Seeing Australia/Reading Australia - ARTS3030
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
School: School of the Arts and Media
Course Outline: School of the Arts and Media
Campus: Sydney
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 0
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: 48 UOC overall, including 6 UOC at level 1 and 6 UOC at level 2 in one of the following streams, English
CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
Subject Area: English
'Seeing Australia' is an online course that examines the way Australia has been 'seen' over the last two centuries, in visual art and literature. Beginning with analysing the concept of 'seeing' itself, we will investigate how Australia has come to exist in the mind of its own people and those from other countries. In this process you will discover some of the fundamental cultural myths that have gone to shape Australian society by encountering different ways of 'seeing' besides the purely visual. At the conclusion of the course you will be able to identify the range of representations by which 'Australia' has come into being.