Unit descriptions
Structure of Honours in Arts and Social Sciences
Honours has different codes from junior and senior Arts undergraduate units of study. Honours students enrol in four shell units, two for each semester of full-time study, which are together worth a total of 48 credit points. For instance, Philosophy Honours Students enrol in PHIL4011 Philosophy Honours A, PHIL4012 Philosophy Honours B, PHIL4013 Philosophy Honours C, and PHIL4014 Philosophy Honours D unit. These shell units do not correspond directly to the Honours seminars or thesis: they are simply the Student Records system's way of registering that you are enrolled in a 48 credit point Honours program. This means that when you choose your Honours seminars, the only people involved are you, the department Honours Coordinator, and the seminar's teacher.
American Studies
AMST1001 Global America
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2 hour lecture, 1x1 hour tutorial per week Assessment: 3x1000 word essays (22% each) and 1x1.5 hour exam (34%)
Note: Students intending to study American Studies at senior level are also required to complete HSTY1076 American History from Lincoln to Clinton (offered in Semester 1)
This unit will investigate the global connectedness of the United States and how this relates to the core values and interests that define America. The primary focus will be on the United States in the 21st global century. The pedagogical aim of this unit is to provide students with analytical frames to understand the most important issues in contemporary American literature, culture, politics, society and the economy, and how they are affected by and affect the world outside the US.
AMST2601 American Foundations
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/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: 1x1000wd close-reading exercise (15%), 1x2000wd essay (45%), 1x1500wd take-home exam (30%) and tutorial participation (10%)
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. In 2011 this unit will include a module that involves collaboration with students and staff at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
USSC1010 America: Rebels, Heroes & Renegades
Credit points: 6 Session: Summer Late Classes: Please consult Department. Assessment: class participation (10%), 1x2000wd journal (25%), 1x1500wd character profile (25%) and 1x2000wd research essay (40%)
Note: This unit is available to year 11 students only.
This unit introduces students to the complexity and diversity of the United States. The course views the historical and contemporary U.S. through the lens of its influential rebels, heroes, and renegades: female and male, ordinary and extraordinary, political and cultural, known and unsung. By studying these people, we can gain insight into how the U.S. has become such a powerful global force.
USSC2601 US in the World
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1.5-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points Assessment: 4x800wd essays (40%), 1x2000wd essay (35%), participation in tutorials (15%), participation in lectures (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: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points from Table A Assessment: 1x2000-2500wd major paper (45%), 1x2hr exam (45%) and 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.
USSC2603 Americanism and Anti-Americanism
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1.5-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points Assessment: class participation (10%), 1x2000-2500wd essay (45%), 1x2hr exam (45%)
America has often been described as a culturally backward, unsophisticated and uncouth nation with American politics frequently viewed as populist and anti-intellectual. In contrast America has also been viewed as a haven from the Old World and as an exceptional nation. This unit will explore the origins and development of both these negative and positive opinions of America. It will also examine how these stereotypes impact on America's foreign relations with Europe, the Middle East and Australia.
AMST2801 American 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 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
Ancient History
ANHS1600 Foundations for Ancient Greece
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prohibitions: ANHS1003 Assessment: Assessable tasks (1000 words) (15%), participation (15%), one 1000 word research exercise (40%) and one 2 hour exam (30%)
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. 2nd edition, Pearson
ANHS1601 Foundations for Ancient Rome
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prohibitions: ANHS1004, ANHS1005 Assessment: one 500 word exercise (10%), participation (15%), one 1500 word research exercise (40%) and one 2 hour exam (35%)
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 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2 hour lecture and 1x1 hour tutorial per week Prohibitions: CLCV1001 Assessment: tutorial quizzes (15%), tutorial participation (10%), 1x1500 word written assignment (35%), and 1x2 hour exam (40%)
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
ANHS2603 Ancient Greek Democracies
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1 hour lectures and 1x1 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: ANHS2003 Assessment: 1x2 hour exam (40%), 1x2500 word class paper (50%) and participation (10%)
This unit studies the rise and working of democracy in ancient Greece, examining Athens from the time of Solon through the fifth century and into the fourth century B.C. We shall look at the history of Athens and her relation to other cities, and evaluate the evidence of historians and of inscriptions. Athenian political institutions and social history, including the role of the theatre, looking at both tragedy and comedy, the role of other festivals and the law and the lives of the elite and the "forgotten people", such as women and slaves, will be considered.
ANHS2605 Ancient Greek Religion
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1 hour lectures and 1x1 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: 1x2000 word class paper (40%), 1x2 hour exam (30%), 1x500 word reading journal (15%) and participation (15%)
This unit explores Greek religion as a defining feature of what it meant to be Greek. We will investigate similarities and differences between religious beliefs and practices throughout the ancient Greek world and trace how religion changed over time. Topics addressed include sacrifice, religious festivals and games, the use (and abuse) of divination, and shared notions of purity and pollution.
ANHS2610 SPQR: The Senate and the People of Rome
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1 hour lectures and 1x1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points of Ancient History, History or Classical Studies OR 6 junior credit points of Ancient History or Classical Studies and 6 junior credit points of either Latin, Greek (Ancient), History or Archaeology Assessment: 1x2000 word class paper (40%), 1x500 word assessment task (10%), participation (10%) and 1x2 hour exam (40%)
What kind of society produced the Roman Republic? How did its political institutions develop and to what extent were they unique? How did they stand up to the pressures of external threat, social change, internal dissention and the impact of empire? We will study the partnership of senate and people from 287 to 88BC and ask the Romans whether a society always gets the politicians it deserves.
ANHS2612 Historiography Ancient and Modern
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2 hour lecture and 1x1 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: 1x2000 word class paper (40%), 1x2 hour exam (30%), 1x500 word reading journal (15%) and participation (15%)
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?
ANHS2617 Love, Sex and Poetry in Ancient Rome
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1 hour lectures and 1x1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points of Ancient History or History or Latin or Greek (Ancient) OR 6 junior credit points of Ancient History and 6 junior credit points of either History, Latin, Greek (Ancient), or Archaeology Assessment: 1x1000 word tutorial paper (20%), 1x1500 word essay (30%), 1x2 hour exam (40%) and tutorial participation (10%)
Sexy and subversive, playful and political: Roman love poetry is the focus of this literature-in-translation unit. In the late Republic and early Empire, the Roman world underwent drastic change: erotic poetry flourished, exploring the complexities of masculinity and the power of tradition. Close reading of selected works by poets such as Ovid, Catullus, Propertius and Tibullus uncovers the interpenetration of amor and Roma, opening up multiple perspectives on the development and anxieties of love poetry in Rome and beyond.
ANHS2618 The Later Roman Empire (AD 286-474)
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1 hour lectures and 1x1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points of Ancient History, Greek (Ancient), Latin or History OR 6 junior credit points of Ancient History and 6 junior credit points of either History, Latin, Greek (Ancient), Philosophy or Archaeology Assessment: 1x2500 word essay (50%), 1x2 hour exam (40%) and participation (10%)
This unit will focus on the transformation of the Classical Mediterranean into the radically different world of Late Antiquity. Through the exploration of topics such as the growth of imperial bureaucracy, the development of court ceremonial, the displacement of polytheism by Christianity, the emergence of new styles of art and literature and the growing prominence of barbarians - the unit will reveal the vibrancy of a society often erroneously dismissed as a period of decline and fall.
ANHS2619 The World of Ancient Epic
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1 hour lectures and 1x1 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 Assessment: 1x1000 word tutorial paper (20%), 1x1500 word essay (30%), 1x2 hour exam (40%), tutorial participation (10%)
Ancient epic helped shape the European cultural imagination. These masterpieces treat issues of universal concern: life, death, love, war, fate, the supernatural, and journeys of experience. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey are both entertainment and serious explorations of social values. Vergil's Aeneid recounts the foundations of Rome, and considers the individual's plight amid unstoppable historical and supernatural forces. Lucan's Civil War presents a disturbing vision of a world descending into chaos. This unit explores in detail these brilliant and influential poems.
ANHS3611 Research Issues in Roman Studies
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Summer Main Classes: 2x1 hour lectures per week Prerequisites: Credit average in 18 senior credit points of Ancient History, Classical Studies, History, Latin, Greek (Ancient), Archaeology including ANHS2691 or HSTY2691 Assessment: 1x6000 word research essay (100%)
This seminar offers an introduction to advanced research design and techniques in Roman history and culture, including library resources and technology. You will undertake a detailed study of a topic relevant to Roman studies selected by your teacher. Your research paper will treat an aspect of that topic chosen by you with advice from your teacher and your class.
ANHS1801 Ancient History Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
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
ANHS4011 Ancient History Honours A
Credit points: 12 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 2011:
Revisiting Delphi: Oracles and the Oracular from Antiquity to the Present (Dr Julia Kindt)
The Mediterranean World 51-30BC (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 2011:
Revisiting Delphi: Oracles and the Oracular from Antiquity to the Present (Dr Julia Kindt)
The Mediterranean World 51-30BC (Dr Kathryn Welch)
For more information, contact Dr Alastair Blanshard, Honours coordinator.
ANHS4012 Ancient History Honours B
Credit points: 12 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 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 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 Session: Semester 1,Summer Late Classes: 2x1hr lectures/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prohibitions: ANTH1003 Assessment: 1x1000wd essay (15%), 1x1500wd essay (30%), 1x2hr exam (40%) and tutorial participation (15%)
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 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1hr lectures/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prohibitions: ANTH1004 Assessment: 1x2500wd essay (45%), 1x2hr exam (45%) and tutorial participation (10%)
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
ANTH2601 The Ethnography of Southeast Asia
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points from Anthropology Assessment: 1x1000wd essay (35%), 1x3000wd take-home exam (50%) and tutorial participation (15%)
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
ANTH2606 Culture and the Unconscious
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points from Anthropology Assessment: 1x3500wd essay (70%) and 1x2hr exam (30%)
This is a unit on psychoanalytic anthropology. With the focus on the unconscious dimension of human cultural existence the unit critically examines the systematic topical, theoretical, ethnographic and historical aspects of this unique field of anthropological inquiry. All psychoanalytic conceptual frameworks are elucidated and assessed through ethno-psychoanalytic work done in different cultural life-worlds. Firmly grounded in detailed ethnographic evidence the unit provides a comprehensive phenomenological-existential validation of the discipline and its contribution to both anthropology and psychoanalysis.
Textbooks
readings will be available at the University Copy Centre
ANTH2623 Gender: Anthropological Studies
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Summer Late Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points of Anthropology Prohibitions: ANTH2020, ANTH2023 Assessment: 1x2000wd essay (40%), 1x1.5hr exam (35%), 1x1000wd essay (15%) and tutorial participation (10%)
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: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points from Anthropology Assessment: 1x1500wd essay (45%), 1x2500wd essay (45%) and tutorial participation (10%)
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.
ANTH2627 Medical Anthropology
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points from Anthropology Prohibitions: ANTH2027 Assessment: 1x1000wd essay (30%), 1x3000wd take-home exam (60%) and tutorial participation (10%)
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.
Textbooks
readings will be available at the University Copy Centre
ANTH2628 Migration and Migrant Cultures
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points from Anthropology Prohibitions: ANTH2120, ANTH2121 Assessment: 1x2500wd essay (45%), 1x1500wd take-home exam (40%) and debate participation (15%)
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: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points from Anthropology Prohibitions: ANTH2117 Assessment: 1x1000wd essay (15%), 1x2000wd essay (40%) and 1x1.5hr exam (35%) and participation (10%)
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
ANTH2630 Indigenous Australians and Modernity
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points from Anthropology Assessment: 1x2000wd essay (35%), 2x250wd assignments (20%), 1x2hr exam (35%) and tutorial participation (10%)
Australian Aboriginal peoples have always engaged with the 'modern world' but Enlightenment ideas established a colonial context juxtaposing modernity with tradition. Indigenous difference was locked into past-oriented, static and small scale traditions. The unit examines some key concepts of modernity, including progress, civility, change, tradition - and modernity itself - so as to shed light on Australian Indigenous people's experiences, past and present, as colonial subjects. The unit will explore Aboriginal engagement with, for instance, work, vehicles, the law, and the arts (painting, music etc) as practices through which Aboriginal people have sought 'alternative modernities'.
Textbooks
readings will be available at the University Copy Centre
ANTH2631 Being There: Method in Anthropology
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1hr lecture/week, 1x2hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points from Anthropology Assessment: 1x1500wd essay (30%) and 1x3000wd fieldwork-based project (60%) and tutorial participation (10%)
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.
Textbooks
readings will be available at the University Copy Centre
ANTH2653 Economy and Culture
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1hr lectures/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points from Anthropology Assessment: 1x2500wd essay (60%) and 1x2hr 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 1 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points from Anthropology. Prohibitions: ANTH3911 Assessment: 1x3000wd essay (50%), 1x1.5hr exam (35%) and tutorial presentation/participation (15%)
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
ANTH2666 History of Anthropological Thought
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points from Anthropology Prohibitions: ANTH2501 Assessment: 1x2000wd essay (35%) and 1x2500wd essay (65%)
This unit surveys the key thinkers, theories and ethnographic researches that have shaped the historical development of anthropological thought. The central focus is on the interrelationships and differences between the Continental, British and American thinkers and lineages set against the backdrop of general ideas that defined the Western world-views of the last two centuries. This historical trajectory is systematically referred to its much longer tradition of critical thought and coordinated with the topics and debates in contemporary anthropological discourses.
Textbooks
Readings available from the University Copy Centre
ANTH3601 Contemporary Theory and Anthropology
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1hr lecture/week, 1x1hr seminar/week Prerequisites: 12 Senior credit points from Anthropology at credit level or above Prohibitions: ANTH3921, ANTH3922 Assessment: 1x2500wd essay (40%) and 1x3500wd essay (60%)
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.
Textbooks
reader will be available at the University Copy Centre
ANTH3602 Reading Ethnography
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr seminar/week Prerequisites: 12 Senior credit points from Anthropology at credit level or above Prohibitions: ANTH3611, ANTH3612, ANTH3613, ANTH3614 Assessment: 2x3000wd essays (100%)
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.
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
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
ANTH4011 Social Anthropology Honours A
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: two seminars, each seminar meets weekly for 2-3 hours during semester one Prerequisites: 48 senior credit points in Anthropology with at least a credit average grade. Units must include ANTH3601 and ANTH3602. Requirements for the Pass degree must be completed befor entry to level 4000 honours units of study. Corequisites: ANTH4012, ANTH4013, ANTH4014 Assessment: a thesis of 18000-20000 words and 6000 words of written work or its equivalent for each seminar
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in Anthropology consists of:
1. a thesis written under the supervision of one member of academic staff
2. two seminars that meet weekly for 2-3 hrs each in Semester 1
The thesis should be of 18000-20000wds in length. Each seminar requires 6000wds 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 department will offer the following two Honours seminars in 2011:
Anthropology of the Nation-State
Levi-Strauss: from Phenomenology to Psychoanalysis
For more information, contact Prof Linda Connor, Chair of Department
1. a thesis written under the supervision of one member of academic staff
2. two seminars that meet weekly for 2-3 hrs each in Semester 1
The thesis should be of 18000-20000wds in length. Each seminar requires 6000wds 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 department will offer the following two Honours seminars in 2011:
Anthropology of the Nation-State
Levi-Strauss: from Phenomenology to Psychoanalysis
For more information, contact Prof Linda Connor, Chair of Department
ANTH4012 Social Anthropology Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ANTH4011
refer to ANTH4011
ANTH4013 Social Anthropology Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ANTH4012
refer to ANTH4011
ANTH4014 Social Anthropology Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ANTH4013
refer to ANTH4011
Arabic Language, Literature and Culture
ARBC1611 Arabic Introductory 1B
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 4x1-hr seminars/week Prohibitions: ARBC1311, ARBC1312, ARBC1101, ARBC1102 Assessment: 1x2.5-hr exam (equivalent to 2000wds) (50%), written and oral exercises (equivalent to 800wds) (20%), 1x1000wd mid-semester exam (25%), class participation (5%)
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 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 4x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: ARBC1101 or ARBC1611 Prohibitions: ARBC1311, ARBC1312, ARBC1102 Assessment: 1x2.5hr exam (equivalent to 2000wds) (50%), written and oral exercises (equivalent to 800wds) (20%), 1x2.5hr mid-semester exam (25%) and class participation (5%)
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 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 4x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: ARBC1102 or ARBC1612 Prohibitions: ARBC1311, ARBC1312, ARBC2633, ARBC2634, ARBC2103 Assessment: 1x2.5hr exam (equivalent to 2000wds) (50%), written and oral exercises (equivalent to 800wds) (20%), 1x2.5hr mid-semester exam (25%), class participation (5%)
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 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 4x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: ARBC2103 or ARBC2613 Prohibitions: ARBC2104, ARBC1311, ARBC1312, ARBC2313, ARBC2314, ARBC2633, ARBC2634, ARBC3635, ARBC3636, ARBC3637, ARBC3638 Assessment: 1x2.5hr exam (equivalent to 2000wds) (50%), written and oral exercises (equivalent to 800wds) (20%), 1x2.5hr mid semester exam (25%), class participation (5%)
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 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: HSC Arabic Extension or Arabic Continuers or 70% or above in Arabic Beginners (subject to placement test) Prohibitions: ARBC1311 Assessment: 1x2.5hr exam (equivalent to 2000wds) (50%), written and oral exercises (equivalent to 800wds) (20%), 1x2.5hr mid-semester exam (25%), class participation (5%)
This unit aims to strengthen practical language skills, including writing and translation, to enrich the students' 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 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: ARBC1311 or ARBC2633 Prohibitions: ARBC1312, ARBC1101, ARBC1102, ARBC1611, ARBC1612 Assessment: 1x2.5hr exam (equivalent to 2000wds) (50%), written and oral exercises (equivalent to 800wds) (20%), 1x2.5hr mid-semester exam (25%), class participation (5%)
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
ARBC3615 Arabic Language and Literature 5B
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 4x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: ARBC2104 or ARBC2614 Prohibitions: ARBC2105, ARBC1311, ARBC1312, ARBC2313, ARBC2314, ARBC2315, ARBC2316, ARBC2633, ARBC2634, ARBC3635, ARBC3636, ARBC3637, ARBC3638 Assessment: 1x2.5hr exam (equivalent to 2500wds) (50%), written and oral exercises (equivalent to 800wds) (20%), 1x2.5hr mid-semester exam (25%), class participation (5%)
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 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 4x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: ARBC2105 or ARBC3615 Prohibitions: ARBC2106, ARBC1311, ARBC1312, ARBC2313, ARBC2314, ARBC2315, ARBC2316, ARBC2633, ARBC2634, ARBC3635, ARBC3636, ARBC3637, ARBC3638 Assessment: 1x2.5hr exam (equivalent to 2500wds) (50%), written and oral exercises (equivalent to 800wds) (20%), 1x2.5hr mid-semester exam (25%), class participation (5%)
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 and a selection of literary texts will be available (consult the department)
ARBC3635 Arabic Advanced Translation & Writing 5A
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: ARBC1312 or ARBC2633 Prohibitions: ARBC2313, ARBC1101, ARBC1102, ARBC1611, ARBC1612 Assessment: 1x2hr exam (equivalent to 2000wds) (50%), written and oral exercises (equivalent to 800wds) (20%), 1x2.5hr mid-semester exam (25%), class participation (5%)
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 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: ARBC1312 or ARBC2633 Prohibitions: ARBC1101, ARBC1102, ARBC1611, ARBC1612, ARBC2314 Assessment: 1x2hr exam (equivalent to 2000wds) (50%), written and oral exercises (equivalent to 800wds) (20%), 1x2.5hr mid-semester exam (25%), class participation (5%)
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 material related to the Arabic media, both written and electronic.
Textbooks
Consult the department
ARBC3637 Arabic Advanced Translation & Writing 7A
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: ARBC1312 or ARBC2633 Prohibitions: ARBC2315, ARBC1101, ARBC1102, ARBC1611, ARBC1612 Assessment: 1x2hr exam (equivalent to 2000wds) (50%), written and oral exercises (equivalent to 800wds) (20%), 1x2.5hr mid-semester exam (25%), class participation (5%)
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 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: ARBC1312 or ARBC2633 Prohibitions: ARBC2316, ARBC1101, ARBC1102, ARBC1611, ARBC1612 Assessment: 1x2hr exam (equivalent to 2000wds) (50%), written and oral exercises (equivalent to 800wds) (20%), 1x2.5hr mid-semester exam (25%), class participation (5%)
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
ARBC2811 Arabic Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARBC2812 Arabic Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARBC2813 Arabic Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARBC2814 Arabic Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Arab World, Islam and The Middle East
ARIS1671 Arabs, Islam & Middle East: Introduction
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Assessment: 1x2000wd essay (40%), 1xclass presentation (20%), 1x2hr final exam (40%)
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, women and gender issues in Islam, 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 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: ARIS1001 or ARIS1671 Assessment: 1x2000wd essay (40%), 1xclass presentation (20%), 1x2hr final exam (40%)
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 2012 and to ARIS2673 and ARIS2675 in the year 2013.
Textbooks
Course readings and bibliography will be available
ARIS2673 Islam and Muslims in World History
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: ARIS1001 or ARIS1671 Prohibitions: ARIS2003 Assessment: 1x2250wd essay (40%), 1x2250wd take-home exam (40%), class presentation (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 of study focuses on the role of Islam in world history through the discussion of issues of intercultural relations and acculturation. It highlights Islam's place in the Mediterranean world; connections with Eastern Christianity, including Byzantium; the Islamic-European encounter in Spain and Sicily and the Crusades from an Arab perspective. The unit deals with the significance of acculturation and adaptation of Islamic traditions in different parts of Africa and Asia and the role of urbanisation and trade in Islamic history.
Textbooks
Course readings, bibliography and brief notes will be available
ARIS2674 Islam and Politics: Modernity Challenges
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: ARIS1001 or ARIS1671 Prohibitions: ARIS2004 Assessment: 1x2250wd essay (40%), 1x2250wd take-home exam (40%), class presentation (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 focuses on Islam as a political and cultural force in the modern world, particularly in the Middle East, North Africa and Asia. Issues include: Islamic political thought; the Sunna-Shi'a divergence and the significance of Shi'a Islam; Islamic traditionalism; reform; radicalism; Jihad and 'fundamentalism'; Islamic political movements in Arab countries; Turkey, Iran and Asia; Islam and legitimacy of political regimes; Muslim minorities in the world; current debates on the 'Islamic threat'; 'terrorism'; 'clash of civilisations' and Islamic-Western mutual perceptions.
Textbooks
Course readings, bibliography and brief notes will be available
ARIS3680 Approaches to Arabic and Islamic Studies
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: Credit in ARIS2673 or ARIS3675 or ARIS2003 or ARIS2005, and credit in ARBC2613 or ARBC3635 or ARBC2103 or ARBC2313 Assessment: 1x3000wd essay in English (40%), 1x500wd summary in Arabic or an additional 1000wd assignment in English (20%), 2x1000wd oral presentations in either Arabic or English (40%)
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
ARIS2801 Arab World Islam & Middle East Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARIS2802 Arab World Islam & Middle East Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARIS2803 Arab World Islam & Middle East Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARIS2804 Arab World Islam & Middle East Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARIS2805 Arab World Islam & Middle East Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARIS2806 Arab World Islam & Middle East Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ARIS4011 Arabic and Islamic Studies Honours A
Credit points: 12 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 2011:
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 2011:
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 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ARIS4011
Refer to ARIS4011
ARIS4013 Arabic and Islamic Studies Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ARIS4012
Refer to ARIS4011
ARIS4014 Arabic and Islamic Studies Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ARIS4013
Refer to ARIS4011
Archaeology
ARCA1001 Ancient Civilisations
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Summer Late Classes: 2x1 hour lectures and 1x1 hour tutorial per week Assessment: one 500 word assignment (15%), one 1500 word essay (35%), one 2 hour exam (50%)
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 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1 hour lectures, and 1x2 hours of workshops per week (weeks 4-9) Prohibitions: ARPH1001 Assessment: two class tests (equivalent to 1000 words) (20%) and six workshop exercises (equivalent to 3500 words) (80%)
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.
