or WMST2001) Prohibitions: WMST4011 Assessment: 4000-6000 words of written work or its equivalent
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: The Honours in Gender Studies and Honours in Cultural Studies programs are structured in the same way. For each, a student must enrol in GCST4101 Arguing the Point and GCST4102 Research Skills. Every student then takes four Honours Thesis units and two Honours Seminar units, in Gender Studies or Cultural Studies respectively.
It is also possible to do combined Honours by enrolling in one Seminar and two Thesis units from each discipline.
All Honours students are also expected to attend the Departmental research seminar series.
Available only to students who commenced Cultural Studies or Gender Studies Honours prior to 2010.
GCST4102 Research Skills
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Fiona Allon Session: Semester 1 Corequisites: GCST4101 Assessment: Satisfactory completion Practical field work: Workshop lengths at times vary across the semester. A program is provided at the beginning of semester.
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: Available only to students who commenced Cultural Studies or Gender Studies Honours prior to 2010.
See GCST4101
GCST4103 Gender Studies Honours Seminar A
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Fiona Allon Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: one 2 hour seminar per week Corequisites: GCST4101 Assessment: 4000-6000 words of written work or its equivalent
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: Available only to students who commenced Cultural Studies or Gender Studies Honours prior to 2010.
See GCST4101
GCST4104 Gender Studies Honours Seminar B
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Fiona Allon Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: one 2 hour seminar per week Corequisites: GCST4101 Assessment: 4000-6000 words of written work or its equivalent
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: Available only to students who commenced Cultural Studies or Gender Studies Honours prior to 2010.
See GCST4101
GCST4105 Gender Studies Honours Thesis A
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Fiona Allon Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: GCST4101 Assessment: 15000 word thesis Practical field work: Consultations with a supervisor appointed by the Department, as determined between the student and the supervisor
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: Available only to students who commenced Cultural Studies or Gender Studies Honours prior to 2010.
See GCST4101
GCST4106 Gender Studies Honours Thesis B
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Fiona Allon Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: GCST4101 Assessment: See GCST4105 Practical field work: Consultations with a supervisor appointed by the Department, as determined between the student and the supervisor
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: Available only to students who commenced Cultural Studies or Gender Studies Honours prior to 2010.
See GCST4101
GCST4107 Gender Studies Honours Thesis C
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Fiona Allon Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: GCST4101 Assessment: See GCST4105 Practical field work: Consultations with a supervisor appointed by the Department, as determined between the student and the supervisor
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: Available only to students who commenced Cultural Studies or Gender Studies Honours prior to 2010.
See GCST4101
GCST4108 Gender Studies Honours Thesis D
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Fiona Allon Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: GCST4101 Assessment: See GCST4105 Practical field work: Consultations with a supervisor appointed by the Department, as determined between the student and the supervisor
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: Available only to students who commenced Cultural Studies or Gender Studies Honours prior to 2010.
See GCST4101
Germanic Studies
GRMN1111 Junior German 1
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Andrea Bandhauer Session: Semester 1 Classes: 4 hours per week Prohibitions: HSC German Extension, German Continuers, German Beginners 70% or above or equivalent Assessment: Classwork (tests, assignments, class presentations, participation), 2 hour exam.
Practical language classes based on a communicative approach that aims to develop the following language skills: speaking and understanding basic conversational German, writing German of an everyday kind and reading simple German texts which will provide an insight into aspects of contemporary life in the German-speaking countries.
Textbooks
Funk et al, studio d A1. Deutsch als Fremdsprache. Kurs-und Übungsbuch (Cornelsen)
GRMN1122 Junior German 2
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Andrea Bandhauer Session: Semester 2 Classes: 4 hours per week Prerequisites: GRMN1111 Assessment: Classwork (tests, assignments, class presentations, participation), 2 hour exam.
Practical language classes based on a communicative approach. These classes will develop and extend the language skills acquired in Semester 1.
Textbooks
Funk et al, studio d A2. Deutsch als Fremdsprache. Kurs-und Übungsbuch (Cornelsen)
GRMN1211 Junior German 3
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Andrea Bandhauer Session: Semester 1 Classes: 4 hours per week Prerequisites: HSC German Beginners 70% or above or German Continuers below 70% or equivalent Assessment: Classwork (conversation, class tests, compositions, comprehensions, translations, class presentations, short literature essay), one 2 hour exam.
