Australian Studies - AUSTA23456
Stream Summary
Faculty: ARTSC - Faculty of Arts&Social Science
School: School of Humanities
Contact: humanities@unsw.edu.au
Program: 3456 - Music / 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
Aims of the Minor Stream
The subject-specific aims of the Australian Studies minor stream are:
• to develop informed understanding of Australian society, culture and experience
• to discern relationships between the various disciplinary methods employed to understand Australia in its transnational context.
• to foster critical and creative engagement with Australia in its relationships with the world through reasoned and open-minded debate
• to consider the value of Australian ethical and aesthetic responses
• to internationalise Australian experiences and so foster understanding of other cultures.
Stream Structure
- ARTS1190 Australian Legends (6 UOC)
The following courses from other subject areas can be counted towards the Australian Studies minor stream:
- ARTS2031 Australian Literature (6 UOC)
- ARTS2032 Creative Writing (6 UOC)
- ARTS2124 Staging Australia (6 UOC)
- ARTS2270 The Fatal Shore? (6 UOC)
- ARTS2271 Australia 1901-2008 (6 UOC)
- ARTS2840 Politics of Human Rights (6 UOC)
- ARTS2845 Sex, Human Rights & Justice (6 UOC)
- ARTS2846 Multiculturalism (6 UOC)
- ARTS2848 Language, Politics and Society (6 UOC)
- ARTS2870 Global Citizens (6 UOC)
- ARTS2873 People and Place (6 UOC)
- ATSI2001 Aboriginal Australia ( UOC)
- ATSI2002 Aboriginal Australia (6 UOC)
- BENV2105 Historic Interiors 1790-1950 (6 UOC)
- GEOS2641 Aust. Cultural & Social Env. (6 UOC)
- GEOS2711 Australian Climate &Vegetation (6 UOC)
- GEOS2721 Aust. Surface Enviro & Land (6 UOC)
- PLAN2122 History, Heritage & Built Env (6 UOC)
- SOCW2002 Society and Social Work 1 (6 UOC)
- SOCW2004 Society and Social Work 2 (6 UOC)
The following courses from other subject areas can be counted towards the Australian Studies minor stream:
- ARTS3279 Winners and Losers (6 UOC)
- ARTS3814 Australian Foreign Policy (6 UOC)
- ARTS3845 Debates (6 UOC)
- ARTS3846 Prime Ministers & Presidents (6 UOC)
- ARTS3875 Researching Culture & Society (6 UOC)
- BIOS3161 Life in Arid Lands (6 UOC)
- GEOS3641 Regn Aust: Geog. uneven devpmt (6 UOC)