ARCA2601 Laboratory Methods
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x3 hour workshop per week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points of Archaeology Prohibitions: ARPH2614 Assessment: one 3000 word laboratory report (60%), one 1500 word class test (40%)
An introduction to post-fieldwork archaeological laboratory principles and practices. The unit introduces students to key principles for the effective management and processing of archaeological finds and other materials excavated from archaeological sites, recording and interpretation of data recorded from this material and the application of various methods of analysis which can be used to produce different types of archaeological knowledge and interpretation.
ARCA2602 Field Methods
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1 hour lecture and 1x2 hour workshop per week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points of Archaeology Prohibitions: ARPH3921 Assessment: one 3000 word report/lab book (60%), one 1000 word class test (40%)
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.
ARCA2606 Maps, Time and Visualisation
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1 hour lecture and 1x2 hour workshop per week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points Prohibitions: ARPH3690 Assessment: one 2000 word critical review (40%), one in-class test (40%), project report (20%)
This unit examines ways in which maps, timelines and other forms of data visualisation are constructed and used to present archaeological data and historical argument, and how digital methods and web delivery have facilitated the use of visualisation and enabled greater user engagement through interaction with online databases, encyclopaedias, collaborative systems, maps, timelines, animations and 3D models. Practical sessions offer students the opportunity to become familiar with simple techniques and software tools for creating and publishing visualisations on the Web.
ARCA2608 Near Eastern Ancient Civilisations
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1 hour 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: ARNE1001 Assessment: one 1 hour mid-term exam (equivalent to 1000 words) (30%), one 1 hour final exam (equivalent to 1000 words) (30%), course journal (equivalent to 3000 words) (30%) and quizzes on reading assignments and maps (equivalent to 1000 words) (10%)
This unit of study provides an introduction to the wide sweep of cultures that have shaped western and central Asia. Using archaeological evidence, students will learn about the development of agriculture, the first cities, the earliest forms of writing, and how civilisations developed in rich and varied ways across the ancient world. Material is based within a broad chronological framework, beginning with the growth of the first farming villages and going on to explore the rise of kingdoms and empires.
ARCA2610 Minoans and Mycenaens
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2 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 Assessment: 1x2000 word essay (40%), tutorial presentation (15%), tutorial work (5%), 2x1 hour exams (40%)
Archaeological research since the 19th century discovery and excavation of Knossos and Mycenae continues to expand our understanding about the rich prehistoric cultures of Greece but dimly remembered in later times. Recent shift of attention from palace centres to the economic, social and religious life of the ordinary person is aided by such discoveries as the Cycladic town at Akrotiri. The three main cultures of Bronze Age Greece (ca. 3000-1100 BC) are explored with focus on their characteristic features.
ARCA2612 A Greek Odyssey: The First Millennium BC
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 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 (50%), one 1.5 hour exam (35%), tutorial/workshop based exercises (15%)
Between 1050 and 146 BC the Aegean world underwent radical transformation. The changes which took place not only affected all aspects of ancient Greek society, but also established the foundations on which modern western civilization would later build. This unit traces the history and development of the Greek world as evidenced by the surviving material culture of the first millennium BC. The unit also examines the resonances of the ancient Aegean still evident in contemporary Australia.
ARCA2614 Contact and Exchange in South Italy
Credit points: 6 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 2000 word essay (40%), two 1 hour class tests (40%), tutorial exercises equivalent to 500 words (20%)
Ancient South Italy existed at a vital crossroads between the Eastern and Western Mediterranean. From the arrival of the earliest settled farmers in the 7th millennium BC to its conquest by the Romans, the region experienced repeated waves of migrants, visitors, colonists and conquerors, and developed a distinctive and vibrant culture as a result. The Unit will begin its survey in the Neolithic period, but concentrate especially on the Greek/Italian colonial interactions of the first millennium BC.
ARCA2617 Analysis of Archaeological Materials
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x3 hour combined lecture/practical session Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points of Archaeology Assessment: 10xweekly quizzes (equivalent to 2500 words in total) (50%), 1x2000 word research paper (40%) and participation (10%)
An essential skill in archaeology is understanding the various analytical techniques used in artefact analyses. This unit examines a variety of archaeological materials to explore the relationship between the material properties of an object and its analytical potential. A combination of lectures and practical sessions provides a unique opportunity to examine techniques such as spectroscopy, electron microscopy and CT, and the ways in which they are used in archaeological analysis and interpretation.
ARCA3601 Research in Australasian Archaeology
Credit points: 6 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 (60%), one 1500 word seminar paper (30%), one seminar presentation (equivalent to 500 words) (10%)
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 (Asia, Australia, and the Pacific) 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).
ARCA3602 Greece and the East
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: one 2 hour seminar per week Prerequisites: Credit result in two of the following units: ARCA2610, ARCA2611, ARCA2612, ARCA2613, ARCA2614, ARCA2615 Assessment: one 3500 word essay (45%), seminar presentations (5% and 25%) and one 1.5 hour exam (25%)
Greek interaction with the older civilisations to the East (Anatolia, Near and Middle East, and Egypt) created a vital cultural dynamic throughout antiquity, not just in the seventh-century BC "orientalising" period. Areas of focus include the impact of relations with the East on the development of Greek material culture in specific periods, with reference to the areas of conceptual difficulty: the definition of cultural receptivity, the articulation of the "sources", the means of communication and types of reception.
ARNE2603 Introduction to the Archaeology of Iran
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1 hour lecture and 1x1 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: 1x2500 word research paper (40%), 1x2000 word take-home exam (30%), 1x1000 word course journal (20%), quizzes on reading assignments (10%)
An introduction to the art, archaeology, religion, landscape and settlement patterns of the principal cultures inhabiting the Iranian plateau and adjacent regions, with special emphasis on the culture of the Elamites, Persians, Parthians and Sasanians from prehistoric times to the 6th century AD.
ARNE2606 The Archaeology of Central Asia
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points from Archaeology, Classical Civilisation or Ancient History. Assessment: one 3000 word research paper (60%), one tutorial presentation equivalent to 1000 words (20%), slide test equivalent to 500 words (10%), tutorial participation (10%)
This unit of study covers the archaeology of Central Asia from later prehistory to the rise of Islam. The region bridges east and west, with cultural and political influences from China, India and Persia blending into those of Mesopotamia and the Classical World. Topics include regional early state development in the Bronze Age, Achaemenid and Hellenistic influences, the empire of the Kushans and the rise of nomadic societies in the northern steppes.
ARNE2691 Material Culture
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2 hour seminar 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: ARNE2901 Assessment: 1x3000 word research paper (50%), 1x1500 word course journal (25%), readiing assignments equivalent to 750 words (15%), class presentation equivalent to 750 words (10%)
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
A seminar-style introduction to the study of some of the most common categories of material in the Near East, including copper-bronze, iron, limestone, pottery and ivory, and to various genres of materials, such as seals, ceramics, weaponry, carved decorations and equestrian equipment, with particular emphasis on technology, manufacture, function, style, iconography, chronology and spatial distribution. Material will normally be drawn from the collections of the Nicholson Museum and may vary from year to year.
ARNE3691 Special Topics in West Asian Archaeology
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: one 2 hour seminar per week Prerequisites: Credit average in 24 senior credit points of Archaeology Prohibitions: ARNE3901 Assessment: one 3500 word research paper (60%), course journal equivalent to 1500 words (20%), readiing assignments equivalent to 500 words (10%), class presentation equivalent to 500 words (10%)
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. The topic of concentration for 2011 is Art History.
ARPH2603 The Archaeology of Society
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: one 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of Archaeology Prohibitions: ARPH2003 Assessment: one 3000 word essay (60%), one project equivalent to 1500 words (40%)
A global introduction to the processes and issues involved in the major transformation of human settlement behaviour over the past 15,000 years. 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.
ARPH2612 Historical Archaeology
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: one 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of Archaeology Prohibitions: ARPH2702 Assessment: one 3000 word essay (60%), one 1500 word class test (40%)
This unit will introduce students to the international development of historical archaeology since 1960. Because of its explicit links to historiography and documentary scholarship, historical archaeology enjoys a uniquely interdisciplinary perspective, and has been directly influenced by shifts in both anthropology and history. The current practice and international form of historical archaeology will therefore be explored in detail.
ARPH2616 Public Archaeology
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: two 1 hour lectures and one 1 hour seminar per week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of Archaeology Prohibitions: ARPH2010 Assessment: one 2500 word essay (50%), one 1000 word seminar write-up (25%), one 1000 word in-class test (25%)
This unit introduces and discusses the theory and practice of archaeology in the public domain where archaeologists have responsibilities to Indigenous peoples, community groups, clients and government. Australian and other case studies will be used to discuss the public benefits of archaeology and ways in which government policies and legislation and issues surrounding ethics and professionalism interact with popular and public understandings of the past to produce different kinds of archaeological knowledge and practice which have historical and contemporary evidence.
Textbooks
M. Pearson and S. Sullivan Looking after Heritage Places (Melb. Uni. Press 1995)
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
ARCA4011 Archaeology Honours A
Credit points: 12 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). Assessment: a thesis of 18000-20000 words and 6000 words of written work or its equivalent for each seminar
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: These exact pre-requisites will be waived where students are unable to meet the new requirements due to curriculum changes. Students who intend to specialise in Classical Archaeology at Honours should normally have obtained (a) credit or better result in ARCA3602 or ARCA 3603 or ARCA 3604, (b) credit or better results in ARCA2612 and ARCA2615 (c) credit average results in any two of ARCA2610, ARCA2611, ARCA2613, ARCA2614, ARCL2605, and (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); reading knowledge of French, German, Italian or Modern Greek is recommended. Students who intend to specialise in Near Eastern and/or West Asian Archaeology at Honours should normally have obtained (a) credit or better result in ARNE3691, and (b) credit average results in 2 of the following: ARCA2604; ARCA2608; ARCA2609; ARNE2601; ARNE2602; ARNE2603; ARNE2606; ARNE2607, ARNE2691, and (c) credit average results in 5 additional senior units of Archaeology units (including those listed above and senior Archaeology exchange units). 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 or ARCA3601 (b) credit or better results in at least two of the following hands-on practical units ARCA2601, ARCA2602, ARCA2606, ARCA2607, ARPH2602, ARPH2617 (or equivalent), (c) credit or better results in at least two of the following ARCA2603, ARCA2605, ARCA2616, ARPH2603, ARPH2612, ARPH2616 (or equivalent), and c) credit average results in any three 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.
Please contact relevant Department staff for advice and assistance. All students with credit or above results are encouraged to apply for Honours.
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 2011:
History and Philosophy of Archaeology (Dr Sarah Colley)
Approaches to Archaeological Research (Prof Roland Fletcher)
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 2011:
History and Philosophy of Archaeology (Dr Sarah Colley)
Approaches to Archaeological Research (Prof Roland Fletcher)
For more information, contact Dr Ted Robinson (Chair of Department).
ARCA4012 Archaeology Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: Refer to ARCA4011 Corequisites: ARCA4011
Refer to ARCA4011
ARCA4013 Archaeology Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: Refer to ARCA4011 Corequisites: ARCA4012
Refer to ARCA4011
ARCA4014 Archaeology Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: Refer to ARCA4011 Corequisites: ARCA4013
Refer to ARCA4011
Art History
ARHT1001 Art and Experience
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Assessment: 1x4000wd total essay and tutorial paper (100%) 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 unit of study, 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.
Textbooks
ARHT1001 Course Reader
ARHT1002 Modern Times: Art and Film
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week Assessment: 1x2500wd essay (55%) and 1x1500wd exam (45%)
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
Course Reader
ARHT2610 Art and Society in Trecento Italy
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: ARHT1001 and ARHT1002 Prohibitions: ARHT2010 Assessment: 1x1000wd visual test (35%), 1x class presentation (10%) 1x3000wd essay (55%)
This unit of study will explore a range of alternative approaches to art produced in Italy during the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Topics to be investigated include: problems of monographic analysis; the implications of contemporary workshop practice; civic, familial and princely patterns of artistic patronage; the meaning of Trecento 'naturalism'; alternatives to the 'Tuscanisation' of fourteenth-century art through a consideration of other centres such as Bologna, Rimini, Verona, Padua and Venice.
Textbooks
Recommended Readings:
ARHT2613 The Art of France
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: ARHT1001 and ARHT1002 Prohibitions: ARHT2013 Assessment: 1x1000wd Exhibition essay (40%), 1x2-hr visual test (40%), 1xExhibition Project (250wd plan,10 minute presentation,250wd posting) (20%)
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
This unit of study explores the development of a national tradition of art and architecture in France from the beginnings of absolutism to the eve of the Revolution. Topics of lectures and tutorials include the circumstances leading to the foundation of Academies and the development of academic discourse; the commitment to an official system for educating young artists, both in France and in Rome; the alliance between art and absolutism; the artist and the courtier; the public display of art and the creation of new audiences; the emergence of art criticism and architectural theory; the portrayal of daily life, landscape and erotic subjects in relation to major currents of Enlightenment thought.
Textbooks
Course Reader
ARHT2633 Postwar Australian Art and Film
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: ARHT1001 and ARHT1002 Prohibitions: ARHT2033 Assessment: 1x 2500wd essay (50%), 1x1000wd tutorial paper (25%), 1x1500wd short-answer test (25%)
This unit of study traces the shifting relations between modern art, modernism and postmodernism in Australia. These are examined against a field of other cultural, social and political discourses. Issues addressed include artists' responses to World War II, the Cold War and Vietnam; postwar migration and multiculturalism; urban imagery; contemporary Koori art and Aboriginality in art by white Australians; ongoing shifts in the treatment of traditional subjects such as landscape, art and ecology; feminist, gay and lesbian cultural politics; art criticism; art and electronic technologies.
ARHT2636 Contemporary Indigenous Australian Art
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: ARHT1001 and ARHT1002 Prohibitions: ARHT2036 Assessment: 1x4000-4500 wd essay and 1x exhibition (100%)
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
This unit studies the efflorescence of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, which makes up over half of today's Australian art market. While providing a grounding in major movements like Papunya Tula (from 1971) and bark painting in Arnhem Land, the focus will be on critical and theoretical issues affecting art practice today: questions of appropriation and copyright, the relationship of art to native title and reconciliation, the market for Indigenous art (from prestigious auctions to tourist shops), the politics of curatorial practice, the changing status of women artists, the Indigenous use and re-use of photography, and the relevance of postmodern and postcolonial theories in reading urban art. Key figures treated will include Tracy Moffatt, Gordon Bennett, Rover Thomas and Emily Kngwarreye. Certain classes will be conducted at the Art Gallery of New South Wales or the Museum of Contemporary Art. Lecturers will include prominent Indigenous curators and artists.
Textbooks
Recommended Readings:
ARHT2640 Modern and Contemporary Asian Art
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: (ARHT1001 and ARHT1002) or (ASNS1001 and ASNS1002) or (ASNS1001 and ASNS1101) Prohibitions: ARHT2040 Assessment: 1x2500wd essay (60%), 1x1500wd seminar paper (30%) and participation (10%)
In Asia there has developed both the nationalist art of a series of modernising states and a counter-establishment art which has frequently been formally modern. Students will learn how to analyse art works and institutions in terms of critical notions of modernity which arise in these Asian contexts but which do not require projection from outside. Focus will chiefly be on China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and India since the 1850s. Other examples will be drawn from Japan, Thailand and Indonesia.
Textbooks
ARHT2640 Course Reader
ARHT2641 Art and Archaeology of South East Asia
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: (ARHT1001 and ARHT1002) or (ASNS1001/1601 and ASNS1002/1602) or (ASNS1001/1601 and ASNS1101) or (any one of ARPH1001, ARPH1002, ARPH1003) Prohibitions: ARHT2041 Assessment: 1x1500wd site, building or artwork report (33%), 1x4500wd long essay (67%)
The focus of this course is the art and archaeology of the medieval civilizations of Southeast Asia, particularly Angkor, 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 prior to 1500, peripheral communities and minorities, and the historiography of Southeast Asia.
Textbooks
Recommended Readings:
ARHT2652 From Silent to Sound Cinema
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week and 1x2-hr film screening/week Prerequisites: ARHT1001 and ARHT1002 (For Art History Major), ARHT1002 or ENGL1025 or ENGL1026 (For Film Major) Prohibitions: ARHT2052 Assessment: 1x1500wd film analysis (30%), 1x2500wd essay (70%)
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 unit of study 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 and 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 unit 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. Students 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 unit.
Textbooks
Recommended Readings:
ARHT2653 Memory of the World: Key Films
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week and 1x2-hr film screening/week Prerequisites: ARHT1001 and ARHT1002 (For Art History Major), ARHT1002 or ENGL1025 or ENGL1026 (For Film Major) Prohibitions: ARHT2053 Assessment: 1x1500wd film analysis (30%), 1x2500wd essay (70%)
This unit of study 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 unit 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 to such invention will form an essential background to the unit.
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 unit 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 to such invention will form an essential background to the unit.
Textbooks
A Resource book, available from the University Copy Centre
ARHT2655 Modern Cinema: Modes of Viewing
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Summer Early Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week and 1x2-hr film screening/week Prerequisites: ARHT1001 and ARHT1002 (For Art History Major), ARHT1002 or ENGL1025 or ENGL1026 (For Film Major) Prohibitions: ARHT2055 Assessment: 1x2500wd essay (45%), 1x1500wd film analysis (35%) and tutorial presentation/participation (20%)
This unit of study will give an introduction to how film studies has analysed the meaning of a film in relation to how the film incorporates or addresses the spectator (what is known as theories of spectatorship). Commencing with debates around classical Hollywood cinema and the functioning of the point of view shot, the unit will examine how theories of spectatorship have understood the significance of different genres.
Textbooks
A Resource book will be available from the University Copy Centre
ARHT2656 National and Transnational Cinemas
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week and 1x2-3-hr film screening/week Prerequisites: ARHT1001 and ARHT1002 (For Art History Major), ARHT1002 or ENGL1025 or ENGL1026 (For Film Major) Prohibitions: ARHT2056 Assessment: 1x1500wd essay (30%), 1x3000wd essay (60%), tutorial participation (10%)
This unit of study investigates the problem of national cinema in terms of cultural specificity, identity and difference. The cinematic production of different nations will be compared in ways that draw out the various dimensions of the overall problem of the relation of cinema to the nation, of cinematic nationalism, and of cinema to existent and emergent cultural forms. One problem for national cinemas is that production is geographically dispersed and formally divergent. A film that is in production can exist not only in several forms, for instance, in analogue and digital forms, but can also be in production in different places and at different stages of production, pre-production and postproduction, at the same time. A key issue, then, is how national cinemas have responded, and continue to respond to globalised, transnational film production and distribution, and to the ever-present demand for technological and aesthetic renewal. If a film does not exist in any one form or be present in any one place, how can it be said to belong to a national context?
Textbooks
Recommended Readings:
ARHT2671 Art, Travel, Empires
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: ARHT1001 and ARHT1002 Prohibitions: ARHT2071 Assessment: 1x2500wd essay (60%), 1x1500wd visual test (30%), class particiaption (10%)
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 examine Orientalist art and the culture of travel from a post-colonial perspective. As well as the work of major artists (Delacroix, Gerome and J.F.Lewis), we will place particular emphasis upon photography, as well as international exhibitions, travel literature and film. Diverse European constructions of the exotic Orient will be examined including the distinctive contribution of women Orientalists. In this unit, the European canon of Orientalism is resituated through the introduction of counter-narratives and alternative images made by indigenous artists and patrons.
Textbooks
Recommended Readings:
ARHT1801 Art History and Theory 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 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.
ARHT2810 Art History and Theory 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/weekand 4x workshops/semester 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: 1x18000-20000wd thesis (60%) and 1x6000-8000wd written works from one seminar and one workshop (2x20%)
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 18000-20000 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 2011:
Art is the Issue (Assoc Prof Jennifer Milam)
Film is the Issue (Dr Keith Broadfoot)
The following workshop is on offer in 2011:
Analysing the Visual (Assoc Prof Jennifer Milam)
For more information, contact Dr Thomas Berghuis, 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 18000-20000 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 2011:
Art is the Issue (Assoc Prof Jennifer Milam)
Film is the Issue (Dr Keith Broadfoot)
The following workshop is on offer in 2011:
Analysing the Visual (Assoc Prof Jennifer Milam)
For more information, contact Dr Thomas Berghuis, 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 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2,Summer Main Classes: 4x2-hr workshops, 15-day/120-hr internship Assessment: 4x400wd reflective journals (20%), 1x2500wd final project report (60%), attendance (20%)
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.
Textbooks
Success at Work booklet (distributed at the first workshop)
ARTS2601 Internship 2
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 4x2-hr workshops, 15-day/120-hr internship Assessment: 4x400wd reflective journals (20%), 1x2500wd final project report (60%), attendance (20%)
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.
Textbooks
Success at Work booklet (distributed at the first workshop)
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 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Assessment: 1x1000wd essay (40%), 1x2hr exam (40%), tutorial exercises (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 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Assessment: 1x1500wd essay (40%), 1x2hr exam (40%), 1x1000wd 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.
ASNS2623 India: Tradition and Modernity
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2,Summer Main Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/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: 1x3000wd essay (50%) and 1x1500wd tutorial paper (50%)
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 assumptions underpinning Indian thought and culture with specific reference to Indian religious traditions. In particular, traditional notions of the individual, authenticity, and the concept of dharma will be addressed through an exploration of social and political structures, gender and the family, and forms of artistic, literary and religious expression. A key focus will be on the continuity of tradition and its interaction with modernity and the implications this has for understanding today's India.
ASNS2627 India, China, Tibet: Cultural Relations
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/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: 1x2500wd major essay (35%), 1xtutorial paper and presentation (equivalent to 1000wds) (30%), media file (equivalent to 1000wds) (30%), class participation (5%).
While India and China emerge as present-day superpowers, their historical inter-relations are not well known. This unit provides an overview of cultural interactions between Indian and Chinese civilisations, especially as these have shaped Tibetan cultural identity. A key focus is upon how pre-modern cultural interactions with India and China provide ideological contexts within which Tibetan religious and cultural traditions and political institutions developed. This is undertaken in order to understand interactions between all three cultures on the current global stage.
ASNS2631 The Origins of Japanese Tradition
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/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: 1x1000wd essay (30%), tutorial exercises (40%), 1x2hr exam (30%)
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.
ASNS2632 Modern Japanese Social History
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/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: ASNS2308 Assessment: 1x class presentation (20%), 1x1500wd essay (30%), 1x1.5-hr mid semester exam (30%), 1x test (10%), continuous assessment, including class participation and writing tasks (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 of study will begin with examination of social aspects of the Meiji reforms, evaluating interpretations of their aims and effects. The focus will then turn to the emergence of new social forces in the twentieth century, including industrial workers, an urban middle class and a women's movement. We will also explore changes in daily life and attitudes to work and leisure as urbanisation and industrialisation progressed and assess the effects of the Second World War and the Occupation.
ASNS2641 Traditional Korea
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/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: ASNS2501 Assessment: presentation and contribution to tutorial discussions (20%), 1x2500wd essay (40%), and 1x2hr final exam or essay (equivalent to 2000wds) (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: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/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%), 1x2500wd essay (40%), 1x2hr 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.