Practical language classes, including conversation: 3 hours per week. These classes provide a systematic review of each of the four language skills and a coordinated program to develop and extend these skills. Text study class: 1 hour per week. This part of the course is designed to develop students' reading and comprehension skills; it also provides an introduction to the skills of literary analysis.
Textbooks
Funk et al, studio d B1. Kurs- und Übungsbuch (Cornelsen)
GRMN1222 Junior German 4
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Andrea Bandhauer Session: Semester 2 Classes: 4 hours per week Prerequisites: GRMN1211 Assessment: Classwork (conversation, class tests, compositions, comprehensions, translations, class presentations, short literature essay), one 2 hour exam.
Practical language classes, including conversation: 3 hours per week. These classes provide a systematic review of each of the four language skills and a coordinated program to develop and extend these skills. Text study class: 1 hour per week. This part of the course is designed to further develop students' reading and comprehension skills; it also provides an introduction to the skills of literary analysis.
Textbooks
Teichert et al, Allerlei zum Lesen, 2nd edition (D.C. Heath and Company)
GRMN1311 Junior German 5
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Andrea Bandhauer Session: Semester 1 Classes: 4 hours per week Prerequisites: HSC German Extension or German Continuers 70% or above or equivalent Assessment: Classwork (conversation, class tests, compositions, comprehensions, translations, class presentations, short literature essay), one 2 hour exam.
Practical language classes, including conversation: 3 hours per week. These classes provide a systematic review of each of the four language skills and a coordinated program to develop and extend these skills. Literature tutorial: 1 hour per week. Discussion of a selection of literary texts and a film to develop students' appreciation of these genres and introduce them to the skills of literary and film analysis.
Textbooks
Lodewick, Barthel 1 Kursbuch (Fabouda)
GRMN1322 Junior German 6
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Andrea Bandhauer Session: Semester 2 Classes: 4 hours per week Prerequisites: GRMN1311 Assessment: Classwork (conversation, class tests, compositions, comprehensions, translations, class presentations, short literature essay), one 2 hour exam.
Practical language classes, including conversation: 3 hours per week. These classes provide a systematic review of each of the four language skills and a coordinated program to develop and extend these skills. Literature tutorial: 1 hour per week. Discussion of a variety of literary texts and genres to develop students' appreciation of literature and introduce them to the skills of literary analysis. At the end of this unit students will be able to sit the TestDaF, the pre-requisite language examination for German universities.
Textbooks
Lodewick, Barthel 1 Kursbuch (Fabouda)
GRMN2611 Senior German 1
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Yixu Lu Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3 hours per week Prerequisites: GRMN1122 Prohibitions: GRMN2211, GRMN2222, GRMN2311, GRMN2322, GRMN2331, GRMN2342, GRMN2351, GRMN2362 Assessment: 2 hour exam, classwork (conversation, class tests, compositions, comprehensions, translations, class presentations).
Using the most recent textbook materials which conform to both the European and International reference frameworks, this unit is designed to consolidate and extend the basic German knowledge gained in Junior German 1 and Junior German 2. Classes will practise both written, oral/aural and comprehension skills.
Textbooks
Funk et al, studio d B1. Kurs- und Übungsbuch (Cornelsen)
GRMN2612 Senior German 2
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Yixu Lu Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3 hours per week Prerequisites: GRMN2611 or GRMN2211 Prohibitions: GRMN2222, GRMN2311, GRMN2322, GRMN2331, GRMN2342, GRMN2351, GRMN2362 Assessment: 2 hour exam, class work (conversation, class tests, compositions, comprehensions, translations, class presentations).
Using the most recent textbook materials which conform to both the European and International reference frameworks, this unit is designed to consolidate and extend the basic German knowledge gained in Senior German 1. Classes will practise both written, oral/aural and comprehension skills.
Textbooks
Perlmann-Balme et al, em neu 2008 Brückenkurs, Kursbuch (Hueber)
GRMN2613 Senior German 3
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Yixu Lu Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3 hours per week Prerequisites: GRMN1222 or GRMN2222 or GRMN2612 Prohibitions: GRMN2311, GRMN2322, GRMN2331, GRMN2342, GRMN2351, GRMN2362 Assessment: 2 hour exam, classwork (conversation, class tests, compositions, comprehensions, translations, class presentations).
Using the most recent textbook materials which conform to both the European and International reference frameworks, this unit is designed to consolidate and extend students' command of the German language by practising both written, oral/aural and comprehension skills at a level higher than the level already completed. At the completion of this unit students will have reached the equivalent of the 'Zertifikat Deutsch'.
