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Americas Studies - AMSTA24806
Stream Summary
Faculty: ARTSC - Faculty of Arts&Social Science
School: School of Humanities
Contact: humanities@unsw.edu.au
Program: 4806 - Art Theory/Arts
Award(s):
Bachelor of Arts (Minor)
Information valid for students commencing 2013.
Students who commenced prior to 2013 should go to the Handbook's Previous Editions
Stream Outline
Australia and the Latin American countries are also becoming more closely linked with the Asian economies. Moreover, there are parallels to be drawn between the experiences of the Western Hemisphere and of Australia as both constitute areas of recent settlement. Similarities include the form of economic development, immigration, and the displacement of indigenous populations. Many former and present citizens of the Western Hemisphere also, now, ‘call Australia home’.
The program aims to be coherent and is based on progression. Students will be introduced to the area of study in the keystone course in first year, concentrate on particular areas of investigation in second year, and deepen their analysis of linkages in third year. As students progress, they will deepen their analytical skills, develop their research techniques, increase and broaden their knowledge, and become increasingly aware of different theoretical approaches.
Specifically, the aims and objectives of Americas Studies are:
a) To build the knowledge of students of the political, economic, social and cultural developments that have occurred, and are occurring, in the Western hemisphere.
b) To clarify the unique features of the Western Hemisphere and add to students’ awareness of cultural and other diversities.
c) To delineate and clarify the links, over time, of the Western Hemisphere with other parts of the world. These links include the political, the economic, the social and the cultural.
d) To develop the intellectual, creative and analytical skills of students in the context of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity. This will allow them to integrate a variety of approaches in the formulation of problems, and enable them to project solutions.
e) To encourage students to undertake study abroad in the Western Hemisphere.
f) To open up employment prospects for students. The program is not oriented towards a specific career but it will give the students the knowledge background, the appreciation of diversity, and the skills and flexibility of thinking, to orient them towards a wide range of employment possibilities including in diplomacy and other government jobs, business, media, teaching, management, marketing, social work, and law.
Stream Structure
Americas Studies Courses:
- ARTS2035 American Literature (6 UOC)
- ARTS2278 US History 1750-1890 (6 UOC)
- ARTS2750 Modern Latin America (6 UOC)
- ARTS2905 Frida Kahlo (6 UOC)
Americas Studies Courses:
- ARTS3288 US and the Middle East (6 UOC)
- ARTS3293 Colonial Latin America (6 UOC)
- ARTS3294 The Vietnam War (6 UOC)
- ARTS3574 Latin(o) American Cinema (6 UOC)