ASNS2663 Social Activism in Southeast Asia
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/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: class participation (20%), 1x1hr in-class test (equivalent to 1000wds) (20%), 1xessay portfolio (equivalent to 1000wds) (15%), 1x2500wd essay (45%)
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 country-specific and transnational social movements in Southeast Asia, including those focused on labour, women, the environment and identity. During the semester we will explore how these movements emerged, what they have sought to achieve, and how successful they have been in promoting social change in the Southeast Asian region. The unit adopts a multi-disciplinary approach based on contemporary case study material from Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines and Singapore.
ASNS2670 Mass Media in East Asia
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Summer Main Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/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: 1x1000wd tutorial paper (30%), 1x1500wd essay (30%), 1x2hr final exam (40%)
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 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures, 1x1-hr tutorial/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: 2x in class quizzes (equivalent to 500wds each) (10%), 1x2hr exam (40%), 1x group presentation (equivalent to 500wds) (20%), 1x1500wd essay (30%)
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.
ASNS3617 Citizens and Politics in China Today
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/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: classwork (15%), 1x2500wd essay (35%), 1x1000wd writing assignment (15%), 1x oral presentation (15%), 1x1hr test (20%)
Note: This unit will be taught in English, but a Chinese-language tutorial option may be provided. This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
In China, ideas like 'citizenship', 'rights', and 'community', have come into widespread use over recent years. This unit will explore the way in which these terms are conceptualised and practiced within the People's Republic of China. Using texts (from government documents to popular media) and case studies from different parts of mainland China, this unit will provide a framework for understanding the interplay of social, cultural and political forces that are transforming techniques of local governance in China.
Textbooks
Anthology of readings available online and/or from the University Copy Centre. Chinese-language reading options will also be available
ASNS3618 Popular China
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/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: classwork (10%), 1x1500-2000wd essay (40%), 1xoral presentation based on work for essay (20%), other writing assignment (e.g. portfolio with essay, total of 2000wds) (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.
ASNS3619 China and Globalisation
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/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: classwork (20%), 1x1hr test (20%), 1x1000wd essay or equivalent writing assignment (20%), 1x2500wd essay (40%)
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
On the brink of disaster in 1989, China has since become a political and economic power in the world. This unit of study examines the impact of globalisation on China with respect to the multilateral movements of ideas, capital and people. It will explore recent political, economic and social change in China, focusing on responses to China's expanded engagement with the outside world. Due attention will be paid to China's changing relations with its Asian neighbours and with Western countries.
ASNS3690 Approaches to Research in Asian Studies
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/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%), 1x3000wd research proposal (40%), 1xbibliographical exercise (equivalent to 1000wds) (10%), 1xpresentation based on draft proposal (10%), critical reviews or other written assignments (equivalent to 2000wds) (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
ASNS1801 Asian Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
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
ASNS4011 Asian Studies Honours A
Credit points: 12 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 18000-20000 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 18000-20000 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 20%.
The following seminars are on offer in 2011:
Semester 1: Theory and Method in Asian Studies (Dr Olivier Ansart)
Semester 2: Engaging Asia (Dr Michele Ford)
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 18000-20000 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 20%.
The following seminars are on offer in 2011:
Semester 1: Theory and Method in Asian Studies (Dr Olivier Ansart)
Semester 2: Engaging Asia (Dr Michele Ford)
For more information, contact Dr Olivier Ansart, Honours coordinator.
ASNS4012 Asian Studies Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ASNS4011
Refer to ASNS4011
ASNS4013 Asian Studies Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ASNS4012
Refer to ASNS4011
ASNS4014 Asian Studies Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ASNS4013
Refer to ASNS4011
Biblical Studies
BBCL1001 Biblical Studies 1
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3x1-hr seminars/week. Attendance and participation in all lectures and tutorials is mandatory Assessment: class participation (10%), 1xtutorial presentation and report (equivalent to 1500wds) (30%), 1xresearch essay (equivalent to 2000wds) (30%), 1x2hr exam (30%)
This unit provides an introduction to the study of the Bible, focusing on understanding the literary techniques biblical authors used to convey their message when writing narrative, legal and ritual 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 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3x1-hr seminars/week. Attendance and participation in all lectures and tutorials is mandatory Assessment: class participation (10%), 1xtutorial presentation and report (equivalent to 1500wds) (30%), 1xresearch essay (equivalent to 2000wds) (30%), 1x2hr exam (30%)
This unit focuses specifically on narrative books of the Hebrew Bible including Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings and Chronicles. The course focuses on the themes of these biblical books, as well as exploring the historical background of the texts and the events they describe. 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.
BBCL2607 Biblical Poetic Books
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: BBCL1001 or BBCL1002 Assessment: 1x2000wd research essay (40%), 1xtutorial presentation and 1000wd paper (25%), 1x1.5hr exam (equivalent to 1500wds) (35%)
This unit examines the Biblical Poetic Books such as Psalms, the Song of Songs and Lamentations. The main focus of the course is on how the literary conventions of the genre of Hebrew poetry are used by the poets to set out the theological and philosophical concepts the texts are designed to express. These literary conventions will be studied in the light of other Ancient Near Eastern literature of a similar genre.
BBCL2608 Biblical Wisdom Literature
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: BBCL1001 or BBCL1002 Assessment: 1x2000wd research essay (40%), 1xtutorial presentation and 1000wd paper (25%), 1x1.5hr exam (equivalent to 1500wds) (35%)
This unit focuses on the Biblical Wisdom books such as Proverbs, Job and Ecclesiastes. The main focus of the course is on the literary, philosophical and religious aspects of the texts. Issues addressed will include whether the books present a dialectic of orthodoxy (Proverbs) versus challenges to that orthodoxy (Ecclesiastes and Job). Additionally, the unit will explore the relationship between the core Biblical Wisdom books and other literature of similar genre, such as Ben Sira and various writings from Qumran.
BBCL2609 Historical Jesus to Written Gospels
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: BBCL1001 or BBCL1002 or RLST2624 or MGRK2675 or MGRK2676 Assessment: 2000wd research essay (40%), 1xtutorial presentation and 1000wd paper (25%), 1x1.5hr exam (equivalent to 1500wds) (35%)
This unit examines the relationship between the historical person of Jesus of Nazareth and the literary-theological achievement of the early Christian Gospels (including non-canonical Gospels). Students are encouraged to apply rigorous historical method and careful literary analysis in order to gain a nuanced understanding of how the leader of a Jewish renewal movement became the object of devotion in earliest Christianity. The unit will read Biblical texts in English translation.
BBCL2610 The New Testament as Literature
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: BBCL1001 or BBCL1002 or RLST2624 or MGRK2675 or MGRK2676 Assessment: 1x2000wd research essay (40%), 1xtutorial presentation and 1000wd paper (25%), 1x1.5hr exam (equivalent to 1500wds) (35%)
This unit of study provides an overview of the New Testament as a literary and theological work, seeking to understand both the early Christian 'story' and the various modes in which it was retold and applied in the first century CE. Students explore the various genres of NT literature, including 'gospel', epistolary forms, parable and apocalyptic. Particular attention is paid to reader-response criticism of the Gospels and intertextuality in the NT epistles. Documents will be read in English translation.
BBCL2801 Biblical In-Country Study A
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 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
Approved course in an overseas tertiary level institution.
BBCL2802 Biblical In-Country Study B
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 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
Approved course in an overseas tertiary level institution.
BBCL4011 Biblical Studies Honours A
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: two seminars in semester 1 and one seminar in semester 2, 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 each seminar
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. two seminars in semester 1 and one seminar in semester 2, each two hours per week
The thesis should be of 15000 words in length. Each seminar will require 5000 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 2011:
Biblical Themes (Dr Ari Lobel)
Biblical Texts in Hebrew I (Prof Alan Crown)
Biblical Texts in Hebrew II (Assoc Prof Ian Young)
For more information, contact Dr Ari Lobel, Honours coordinator.
1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
2. two seminars in semester 1 and one seminar in semester 2, each two hours per week
The thesis should be of 15000 words in length. Each seminar will require 5000 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 2011:
Biblical Themes (Dr Ari Lobel)
Biblical Texts in Hebrew I (Prof Alan Crown)
Biblical Texts in Hebrew II (Assoc Prof Ian Young)
For more information, contact Dr Ari Lobel, Honours coordinator.
BBCL4012 Biblical Studies Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: BBCL4011
Refer to BBCL4011
BBCL4013 Biblical Studies Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: BBCL4012
Refer to BBCL4011
BBCL4014 Biblical Studies Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: BBCL4013
Refer to BBCL4011
Celtic Studies
CLST2601 Defining the Celts
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 18 Junior Credit Points Assessment: 1x2500wd essay (50%) and 1x2-hr exam (50%)
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 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: CLST2606 Assessment: 1x2500wd grammar, metrics and translation exercise (50%) and 1x2-hr exam (50%)
The unit seeks to give 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 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: CLST2604 Assessment: 1x2500wd grammar, metrics and translation exercise (50%) and 1x2-hr exam (50%)
Building on the knowledge acquired by following Beginners' Middle Welsh (or equivalent elsewhere), the unit seeks to give 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 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 18 Junior Credit Points Assessment: 1x2500wd grammar and translation exercise (50%) and 1x2-hr exam (50%)
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 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: 18 Junior credit points Assessment: 1x3500wd seminar paper (70%), 1x2500wd weekly journal (30%)
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 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points Assessment: 1x2500wd grammar and translation exercise (50%) and 1x2-hr exam (50%)
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (advanced) degree program
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 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x2-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 senior credit points Assessment: 1x2-hr exam (50%) and 1x2000wd essay (50%)
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (advanced) degree program
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 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 18 Junior Credit Points Assessment: 2x1500wd essays (46%), 1x2000wd written exam (46%) and 1x500wd oral exam (8%)
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 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points including CLST2608 Assessment: 2x1500wd essays (46%), 1x2000wd written exam (46%) and 1x500wd oral exam (8%)
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (advanced) degree program
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 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points Assessment: 2x1000wd essays (46%), 1x1000wd exam (46%) and 1x500wd oral exam (8%)
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (advanced) degree program
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 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points including CLST2610 Assessment: 2x1000wd essays (46%), 1x2000wd exam (46%) and 1x500wd oral exam (8%)
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (advanced) degree program
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 unit, following up on the insights provided by CLST2610, the Irish language will be studied in further depth in the context of Irish history and culture.
CLST2612 Scottish Identity, History and Culture
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points Assessment: 1x3000wd essay (50%), 1x2000wd exam (30%) and 1x1000wd tutorial presentation (20%)
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (advanced) degree program
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 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 2x2-hr seminars/week for one semester Prerequisites: A major in Celtic Studies plus 12 additional senior credit points, all with a Credit average Assessment: 1x18000-20000wd thesis (60%) and 1x6000-8000wds of written work or its equivalent for each seminar (40%)
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in Celtic Studies consists of:
1. a thesis written under the supervision of a member of staff nominated by of the Professor of Celtic Studies
2. two seminars that meet weekly for two hours for one semester each.
The thesis is worth 18-20000 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 are worth 20%.
The following seminars may be on offer in 2011:
Selected Old and Middle Irish texts (Prof A Ahlqvist)
Selected Early Welsh texts (Prof A Ahlqvist)
It is important that prospective Honours students consult the Professor of Celtic Studies to ensure that their choice of senior units of study is appropriate to their intentions for the Honours Year.
1. a thesis written under the supervision of a member of staff nominated by of the Professor of Celtic Studies
2. two seminars that meet weekly for two hours for one semester each.
The thesis is worth 18-20000 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 are worth 20%.
The following seminars may be on offer in 2011:
Selected Old and Middle Irish texts (Prof A Ahlqvist)
Selected Early Welsh texts (Prof A Ahlqvist)
It is important that prospective Honours students consult the Professor of Celtic Studies to ensure that their choice of senior units of study is appropriate to their intentions for the Honours 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 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 3x1-hr tutorials/week 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: classwork (10%), on-line or individual learning (20%), oral presentations (40%), writing projects (30%)
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. 3rd edition. Boston: Cheng and Tsui, 2010
CHNS1102 Chinese 1B (For Beginners)
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 3x1-hr tutorials/week Prerequisites: CHNS1101 Prohibitions: HSC Chinese for Background Speakers, eligibility for CHNS1201 or higher Assumed knowledge: One semester of Chinese at introductory level Assessment: class work (10%), on-line or individual learning (20%), oral presentations (40%), writing projects (30%)
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 One. Textbook, Workbook and Character Workbook. 3rd edition. Boston: Cheng and Tsui, 2010
CHNS1201 Chinese 1C (For Advanced Beginners)
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 3x1-hr tutorials/week 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: classwork (15%), oral presentations (25%), quizzes and exercises (30%), reading/writing tests (30%)
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
Consult Department
CHNS1202 Chinese 1D (For Advanced Beginners)
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 3x1-hr tutorials/week 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 and at least basic communicative skills in Putonghua Assessment: classwork (10%), oral presentations (20%), vocabulary quizzes (20%), composition tests and exercises (20%), major reading/writing tests (2x15%)
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
Consult Department
CHNS1303 Chinese for Background Speakers 1
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x2-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: Must have passed HSC Chinese (Background Speakers) or have completed a major part of their secondary education in Chinese Prohibitions: CHNS1101, CHNS1102, CHNS2601, CHNS2602 Assessment: written assignments (equivalent to 2500wds in English) (50%), 1xoral presentation (equivalent to 1000wds in English) (20%), 1xwritten class test (equivalent to 1000wds) (30%)
The unit meets the needs of students who have passed HSC Chinese (Background Speakers) or
have completed a major part of their secondary education in Chinese. The unit aims to further
improve their language skills and cultural awareness. It teaches advanced Chinese
communication skills and sensitizes students to differences between Chinese and English
languages and discourses. A range of authentic material will be used, drawn from various
media and literary sources, covering topics of contemporary interest.
have completed a major part of their secondary education in Chinese. The unit aims to further
improve their language skills and cultural awareness. It teaches advanced Chinese
communication skills and sensitizes students to differences between Chinese and English
languages and discourses. A range of authentic material will be used, drawn from various
media and literary sources, covering topics of contemporary interest.
CHNS1304 Chinese for Background Speakers 2
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x2-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: CHNS1303 Prohibitions: CHNS1101, CHNS1102, CHNS2601, CHNS2602 Assessment: 1xwritten assignment (equivalent to 1000wds in English) (20%), 1xmini research project (equivalent to 1500wds in English) (30%), 1xoral presentation (equivalent to 1000wds in English) (20%), 1xwritten class test (equivalent to 1000wds in English) (30%)
The unit is a continuation of CHNS1303. It aims to further improve language skills and cultural awareness of students who have passed HSC Chinese (Background) or have completed a major part of their secondary education in Chinese. It teaches advanced Chinese communication skills, including basic academic research skills in Chinese writing and oral presentation, through dealing with a range of authentic material beyond that covered in CHNS1303.
CHNS1601 Understanding Contemporary China
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prohibitions: ASNS1101 Assessment: 1x2000wd essay (40%), 1xin-class test (30%), 1xclass presentation (equivalent to 1000 wds) (20%) and 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
Gamer, Robert E. ed. Understanding Contemporary China. Boulder, Colarado: Lynne Rienner Publisher, 3rd edn.
CHNS2601 Chinese 2A (Lower Intermediate)
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 4x1-hr tutorials/week 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 1000wds) (15%), oral tests (35%) and in-class tests (40%)
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. On completion of this unit of study, students should be able to engage in real life communication, write short compositions and read fluently within their vocabulary range.
Textbooks
Ted Yao and Yuehua Liu. Integrated Chinese. Level One, Part Two. Textbook and Workbook. 3rd edition. Boston: Cheng and Tsui, 2010
CHNS2602 Chinese 2B (Lower Intermediate)
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 4x1-hr tutorials/week 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 1000wds) (15%), oral tests (35%) and in-class tests (40%)
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 be able to read Chinese-language materials of limited complexity and to discuss their content orally and write short compositions.
Textbooks
Ted Yao and Yuehua Liu. Integrated Chinese. Level One, Part Two. Textbook and Workbook. 3rd edition. Boston: Cheng and Tsui, 2010
CHNS2611 Classical Chinese A
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3x1-hr tutorials/week Prerequisites: CHNS1102 or CHNS1202 or CHNS2602 or CHNS3602 or CHNS3604 or CHNS2102 or CHNS3104 or CHNS2204 Prohibitions: HSC Chinese for Background Speakers (or equivalent), CHNS2111, CHNS2903, CHNS1313 Assumed knowledge: Minimum of one year of Chinese at introductory level. Assessment: classwork (10%), 2x30-minute tests (10%), 3x40-minute tests (60%), 1xreading project resulting in 1500wd essay (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 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3x1-hr tutorials/week Prerequisites: CHNS2611 or CHNS2111 or HSC Chinese for Background Speakers or CHNS1313 or CHNS2903 Prohibitions: CHNS2112, CHNS2904, CHNS1314 Assessment: classwork (10%), 50-minute tests (3x20%), homework exercises (10%), 1xreading project resulting in a 1500wd essay (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
CHNS3601 Chinese 3A (Upper Intermediate)
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 3x1-hr tutorials/week Prerequisites: CHNS2602 or CHNS1202 Prohibitions: HSC Chinese for Background Speakers, CHNS3103 Assumed knowledge: Two years of university-level Chinese-language instruction for students without prior knowledge of Chinese Assessment: classwork (10%), oral presentations (30%), 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
Ted Yao and Yuehua Liu. Integrated Chinese. Level Two, Textbook and Workbook. 3rd edition. Boston: Cheng and Tsui, 2010
CHNS3602 Chinese 3B (Upper Intermediate)
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 3x1-hr tutorials/week Prerequisites: CHNS3601 or CHNS3103 Prohibitions: HSC Chinese for Background Speakers, CHNS3104 Assumed knowledge: Two and a half years of university-level Chinese-language instruction for students without prior knowledge of Chinese Assessment: Classwork (10%), oral presentations (30%), 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
Ted Yao and Yuehua Liu. Integrated Chinese. Level Two, Textbook and Workbook. 3rd edition. Boston: Cheng and Tsui, 2010
CHNS3603 Chinese 4A (Advanced)
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 2x1-hr tutorials/week Prerequisites: CHNS1202 or CHNS3602 or CHNS3104 Prohibitions: HSC Chinese for Background Speakers, CHNS2203, CHNS2204 Assessment: classwork (10%), in-class tests (40%), 1xoral presentation (30%) and chinese-language writing assignments (20%)
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.
Textbooks
Hong Gang Jin et al. China Scene: An Advanced Multimedia Course (Traditional & Simplified Character edn.), Boston: Cheng & Tsui Company, 2007
CHNS3604 Chinese 4B (Advanced)
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 2x1-hr tutorials/week Prerequisites: CHNS3603 or CHNS2203 Prohibitions: HSC Chinese for Background Speakers, CHNS2204 Assessment: classwork (10%), in-class tests (40%), 1xoral presentation (30%) and chinese-language writing assignments (20%)
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
Hong Gang Jin et al. China Scene: An Advanced Multimedia Course (Traditional & Simplified Character edn.), Boston: Cheng & Tsui Company, 2007
CHNS3611 Chinese for Specific Purposes 1
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x2-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: CHNS3602 or CHNS3604 Prohibitions: CHNS3605 and CHNS3606 Assessment: 1xwritten assignment (40%), 2xoral presentations (30%), 1x1000wd research project (20%), classwork and participation (10%)
This unit of study is intended for students who have a sound intermediate competence of Modern Standard Chinese and wish to study the language for specific purposes. The unit provides training in basic knowledge of Chinese terms, etiquette and ethics in different professions, such as medicine, law, engineering and business. It will enhance students' practical communication skills in different social and professional contexts. It will also help them develop a general understanding of inter-professional knowledge in Chinese.
CHNS3612 Chinese for Specific Purposes 2
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x2-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: CHNS3611 Prohibitions: CHNS3605 and CHNS3606 Assessment: 1xwritten assignment (40%), 2xoral presentations (30%), 1x1000wd research project (20%), classwork and participation (10%)
The unit is a continuation of CHNS 3611. It aims to further improve students' Chinese communication skills for specific purposes. The unit provides training in advanced knowledge of Chinese terms, etiquette and ethics in different professions, such as medicine, law, engineering and business. It will focus on a wide range of genres, including case studies in different social and professional contexts. It will enhance students' analytical and practical communication skills in Chinese.
CHNS3633 Lu Xun and China's Modern Literature
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 credit points from Table A of the Table of Units of Study in the Faculty of Arts Assumed knowledge: No knowledge of the Chinese language or literature is required Assessment: classwork (10%), 1x2500wd essay (40%), other written assignments, (e.g. discussion report) (equivalent to 1500wds) (30%), oral assignments, (e.g. presentation plus discussion leadership) (20%)
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program
Lu Xun was one of the most influential Chinese writers in the early decades of the twentieth century. The works of Lu Xun and his contemporaries marked the emergence of a modern Chinese literature that reflected its proponents' anxiety for sociocultural change and national salvation, absorbed external influences, and was intended to reach a wide readership. This unit of study highlights works by Lu Xun and other major authors in the context of the intellectual history of the time.
Textbooks
Reader available from the University copy Centre
CHNS3634 Gender in Modern Chinese Literature
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 credit points from Table A of the Table of Units of Study in the Faculty of Arts Assumed knowledge: No knowledge of the Chinese language or literature is required Assessment: classwork (10%), 1x2500wd essay (40%), group debate (20%), oral assignments (30%)
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program
Recent research on gender and related issues in Chinese cultural context has transformed conventional ideas about the roles of women in the Chinese world. This unit of study will illustrate the value of gender-sensitive scholarship by focusing on literary studies. Students will learn fresh approaches to the study of Chinese society and culture by examining the representation of gender and sexuality in (mainly) modern Chinese literature.
Textbooks
Reader available from the University Copy Centre
CHNS3640 Chinese History Through Chinese Eyes
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3x1-hr tutorials/week Prerequisites: CHNS2612 or CHNS2112 or CHNS2904 or CHNS1314 Prohibitions: CHNS3561 Assumed knowledge: Basic knowledge of Classical Chinese Assessment: classwork (20%), 1x1hr test (30%), 1x2000wd essay (30%), additional written assignments and tests (equivalent to 1500wds) (20%)
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program
How did the early Chinese come to develop one of the world's great historiographical traditions? In their narratives of both exemplary and counter-exemplary behavior, what sort of personal qualities were thought to influence the course of history? How was social change perceived? Was there an understanding of "impersonal" forces of history, such as economics? These and other questions will be explored as we read in the rich sources left by premodern China's own historians.
Textbooks
Consult Department
CHNS3647 Classical Chinese Poetry
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3x1-hr tutorials/week Prerequisites: CHNS2612 or CHNS2112 or CHNS1314 or CHNS2904 Prohibitions: CHNS3441, CHNS3541 Assessment: classwork (15%), 1x2000wd essay (30%), 1hr tests (2x20%), 1xoral presentation (15%)
An outstanding achievement of Chinese culture has been a vast corpus of poetry, remarkable for its aesthetic qualities and political and cultural importance. In this unit, the development and distinctive features of classical poetry will be explored through selected poems representing various genres and periods. One or two genres may be studied in greater depth, such as the ancient, richly symbolic Chu ci, the poetry of the great Tang masters, or the innovative lyric verse of the Song dynasty.
Textbooks
Consult Department
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 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
All details as for CHNS2650.
CHNS2652 Chinese In-Country Study C
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 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
All details as for CHNS2650.
CHNS2653 Chinese In-Country Study D
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 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
All details as for CHNS2650.
CHNS2654 Chinese In-Country Study E
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 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
All details as for CHNS2650.
CHNS2655 Chinese In-Country Study F
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 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
All details as for CHNS2650.
CHNS2656 Chinese In-Country Study G
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 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
All details as for CHNS2650.