Textbooks
Perlmann-Balme et al, em neu 2008 Brückenkurs, Kursbuch (Hueber)
GRMN2614 Senior German 4
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Yixu Lu Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3 hours per week Prerequisites: GRMN2613 or GRMN2311 Prohibitions: GRMN2322, GRMN2331, GRMN2342, GRMN2351, GRMN2362 Assessment: 2 hour exam, classwork (conversation, class tests, compositions, comprehensions, translations, class presentations).
Using the most recent textbook materials which conform to both the European and International reference frameworks, this unit is designed to consolidate and extend students' command of the German language by practising both written, oral/aural and comprehension skills at a level higher than the level already completed.
Textbooks
Glienicke, Katthagen, TestDaf. Kurs zur Prüfungsvorbereitung (Hueber)
GRMN2615 Senior German 5
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Yixu Lu Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3 hours per week Prerequisites: GRMN2322 or GRMN2614 Prohibitions: GRMN2331, GRMN2342, GRMN2351, GRMN2362 Assessment: 2 hour exam, classwork (conversation, class tests, compositions, comprehensions, translations, class presentations).
Using the most recent textbook materials which conform to both the European and International reference frameworks, this unit is designed to consolidate and extend students' command of the German language by practising both written, oral/aural and comprehension skills at a level higher than the level already completed.
Textbooks
Lodewick, Barthel 1 Kursbuch (Fabouda)
GRMN2616 Senior German 6
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Yixu Lu Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3 hours per week Prerequisites: GRMN1322 or GRMN2615 Prohibitions: GRMN2342, GRMN2351, GRMN2362 Assessment: 2 hour exam, classwork (conversation, class tests, compositions, comprehensions, translations, class presentations).
Using the most recent textbook materials which conform to both the European and International reference frameworks, this unit is designed to consolidate and extend students' command of the German language by practising both written, oral/aural and comprehension skills at a level higher than the level already completed.
Textbooks
Lodewick, DSH & Studienvorbereitung. Deutsch als Fremdsprache für Studentinnen und Studenten. Tex-und Übungsbuch. (Fabouda)
GRMN2617 Senior German 7
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Yixu Lu Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3 hours per week Prerequisites: GRMN2331 or GRMN2616 Prohibitions: GRMN2351, GRMN2362 Assessment: 2 hour exam, classwork (conversation, class tests, compositions, comprehensions, translations, class presentations).
Using the most recent textbook materials which conform to both the European and International reference frameworks, as well as additional materials, this unit is designed to consolidate and extend students' command of the German language by practising both written, oral/aural and comprehension skills at a level higher than the level already completed. In this unit students will especially acquire a good foundation on the cultural conditions leading to understanding and using the German language.
Textbooks
Lodewick, DSH & Studienvorbereitung. Deutsch als Fremdsprache für Studentinnen und Studenten. Tex-und Übungsbuch. (Fabouda)
GRMN2618 Senior German 8
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Yixu Lu Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3 hours per week Prerequisites: GRMN2342 or GRMN2617 Prohibitions: GRMN2362 Assessment: 2 hour exam, classwork (conversation, class tests, compositions, comprehensions, translations, class presentations).
Using current materials, this unit is designed to consolidate and extend students' command of the German language by practising both written, oral/aural and comprehension skills at a level higher than the level already completed. In this unit students will especially acquire a good foundation on the specific structure of the German language and its background.
Textbooks
Contact the department.
GRMN2631 Reading Comprehension and Text Study
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Birte Giesler Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2 hours per week Prerequisites: (GRMN1111 and GRMN1122) or (GRMN1211 and GRMN1222) Prohibitions: GRMN1311, GRMN1322, GRMN2342, GRMN2616, GRMN2530, GRMN2351, GRMN2617, GRMN2362, GRMN2618 Assessment: 2000 word essay, three class tests (3 x 1000 words), 1 hour exam.
Particularly suitable for students who have completed Junior German 1 and 2. The emphasis of the course will be on improving students' reading skills, as a necessary prerequisite to literary analysis and interpretation.
Textbooks
Teichert et al, Allerlei zum Lesen, 2nd edition (D.C. Heath and Company)
GRMN2632 Early 20th Century German Culture
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Andrea Bandhauer Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2 seminar hours per week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of German not including GRMN1133 Prohibitions: GRMN2450 Assessment: 3500 word essay, written tutorial paper (1500 words), class presentation (1000 words).
This unit will provide students with an in-depth study of the major writers of German literature from the beginning of the 20th century through to about the end of World War II thereby giving students an appreciation of the variety of themes and narrative modes of that period. During this time, writers were confronted with massive cultural, social and political changes and we will examine how they dealt with these in their works.
Textbooks
Mann, Tonio Kröger. Mario und der Zauberer (Fischer Tb. 1381)
GRMN2634 The Fantastic in German Literature
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Birte Giesler Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2 hours per week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of German not including GRMN1133 Assessment: 3000 word essay, tutorial paper (2000 words), class presentation (1000 words).
This unit considers the fantastic as an essential aspect of literature. It will explore literary works in German of differing epochs and genres dealing with forms and subjects of the magic, uncanny, or supernatural, including aspects of science fiction. Several functions of the fantastic in literature - such as escapism, dealing with the rationally unexplainable, as well as depicting futuristic worlds and going through potential problematic situations - will be investigated.
Textbooks
Gebrüder Grimm, Blaubart (copy provided by the department)
GRMN2635 Contemporary German Fiction
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Birte Giesler Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2 hours per week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of German not including GRMN1133 Prohibitions: GRMN2913 Assessment: 3000 word essay, written class test (2000 words), class presentation (1000 words).
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
This unit provides an overview of important currents in recent fiction in the German-speaking countries of Europe. A selection of highly acclaimed novels will be studied in depth and students will gain an insight into the diversity and originality of literature in the German language and an understanding of the relationship of literary texts to their historical and cultural contexts.
Textbooks
Brussig, Thomas: Am kürzeren Ende der Sonnenallee. Fischer Taschenbuch. ISBN 978-3-596-14847-9
GRMN2637 Business German
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Andrea Bandhauer Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: GRMN1222, GRMN1322, GRMN2222 or GRMN2612 Assessment: Classwork (tests, assignments, presentations, participation), 2 hour exam.
This unit develops and practices the language skills, both oral and written, necessary for working in a German business environment. It will deal with issues ranging from everyday communication within a business context, to in-depth analyses of specific economic topics.
Textbooks
Becker, Braunert, Eisfeld, Dialog Beruf 2 (Hueber)
GRMN2682 Foreign & Exotic in the German World
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Andrea Bandhauer Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2 hours per week Prerequisites: Credit average in 12 Junior credit points of German not including GRMN1133 Prohibitions: GRMN3702 Assessment: 3000 word essay, written tutorial paper (1000 words), class presentation (1000 words), 1 hour exam.
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
This unit investigates questions of national identity and foreignness (Fremde) in modern literary texts in German. We will consider the construction as well as the deconstruction of belonging and 'being foreign', both by native authors and by so-called 'Ausländer' (foreigners, migrants) writing in German. Narratives critical of concepts of a national identity which excludes, rejects and devalues the 'other', as well as narratives by authors 'embodying' the foreign and 'exotic', will be compared.
Textbooks
Nadolny, Selim oder die Gabe der Rede. (Serie Piper Bd.730)
GRMN2684 Myth in German Literature
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Yixu Lu Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2 hour seminar per week Prerequisites: Credit average in 12 junior credit points of German not including GRMN1133 Assessment: Essay (3500 words), tutorial paper (equivalent to 1500 words), class presentation (equivalent to 1000 words).
(This is a special honours entry unit.) Myths are woven around figures and events that retain their fascination over the ages. Many German writers have engaged in reviving and transforming mythical patterns from the past to make them vital and appealing to readers and audiences of their own times. This unit will reveal the fascination held by a selection of mythical themes that provide the focus of works written by German writers of the more recent past.
Textbooks
Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Iphigenie auf Tauris. Reclam ISBN: 978-3-15-000083-0
GRMN2811 Germanic Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Andrea Bandhauer Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GRMN2812 Germanic Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Andrea Bandhauer Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GRMN2813 Germanic Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Andrea Bandhauer Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GRMN2814 Germanic Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Andrea Bandhauer Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GRMN2815 Germanic Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Andrea Bandhauer Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GRMN4011 German Honours A
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Birte Giesler Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: Two 2 hour seminars in Semester 1 and one 2 hour seminar in Semester 2 Prerequisites: 48 senior credit points of German including 12 credit points of special honours entry units (2680 level) Assessment: A thesis of 12000-15000 words and 5000 words of written work or its equivalent for each seminar.
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in Germanic Studies consists of:
1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
2. three seminars that meet weekly for two hours for one semester.
The thesis should be of 12000-15000 words in length. Each seminar requires 5000 words of written work or its equivalent.