CHNS2657 Chinese In-Country Study H
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 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
All details as for CHNS2650.
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.
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
CHNS4011 Chinese Honours A
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: Two or three seminars, each meets weekly for two hours for one semester 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 18000-16000 words and two seminars or a thesis of 12000 - 15000 words and three seminars
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in Chinese Studies consists of:
1. a long thesis written in English (18000 - 20000 words) and two seminars. The thesis is worth 60% of the final Honours result and the seminars 40% (each seminar 20%) or
2. a short thesis in English (12000 - 15000 words) and three seminars. The thesis is worth 40% of the final Honours result and the seminars 60% (each seminar 20%).
The following seminars are on offer in 2011:
Semester 1: Theory and Method in Asian Studies (Dr Olivier Ansart)
Semester 2: Engaging Asia (Dr Michele Ford) In consultation with the supervisor and with the approval of the Chair of the Department, students can also select seminars from other programs in the Faculty of Arts. The Department also offers joint Honours supervision with other programs.
For more information, contact Dr Yiyan Wang, Chair of Chinese Studies in semester 1 or Dr Linda Tsung, Acting Chair of Chinese Studies in semester 2.
1. a long thesis written in English (18000 - 20000 words) and two seminars. The thesis is worth 60% of the final Honours result and the seminars 40% (each seminar 20%) or
2. a short thesis in English (12000 - 15000 words) and three seminars. The thesis is worth 40% of the final Honours result and the seminars 60% (each seminar 20%).
The following seminars are on offer in 2011:
Semester 1: Theory and Method in Asian Studies (Dr Olivier Ansart)
Semester 2: Engaging Asia (Dr Michele Ford) In consultation with the supervisor and with the approval of the Chair of the Department, students can also select seminars from other programs in the Faculty of Arts. The Department also offers joint Honours supervision with other programs.
For more information, contact Dr Yiyan Wang, Chair of Chinese Studies in semester 1 or Dr Linda Tsung, Acting Chair of Chinese Studies in semester 2.
CHNS4012 Chinese Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: See under CHNS4011. Corequisites: CHNS4011
Refer to CHNS4011
CHNS4013 Chinese Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: See under CHNS4011. Corequisites: CHNS4012
Refer to CHNS4011
CHNS4014 Chinese Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: See under CHNS4011. Corequisites: CHNS4013
Refer to 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 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 2011:
Greek Epic (Prof Eric Csapo)
Greek Philosophical Texts (Assoc Prof Rick Benitez)
Latin Imperial Poetry (Assoc Prof Lindsay Watson)
Latin Republican Prose (Dr Robert Cowan)
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 2011:
Greek Epic (Prof Eric Csapo)
Greek Philosophical Texts (Assoc Prof Rick Benitez)
Latin Imperial Poetry (Assoc Prof Lindsay Watson)
Latin Republican Prose (Dr Robert Cowan)
For more information, contact Dr Alastair Blanshard, Honours coordinator.
CLSS4012 Classics Honours B
Credit points: 12 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 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 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: Refer to CLSS4011 Corequisites: CLSS4013 Assessment: Refer to CLSS4011
Refer to CLSS4011
Cultural Studies
GCST1601 Introduction to Cultural Studies
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Winter Main Classes: 1x2 hour lecture and 1x1 hour tutorial Assessment: 1x online reflective learning journal equivalent to 2000 words (40%), 1x group presentation (10%), 1x2000 word essay (40%) and participation (10%)
Cultural studies explores everyday life, media and popular culture. It shows us how we can make sense of contemporary culture as producers, consumers, readers and viewers, in relation to our identities and communities. How do various cultural texts and practices convey different kinds of meaning and value? Drawing upon key approaches in the field, students will learn how to analyse cultural forms such as advertising, television, film and popular music.
GCST2606 Genres in Cultural Context
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week, 1x1-hr online or media work/week Prerequisites: 18 Junior credit points Assessment: participation (15%), 1xgroup presentation with 500wd precis (15%), 2xjournals (totalling 800 words) (20%), 1x1000wd paper (25%), 1x1500wd paper or creative project (25%)
This unit introduces students to some theories of genre and to textual examples of specified genres. Several genres will be studied; possible examples may include romance, soap opera, sci-fi, horror, the musical, music video, and reality TV. Examples will be drawn from different media and from both popular and "high" culture. Key themes will include the place of gender in genre and the role of textual conventions in structuring meaning.
GCST2608 Gender, Communities and Belonging
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 18 Junior credit points Prohibitions: WMST2008 Assessment: 1x500wd critical close reading task (20%), 1x1750wd essay (35%), 1x1750wd take-home exam (35%) and participation (10%)
This unit examines difference and diversity within community. It looks at the operation of power and at how power produces and regulates communities and identities. It questions the assumption that community is based on the unity and similarity of citizens and examines alternatives such as difference and sociality. Specific debates about the regulation of reproduction, the production of sexuality, and the provision of welfare are examined. The unit is divided into 2 sections: Gender, Community and Difference; and Foucault, Power and Governance.
GCST2612 Youth Cultures
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Summer Late Classes: 1x2 hour lecture and 1x1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points Prohibitions: WMST2012 Assessment: tutorial participation (10%), 1x tutorial presentation (10%), 1x1500 word write-up of presentation (30%), 1x2000 word essay/take-home exam (50%)
This unit examines academic and popular cultural ideas about youth and practices of youth culture. It will introduce students to some of the current parameters for studying youth cultural forms, practices and theories by drawing on research with young people. Points of focus will include discussion of youth, youth subcultures, filmic depictions of youth cultures, youth arts and critical perspectives on schooling. These seemingly diverse narratives and sites are brought together by the fact that they all play roles in shaping the lived experience of contemporary youth culture.
GCST2613 Everyday Life: Theories and Practices
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 18 Junior credit points Prohibitions: GCST2611 Assessment: 1x1000wd close reading assignment (20%), 1x2000wd observation task assignment (30%), 1x2000wd critical essay or photo essay (30%) and 1x1000wd group presentation (20%)
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.
GCST3603 Consumer Cultures
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1.5-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 18 Junior credit points, including 6 credit points in GCST Prohibitions: WMST3003 Assessment: participation (10%), journal exercises (equivalent to 1500 words) (20%), 1x1500wd essay (20%), and 1x2000wd essay (50%)
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 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points including at least 6 credit points GCST Assessment: 3x500wd responses to readings (45%), choice of 1x2500wd take-home exam or 1x2500wd research essay (35%), and participation in class and online (20%)
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.
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
GCST4011 Cultural Studies Honours A
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: one class of 2-3hrs/week for each seminar Prerequisites: Credit average in 48 senior credit points of Cultural Studies, including GCST2601 (or WMST2001) Assessment: a thesis of 15000 words and 6000 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 2011:
Arguing the Point (Dr Melissa Gregg) (Sem 1)
Philosophy in the Feminine (Sem 1)
Sport, Media and Gendered Cultures (Sem 1)
Modernism, Modernity and Modern Culture (Dr Natalya Lust) (Sem 2))
Identity, Place and Culture (Prof Meaghan Morris) (Sem 2)
For more information, contact Dr Melissa Gregg, 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 2011:
Arguing the Point (Dr Melissa Gregg) (Sem 1)
Philosophy in the Feminine (Sem 1)
Sport, Media and Gendered Cultures (Sem 1)
Modernism, Modernity and Modern Culture (Dr Natalya Lust) (Sem 2))
Identity, Place and Culture (Prof Meaghan Morris) (Sem 2)
For more information, contact Dr Melissa Gregg, Honours coordinator.
GCST4012 Cultural Studies Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: Refer to GCST4011 Corequisites: GCST4011
Refer to GCST4011
GCST4013 Cultural Studies Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: Refer to GCST4011 Corequisites: GCST4012
Refer to GCST4011
GCST4014 Cultural Studies Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: Refer to GCST4011 Corequisites: GCST4013
Refer to GCST4011
GCST4101 Arguing the Point
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/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 (100%)
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 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 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/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 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/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 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 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: Consultations with a supervisor appointed by the Department, as determined between the student and the supervisor Corequisites: GCST4101
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: Available only to students who commenced Cultural Studies or Gender Studies Honours prior to 2010.
See GCST4101
Refer to GCST4113
GCST4115 Cultural Studies Honours Thesis C
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: Consultations with a supervisor appointed by the Department, as determined between the student and the supervisor Corequisites: GCST4101
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: Available only to students who commenced Cultural Studies or Gender Studies Honours prior to 2010.
See GCST4101
Refer to GCST4113
GCST4116 Cultural Studies Honours Thesis D
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: Consultations with a supervisor appointed by the Department, as determined between the student and the supervisor Corequisites: GCST4101
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: Available only to students who commenced Cultural Studies or Gender Studies Honours prior to 2010.
See GCST4101
Refer to GCST4113
Digital Cultures
ARIN2600 Technocultures
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points Prohibitions: ARIN3000 Assessment: 1x1500wd influence analysis (30%), 1x500wd discussion-leading and report (15%), 1x2000wd essay (40%), participation (15%)
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 Session: Semester 2,Summer Main Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x2-hr workshop/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points Prohibitions: ARIN2100 Assessment: 1x500wd wiki entry (15%), 1x1500wd website review (25%), 1x1500wd website project (35%), participation and workshops (25%)
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 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commecing week 2 Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points Prohibitions: ARIN2200 Assessment: 1x2000wd essay (40%), 1x1500wd report (20%), 1x1000wd case study (20%), participation (20%)
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 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week and 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points Prohibitions: ARIN2300 Assessment: 1x1500wd essay (30%), 1x1000wd art review (25%), 1x2000wd exhibition proposal (30%), participation (15%)
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 Course Reader
ARIN3620 Researching Digital Cultures
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: 18 senior credit points Prohibitions: ARIN2000 Assessment: 1x2000wd research blog (40%), 1x2500wd research proposal (45%), participation (15%)
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 Session: Semester 1,Summer Main Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x2-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points Assessment: 1x1000wd exercise (20%), 1x1500wd analysis (30%), 1x1500wd equivalent design project (35%), participation (15%)
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 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: ISYS3403 (ISYS3113), ISYS3400 (ISYS3207) and ARIN3620 (ARIN2000) Prohibitions: ARIN3500, ARIN3600 Assessment: 1x1000wd article (20%), 1x1500wd report (20%), 1x3000 word project proposal (40%), participation (20%)
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.
ARIN3660 Digital Cultures Project 2
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: ISYS3403 (ISYS3113), ISYS3400 (ISYS3207), ARIN3620 (ARIN2000) and ARIN3650 Prohibitions: ARIN3500, ARIN3600 Assessment: 1x2000wd equivalent project prototype and presentation (50%), 1x2500wd project prototype and documentation (20%), 1x1000 project report (20%), participation (10%)
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 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 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: 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. 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 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: individual consultations and meetings with supervisor Prerequisites: ARIN1000 and either ISYS1003 or INFO1000 or INFO1003; 36 senior credit points of ARIN and ISYS/INFO Corequisites: ARIN3670 Assessment: 1x1000wd annotated bibliography (30%) and 1x3500wd research essay (70%)
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.
ARIN2801 Digital Cultures 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
ARIN4011 Digital Cultures Honours A
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week per semester long unit Prerequisites: Credit average in 48 senior credit points in the Digital Cultures Program comprising ARIN and cross-listed units of study. Assessment: 1x15000wd thesis (50%), 2x9000wd seminar essays (50%)
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in Digital Cultures 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 words in length. Each seminar requires 9000 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 2011:
Digital Research and Publishing
Internet Cultures and Governance
Network Society
Exploring Digital Cultures
Remixable Media
For more information, contact Dr Kathy Cleland, 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 words in length. Each seminar requires 9000 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 2011:
Digital Research and Publishing
Internet Cultures and Governance
Network Society
Exploring Digital Cultures
Remixable Media
For more information, contact Dr Kathy Cleland, Honours Coordinator.
ARIN4012 Digital Cultures Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ARIN4011
Refer to ARIN4011
ARIN4013 Digital Cultures Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ARIN4012
Refer to ARIN4011
ARIN4014 Digital Cultures Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ARIN4013
Refer to ARIN4011
Econometrics
Available to Bachelor of Economics students only
ECMT1010 Business and Economic Statistics A
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: two 1-hour lectures and one 2-hour workshop per week Prohibitions: ECMT1011, ECMT1012, ECMT1013, MATH1015, MATH1005, MATH1905, STAT1021, ECOF1010 Assessment: Homework (15%); Quizes (30%); Assignment (15%); Final exam (40%)
This unit provides an introduction to basic statistics and its applications in economics and business disciplines. Topics include: methods for data management; analysis and interpretation of data; probability; the normal distribution; an introduction to sampling theory and hypothesis testing; and the concepts of regression analysis. A key component is the provision of instruction and experience in the use of computers and statistical software as an aid in the analysis of data. Students are expected to use data resources on the World Wide Web, retrieve data and analyse this data using Excel.
ECMT1020 Business and Economic Statistics B
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: two 1-hour lectures and one 2-hour workshop per week Prerequisites: ECMT1010 or ECOF1010 Prohibitions: ECMT1021, ECMT1022, ECMT1023 Assessment: Three quizzes (25%); Workshop questions/homework (10%); Assignment (15%); Final exam (50%)
Note: Other than in exceptional circumstances, it is strongly recommended that students do not undertake Business and Economic Statistics B before attempting Business and Economic Statistics A.
This unit broadens the knowledge gained in the unit, ECMT1010 Business and Economic Statistics A by introducing further tools (and their applications) for use in economics, finance, marketing and accounting. This unit features practical applications. Possible topics include: further aspects of hypothesis testing including goodness-of-fit models; regression analysis including a brief introduction to logit models, time series and its applications to economics and finance; input-output analysis; index numbers and mathematics of finance. The material is further complemented by mathematical topics including matrices and partial differentiation. In addition, students are expected to use data resources on the World Wide Web, retrieve data and analyse this data using Excel.
ECOF1010 Business and Economic Statistics A Adv
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: one 2-hour lecture and one 2-hour workshop per week Prohibitions: ECMT1010, ECMT1011, ECMT1012, ECMT1013, MATH1015, MATH1005, MATH1905, STAT1021 Assessment: Two quizzes (30%); Group assignment (15%); Homework (15%); Final exam (40%)
This unit provides an introduction to basic statistics and its applications in economics and business disciplines. Topics include: methods for data management; analysis and interpretation of data; probability; the normal distribution; an introduction to sampling theory and hypothesis testing; and the concepts of regression analysis. A key component is the provision of instruction and experience in the use of computers and statistical software as an aid in the analysis of data. Students are expected to use data resources from the internet, retrieve data and analyse this data using Excel. This course is an advanced version of ECMT1010 Business and Economic Statistics A, and will cover the same topics as that unit.
ECMT2110 Regression Modelling
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 2x 1hr lectures and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Prerequisites: ECMT1010 or ECOF1010 Prohibitions: ECMT2010 Assessment: Group project (20%); 3 Assignments (15%); Mid-Semester exam (25%); Final exam (40%)
Students undertaking this unit have some background in basic statistics including an introduction to regression analysis. Using this knowledge as a base, an extensive discussion of basic regression theory and some of its extensions is provided. The unit covers how linear regression models can be applied to data to estimate relationships, to forecast, and to test hypotheses that arise in economics and business. Guidelines for using econometric techniques effectively are discussed and students are introduced to the process of model building. It is essential that the discussion of regression modelling be complemented with practice in analysing data. An important task is the computing component using econometric software.
ECMT2120 Analysis of Discrete Choice Data
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x 1hr lectures and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Prerequisites: ECMT2110 or ECMT2010 Prohibitions: ECMT2021 Assessment: tutorial questions (20%), mid-semester exam (20%), project (20%), final exam (40%)
Data that are qualitative or discrete present particular problems for data analysts. What influences an individual to work part-time rather than full-time, or use public transport rather than drive to work, or to choose one brand of detergent over another? Why do certain firms choose a particular accounting procedure over another? In these examples of modelling choice data, standard linear regression models are inappropriate. This unit considers the specification, estimation and use of statistical models that are necessary to analyse such questions. These may include the logit, probit and multinomial logit models. Special emphasis is placed on illustrating the appropriate application of such models using case studies and data drawn from marketing, accounting, finance and economics.
ECMT2130 Financial Econometrics
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Prerequisites: ECMT2110 or ECMT2010 Prohibitions: ECMT2030 Assessment: 2 x assignments (2x20%), final 2hr exam (60%)
Over the last decade econometric modelling of financial data has become an important part of the operations of merchant banks and major trading houses and a vibrant area of employment for econometricians. This unit provides an introduction to some of the widely used econometric models for financial data and the procedures used to estimate them. Special emphasis is placed upon empirical work and applied analysis of real market data. Topics covered may include the statistical characteristics of financial data, the specification, estimation and testing of asset pricing models, the analysis of high frequency financial data, and the modelling of volatility in financial returns.
ECMT2620 Management Science
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Prerequisites: (ECMT1010 or ECOF1010) and ECMT1020 Prohibitions: ECMT2720 Assessment: 2x assignments (2x10%); mid-semester test (15%); final exam (65%)
Management science is an approach to decision making that is suitable in areas where the manager has little experience or where the problem for decision is complex. It provides an effective decision-making approach to problems important enough to justify the time and effort of quantitative analysis. This unit considers modelling in areas that practising managers might encounter in their roles as decision makers. The intended outcome of the unit is to increase the effectiveness of management decision making. The focus throughout is on practical solutions using readily available spreadsheet software. Topics may include resource allocation, capacity planning, logistics, and project planning.
ECMT2630 Managerial Decision Making
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Prerequisites: ECMT1010 or ECOF1010 Prohibitions: ECMT2730 Assessment: Assignments (20%); Class Tests (15%) ; Final exam (65%)
The course is focused on economic and statistical models of decision analysis and their application in large and small business settings, as well as in a public policy framework. It will be shown how use of the models can improve the decision process by helping the decision-maker understand the structure of the decision; incorporate subjective probabilities as a way to portray risk; measure outcomes in a way that is consistent with attitudes toward risk; and understand the value of information. The importance of sensitivity analysis will be emphasised, as well as the need to combine both quantitative and qualitative considerations in decision-making. Cases will be drawn from small business scenarios, the public policy arena, and corporate settings.
ECMT2640 Operations Management
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Prerequisites: ECMT1010 or ECOF1010 Assessment: Assignments (35%); Mid-Semester exam (20%); Final exam (45%)
The 'operations' of a company or organisation are the direct processes that a company uses to create value, and operations management is the task of managing these processes. This unit is about the fundamentals of operations management, covering both service industries and manufacturing. As a graduate working in the business sector you will certainly be exposed to operations issues - this unit will equip you to approach these issues intelligently, whether or not your role is within the operations function. One focus of the unit will be on processes: considering process organisation, process capacity, and customer service implications. A second focus of the unit will be on the supply chain, looking at the control of inventory and the connections between supply chain partners. We will also consider what it means to have high quality operations and how this can be achieved: both through statistical quality control techniques and the use of lean operations ideas.
ECMT3110 Econometric Models and Methods
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x 1hr lectures and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Prerequisites: ECMT2110 or ECMT2010 Prohibitions: ECMT3010 Assessment: Assignments (20%); Mid semester exam (20%); Final exam (60%)
This unit extends methods of estimation and testing developed in association with regression analysis to cover econometric models involving special aspects of behaviour and of data. In particular, motivating examples are drawn from dynamic models, panel data and simultaneous equation models. In order to provide the statistical tools to be able to compare alternative methods of estimation and testing, both small sample and asymptotic properties are developed and discussed.
ECMT3120 Applied Econometrics
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Prerequisites: ECMT3110 or ECMT3010 Prohibitions: ECMT3020 Assessment: group project (25%); mid-semester exam (25%); final 2hr exam (50%)
Econometric theory provides techniques to quantify the strength and form of relationships between variables. Applied Econometrics is concerned with the appropriate use of these techniques in practical applications in economics and business. General principles for undertaking applied work are discussed and necessary research skills developed. In particular, the links between econometric models and the underlying substantive knowledge or theory for the application are stressed. Topics will include error correction models, unit roots and cointegration and models for cross section data, including limited dependent variables. Research papers involving empirical research are studied and the unit features all students participating in a group project involving econometric modelling.
ECMT3130 Forecasting for Economics and Business
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: two 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour lab per week Prerequisites: ECMT2110 or ECMT2010 Prohibitions: ECMT3030 Assessment: assignment (20%); group assignment (25%); mid-semester exam (20%); final exam (35%)
The need to forecast or predict future values of economic time series arises frequently in many branches of applied economic and commercial work. It is, moreover, a topic which lends itself naturally to econometric and statistical treatment. The specific feature which distinguishes time series from other data is that the order in which the sample is recorded is of relevance. As a result of this, a substantial body of statistical methodology has developed. This unit provides an introduction to methods of time series analysis and forecasting. The material covered is primarily time domain methods designed for a single series and includes the building of linear time series models, the theory and practice of univariate forecasting and the use of regression methods for forecasting. Throughout the unit a balance between theory and practical application is maintained.
ECMT3150 The Econometrics of Financial Markets
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: two 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour lab per week Prerequisites: ECMT1010, ECMT2110 (or ECMT2010) and ECMT2130 (or ECMT2030) Prohibitions: ECMT3050 Assessment: Assignment (20%); Group assignment (30%); Mid-Semester exam (15%); Final exam (35%)
This unit studies and develops the econometric models and methods employed for the analysis of data arising in financial markets. It extends and complements the material covered in ECMT2130. The unit will cover econometric models that have proven useful for the analysis of both synchronous and non-synchronous financial time series data over the last two decades. Modern Statistical methodology will be introduced for the estimation of such models. The econometric models and associated methods of estimation will be applied to the analysis of a number of financial datasets. Students will be encouraged to undertake hands-on analysis using an appropriate computing package. Topics covered include: discrete time financial time series models for asset returns; modelling and forecasting conditional volatility; Value at Risk and modern market risk measurement and management; modelling of high frequency and/or non-synchronous financial data and the econometrics of market microstructure issues. The focus of the unit will be in the econometric models and methods that have been developed recently in the area of financial econometrics and their application to modelling and forecasting market risk measures.
ECMT3180 Business Risk Management
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Prerequisites: ECMT1020 Assessment: individual assignments (20%), group assignment (15%); mid-semester exam (20%); final 2hr exam (45%)
Everyone working in business needs to understand and manage risk. This course will provide the basic knowledge and tools needed to do this. It includes material on the risk management strategies that every business needs, as well as specific quantitative and statistical techniques for evaluating risk. By taking this course students will learn how different aspects of risk management fit together (like Value at Risk calculations, Monte-Carlo simulation, extreme value theory, credit scoring, real options and hedging strategies).
ECMT3610 Management Science Models and Methods
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x 1hr lectures and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Prerequisites: ECMT2620 or ECMT2720 Prohibitions: ECMT3710 Assessment: Two assignments (20%); Test (20%); Final exam (60%)
This unit presents formulation guidelines for management science models to provide practical assistance to managerial decision making. Optimisation methods are developed so the complexity and limitations of optimisation model categories can be accounted for in model selection and in the interpretation of results. Linear programming methods are developed and extended to cover variations in the management context to logistics, networks, and strategic planning. Decision analysis and competitive structures including hierarchy structures complete a rounded program for managerial application. The unit covers a variety of case studies incorporating commercial research processes for decision support.
ECMT3640 Project Planning and Management
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Prerequisites: ECMT1010 or ECOF1010 Prohibitions: CIVL3805 Assessment: group project (40%), individual homework (20%), final exam (40%)
A project is a set of activities that together achieve a particular purpose and need to be carried out within a given time frame with a limited set of resources. Each project is unique and often complex. The challenges of planning and managing projects arise from the complexity and uncertainty that characterise projects. As a graduate working in business you will almost certainly find yourself involved in project teams, and at some stage or another you are likely to take on project management responsibilities. This unit gives an introduction to the planning and management of projects looking at the problems of defining projects; network techniques for project planning and control; methods for estimating activity durations; resource constraints; and modelling methods to understand the impact of uncertainty. At the same time as discussing the techniques of project management, the unit will also use case studies to discuss some of the challenges that project managers face.
ECMT4101 Econometrics Honours A
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 3 hrs per week Prerequisites: Students who want to take honours in Econometrics have to: (i) qualify for a major in Econometrics, Management Decision Sciences or Management Science; (ii) obtain a Weighted Average Mark (WAM) of at least 65 in all units of study in the degree; (iii) obtain a distinction average or better in ECMT3110 and ECMT3120; (iv) obtain a WAM of at least 75 in the senior units of study in the ECMT or MDS/ Management Science major. Variations on entry requirements are possible only with permission of the Chair of Discipline. Please see the discipline online homepage for entry requirements in detail. Note that Econometrics and Business Statistics encourages joint honours with other disciplines. Assessment: Assignments; Final Exams; Dissertation
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: Requirements for the pass degree must be completed before entry to level 4000 honours units of study
The honours year provides basic professional expertise in the general area of econometrics through instruction in advanced theory, and experience in independent research. Honours students are required to (a) complete four semester units of instruction, (b) submit a dissertation not exceeding 65 A4 pages of typescript, and (c) attend and participate in Discipline research seminars. The dissertation topic must be approved by the Discipline and progress reports are to be presented every semester. Candidates must enrol in ECMT4101, ECMT4102, ECMT4103 and ECMT4104 to complete the Honours degree. Please consult the discipline website for details before enrolling in honours.
ECMT4102 Econometrics Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 3 hrs per week Corequisites: ECMT4101 Assessment: See ECMT4101
See ECMT4101
ECMT4103 Econometrics Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 3 hrs per week Corequisites: ECMT4102 Assessment: See ECMT4101
See ECMT4101
ECMT4104 Econometrics Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 3 hrs per week Corequisites: ECMT4103 Assessment: See ECMT4101
See ECMT4101
Economics
ECON1001 Introductory Microeconomics
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2,Summer Main Classes: 1 x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assumed knowledge: Mathematics Assessment: Online quizzes (10%), mid semester test (30%), essay (10%), final exam (50%)
Introductory Microeconomics addresses the economic decisions of individual firms and households and how these interact in markets. It is a compulsory core unit for the Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Commerce and an alternative core unit for the Bachelor of Economic and Social Science. Economic issues are pervasive in contemporary Australian society. Introductory Microeconomics introduces students to the language and analytical framework adopted in Economics for the examination of social phenomena and public policy issues. Whatever one's career intentions, coming to grips with economic ideas is essential for understanding society, business and government. Students are given a comprehensive introduction to these ideas and are prepared for the advanced study of microeconomics in subsequent years.
ECON1002 Introductory Macroeconomics
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2,Summer Main Classes: 1 x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assumed knowledge: Mathematics Assessment: Tutorial participation (5%), 5x online quizzes (10%), mid semester exam (25%), essay (10%), final exam (50%)
Introductory Macroeconomics addresses the analysis of the level of employment and economic activity in the economy as a whole. It is a compulsory core unit for the Bachelor of Economics and an alternative core unit for the Bachelor of Economic and Social Sciences. Introductory Macroeconomics examines the main factors that determine the overall levels of production and employment in the economy, including the influence of government policy and international trade. This analysis enables an exploration of money, interest rates and financial markets, and a deeper examination of inflation, unemployment and economic policy.
ECON1003 Quantitative Methods in Economics
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1 x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Assessment: in-class tests (25%), mid-semester exam (25%), final 2hr exam (50%)
This unit of study provides an introduction to the quantitative methods used in economics and business. Emphasis is placed on developing the skills to set up models to study real-world phenomena, using appropriate techniques to manipulate and analyse these models and their economic interpretation. In this unit particular emphasis will be placed on the intuition of the models studied, making extensive use of a range of economic examples and business applications. It is important to note that while mathematical techniques are used in this unit, this unit is not intended as a substitute for mathematics units offered by the School of Mathematics and Statistics. Students wishing to pursue further study in mathematics, such as a major in mathematics, should consult the Faculty of Science Handbook for offerings by the School of Mathematics and Statistics. Note this unit is not available to students from the Faculty of Science.
ECOS2001 Intermediate Microeconomics
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2,Summer Main Classes: 1 x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Prerequisites: ECON1001 Corequisites: ECMT1010 Prohibitions: ECON2001, ECOS2901, ECON2901 Assessment: Tutorials (10%), 2x in-class tests (40%), Final Exam (50%)
Note: Certain combinations of Maths/Stats may substitute for Econometrics. Consult the Chair of the Discipline of Economics.
The aim of Intermediate Microeconomics is the development of theoretical and applied skills in economics. It covers applications and extensions of the theory of consumer choice, firm behaviour and market structure. Emphasis is given to the economics of information and choice under uncertainty; industry structures other than monopoly and perfect competition; markets for factors of production; general equilibrium and economic efficiency; market failure and the role of government. This unit provides a basis for the more specialised options that comprise third year economics.
ECOS2002 Intermediate Macroeconomics
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2,Summer Main Classes: 1 x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Prerequisites: ECON1002 Corequisites: ECMT1020 Prohibitions: ECON2002, ECOS2902, ECON2902 Assessment: Mid Semester exam (30%), Final exam (50%), Assignments (20%)
Note: Certain combinations of Maths/Stats may substitute for Econometrics. Consult the Chair of the Discipline of Economics.
This unit of study develops models of the goods, money and labour markets, examines issues in macroeconomic policy. Macroeconomic relationships, covering consumption, investment, money and employment, are explored in detail. Macro-dynamic relationships, especially those linking inflation and unemployment, are also considered. Exchange rates and open economy macroeconomics are also addressed. In the last part of the unit, topics include the determinants and theories of economic growth, productivity and technology, the dynamics of the business cycle, counter-cyclical policy and the relationship between micro and macro policy in the context of recent Australian experience.
ECOS2201 Economics of Competition and Strategy
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1 x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Prerequisites: ECON1001 and ECON1002 Prohibitions: ECON2201, ECOS3005 Assessment: 2x mid-semester exams (40%), Final Exam (60%)
This course introduces new and comprehensive methods for the analysis and formation of business strategy. The unit analyses strategies for developing competitive advantages, including product differentiation, cost advantages and product life cycles; implementing incentives, control, firm boundaries, and internal firm decision-making mechanisms; implementing pricing, auction and signalling practices; assessing industry attractiveness and the regulatory/trade practices environment; and managing industry cooperation and conflict. Students are taught a set of tools that they can bring to bear on new problems. Understanding competitive dynamics and strategic thinking are emphasised. Case studies and problem-solving form an important part of the teaching method.
ECOS2306 Managerial Firms: Evolution & Attributes
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1 x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Prerequisites: ECON1001 and ECON1002 Prohibitions: ECHS2306, ECOS3003, ECON3003 Assessment: 5x assessed on-line forums (25%), in-class test (25%), final exam (50%)
The large managerial firm, operating in a number of product and geographic markets and controlled by managers rather than owners, plays a major role in modern economies. Although it is now being challenged by new institutions such as LBOs and strategic alliances, the large managerial firm is itself a recent phenomenon which only began to emerge in the 1880s. This unit of study analyses the development of the large managerial firm since the 1880s, distinguishing between firms in standardised mass production industries and those in industries where technology has changed rapidly since the 1970s. It also distinguishes between managerial firms that emerged in the West with those in Japan. In analysing the attributes of managerial firms in different regimes, the unit focuses on two main issues: the nature of corporate competencies, and the role of imperfect information within managerial firms and markets, alliances, and networks. The unit includes detailed analysis of case studies drawn from the USA, Australia, and Japan.
ECOS2901 Intermediate Microeconomics Honours
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1 x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week. Prerequisites: ECON1001 and ECON1002 with a Credit average or better in the two units of study combined Corequisites: ECOS2903 or MATH2070 and ECMT1010 Prohibitions: ECON2901, ECOS2001, ECON2001 Assessment: 2 x mid semester exams (50%), Final Exam (50%)
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
This unit is comprised of lectures based upon the curriculum for ECOS2001 Intermediate Microeconomics, supported by a seminar for one hour a week. The content of lectures reflect a more analytical and critical treatment of the topics than ECOS2001. The topics, which build on the theory of consumer and firm behaviour and market structure, include game theory, oligopoly, general equilibrium and welfare, externalities and public goods and the economics of information.
ECOS2902 Intermediate Macroeconomics Honours
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1 x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Prerequisites: ECON1001 and ECON1002 with a Credit average or better in the two units of study combined Corequisites: ECMT1020 Prohibitions: ECON2902, ECOS2002, ECON2002 Assessment: Essay (20%), mid semester exam (30%), Final Exam (50%)
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
This unit is comprised of lectures based upon the curriculum for ECOS2002 Intermediate Macroeconomics, supported by a seminar for one hour a week. The content of lectures reflects a more intensive treatment of the topics than ECOS2002. Topics covered include: models of the goods, money and labour markets; macro-economic relationships such as consumption, investment, demand for money and labour demand and supply; macro-dynamic relationships, especially those linking inflation and unemployment; exchange rates and open economy macroeconomics; theories of economic growth; productivity and technological change; the dynamics of the business cycle; and the relationship between micro- and macro-economic policy.
ECOS2903 Mathematical Economics A
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1 x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Corequisites: ECOS2901 Prohibitions: ECON2903 Assessment: Problem sets/quizzes (30%), mid semester exam (20%), final exam (50%)
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: Students intending to proceed to the third year economics honours program must take this unit or MATH2070
This unit provides an introduction to mathematical techniques commonly employed by economists. Students who wish to proceed to final year Economics Honours must complete either ECOS2903 or MATH2070. Topics include: limits, continuity, differentiation of single- and multi-variable functions, unconstrained and constrained optimisation.
ECOS3002 Development Economics
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: One 2 hour lecture per week and one additional hour per fortnight Prerequisites: One of (ECOS2001 or ECON2001) or (ECOS2002 or ECON2002) or (ECOS2901 or ECON2901) or (ECOS2902 or ECON2902) Prohibitions: ECON3002 Assessment: 2x in-class tests (30%), final exam (70%)
This unit examines the role of the state, rationale for planning and market mechanisms in developing economies, and also the sociocultural preconditions and economic requirements for a market economy. It focuses on a wide range of developmental problems and issues from both microeconomic and macroeconomic points of view. It closely studies the integration process of the traditional segment of a developing society into its modern counterpart in countries selected from Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Pacific regions.
ECOS3003 Hierarchies, Incentives & Firm Structure
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: One 2 hour lecture per week and one additional hour per fortnight Prerequisites: Either (ECOS2001 or ECON2001) or (ECOS2901 or ECON2901) Prohibitions: ECON3003, ECOS2306 Assessment: 1 x group assignment (25%), 1 x mid-semester exam (20%), final exam (55%)
This unit deals with the coordination and motivation problems faced by firms. More specifically this unit examines: whether firms use price or command mechanisms to allocate resources within firms; the problems associated with designing incentive contracts; the principles of efficient contract design and; the real world applications of those principles. The final section deals with the manner in which the coordination and motivation problems faced by firms determines their financial, vertical and horizontal structure.
ECOS3004 History of Economic Thought
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: One 2 hour lecture per week and one additional hour per fortnight Prerequisites: 1 of (ECOS2001 or ECON2001) or (ECOS2901 or ECON2901) or (ECOS2002 or ECON2002) or (ECOS2902 or ECON2902) or (ECOP2011 or ECOP2001) or (ECOP2012 or ECOP2002) Prohibitions: ECON3004 Assessment: 1x essay (20%), 1x mid semester exam (30%), 1x final exam (50%)
Where do the current beliefs - theories, doctrines, postulates and attitudes - of modern economics come from? If current theories and doctrines have a definite historical beginning, what schools of thought did they supplant? Are there alternative or dissident views which subsisted alongside mainstream economics in the twentieth century - and if so, what are they and where did they originate from? This unit seeks to answer these questions, as well as others. It provides an overview of the development of economic ideas from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, combined with a more intensive focus on the thought of certain key figures in that history. The particular topics covered include: the formation of economics to 1776; Adam Smith; classical economics from Smith to J.S. Mill; the rise of marginalist economics; John Maynard Keynes; and orthodox and heterodox currents in twentieth century economics.
ECOS3005 Industrial Organisation
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: One 2 hour lecture per week and one additional hour per fortnight Prerequisites: ECOS2001 or ECON2001 or ECOS2901 or ECON2901 Prohibitions: ECON3005, ECOS2201 Assessment: 1x mid semester exam (35%), final exam (60%), problem sets (5%)
This unit of study examines the nature of inter-firm rivalry in industries with market power. It explores the various ways in which firms can increase their market power by: extracting more surplus from consumers, by colluding with rivals or by excluding entrants. The unit also analyses the international competitiveness of industries in the context of industry assistance and the prevalence of foreign multinationals. Competition policy is also discussed.
ECOS3006 International Trade
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: One 2 hour lecture per week and one additional hour per fortnight Prerequisites: Either (ECOS2001 or ECON2001) or (ECOS2901 or ECON2901) Prohibitions: ECON3006 Assessment: Problem sets (5%); 1x mid semester exam (35%), final exam (60%)
This unit of study provides a systematic analysis of the theory of international trade and trade policy. Initially differences between countries are emphasised as the source of trade and the gains from trade. Models that are examined include the Classical-Ricardian model, the Heckscher-Ohlin model and the Specific-Factors model. Next economics of scale and imperfect competition are introduced as sources of trade and gains from trade. The unit concludes with an examination of empirical studies aimed at testing trade theories. The analysis of trade policy begins with a discussion of the instruments of trade policy, in particular, tariffs and quotas and their effect on welfare. This discussion is then extended to the case of imperfect competition and strategic trade policy.
ECOS3007 International Macroeconomics
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Summer Main Classes: One 2 hour lecture per week and one additional hour per fortnight Prerequisites: ECOS2002 or ECON2002 or ECOS2902 or ECON2902 Prohibitions: ECON3007 Assessment: Assignments (20%); 1x Mid-semester exam (20%); Final exam (60%).
This unit studies macroeconomic theory and policy in a global trading world. The microfoundations of the various sectors are examined in the context of an open economy. The evolution of international money and capital markets is described, the operation of the foreign exchange market is examined, showing how its microstructure affects its macro performance. Theories and tests of the efficiency of international capital markets are surveyed, as well as core theories and tests of exchange rate and asset price determination. The unit develops the macroeconomic implications of monetary and fiscal policies for small and large open economies for different regimes.
ECOS3008 Labour Economics
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: One 2 hour lecture per week and one additional hour per fortnight Prerequisites: One of (ECOS2001 or ECON2001 or ECOS2901 or ECON2901 or ECOP2011 or ECOP2001) and one of (ECOS2002 or ECON2002 or ECOS2902 or ECON2902 or ECOP2012 or ECOP2002) Prohibitions: ECON3008 Assessment: 1x Essay (25%), mid-semester exam (25%), final exam (50%)
This unit aims to provide an understanding of labour markets and related issues such as work conditions, pay and employment levels. Labour supply and demand, theories of wage determination, labour mobility and discrimination are examined. It also analyses the role of trade unions and labour market contracts. These topics are applied to current issues in Australian labour markets such as enterprise bargaining, the role of centralised wage fixing systems, training and other labour market programs. Policies designed to improve the functioning of the labour market are examined and particular attention is given to the problem of persistent unemployment.
ECOS3010 Monetary Economics
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: One 2 hour lecture per week and one additional hour per fortnight Prerequisites: ECOS2001 or ECON2001 or ECOS2901 or ECON2901 or ECOS2002 or ECON2002 or ECOS2902 or ECON2902 Prohibitions: ECON3010 Assessment: 1x Multiple choice exam (30%), written paper (20%), final exam (50%)
This unit provides an overview of the main elements of monetary economics, with emphasis upon macroeconomic issues - analysis of economic processes in which money enters the picture in an essential manner. The content primarily concerns economic principles and theory, but there is also considerable focus on the Australian monetary system and monetary policy in particular. The particular topics covered include: functions of money; the concept of 'liquidity'; money demand; determinants of money supply changes; financial crises and the 'lender of last resort' function of central banking; the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority; term and risk structures of interest rates; alternative theories of the level of the rate of interest; the monetary policy transmission mechanism; monetary policy instrument choice; central bank credibility; policy reaction functions; the global monetary system; and Reserve Bank market operations.
ECOS3011 Public Finance
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: One 2 hour lecture per week and one additional hour per fortnight Prerequisites: Either (ECOS2001 or ECON2001) or (ECOS2901 or ECON2901) Prohibitions: ECON3011 Assessment: 1x mid semester exam (20%), 1x assignment (30%), 1x final exam (50%)
Public Finance is about the taxing and spending decisions of governments. The unit covers a wide range of public finance topics. After an introduction to welfare economics and the role of government in the economy, the unit focuses on the revenue side of the budget: tax incidence, efficient and equitable taxation, the Australian system of revenue raising, issues of tax reform and the theory and practice of public utility pricing. It then focuses on the expenditure side of the government budget: public goods, externalities, and programs aimed at redistribution. It also introduces techniques of policy evaluation.
ECOS3012 Strategic Behaviour
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: One 2 hour lecture per week and one additional hour per fortnight Prerequisites: ECOS2001 or ECON2001 or ECOS2901 or ECON2901 Prohibitions: ECON3012, ECOS3901 Assessment: 1x mid semester exam (35%), online quizzes (20%), final exam (45%)
To think and act strategically, one needs to evaluate the effect of one's actions on the actions of others. As most economic decisions are strategic, such as the decision to lower a price or introduce a new tax, economics, if it is to avoid simplistic models, requires a theoretical framework capable of illuminating strategic behaviour. This unit offers a comprehensive, critical introduction to the theory which purports, not only to satisfy this theoretical need, but also potentially to unify the social sciences: game theory. After examining important concepts of game theory, the unit investigates the repercussions for the theory of bargaining and for the evolution of social institutions.
ECOS3015 Law and Economics
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: One 2 hour lecture per week and one additional hour per fortnight Prerequisites: Either (ECOS2001 or ECON2001) OR (ECOS2901 or ECON2901) Prohibitions: ECON3015 Assessment: Assignments (20%) 1x mid semester exam (30%), final exam (50%)
Law and economics examines the economic role of law and legal institutions on the actions of economic agents. The economic analysis of law is founded on models of human behaviour and examines how decision making is affected by different legal regimes. The behavioral approach gives rise to a set of principles that can be applied widely across disparate areas of the law, and is becoming increasingly important world-wide, as such analysis is often utilized in courts and public policy forums. The unit begins with a revision of relevant tools of economic analysis. Subsequently, it studies the economics of various branches of law such as: property; contract; nuisance; accident and liability law; and, criminal law
ECOS3016 Experimental and Behavioural Economics
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: One 2 hour lecture per week and one additional hour per fortnight Prerequisites: ECOS2001 (or ECON2001) OR ECOS2901 (or ECON2901) Assessment: 2 x take home assignments (50%), final exam (50%)
Experimental economics uses experimental methods to evaluate the performance of economic models, institutions and policies. Behavioural economics combines experimental and field evidence with insights from neighbouring disciplines such as psychology, to develop richer economic models of decision-making. This unit will develop the key research methods and major findings of each of these fields, and explore both theoretical and practical implications. Students will read a number of seminal research papers in both experimental and behavioural economics, and will have opportunities to participate in classroom experiments, to analyse experimental data, and to design and program their own research projects.
ECOS3017 Health Economics
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: One 2 hour lecture per week and one additional hour per fortnight Prerequisites: ECOS2001 or ECON2001 or ECOS2901 or ECON2901 Assessment: Two in-class tests (30%); Final exam (70%)
The purpose of this course is to introduce the student to the methods of health economics and demonstrate how these methods can be applied to analyse issues in health policy and management. This course will teach the student to use economic analysis to understand critical issues in health care and health policy. Topics covered include the institutions of the Australian system of health care and health statistics, evaluation techniques, production of health, demand for health care and technology, moral hazard and adverse selection in health insurance markets, health labour markets, including physician-patient interactions, managed care, regulation and payment systems for providers, comparative health systems, the pharmaceutical industry, health policy and social insurance.
ECOS3018 Economics of Growth
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: One 2 hour lecture per week and one additional hour per fortnight Prerequisites: ECOS2001 (or ECON2001) OR ECOS2901 (or ECON2901) and ECOS2002 (or ECON2002) OR ECOS2902 (or ECON2902) Prohibitions: ECOS3001 Assessment: Two in-class tests (40%); Final exam (60%)
At the heart of an understanding of the dynamics of market or capitalist economies is an understanding of economic growth. This unit is an introduction to the analysis of economic growth including a comparison of competing explanations within formal growth theory. It considers the connection between growth and distribution, growth and technical progress, the role of economic policies and economic institutions in promoting growth as well as the limitations on growth associated with exhaustible natural resources. Lectures also provide some consideration of the empirical evidence on different explanations of growth.
ECOS3019 Capital and Dynamics
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: One 2 hour lecture per week and one additional hour per fortnight Prerequisites: (ECOS2001 or ECON2001 or ECOS2901 or ECON2901) and (ECOS2002 or ECON2002 or ECOS2902 or ECON2902) Prohibitions: ECOS3001 Assessment: Two in-class tests (40%); Final exam (60%)
Fundamental to the theory of value, income distribution and output is a coherent treatment of the concept of capital. The definition and measurement of 'capital' is essential to the explanation of relative prices, and hence integral to any explanation of distributive shares in national income. It is also indispensable to a proper understanding of debates over the theory of output. The aim of the unit is to provide a comprehensive account of the different approaches to capital theory (e.g. in traditional aggregative neoclassical theory, general equilibrium theory and classical/Sraffian inspired models) and to highlight their significance for different views about value, distribution and output. This account necessarily involves some focus on the intersection of capital theory and the theory of dynamics as it applies to multi-sectoral/multi-commodity models, including growth theory, the dynamics of inter-industry competition, the analysis of technological progress and the intertemporal dynamics of production in the context of exhaustible natural resources.
ECOS3020 Special Topic in Economics
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: One 2 hour lecture per week and one additional hour per fortnight Prerequisites: ECOS2001 (or ECON2001) and ECOS2002 (or ECON2002) OR ECOS2901 (or ECON2901) and ECOS2902 (or ECON2902) Assessment: Depends on the topic.
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Study of a special topic in Economics. Topics will vary from semester to semester according to staff availablity and the presence of visitors. If taught in both smesters, the topic in Semester 2 will be different to that of Semester 1.
ECOS3021 Business Cycles and Asset Markets
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1 x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Prerequisites: ECOS2002 or ECON2002 or ECOS2902 or ECON2902 Assessment: class participation (5%), mid-semester exam (20%), project report (25%) , final exam (50%)
The unit of study provides theoretical and empirical training in analysing macroeconomic fluctuations and the interactions between the real economy and asset markets. The unit of study will introduce theoretical models of the business cycle to identify sources of economic fluctuations. It then provides a theoretical framework in which the asset market-the real economy can be analysed. In addition to theoretical analysis, the unit will develop empirical tools for analysing economic and financial indicators as well as evaluating the performance of theoretical models. The role of government policy will also be discussed by taking both Australian and global episodes.