The thesis is worth 55% of the final Honours mark and each of the seminars is worth 15%.
The following seminars are on offer in 2010:
Women and Female Figures in German Literature from the Enlightenment to Romanticism (Dr Yixu Lu)
German Linguistics (Dr Andreas Jäger)
Artificial Humans in German Literature and Film (Dr Birte Giesler)
For more information, contact Dr Birte Giesler, Honours coordinator.
1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
2. three seminars that meet weekly for two hours for one semester.
The thesis should be of 12000-15000 words in length. Each seminar requires 5000 words of written work or its equivalent.
The thesis is worth 55% of the final Honours mark and each of the seminars is worth 15%.
The following seminars are on offer in 2010:
Women and Female Figures in German Literature from the Enlightenment to Romanticism (Dr Yixu Lu)
German Linguistics (Dr Andreas Jäger)
Artificial Humans in German Literature and Film (Dr Birte Giesler)
For more information, contact Dr Birte Giesler, Honours coordinator.
GRMN4012 German Honours B
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Semester 1 Dr Birte Giesler, Semester 2 Dr Andrea Bandhauer Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: GRMN4011
Refer to GRMN4011
GRMN4013 German Honours C
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Semester 1 Dr Birte Giesler, Semester 2 Dr Andrea Bandhauer Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: GRMN4012
Refer to GRMN4011
GRMN4014 German Honours D
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Semester 1 Dr Birte Giesler, Semester 2 Dr Andrea Bandhauer Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: GRMN4013
Refer to GRMN4011
Global Studies (For continuing Bachelor of Global Studies students only)
GBST2602 Human Rights & the Global Public Sphere
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Danielle Celermajer Session: Semester 2 Classes: one 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: GBST1001 and ANTH1002 Assessment: one class debate, one take-home exam and one 2500 word essay
How do international and national/local norms, institutions, and movements interact with and shape each other, or fail to do so? This unit examines the activities of international and regional formal and informal political, non-governmental and civil society organisations, with a particular interest in the dynamics of power and explaining how norms are produced and transformed in global interactions. It considers the constraints and liberational potential of human rights and the relationship between human rights and culture, religion, colonialism and imperialism.
GBST2801 Global Studies Exchange 1
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GBST2802 Global Studies Exchange 2
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GBST2803 Global Studies Exchange 3
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GBST2804 Global Studies Exchange 4
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GBST2805 Global Studies Exchange 5
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GBST2806 Global Studies Exchange 6
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GBST2807 Global Studies Exchange 7
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GBST2808 Global Studies Exchange 8
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GBST4011 Global Studies Honours A
Credit points: 12 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Erin Taylor/Professor Michael Humphrey Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: Completion of the Bachelor of Global Studies with a Credit average Assessment: All of the major components of the Honours year will be assessed.
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Honours consists of coursework, seminars and the completion of a substantial research thesis. For details please contact the Global Studies coordinator.
GBST4012 Global Studies Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: GBST4011
see GBST4011
GBST4013 Global Studies Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: GBST4012
see GBST4011
GBST4014 Global Studies Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: GBST4013
see GBST4011
Government and International Relations
GOVT1001 Government Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GOVT1101 Australian Politics
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr Anika Gauja Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3 hours per week (may include a combination of lectures and tutorials) Assessment: Essay; Exam; Participation; Paper
This unit introduces students to debates about the nature and limits of Australian democracy, to the major institutions of Australian politics, and to the distribution of power in Australian society. Major institutions and forces such as parliament, executive government, the federal system, political parties and the media are examined as arenas of power, conflict and consensus. Who rules? How? Which groups are excluded?
GOVT1104 Power in Society
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Assoc Prof Rodney Smith Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2 lectures and 1 tutorial per week Assessment: Critical Reading Exercises; Participation; Case Study; Exam
This unit provides an introduction to the study of politics through a focus on the key organising principle of political science: power. Different ways in which power is theorised and structured are considered, not with the intention of presenting a universal theory or theories, but rather to find some connections and extensions amongst a wide variety of experiences of political power. In particular this unit considers the way power operates in Australian society in relation to political decision making. The unit draws on case studies in order to combine the study of key political ideas and concepts with practical examples from our daily lives (e.g. diet, transport, drugs, clothing, etc.).
GOVT1105 Geopolitics
Credit points: 6 Teacher/Coordinator: Dr John Brookfield Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 3 hours per week (may include a combination of lectures and tutorials) Assessment: Critical reading and bibliographic assignments; essay; exam; tutorial participation