ECOS3022 The Economics of Financial Markets
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1 x 2hr lecture and 1x 1hr tutorial per week Prerequisites: (ECOS2001 or ECON2001 or ECOS2901 or ECON2901) and (ECOS2002 or ECON2002 or ECOS2902 or ECON2902) Assessment: problem sets (20%), mid-semester exam (25%), final exam (55%)
Financial assets play a vital role coordinating the actions of savers and investors; consequently, they play a crucial role in creating wealth and facilitating economic activity. The aim of this unit is to explore the economic principles underlying: the pricing and development of financial assets; the trade-off between risk and return and the how investors construct portfolios in response to this trade-off. The focus is on the economics of financial markets: the factors of demand and supply; risk and uncertainty; incomplete contracts and renegotiation; and asymmetric information and its implications. We will emphasize the key aspects of markets for financial assets and the main differences to markets for consumption goods. The unit also examines the development of financial institutions and current issues in financial markets.
ECOS3901 Advanced Microeconomics Honours
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: One 2 hour lecture per week and one additional hour per fortnight Prerequisites: (ECOS2901 or ECON2901) and (ECOS2902 or ECON2902) and (ECOS2903 or ECON2903 or MATH2070) with a 70% average or better over the three units combined Corequisites: ECMT2110 or ECMT2010 Prohibitions: ECON3901, ECOS3012 Assessment: Mid semester exam (30%); problem sets (10%); final exam (60%)
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: Students intending to proceed to fourth year economics honours must also complete at least one unit of study from (ECOS3001 or ECON3001) to (ECOS3015 or ECON3015) inclusive, in either semester of their third year
ECOS3901 Advanced Microeconomics is the second course in the microeconomics sequence in the Economics Honours program. The goal of the course is to provide a working knowledge and understanding of the most powerful methods of analysis and discourse in modern microeconomic theory. We build on the foundations of ECOS2901 and ECOS2903 to continue progress toward the frontier of microeconomics.
ECOS3902 Advanced Macroeconomics Honours
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: One 2 hour lecture per week and one additional hour per fortnight Prerequisites: (ECOS2901 or ECON2901), (ECOS2902 or ECON2902), (ECOS2903 or ECON2903 or MATH2070) and (ECOS3901 or ECON3901) Corequisites: ECOS3903 or (ECMT3110 and (ECMT2120 or ECMT3120 or ECMT3130 or ECMT3160 or ECMT3170)) Prohibitions: ECON3902 Assessment: Mid semester exam (30%); take home assignments (10%), final exam (60%)
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: Students intending to proceed to fourth year economics honours must also complete at least one unit of study from (ECOS3001 or ECON3001) to (ECOS3015 or ECON3015) inclusive, in either semester of their third year
ECOS3902 Advanced Macroeconomics is a third year honours course in macroeconomics. Its main objective is to develop a framework for thinking about macroeconomic questions. This course is designed for the students enrolled in the Economics Honours stream. ECOS2901, ECOS2902, ECOS2903 and ECOS3901 are prerequisites and the corequisite is ECOS3903,or ECMT3110 plus one of ECMT2120, ECMT3120, ECMT3130, ECMT3160 or ECMT3170.
ECOS3903 Applied Economics
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: One 2 hour lecture per week and one additional hour per fortnight Prerequisites: (ECOS2901 or ECON2901), (ECOS2902 or ECON2902), (ECOS2903 or ECON2903) and ECMT2110 Corequisites: ECOS3901 or ECOS3902 Assessment: Assignments (10%), Referee Report (15%), mid semester exam (25%), final examination (50%)
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: Students intending to proceed to fourth year economics honours must take this unit or (ECMT3110 plus one of ECMT2120, ECMT3120, ECMT3130, ECMT3160 or ECMT3170).
This unit is designed to provide students with estimation techniques frequently used in applied microeconomics. It will mainly cover cross section and panel data methods. Various empirical topics in labour economics, international trade, etc., will be discussed.
ECON4101 Economics Honours A
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 6 hrs per week Prerequisites: The prerequisite for entry to Economics Honours is at least 24 credit points at 3000 level Economics, including Advanced Microeconomics Honours: (ECOS3901 or ECON3901), Advanced Macroeconomics Honours: (ECOS3902 or ECON3902) and Applied Microeconomics (ECOS3903) with a 70% or better in ECOS3901, ECOS3902 and ECOS3903; and Regression Modelling (ECMT2110 or ECMT2010) and Mathematical Economics A (ECOS2903 or ECON2903).
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: Requirements for the Pass degree must be completed before entry to 4000 level honours units of study.
To complete the requirement for Economics (Honours), students need to complete five semester-length options from a list of options offered and complete a thesis. The list of options available may vary from year to year, but usually include topics in macroeconomics, topics in microeconomics, topics in development economics, topics in economic classics, topics in industrial economics, topics in international economics, topics in labour economics, and topics in public economics. Candidates must enrol in ECON4102, ECON4103 and ECON4104 to complete the honours year.
ECON4102 Economics Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 6 hrs per week Corequisites: ECON4101
see ECON4101
ECON4103 Economics Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 6 hrs per week Corequisites: ECON4102
see ECON4101
ECON4104 Economics Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 6 hrs per week Corequisites: ECON4103
see ECON4101
English
ENGL1002 Narratives of Romance and Adventure
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week and 1x1-hr tutorial/week Assessment: 1x1500wd essay (30%), 1x1.5-hr exam (30%), 1x1000wd assignment (20%), 1x debate peformance (10%), tutorial participation (10%)
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 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week and 1x1-hr tutorial/week Assessment: 2x500wd assignments (30%), 1x2000wd essay (30%), 1x1.5-hr exam (40%)
This unit of study 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. Second Edition (Palgrave, 2010)
ENGL1008 Australian Texts: International Contexts
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week and 1x1-hr tutorial /week Assessment: 1x1000wd tutorial task (20%), 1x1500wd essay (40%), 1x1.5-hr 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
Texts may include works by authors such as Gail Jones, Patrick White, Brian Castro, Nam Le and others
ENGL1026 Narrating the Fictive Self
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Assessment: 1x500wd tutorial presentation (15%), 1x2000wd essay (45%), 1x2-hr exam (40%)
This unit explores the topic of self in a range of contemporary texts, both literary and filmic. It will provide an opportunity for students to analyse and interrogate the construction of self in a variety of social contexts by focusing on textual representations of sexuality, race and gender in ways that are relevant to being and living in today's world.
ENGL2623 Twentieth Century Literature: Modernism
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week and 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of English Prohibitions: ENGL2023 Assessment: 1x2500wd essay (55%) and 1x2hr exam (45%)
Modernism is a complex phenomenon, categorising a range of innovative literary (and other artistic) works, produced principally in Europe, Britain and America in the early twentieth century. Modernist writers strove to find new ways of representing the momentous cultural and technological changes of this period. This unit focuses on representative Modernist texts, setting them in their larger historical and aesthetic contexts. It also investigates the history of Modernism as an academic subject and its various reappraisals.
Textbooks
The Norton Anthology of Poetry
ENGL2627 Reading Sexuality
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of English Prohibitions: ENGL2027 Assessment: 1x2000wd essay (40%), 1x2hr (2000wd) take-home exam (40%) and tutorial participation (20%)
This unit explores the relationship between gender, sexuality, cultural production and interpretation in cinematic texts through detailed, historicised readings. Questions to be explored include the relationship between film and psychoanalysis, representations of work and everyday life, sexuality and crime, camp, secrecy, and display.
Textbooks
Laura (dir. Preminger)
ENGL2629 Victorian Literature
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week and 1x1 tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points of English Prohibitions: ENGL2029 Assessment: 1x500wd equivalent debate (10%), 1x500wd debate assignment (20%), 1x2000wd essay (30%) and 1x1.5-hr exam (40%)
An exploration of literature, culture and Empire in the Victorian period. The unit will develop detailed, historicised readings of key Victorian literary texts. Areas of focus will include Victorian morality, the country and the city, evolution and the novel, the politics of Empire, and 'Victorian Things'.
Textbooks
Additional material will be included in a course reader and/or on WebCT
ENGL2638 Literature and Cinema
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week and 1x2-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points of English Prohibitions: ENGL2038 Assessment: 1x oral presentation (10%), 1x2000wd essay (50%) and 1x2-hr exam (40%)
This unit of study will examine issues arising from a comparative study of literature and cinema. These issues include: continuities and discontinuities between literature and cinema; the forms and modes of literature and cinema; the questions of adaptation, intertextuality and genre; the cultural and historical contexts of literary and cinematic texts; the figurative styles of literature and cinema; and narrative and narration in literature and cinema.
Textbooks
Course Reader (online)
ENGL2640 Shakespeare
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week and 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points of English Prohibitions: ENGL2040 Assessment: 1x2000wd essay (50%), 1x2-hr exam (40%), tutorial participation (10%)
This unit is an intensive study of plays by Shakespeare in a variety of genres, particularly focusing on current critical interventions, as well as the detailed reading of Shakespeare's dramatic language. Current approaches to Shakespeare read his texts as a way of thinking about ideas of urgent concern in the twenty first century: the environment and ideas of the natural; sexuality and gender; scepticism and belief. Watching film versions of the plays will form an integral part of our study.
Textbooks
The Norton Shakespeare, gen. ed. Stephen Greenblatt
ENGL2650 Reading Poetry
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of English Prohibitions: ENGL2050 Assessment: 1x2500wd essay (55%) and 1x2hr examination (45%)
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
ENGL2652 Modern Rhetoric
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week and 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points of English Prohibitions: ENGL2052 Assessment: 1x2500wd essay (40%), 1x take home exam (40%), 1x tutorial task and participation (20%)
Note: May be cross listed to a major in Linguistics
This unit will introduce students to both the theory of rhetoric: the study of human communication, and the practice of rhetoric: the use of language, signs and silence to convey a particular message. It will trace the development of modern theories from classical and later ideas about rhetoric, and teach students to analyse and improve their own written and spoken communication. Students will learn to pay close attention to language, context, and audience. They will develop skills in analysis, interpretation and composition that apply to academic and professional communication as well as literary study.
Textbooks
A Resource book will be available from the University Copy Centre
ENGL2653 Varieties of English Grammar
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week and 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points in English or Linguistics Prohibitions: ENGL2053 Assessment: 1x3000wd essay (50%) and 1x1.5hr exam (50%)
This unit introduces students to various ways of talking about English grammar - systemic, generative, traditional among others - and asks them to consider why we might choose one approach or another for tasks such as text interpretation. The unit also introduces students to the history of grammar as a discipline in the European tradition, with a particular focus on the development of grammars in English. This will provide useful background for a detailed examination of the dominant traditions in grammar theory since 1900.
Textbooks
A course reader will be available from the University Copy Centre.
ENGL2657 Myths, Legends and Heroes
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr lectures/week and 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of English Assessment: 1x1000wd essay (15%), 1x2000wd essay (35%), 1x2hr (2000wd) exam (40%), class participation (10%)
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)
ENGL2658 Love and Desire in Early Modern England
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points in English Assessment: Participation (10%), 1x1000wd short essay (20%), 1x2000wd long essay (30%) and 1x1500wd take home exam (40%)
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
This unit looks at the languages used to investigate love and desire in the early modern period. This will involve reading texts by Shakespeare and other canonical writers that students might not be so familiar with. Students will be encouraged to discover relationships between emotion, poetic language, rhetoric and sexuality and to entertain the idea that desire is political and that politics are sexualised.
Textbooks
Broadview Anthology of British Literature Vol. 2: The Renaissance and Early Seventeenth Century
ENGL2659 The 18th Century: Scandal & Sociability
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week and 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points in English Assessment: 1x1500wd research exercise (30%) 1x2500wd research essay (45%), discussion board posts totalling 500 words (15%), tutorial 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 development of literature during the eighteenth century through two important literary and social figurations: scandal and sociability. We will investigate tropes of conversation, politeness and community as constitutents of literary texts as well as components of the spaces in which they were consumed. In addition, we will examine current theories regarding the development of a public sphere and the shifting social and cultural location of reading.
Textbooks
Delarivier Manley, The Adventures of Rivella
ENGL2660 Reading the Nation: Modern U.S. Writing
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week and 1x1 tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of English Assessment: 1xtutorial exercise (15%), 1x3000wd essay (45%) and 1xtake-home exam (40%)
In this unit, we will read some of the most significant American prose texts of the mid-20th century. We will examine the way in which a range of writers has responded imaginatively to some of the major cultural and historic events of this period. Our specific focus will be the way in which these writers have imagined the nation in terms of race, gender and place.
ENGL2661 Imagining Camelot
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week and 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points of English Prohibitions: ENGL2601 Assessment: 1x1500wd assignment (25%), 1x2500wd essay (40%) and 1x2-hr exam (35%)
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 origins in the Middle Ages, to Tolkein and John F. Kennedy's White House.
Textbooks
Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon
ENGL2662 Deceit, Disguise and Medieval Narrative
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week and 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points in English Assessment: 1x1500wd assignment (25%), 1x2500wd essay (40%), 1x2000wd take home exam (35%)
In the Middle Ages notions of deceit, disguise, and temptation permeated how people thought about the world, their place in it, and the roles of God, the devil, and death. This worldview generated some of the most exciting, moving, and even comic literature of the Middle English tradition, ranging from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to the recollections of the mystical Margery Kempe. This unit of study focuses the varied ways in which poets, playwrights, and memoirists negotiated a world of tricksters.
Textbooks
Chaucer: Pardoner's and Nun's Priest's Tales
ENGL2664 Transpacific American Literature 1838-99
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: Credit or above in 12 senior credit points of English Assessment: 1x3500wd research essay(60%), 1x2-hr exam(30%), 1x500wd in-class oral presentation (10%)
This unit of study will consider ways in which American Literature during the second half of the nintennth century engaged with the opening up of Pacific space. Questions to be considered will be the nature of westward expansion, the opening up of California and its engagement with Mexico, the relation of native peoples to U.S. nationhood both on the mainland and the Pacific Islands. A representative range of poets and prose writers will be studied.
ENGL3603 Contemporary British Literature
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: Credit or above in 12 senior credit points of English Assessment: 1x4000wd essay (60%), 1x1500wd annotated bibliography (30%), 1x500wd in-class oral presentation and report (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 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.
ENGL3604 Cinematic Modernism
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: Credit or above in 18 senior credit points of English Assessment: 4x500wd blog entries (40%) and 1x4000wd essay (60%)
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 explore the effects of the film medium on the existing cultural technologies of literature in the first half of the twentieth century. We will ask how technical possibilities only partially explored by their native medium were transmitted freely into others: poetry, prose, theatre. Blending film history with literary history, and ranging both alongside pivotal works in the cultural theory of modernism, the unit will equip students with an inter-media perspective on cultural change and transposition.
Textbooks
Films: Le sang d'un poète (dir. Cocteau) Rose Hobart (dir. Cornell) Berlin, Symphony of a Great City (dir. Ruttman) Piccadilly (dir. Dupont) Man With a Movie Camera (dir. Vertov) King Kong (dir. Cooper) The Fountainhead (dir. Vidor) Wise Blood (dir. Huston) Short films (dir. Charles and Ray Eames) Tokyo Story (dir. Ozu)
ENGL3606 Fantastical Women
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: Credit or above in 12 senior credit points of English Assessment: 1x2000wd annotated bibliography (30%), 1x1500wd presentation discussion and paper (25%) and 1x2500wd essay (45%)
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
Fantasy provides a space for women writers to explore alternative configurations of self and community. Contemporary fantasy texts by women will be considered, including rewritings of historical legends, and fairy tales and social science fiction. The focus will be on texts which open up the cultural order to illegality and disorder, which explore the forbidden or repressed, and which defamiliarise the familiar. Texts will be read through theorisations of the fantastic and feminisim. Fantasy provides a space for women writers to explore alternative configurations of self and community.
Textbooks
Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
ENGL3612 Metaphor and Meaning
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: Credit or above in 12 senior credit points of English Assessment: 1x2000wd essay (40%) and 1x4000wd essay (60%)
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
Metaphorical language challenges received understandings of the nature of linguistic communication since it constitutes a systematic case in which expressions are not used in accordance with their meanings. This unit adopts a variety of perspectives to explore the problem of metaphor in an articulated theory of the semiotics of language. Topics discussed include the literal/metaphorical split, the nature of metaphorical meaning, metaphor and language-use, the origins of metaphor within European metalinguistic discourse, and 'cognitive' theories of metaphor.
Textbooks
Course reader available from the University Copy Centre
ENGL3633 Introduction to Old English
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: Credit or above in 12 senior credit points of English Prohibitions: Students who have completed ENGL3621, ENGL3622, ENGL3631, ENGL3632 must consult the unit co-ordinator. Assessment: 1x1500wd translation and commentary (15%), 1x3000wd essay (35%),1x1.5hr exam (35%), participation (15%)
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 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: ENGL3633 Prohibitions: Students who have completed ENGL3621, ENGL3622, ENGL3631, ENGL3632 must consult the unit co-ordinator. Assessment: 1x1500wd translation and commentary (15%), 1x3000wd essay (35%), 1x1.5hr exam (35%), participation(15%)
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 unit of study 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 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: Credit or above in 12 senior credit points of English Prohibitions: Students who have completed ENGL3621, ENGL3622, ENGL3631, ENGL3632 must consult coordinator Assessment: 1x2000wd essay (40%), 1x1500wd assignment (15%), 1x take-home test (10%), 1x1.5hr exam (35%)
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
Students are advised to consult the unit coordinator and unit of study outline
ENGL3636 Continuing Old Norse
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: ENGL3635 Prohibitions: Students who have completed ENGL3621, ENGL3622, ENGL3631, ENGL3632 must consult co-ordinator Assessment: 1x2000wd essay (40%), 1x1500wd assignment (15%), 1x take-home test (10%), 1x1.5hr exam (35%)
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
Students are advised to consult the unit coordinator and unit of study outline
ENGL3642 Studies in Medieval Literatures
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: Credit or above in 12 senior credit points of English Assessment: 2x3000wd essays (100%)
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 2011 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
ENGL3651 Christopher Marlowe
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: Credit or above in 12 senior credit points of English Prohibitions: ENGL3922 Assessment: 1x2000wd assignment (30%), 1x4000wd essay (70%)
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
Christopher Marlowe. This study of Marlowe's poems and plays gives particular attention to their place in the crises and debates of late-sixteenth-century England. It interrogates Marlowe's ambiguous position on the borderland between heterodoxy and orthodoxy (sexual, political, religious). It examines his construction and/or subversion of an Elizabethan "other" (sodomitical, Jewish, papist, barbarian). It tracks his re-writing of Roman poetry and medieval drama, and his experiments in tragedy, comedy and the presentation of radical ideas.
Textbooks
C. Marlowe. The Complete Plays. Penguin Classics. Eds. Frank Romany and Robert Lindsey. 2003
ENGL3655 The Literary in Theory
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: Credit or above in 18 senior credit points of English Assessment: 1x2000wd seminar presentation of research proposal (30%), 1x4000wd research essay (70%)
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.
ENGL3658 Narrating Trauma
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points in English Assessment: 1x1500wd close reading essay (25%), 1x2500wd essay (40%), 1x2-hr take home exam (35%)
This unit explores the theory and pracices of narrative trauma. The trauma texts we study will illustrate how trauma impacts on the construction of memory and its articulation in situations of war, the ongoing affects of racism and in individual personally traumatic events. However, these narratives also demonstrate how the art of representation in all its diversity can allow for movement beyond the interrupted consciousness of trauma and so provide a context in which indivdual and social healing may occur.
ENGL3662 Aesthetics and Aestheticism
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: Credit or above in 12 senior credit points of English Assessment: 1x1500wd assignment, either a seminar paper or a book report or a research proposal (25%) and 1x4500wd essay (75%)
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
Aesthetics and Aestheticism. This unit considers the interrelated literary, philosophical, and visual arts traditions of aesthetics from the mid-eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. Its philosophical emphasis will be on Kant and Hegel. Its visual arts emphasis will be on Ruskin and Pater. Its literary emphasis will be more comprehensive, stretching from the Age of Sensibility to High Modernism, though paying special attention to the aesthetes and decadents of the late nineteenth century.
Textbooks
Kant. Critique of the Power of Judgment. trans. Guyer & Matthews (Cambridge)
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.
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.
ENGL4101 English Honours A
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 2x2-hr seminars/week for each semester Prerequisites: Credit average in 48 senior English credit points including ENGL3655 or both ENGL3962 and ENGL3964 Assessment: 1x15000wd thesis (40%), 4x6000wd written work or its equivalent for each seminar (4x15%)
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in English 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 in semester one, and the same in semester two.
The thesis should be 15000 words in length and each seminar requires 6000 words of written work or its equivalent. One of the semester one 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%.
In 2011 seminars will be offered from the following list:
The 18th-Century Novel: Theory and Example (Nicola Parsons)
Sentiment and Sensation (Vanessa Smith)
Poetry of Meditation (Barry Spurr)
Mid-Century Modern (Kate Lilley)
The Idea of the South (Sarah Gleeson-White)
Movements in Modern and Contemporary Drama (Mark Byron)
Old English (Dan Anlezark)
Old Norse (Geraldine Barnes)
Reading Suburbia (Brigid Rooney)
Australian Literature and the Canonical Imaginary (Robert Dixon)
Undisciplined Histories (Robert Dixon)
Australian Poetry and the Symbolistes (David Brooks)
For more information, contact Dr Huw Griffiths, 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 in semester one, and the same in semester two.
The thesis should be 15000 words in length and each seminar requires 6000 words of written work or its equivalent. One of the semester one 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%.
In 2011 seminars will be offered from the following list:
The 18th-Century Novel: Theory and Example (Nicola Parsons)
Sentiment and Sensation (Vanessa Smith)
Poetry of Meditation (Barry Spurr)
Mid-Century Modern (Kate Lilley)
The Idea of the South (Sarah Gleeson-White)
Movements in Modern and Contemporary Drama (Mark Byron)
Old English (Dan Anlezark)
Old Norse (Geraldine Barnes)
Reading Suburbia (Brigid Rooney)
Australian Literature and the Canonical Imaginary (Robert Dixon)
Undisciplined Histories (Robert Dixon)
Australian Poetry and the Symbolistes (David Brooks)
For more information, contact Dr Huw Griffiths, Honours Coordinator.
ENGL4102 English Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ENGL4101
Refer to ENGL4101
ENGL4103 English Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ENGL4102
Refer to ENGL4101
ENGL4104 English Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ENGL4103
Refer to ENGL4101
ASLT2602 Revolutionary Writing?: 1960s and beyond
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points from Table A Prohibitions: ASLT2002 Assessment: 1x1500wd essay (30%) and 1x3000wd take-home exam (70%)
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
The 1960s were a time of international cultural and social upheaval. A new range of cultural influences, drugs, pop art, sexual, women's and gay liberation, and the predominantly American counter-culture, influenced a new generation of Australian writers. Bush realism gave way to previously censored subject material - sex, drugs, anti-Vietnam War sentiment - and innovative forms of writing. This unit of study investigates these issues through the works of some of the key writers of this period.
Textbooks
Anderson, J. Tirra Lirra by the River, David Malouf, An Imaginary Life, Hazzard S. The Transit of Venus. Viking
ASLT2619 Australian Gothic
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points from Table A Assessment: 1x2000wd essay (40%), 1x2000wd take-home exam (40%), 1x oral presentation and 1x500wd written summary (20%)
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
From the earliest days of European colonisation, alongside visions of its promise, Australia has also been seen as the worst of all possible worlds, a hellish place of exile where nature seemed uncannily strange or hostile. The 'gothic' has offered a powerful means of representing this dystopian theme. This unit examines the gothic mode in Australian literature and film from the nineteenth century to the present, taking in such issues as 'Weird Melancholy', ghosts, bunyips, badlands and postcolonial (dis)enchantment.
Textbooks
Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver (eds), The Anthology of Colonial Australian Gothic Fiction (Melbourne University Press)
ASLT2620 Writing Australian Nature
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points from Table A Assessment: 1x1000wd oral presentation (20%), 1x2000wd portfolio (40%), 1x1500wd essay (40%)
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?
Textbooks
(when available):
ASLT2622 Australian Modernism
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week and 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points from Table A Assessment: 1x2000wd essay (40%), 1x2000wd take-home exam (40%) and 1x oral presentation and 500wd written summary (20%)
By 1900 Australia was one of the most urbanised countries in the world and embraced modern life - city living, new technologies, the mass media - with a passion second only to that of the USA. Focusing on the early to mid-twentieth century, this unit explores literary responses to Australian modernity within both popular and high culture, from the poetry of urban life to experimental fiction, together with some of the relationships between writing and other art forms.
Textbooks
may include works by Christopher Brennan, Henry Lawson, Lesbia Harford, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Kenneth Slessor, Xavier Herbert, Marjorie Barnard, Patrick White, James McAuley, the Jindyworobak poets, and others
ASLT4011 Australian Literature Honours A
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 2x2-hr seminars/week for each semester 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: 1x15000wd thesis (40%) and 4x6000wd written work or its equivalent for each seminar (4x15%)
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in Australian Literature 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 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 2011:
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 the Honours Coordinator Professor Robert Dixon.
1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
2. 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 2011:
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 the Honours Coordinator Professor Robert Dixon.
ASLT4012 Australian Literature Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ASLT4011
Refer to ASLT4011
ASLT4013 Australian Literature Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ASLT4012
Refer to ASLT4011
ASLT4014 Australian Literature Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ASLT4013
Refer to ASLT4011
European Studies
EUST2601 Europe: Civilisation and Barbarism
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 18 Junior credit points from Part A of the Table of Units of Study Assessment: 1x500wd assignment (15%), 1x3000wd essay (50%), 1x1-hr exam (20%), class participation (15%)
What is European civilisation? Is it just the product of history? Or are other factors involved in its development? One way of coming to an understanding of Europe is to consider its literary and intellectual encounters with other nations, cultures and civilisations as well as with itself. The aim of this unit is to consider the ways in which Europeans have confronted and questioned their civilization since the Renaissance, through the study of literary and theoretical texts.
EUST2605 Europe: Literature and Dictatorship
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 18 Junior credit points from Part A of the Table of Units of Study Assessment: 1x500wd assignment (15%), 1x2500wd essay (50%), 1x1-hr exam (20%), class participation (15%)
Europe: Literature and Dictatorship focuses on aspects of literature, culture, and the public sphere in the twentieth-century socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe. Literature played an important role - both clandestinely and as a public institution - under socialism. However literary texts cannot be separated from wider issues of politics, culture, and society. Hence attention will be paid to the role of the intelligentsias, to censorship, and to problems of dissidence and free expression in authoritarian, closed, and totalitarian societies.
EUST2611 European & Middle Eastern Myth & Legend
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week and 1x1-hr online/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 Assessment: 2x2000wd essays (66%) and 1x1000wd presentation (34%)
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 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/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 Assessment: 1x1000wd presentation (20%), 1x2000wd essay (35%), 1x3000wd essay (45%)
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.
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 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: Two 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 18000 - 12000 words and 6000 - 8000 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. two seminars that meet weekly for two hours for one semester.
The thesis should be of 18000 - 20000 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 20%.
The following seminars are on offer in 2011:
European Identity and Cultures (Assoc Prof Kathryn Crameri) European Cinema and National Identities (Assoc Prof Vrasidas Karalis) For more information, contact Prof Peter Morgan, Director of European Studies.
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 18000 - 20000 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 20%.
The following seminars are on offer in 2011:
European Identity and Cultures (Assoc Prof Kathryn Crameri) European Cinema and National Identities (Assoc Prof Vrasidas Karalis) For more information, contact Prof Peter Morgan, Director of European Studies.
EUST4012 European Studies Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: EUST4011
Refer to EUST4011
EUST4013 European Studies Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: EUST4012
Refer to EUST4011
EUST4014 European Studies Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: EUST4013
Refer to 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 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week and 4xworkshops/semester Prerequisites: a Credit average or better in 48 senior credit points in Film Studies. Candidates who do not have this prerequisite should contact the Honours Coordinator to determine possible waiving of the prerequisite Assessment: 1x18000-20000wd thesis (60%) and 1x6000-8000wd written works from one seminar and one workshop (40%)
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in Film Studies consists of:
1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
2. a seminar (Film is the Issue) that meets weekly for two hours for one semester
3. a workshop (Analysing the Visual) that meets four times during one semester
The thesis should be of 18000-20000 words in length. The seminar and the workshop require 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 2011:
Film is the Issue (Dr Keith Broadfoot)
The following workshop is on offer in 2011:
Analysing the Visual (Assoc Prof Jennifer Milam)
For more information, contact Dr Keith Broadfoot, Honours Coordinator.
1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
2. a seminar (Film is the Issue) that meets weekly for two hours for one semester
3. a workshop (Analysing the Visual) that meets four times during one semester
The thesis should be of 18000-20000 words in length. The seminar and the workshop require 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 2011:
Film is the Issue (Dr Keith Broadfoot)
The following workshop is on offer in 2011:
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
Refer to FILM4101
FILM4103 Film Studies Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: FILM4102
Refer to FILM4101
FILM4104 Film Studies Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: FILM4103
Refer to FILM4101
French Studies
FRNC1611 Junior French Introductory 1
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Summer Main,Winter Main Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 3x1-hr tutorials/week 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 900wds) (20%), 2xgrammar tests (equivalent to 1350wds) (30%), 1xoral test (equivalent to 1350wds) (30%), 1xwritten test (equivalent to 900wds) (20%)
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 Session: Semester 2,Summer Late Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 2x1-hr tutorials/week Prerequisites: FRNC1611 or FRNC1101 Prohibitions: FRNC1102 Assessment: continuous assessment: participation and weekly exercises online and face-to-face and written expression (equivalent to 2250wds) (50%), 1xoral exam (20%), 1xwritten exam (equivalent to 2250wds) (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: 3x1-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: Less than 80% in HSC French Continuers or more than 65% in HSC French Beginners Prohibitions: FRNC1201 Assessment: Class participation and WebCT discussion board (10%), online homework exercises (equivalent 400wds) (10%), 2x written compositions in French (equivalent 1000wds) (20%), 2x written grammar tests in French (equivalent 1000wds) (20%), 1x comprehension (aural & reading) and dictation test in French (equivalent 800wds) (20%) and 1x oral test in French (4 minutes, equivalent 800wds) (20%)
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
St. Onge & St Onge, Interaction (8th edition) 2010 - package comprises text, audio CD and Heinle Access card, which includes an online Student Activity Manual.
FRNC1622 Junior French Intermediate 4
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3x1-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: FRNC1621 or FRNC1201 Prohibitions: FRNC1202 Assessment: Class participation (10%), online homework exercises (equivalent 400wds) (10%), 2x written compositions in French (equivalent 1000wds) (20%), 2x written grammar tests in French (equivalent 1000wds) (20%), 1x comprehension (aural & reading) and dictation in French (equivalent 800wds) (20%), 1x oral test (4 minutes, equivalent 800wds) (20%)
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
St. Onge & St Onge, Interaction (8th edition) 2010 - package comprises text, audio CD and Heinle Access card, which includes an online Student Activity Manual
FRNC1631 Junior French Advanced 5
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 2x1-hr tutorials/week Prerequisites: HSC French Continuers and Extension or more than 80% in Continuers French Prohibitions: FRNC1301 Assessment: class participation (15%), language: 2x200wd written assignments in French (equivalent to 800wds in English) (30%), 1xwritten class test in French (equivalent to 1500wds in English) (20%), 1x4-5 minute oral test in French (equivalent to 1000wds in English) (20%); reading: written class test in French (equivalent to 1200wds in English) (15%)
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 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 2x1-hr tutorials/week Prerequisites: FRNC1631 or FRNC1301 Prohibitions: FRNC1302 Assessment: class participation (10%); language: 2x200wd written assignments in French (equivalent to 800wds in English) (30%), 1xwritten class test in French (equivalent to 1000wds in English) (20%), 1x3 minute oral test in French (equivalent to 700wds in English) (5%); reading: 1x1hr test on medieval literature (equivalent to 1000wds in English) (15%), 1x3 minute oral exercise on theatre in French (equivalent to 1000wds in English) (20%)
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
FRNC2611 Senior French Intermediate 1
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3x1-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: FRNC1622, FRNC1612, FRNC1202, FRNC1102 Prohibitions: FRNC2103 Assessment: classwork (equivalent to 800wds) (20%), writing tests (equivalent to 3200wds) (80%)
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 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3x1-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: FRNC2611, FRNC2103 Prohibitions: FRNC2104 Assessment: classwork (equivalent to 600wds) (15%), written tests (equivalent to 2600wds) (65%), oral tests (equivalent to 800wds) (20%)
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 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: FRNC1612, FRNC1622, FRNC1102, FRNC1202 Prohibitions: FRNC2621, FRNC3631, FRNC2501, FRNC3621, FRNC3622 Assessment: 3xwritten assignments (equivalent to 6000wds in English), 1xclass test (30%), 1xcommentary on text (30%), 1xessay (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 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: FRNC2614, FRNC2501 Prohibitions: FRNC2502, FRNC2622, FRNC3631, FRNC3621, FRNC3622 Assessment: 1x1000wd class test (10%), 1x1000wd commentary (10%), 1xoral presentation (equivalent to 1500wds) (30%), 1x2500wd essay (50%)
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 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x2-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: FRNC2612 or FRNC2104 Prohibitions: FRNC3105 Assessment: written assignments in French (equivalent to 2000wds in English) (2x20%), 1xwritten class test in French (equivalent to 1500wds in English) (20%), 1x3-4 minute oral test in French (equivalent to 1000wds in English) (20%), participation and online exercises (20%)
This unit follows on from FRNC2612 Senior French Intermediate 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 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x2-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: FRNC2621 or FRNC3105 Prohibitions: FRNC3106 Assessment: written assignments in French (equivalent to 2000wds in English) (2x15%), 1xwritten class test in French (equivalent to 1500wds in English) (20%), oral tests in French (equivalent to 1000wds in English) (30%), participation and online exercises (20%)
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
FRNC2651 Introduction à la Linguistique
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: FRNC1302 or FRNC1632 or FRNC2502 or FRNC2615 Prohibitions: FRNC2602 Assessment: classwork, small assignments (equivalent to 500wds each) (2x20%), final text analysis and interpretation (equivalent to 4000wds) (60%)
This unit is a general introduction to linguistics and in particular functional linguistics. It explores language as a system of choices for making meaning in various contexts and aims at providing students with an understanding of what we do when we use language, and grammar, in particular.
Textbooks
Caffarel, A. 2008. A Systemic Functional Grammar of French: From Grammar to Discourse. London: Continuum
FRNC2655 Professional French
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: FRNC1632 or FRNC2622 Prohibitions: FRNC3631 Assessment: 2xwritten assignments in French (e.g. business letter, CV) (equivalent to 1000wds each) (30%), 2xwritten class test in French (equivalent to 3000wds) (50%), 1xoral test in French (20%)
With its business orientation, this language course aims at developing the communicative and cultural skills necessary to operate successfully in a French or francophone professional environment. Students will develop their oral and written skills in a professional context. They will also be familiarised with French business practices and will reflect on cross-cultural issues that affect language and communication in the workplace.
FRNC2666 Research Methods in French Studies
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: Credit in FRNC1632 or FRNC2615 or FRNC1302 or FRNC2502 Assessment: 1x10-15 minute class presentation in French (equivalent to 3000wds in English) (30%), 1xresearch methodology project in French (equivalent to 3000wds in English) (60%), 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 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.
FRNC2681 French Narrative Cinema
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: FRNC1632, FRNC1302, FRNC2615 or FRNC2502 Prohibitions: FRNC2802 Assessment: 1xoral presentation (equivalent to 2000wds) (30%), classwork (equivalent to 1000wds) (10%), written assignments (equivalent to 3000wds) (60%), all assessment is in French
This unit will explore the ways in which French cinema and society have interacted since WWII. It will examine how French society has been represented in fiction films and how major socio-political events have shaped French cinema. We will explore some basic concepts in French film theory and analytical methods derived from them. Film screenings are an integral part of the unit, and students must arrange their timetable so that they can watch each film at least once.
Textbooks
A dossier of texts to be purchased from the University Copy Centre
FRNC3621 Senior French Advanced 5
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x2-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: FRNC1632 or FRNC1302 Prohibitions: FRNC2303 Assessment: 1xwritten assignment in French (equivalent to 1500wds in English) (30%), 1xwritten class test in French (equivalent to 1000wds in English) (25%), 1xoral class test in French (equivalent to 1500wds in English) (25%), 1xoral presentation (equivalent to 500wds) (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: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x2-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: FRNC3621 or FRNC2303 Prohibitions: FRNC2304 Assessment: 1xwritten assignment in French (equivalent to 1500wds in English) (30%), 2xwritten class tests in French (equivalent to 1500wds in English) (35%), 1xoral class test in French (equivalent to 1500wds 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 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x3-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: FRNC3622 or FRNC2304 Prohibitions: FRNC3305 Assessment: 1xwritten assignment (equivalent to 2000wds) (40%), 1xoral presentation in French (equivalent to 2000wds) (40%), classwork (equivalent to 500wds) (20%)
In this unit of study, 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
FRNC3653 French Translation
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: Credit in FRNC1632, FRNC1302, FRNC2615 or FRNC2502 Prohibitions: FRNC3810 Assessment: assignments (equivalent to 3000wds) (40%), tests (equivalent to 2400wds) (50%), participation (10%).
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
An investigation into the theory and practice of translation, from French into English. Students will be required to undertake weekly exercises in translation and to prepare a translation with critical and analytical commentary (equivalent to 3000 word essay overall).
FRNC3655 French Sociolinguistics
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: FRNC1302 or FRNC1632 or FRNC2502 or FRNC2615 Assessment: 1x10-12 minute class presentation in French language (equivalent to 3000wds in English) (30%), 1xresearch based essay in French language (equivalent to 3000wds in English) (60%), participation (10%).
The focus of this course is French language. It will familiarise students with the history, status and profile of the main varieties of French outside France and current issues in language policy in the French speaking world, while introducing them to key concepts such as language use, linguistic variation (according to gender, age, social origin, etc.), or issues of bilingualism and identity. Through critical reading and practice, students will learn how to design, conduct and report research projects regarding French language.
FRNC3682 French Popular Culture
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: FRNC1632 or FRNC1302 or FRNC2615 or FRNC2502 Prohibitions: FRNC3805, FRNC3806 Assessment: class participation (10%), 1x10-12 minute class presentation (equivalent to 3000wds in English) (40%), 1x1500wd essay in French (equivalent to 3000wds in English) (50%)
The aim of this unit is to define and study French popular culture. What are the distinctions between popular culture and elite culture? How is the audience characterised? By studying different media (popular literature, advertising, comic strips, etc.), we will analyse the elements that characterise popular culture and discuss its social, ideological and psychological functions. The theoretical discussions will be based on the studies of Barthes, Eco and Baudrillard.
Textbooks
Course booklet to be purchased from the University Copy Centre
FRNC3686 Le Grand Siècle: 17th century France
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: FRNC1302, FRNC1632, FRNC2502 or FRNC2615 Prohibitions: FRNC3907 Assessment: 1x10 minute class presentation in French (equivalent to 2000wds in English) (30%), 1x2000-2500wd essay in French or, with permission, for 'introductory' stream students, 4000wd essay in English (70%)
This unit explores how the Grand siècle has shaped modern France, and by extension, Europe, through, among others: Louis XIV's absolutism; the philosophies and science of Descartes, Cyrano and Pascal; Richelieu's Académie Française and La République des lettres; the ongoing querelle des femmes; the theatre of Corneille, Racine and Molière, and the tales of Perrault, marking passage from baroque to classicism and the querelle des Anciens et des Modernes; even the birth of classical ballet and the precursors to Orientalism.
Textbooks
René Descartes, Discours de la Méthode. Librio
FRNC3801 French In-Country Study
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 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
For students studying in an approved course at an overseas tertiary level institution.
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.
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.
FRNC4011 French Honours A
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: Two 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 18000-20000 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. two seminars that meet weekly for two hours for one semester.
The thesis should be of 18000-20000 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 20%.
The following seminars are on offer in 2011:
Words, Images and Traces (Dr Francoise Grauby))
Literary World of Medieval France (Dr Andrea Williams)
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. two seminars that meet weekly for two hours for one semester.
The thesis should be of 18000-20000 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 20%.
The following seminars are on offer in 2011:
Words, Images and Traces (Dr Francoise Grauby))
Literary World of Medieval France (Dr Andrea Williams)
For more information, contact Dr Michelle Royer, Honours coordinator.
FRNC4012 French Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: FRNC4011
Refer to FRNC4011
FRNC4013 French Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: FRNC4012
Refer to FRNC4011
FRNC4014 French Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: FRNC4013
Refer to FRNC4011
Gender Studies
GCST1602 Introduction to Gender Studies
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Assessment: 2x400wd critical summaries (30%), 1xpresentation (10%), 1x1200wd essay (30%), 1x1500wd essay (20%), participation (10%)
How does gender organise lives, bodies, sexualities and desires? How does gender relate to sex and sexuality? Are there really only two genders? How and why is gender such an integral part of how we identify ourselves and others? This unit introduces students to foundational concepts in the study of gender and critically engages with questions of identity, sexuality, family, the body, cultural practices and gender norms in light of contemporary gender theories.
GCST2604 Sex, Violence and Transgression
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2,Summer Early Classes: 1x2 hour lecture/week and 1x1 hour tutorial/week Prerequisites: 18 Junior credit points Prohibitions: WMST2004 Assessment: 1x2000 word case study (40%), 1x2000 word take-home exam (40%), online participation (20%)
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 Session: Semester 1,Summer Main Classes: 1x2 hour lecture and 1x1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points. Prohibitions: WMST2007 Assessment: tutorial participation and exercises (10%), 1x1500 word essay (40%), 1x2500 word essay (50%)
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.
GCST2609 Masculinity, Mateship and Men's Lives
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2,Winter Main Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 18 Junior credit points Prohibitions: WMST2009 Assessment: tutorial participation (10%), 1xtutorial presentation (10%), 1x1500wd write-up of presentation (30%) and 1x2000wd essay/take-home exam (50%)
What do men want? From a traditional focus on femininity in gender studies, it is increasingly clear that masculinity has undergone tremendous changes in the last several decades. From a perspective of gender and cultural studies, this unit examines the economic, social and cultural contexts in which masculinity is lived. We will consider different case studies focused on the changing representation of men in contemporary culture. These will include aspects of style and consumption, roles within workplaces, and in domestic practices.
GCST2610 Intimacy, Love and Friendship
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 18 Junior credit points Prohibitions: WMST2010 Assessment: participation (10%), 1x500wd tutorial paper (10%), 1x1500wd essay (30%) and 1x2000wd final essay (50%)
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.
GCST2614 The Body: Theories, Practices, Cultures
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1.5-hr lecture, 1x1-hr tutorial and 30min online participation/week Prerequisites: 18 Junior credit points Prohibitions: WMST2012 Assessment: 1x1000wd close reading exercise (25%), 1x1500wd analytical essay (35%), 1x2000wd final essay (40%) and 5x non-assessable posts to discussion board (online participation)
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
GCST4015 Gender Studies Honours A
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: one class of 2-3hrs/week for each seminar Prerequisites: Credit average in 48 senior credit points of Gender Studies, including GCST2602 (or WMST2002) Assessment: a thesis of 15000 words and 6000 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 2011:
Arguing the Point (Dr Melissa Gregg) (Sem 1)
Philosophy in the Feminine (Sem 1)
Sport, Media and Gendered Cultures (Sem 1)
Modernism, Modernity and Modern Culture (Dr Natalya Lust) (Sem 2))
Identity, Place and Culture (Prof Meaghan Morris) (Sem 2)
For more information, contact Dr Melissa Gregg, 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 2011:
Arguing the Point (Dr Melissa Gregg) (Sem 1)
Philosophy in the Feminine (Sem 1)
Sport, Media and Gendered Cultures (Sem 1)
Modernism, Modernity and Modern Culture (Dr Natalya Lust) (Sem 2))
Identity, Place and Culture (Prof Meaghan Morris) (Sem 2)
For more information, contact Dr Melissa Gregg, Honours coordinator.
GCST4016 Gender Studies Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: Refer to GCST4015 Corequisites: GCST4015
Refer to GCST4015
GCST4017 Gender Studies Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: Refer to GCST4015 Corequisites: GCST4016
Refer to GCST4015
GCST4018 Gender Studies Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: Refer to GCST4015 Corequisites: GCST4017
Refer to GCST4015
GCST4101 Arguing the Point
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/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 (100%)
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 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 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/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 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/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 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 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: GCST4101 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
Refer to GCST4105
GCST4107 Gender Studies Honours Thesis C
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: GCST4101 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
Refer to GCST4105
GCST4108 Gender Studies Honours Thesis D
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: GCST4101 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
Refer to GCST4105
Germanic Studies
GRMN1111 Junior German 1
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x2-hr seminars/week Prohibitions: HSC German Extension, German Continuers, German Beginners 70% or above Assessment: classwork (tests, assignments, class presentations, participation) (50%), 1x2-hr exam (50%)
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 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x2-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: GRMN1111 Assessment: classwork (tests, assignments, class presentations, participation) (50%), 1x2hr exam (50%)
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 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week, 2x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: HSC German Beginners 70% or above or German Continuers below 70% Assessment: classwork (conversation, class tests, compositions, comprehensions, translations, class presentations, short literature essay) (70%), 1x2hr exam (30%)
Practical language classes: 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 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr seminars/week, 2x2-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: GRMN1211 Assessment: classwork (conversation, class tests, compositions, comprehensions, translations, class presentations, short literature essay) (70%), 1x2hr exam (30%)
Practical language classes: 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 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week, 2x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: HSC German Extension or German Continuers 70% or above Assessment: classwork (conversation, class tests, compositions, comprehensions, translations, class presentations, short literature essay) (64%), 1x2hr exam (36%)
Practical language classes: 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 class: 1 hour per week. Discussion of a selection of literary texts 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 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week, 2x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: GRMN1311 Assessment: classwork (conversation, class tests, compositions, comprehensions, translations, class presentations, short literature essay) (64%), 1x2hr exam (36%)
Practical language classes: 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 class: 1 hour per week. Discussion of a variety of literary texts 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 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1-hr seminar/week, 1x2-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: GRMN1122 Prohibitions: GRMN1211, GRMN1222, GRMN1311, GRMN1322 Assessment: classwork (conversation, class tests, compositions, comprehensions, translations, class presentations) (60%) and 1x2hr exam (40%)
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 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr seminar/week, 1x2-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: GRMN2611 or GRMN2211 Prohibitions: GRMN1211, 1222, 1311, 1322 Assessment: classwork (conversation, class tests, compositions, comprehensions, translations, class presentations) (60%) and 1x2hr exam (40%)
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 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week, 1x1-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: GRMN1222 or GRMN2222 or GRMN2612 Prohibitions: GRMN1311, GRMN1322 Assessment: classwork (conversation, class tests, compositions, comprehensions, translations, class presentations) (70%) and 1x2hr exam (30%)
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 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week, 1x1-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: GRMN2613 or GRMN2311 Prohibitions: GRMN1311, GRMN1322 Assessment: classwork (conversation, class tests, compositions, comprehensions, translations, class presentations) (70%) and 1x2hr exam (30%)
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 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week, 1x1-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: GRMN2322 or GRMN2614 Prohibitions: GRMN1311, GRMN1322 Assessment: classwork (conversation, class tests, compositions, comprehensions, translations, class presentations) (70%), 1x2hr exam (30%)
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 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week, 1x1-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: GRMN2615 Prohibitions: GRMN1311, GRMN1322 Assessment: classwork (conversation, class tests, compositions, comprehensions, translations, class presentations) (70%), 1x2hr exam (30%)
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)
GRMN2617 Senior German 7
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week, 1x1-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: GRMN1322 or GRMN2616 Prohibitions: GRMN2351, GRMN2362 Assessment: classwork (conversation, class tests, compositions, comprehensions, translations, class presentations) (60%) and 1x2hr exam (40%)
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 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week, 1x1-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: GRMN2617 Prohibitions: GRMN2362 Assessment: classwork (conversation, class tests, compositions, comprehensions, translations, class presentations) (60%) and 1x2hr exam (40%)
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
Lodewick, DSH & Studienvorbereitung. Deutsch als Fremdsprache für Studentinnen und Studenten. Tex-und Übungsbuch. (Fabouda)
GRMN2631 Reading Comprehension and Text Study
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: (GRMN1111 and GRMN1122) or (GRMN1211 and GRMN1222) Prohibitions: GRMN1311, GRMN1322, GRMN2615, GRMN2616, GRMN2617, GRMN2618 Assessment: 1x2000wd essay (40%), 3x1000wd class tests (30%), 1x1hr exam (30%)
Particularly suitable for students who have completed Junior German 1 and 2. The emphasis of the unit of study 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)
GRMN2633 Topics in German Film
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of German Assessment: 1x3500wd essay (60%), 1x1500wd written tutorial paper (25%), 1x1000wd class presentation (15%)
This unit of study will explore German film from the perspectives of film theory and historical culture. Discussions will situate films within the German political and cultural context of their time and study them from the perspective of contemporary cross-cultural critique. The unit may concentrate on the works of a specific director, a period or a genre, or deal with key social and political issues within a selection of German films.
Textbooks
German film course pack to be purchased from the University Copy Centre
GRMN2637 Business German
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: GRMN1222, GRMN1322, GRMN2222 or GRMN2612 Assessment: classwork (tests, assignments, presentations, participation) (60%), 1x2hr exam (40%)
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)
GRMN2638 Gender & Sexuality in German Literature
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of German not including GRMN1133 Assessment: 1x3500wd essay (60%), 1x1500wd tutorial paper (25%), 1x1000wd class presentation (15%)
This unit examines the works of some of the most important German and Austrian authors of the 'Jahrhundertwende' with regard to discourses on gender and sexuality at the turn of the century.
Textbooks
Wedekind, Frühlings Erwachen (Reclam UB 7951)
GRMN2641 German Culture and Society 1806-1848
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of German Assessment: 1x2500wd learning journal (40%), 1x1500wd class presentation (25%), 1x2hr written exam (35%)
This unit offers an introduction to German culture and society in the first half of the 19th century. It looks at how the foundations of the German nation state were laid in the wake of upheavals that began with the French Revolution and at the traces of these developments in literature. Through analysing contemporary literary texts and examining cultural, social and political conditions, it builds an understanding of how German society moved towards a unified Nation State and towards industrialisation.
Textbooks
Course pack to be purchased from the University Copy Centre
GRMN2683 German Literature and Culture
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: Credit average in 12 Junior credit points of German, not including GRMN1111, GRMN1122 Assessment: 1x3000wd essay (50%), 1x1500wd tutorial paper (25%), 1x20 minute class presentation (equivalent to 1500wds) (25%)
(This is a special honours entry unit.) What is the place of literature in life? Why do people write and read literature? This unit will provide students with an overview of the history of German literature within its broader cultural context. It will look at different styles of writing and introduce different methodological ways of dealing with literary texts of various times. It will examine the role of literature within society and its importance for sociological and anthropological discourses.
Textbooks
Lessing: Emilia Galotti (suhrkamp 44)
GRMN2686 The German Wende in Literature & Culture
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: Credit average in 12 Junior credit points of German Assessment: 1x3000wd essay (50%), 1x oral presentation including written summary equivalent to 1500wds (25%), 1x1500wd essay (25%)
Reunification and the cultural, societal and political changes that preceded and followed the fall of the Berlin Wall remain key issues in contemporary German culture and society. The seminar will introduce students to key aspects of the German "Wende" (Turnaround) and reunification, via the study of a selection of German texts produced since 1989. It will introduce students to key works that focus on the "Wende" and German reunification and its repercussions as well as the historical background.
Textbooks
Jens Sparschuh: Der Zimmerspringbrunnen Thomas Brussig: Helden wie wir Course pack to be purchased from the Copy Centre
GRMN2811 Germanic Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GRMN2812 Germanic Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GRMN2813 Germanic Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GRMN2814 Germanic Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GRMN2815 Germanic Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GRMN4011 German Honours A
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: Semester 1: two seminars, each seminar meets weekly for two hours; Semester 2: one seminar, two hours per week Prerequisites: 48 senior credit points of German including 12 credit points of special honours entry units (2680 level) Assessment: A thesis of 15000 words and 7000-8000 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 15000 words in length. Each seminar requires 7000 - 8000 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 2011:
1. Film Adaptations of German Language Literature (Dr Andrea Bandhauer)
2. Artificial Humans in German Literature and Film (Dr Birte Giesler) 3. German Linguistics (Dr Andreas Jäger) For more information, contact Dr Yixu Lu, 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 15000 words in length. Each seminar requires 7000 - 8000 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 2011:
1. Film Adaptations of German Language Literature (Dr Andrea Bandhauer)
2. Artificial Humans in German Literature and Film (Dr Birte Giesler) 3. German Linguistics (Dr Andreas Jäger) For more information, contact Dr Yixu Lu, Honours coordinator.
GRMN4012 German Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: GRMN4011
Refer to GRMN4011
GRMN4013 German Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: GRMN4012
Refer to GRMN4011
GRMN4014 German Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: GRMN4013
Refer to GRMN4011
Global Studies
For continuing Bachelor of Global Studies students only.
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
Government and International Relations
GOVT1101 Australian Politics
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x2000wd essay (40%), 1x1000wd critical research exercise (10%), 1x 2hr exam (40%) and tutorial participation (10%)
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?
Textbooks
Texts to be advised.
GOVT1104 Power in Society
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x750wd reading assignment (20%), 1x2000wd essay (30%), 1x2hr exam (40%) and tutorial participation (10%)
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 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x1500wd essay (30%), 1x1hr mid-term exam (20%), 1x2hr final exam (40%) and tutorial participation (10%)
This unit will examine how the contemporary international political order has emerged by focusing upon the interplay of diplomatic and strategic issues in the post-war world. It will begin with an analysis of the Cold War and its origins, tracing the development of Soviet-American rivalry, its manifestations in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America, and the different ways in which that rivalry was played out. The collapse of the Soviet Union as both a superpower and a state and the disappearance of the communist bloc will be analysed, before surveying the post-Cold War international scene. Among the issues reviewed in the post-Cold War era will be the question of US hegemony and unilateralism vs. multilateralism, nuclear proliferation, the continuing tension between the first and the third worlds, questions of civilisational conflict, non-state actors and terrorism, democratisation, and regional conflict.
GOVT1202 World Politics
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x500wd essay (10%), 1x2300wd essay (35%), 1x2hr in-class test (40%) and tutorial participation (15%)
This unit introduces the core content of the field of international relations. The first part of the unit presents the realist, liberal, Marxist and constructivist paradigms of international relations. The second part of the unit discusses the key actors and processes political scientists define in the field, including the state, decision makers, bureaucratic organisations, and classes. The final part of the unit focuses on international security, international political economy, and global problems.
GOVT2111 Human Rights and Australian Politics
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points from Government Prohibitions: GOVT2101 Assessment: 1x2500wd briefing paper (30%), 1x2hr exam (50%) and tutorial participation (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 introduces students to the notion of human rights, outlines international human rights enforcement mechanisms and the application of human rights standards in Australia. Throughout the course we consider the evolution of human rights in Australia and raise questions about the adequacy of Australia's existing human rights machinery, and examine the reasons for Australia's reluctance to adopt a Bill of Rights. We examine government policies toward the indigenous Australians, women and refugees. We also consider current legislative changes to combat terrorism and consider the implications of these changes on Australian's civil rights.
GOVT2114 The Australian Political Party System
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points from Government Prohibitions: GOVT2104 Assessment: 1x2500wd essay (40%), 1x1500wd website review (20%), 1x1.5hr exam (30%) and tutorial participation (10%)
The unit examines the Australian party system, including colonial-era pre-party politics, the development of major parties (Labor, Liberal and National) and minor parties (Democrats, Greens, One Nation etc), parties and ideology, parties and social movements, internal party politics, parties and the law, parties and elections, parties and parliamentary politics, and parties and public policy. Emphasis is placed on how theoretical and comparative models of political parties help to explain Australian party politics.
GOVT2116 Australian Foreign and Defence Policy
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2hr lecture-seminar/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points from Government Prohibitions: GOVT2106 Assessment: 1x500wd policy brief (10%), 1x2000wd essay (40%), 1x2hr exam (40%) and tutorial participation (10%)
This unit examines Australia's external relations through its foreign and defence policies since Federation. It will begin with an overview of the theoretical tools for studying foreign policy, policy making and the institutions of Australia's external relations, followed by an historical overview of 'Continuity and Change' in Australia's foreign and defence policies over the relevant period. Key regional and international relationships will be analysed, as will Australia's policy response to contemporary global issues such as human rights; the War on Terror; the environment; energy security and nuclear affairs. The unit will conclude with a discussion on identity and Australia's place in the world today.
GOVT2119 Southeast Asia: Dilemmas of Development
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1hr lectures/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points from Government Prohibitions: GOVT2109 Assessment: 1x2000wd essay (25%), 1x1hr mid-semester exam (20%), 1x1hr final exam (25%) and 1x2000wd tutorial presentation and participation (30%)
Until the 1997 East Asian economic/financial crisis, Southeast Asia was acclaimed as one of the most dynamic and rapidly growing regional economies in the Asia-Pacific sphere. Not surprisingly, the region has attracted enormous interest from social scientists and the wider business community in Australia. However, there is limited consensus about the causes for the region's economic performance and socio-political trajectory during the 'boom' and 'post-boom' years. This course aims to place the region's economic experiences and socio-political changes within a broader historical and comparative context. Such an approach allows us to better appreciate the economic continuities, understand the major socio-political dilemmas and changing patterns of development.
GOVT2221 Politics of International Economic Rels
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points from Government Prohibitions: GOVT2201 Assessment: 1x2500wd essay (40%), 1x2hr exam (30%), 1x1000wd tutorial presentation (20%) and participation (10%)
This unit provides an overview of four major theoretical approaches to international political economy and how these apply to understanding the practice of international economic relations. These theories are: economic nationalism, liberalism, neo-Marxism and poststructuralism. The unit analyses the theory and practice of economic relations by and between states, by focussing in particular on relations between the developed and developing world. It applies each of the four main theories to developing country regions. In this way students also become acquainted with the theory and practice of economic development.
GOVT2225 International Security in 21st Century
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points from Government Prohibitions: GOVT2205 Assessment: 1x2500wd essay (40%), 1x2hr in-class exam (40%) and tutorial participation (20%)
This unit introduces the theoretical foundations, essential concepts and central issues in the field of international security. It provides students with analytical tools to understand and participate in current debates concerning security and threats. The first part of the unit provides an introduction to the theoretical interpretations of international security. The second part discusses security phenomena, problems and strategies, including the coercive use of force, deterrence, guerrilla and counterinsurgency, nuclear stability, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, crisis management, arms races and disarmament, security cooperation and security regimes. The discussion in this part includes a critical review of the dilemmas, strategies, and solutions in each of the issue areas.
GOVT2228 Environmental Politics
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points from Government Prohibitions: GOVT2208 Assessment: 1x1000wd essay (20%), 1x2000wd essay (30%), 1x2hr exam (30%) and tutorial participation (20%)
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
Environmental issues pose increasingly difficult challenges to our societies. What is the nature of these challenges? Where have they come from? How have political institutions adapted to them, at the national and international levels? What further changes might be necessary to better meet them? How might these changes come about? What effects might they have on the future of politics? This unit of study will engage these kinds of questions as an introduction to some theoretical and practical dimensions of environmental politics.
GOVT2424 Politics of China
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points from Government Prohibitions: GOVT2402 Assessment: 1x 2hr exam (40%), 1x2000wd essay (40%) and tutorial participation (20%)
Introduction to government and politics of modern China. Brief examination of traditional background and modern revolution from 19th century to 1949. Primary focus on ideology, leadership, institutions and political processes of the People's Republic. Covers politics of social groups, major issue areas, the Cultural Revolution and the politics of reform.
GOVT2444 Europe in World Affairs
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points from Government Prohibitions: GOVT2404 Assessment: 1x1hr mid-semester exam (20%), 1x1500wd essay (30%), 1x2hr final exam (40%) and tutorial participation (10%)
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
This unit examines the problems of transition in European politics in three key areas: the shift towards advanced capitalist democracy in the southern Mediterranean; the steps towards transnational unity (through the EC) by northern European nations; and the slow process of economic and political reform in eastern Europe. Different theoretical approaches are used to examine these phenomena and these include perspectives that stress the role of the world economy, political institutions and social movements.
GOVT2445 American Politics and Foreign Policy
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points from Government Prohibitions: GOVT2405 Assessment: 1x2000wd essay (40%), 10x30wd tutorial quizzes (10%), 1x2hr exam (40%) and tutorial participation (10%)
This unit will be an overview of the American political system and the formulation of foreign policy. It will cover the major Federal political institutions: the Presidency, the Congress, and the Supreme Court. The unit will consider how foreign policy is made through the interaction of these institutions and with other elements of civil society. Finally, it will examine the outcome of this process - US foreign policy itself - with special emphasis on the post-Cold War period. We will seek to answer two key questions: (a) what is the influence of domestic politics on US foreign policy; and (b) how does the US system cope with the apparent contradictions between its ideals and the imperatives of global power?
GOVT2446 Reform, Revolution and Post Communism
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1hr lectures/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points from Government Prohibitions: GOVT2406 Assessment: 1x2000wd essay (30%), 1x500wd tutorial assignment (10%), 1x2hr exam (50%) and tutorial participation (10%)
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
At the end of the 1980s the communist regimes of Europe collapsed, leading to the emergence of a number of newly-independent states. This development was unexpected, because the communist regimes had seemed to be so powerful and solidly established. This unit analyses why such regimes fell, and in particular why the attempts at reform of them failed. It then looks at the attempt to build a new post-communist future characterised by political democracy and a market economy. Specific attention is given to issues like the attempt to develop a post-communist identity, efforts to construct a new political system, economic reform and its consequences, organised crime and corruption, nationalism and legitimacy. The focus is principally upon Russia, but some attention is also given to other former communist states.
GOVT2552 Policy Analysis
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1hr lectures/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points from Government Prohibitions: GOVT2502 Assessment: 1x2500wd eval case study (40%), 1x2hr exam (50%) and tutorial 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 nature of public policy and the processes which shape its content. Most of these processes apply across nation states, although they typically manifest themselves in nation-specific ways. First, the unit outlines the nature of public policy - dealing with such matters as definitions of policy and approaches to analysing public policy. These include the traditional 'policy cycle' approach, as well as alternative models based on rational choice, the roles of groups and networks, the nature of institutions and the power of socio-economic interests. Second, it examines the main building blocks of the policy process: actors, institutions, and policy instruments. Third, it examines key stages of the public policy process: notably problem definition, agenda setting, policy formation, decision making, implementation and evaluation. Examples are drawn from Australia and a range of countries throughout the world. Fourth, it examines policy-making in extreme, 'crisis' situations. Fifth, it turns its attention to Australian policy processes, focusing specifically on the areas of economic policy and indigenous affairs. Finally, it takes an overview of public policy processes in a global world, focusing on national policy-making autonomy in the context of globalisation, as well as challenges for the future. The unit is sufficiently flexible in terms of assessment, allowing students to concentrate on areas of interest.
GOVT2557 Public Sector Management and Governance
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points from Government Prohibitions: GOVT2507 Assessment: 1x2250wd essay (45%), 1x1.5hr exam (30%), 1x750wd tutorial presentation (15%) and tutorial participation (10%)
Factors such as global warming, the internet and consumerism are transforming the way in which the public sector is organised in Australia and other democracies. This unit develops a framework for understanding these changes and then uses this framework to study some of the key challenges that public sector managers face today in areas such as: coordination and partnership working; accountability and blame shifting; and how to engage stakeholders in decisions that affect them.
GOVT2603 Media Politics
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points in Government Assessment: 2000wd essays (2x45%) and 1x in-class quiz (10%)
This unit is primarily about news, its production, contents and impacts. It will examine the special demands of different news organisations and of reporting different news areas; the news media as an arena in political conflicts and the consequent interests and strategies of various groups in affecting news content; and the impacts of news on political processes and relationships. Our primary focus is on Australia, but there is some comparison with other affluent liberal democracies. The substantive areas the course will focus on include election reporting, scandals and the reporting of war and terrorism.
GOVT2611 Capitalism and Democracy in East Asia
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points from Government Prohibitions: GOVT2411 Assessment: 1x2000wd essay (40%), 3x reading quizzes (20%), 1x1hr mid-term exam (20%), tutorial debates (10%) and participation (10%)
This unit will shed light on the springs of change in politics and economics and their intersections in East Asia, which includes South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, and Singapore. The unit examines the political and economic transformation in the region. Among the major issues considered are: Are East Asia's political institutions distinctive? How does economic change affect political power and the state? Will democratisation and globalisation undermine the distinctive traditions of the region?
GOVT2801 Applied International Studies
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x3hr seminar/week Prerequisites: Four core junior BIntS units of study (GOVT1105, GOVT1202, ECOP1001, ECOP1003) Assessment: 1x1500wd essay (30%), 1x1000wd essay (10%), 1x2000wd essay (35%) and tutorial participation (25%)
Note: This unit is only available to students enrolled in the Bachelor of International Studies
This senior core unit is designed to build on the junior core units of the Bachelor of International Studies and to develop a deeper level of knowledge of international politics and economics, and to apply this knowledge to real-life problems in diverse policy environments. The unit introduces students to the relationship between international law and international politics and economics, and the fields of international law that are directly relevant to the unit's simulation topics. Students will apply theory to practice by taking part in simulations on key global 'Issues of the Day'. These will focus on the environment, human rights and humanitarian intervention, terrorism and international security, trade and development. Participation in the simulations will require students to engage in economic and political policy-making; analysis of input and output issues such as state and organisational strategies; negotiations; and managing diverse international teams. Skills developed will include decision-making under conditions of uncertainty; information literacy; communication and decision-making in small and large groups; and the writing of press releases and briefing documents.
GOVT2802 International Studies Practicum
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: This unit is taught online including 2hr/week online discussions Prerequisites: Four core junior BIntS units of study (GOVT1105, GOVT1202, ECOP1001, ECOP1003) Assessment: 5x short assessment tasks (40%), 1x4000wd essay (40%) and 1x1000wd report (20%)
Note: This unit is only available to students enrolled in the Bachelor of International Studies.
This senior core unit in the Bachelor of International Studies is designed to provide students with the opportunity to combine theoretical learning with hands-on experience in international studies. Students enrol in the unit in the second semester of their third year, while either studying abroad or engaged as an intern in a government or non-government organisation in Sydney, working on an internationally-focussed project. The unit is taught fully online, accessed via the Faculty's Blackboard site. The aim of the content and assessment is to develop research and critical reflection skills, culminating in a major research paper.
GOVT2991 Political Analysis
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points from Government at the level of Credit or better, or with the consent of the Honours Coordinator, Dr John Mikler Assessment: 1x2000wd essay (35%), 1x1500wd group project (30%), mid-semester test (25%) and tutorial 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 assists students enrolled in the honours program to develop the conceptual and practical skills they need to excel in any area of substantial political inquiry. An overview of political inquiry is presented through an examination of the diversity in theoretical and methodological approaches used by those who carry out political research. This includes looking at, for example, institutional, behavioural, discourse and feminist approaches in political inquiry, and the usage of quantitative and qualitative methods. The assessment is based around constructing research projects that can be utilised to answer current political questions.
Textbooks
David Marsh and Gerry Stoker 'Theory and Methods in Political Science', 3rd edition
GOVT3993 Power
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2hr lecture-seminar/week, 1x1hr lecture-seminar/week Prerequisites: 12 Senior credit points from Government and GOVT2991, each at the level of Credit or better, or with the consent of the Honours Coordinator, Dr John Mikler. Prohibitions: GOVT3991 Assessment: 1000wd essay (2x15%), 1x2500wd essay (50%), in-class and online participation (20%)
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
Power is the essential concept of political science, which is the systematic study of politics. Bertrand Russell, perhaps the greatest mind of the 20th Century, said power is the central concept of all the social sciences. Students explore this concept in different parts of political science and survey some debates on power, assessing the advantages and disadvantages of concepts of power. There are three themes in this unit. The first is the distribution of power in society. The second is power in comparative politics and the third is power in international relations. The emphasis is on the nature, sources and use of power.
Textbooks
Unit Reader will be available at the University Copy Centre
GOVT3994 Research Preparation
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr seminar/week Prerequisites: 12 Senior credit points from Government and GOVT2991, each at the level of Credit or better, or with the consent of the Honours Coordinator, Dr John Mikler. Prohibitions: GOVT3992 Assessment: 1x1500wd thesis review (20%), 1x1500wd thesis comparison (20%), 1x3000wd thesis prospectus (60%)
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
This unit assists students to build towards a better fourth year honours dissertation. It considers the construction of a dissertation topic, planning the research, bibliographic searches, and writing the dissertation. The unit devotes a considerable amount of time to exercises designed to help students envisage their honours dissertation and plan fruitful lines of inquiry.
GOVT1001 Government Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GOVT1881 Government Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GOVT1882 Government Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GOVT2881 Government Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GOVT2882 Government Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GOVT2883 Government Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GOVT2884 Government Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GOVT2885 Government Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GOVT4101 Government Honours A
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: two seminars that meet weekly for two hours each in Semester 1 Prerequisites: Credit grades in two junior GOVT units, three senior GOVT units and GOVT2991 (GOVT2091), GOVT3993 (or GOVT3991) and GOVT3994 (or GOVT3992). Requirements for the Pass degree must be completed before entry to level 4000 honours units of study. Corequisites: GOVT4101, GOVT4102, GOVT4103, GOVT4104 Assessment: a thesis of 18000-20000 words and 6000 words of written work or its equivalent each seminar
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in Government and International Relations consists of:
1. a thesis written under the supervision of one member of academic staff
2. two seminars that meet weekly for two hours each in Semester 1
The thesis should be of 18000-20000 words in length. Each seminar requires about 6000 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 Department will decide which Seminars are available in 2011, with these potentially including the following: Australian Democracy in Comparative Perspective, The Life and Times of Authoritarian Rule, Power and Identity in International Relations, Population Politics, Environmental Politics, Comparative Political Culture, and Modern Political Thought. With the permission of the Honours Coordinator, it will also be possible to do one seminar through the Honours programs at UNSW or Macquarie University.
For more information, contact Dr John Mikler, Honours Coordinator or Prof Rodney Smith, Chair of Department
1. a thesis written under the supervision of one member of academic staff
2. two seminars that meet weekly for two hours each in Semester 1
The thesis should be of 18000-20000 words in length. Each seminar requires about 6000 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 Department will decide which Seminars are available in 2011, with these potentially including the following: Australian Democracy in Comparative Perspective, The Life and Times of Authoritarian Rule, Power and Identity in International Relations, Population Politics, Environmental Politics, Comparative Political Culture, and Modern Political Thought. With the permission of the Honours Coordinator, it will also be possible to do one seminar through the Honours programs at UNSW or Macquarie University.
For more information, contact Dr John Mikler, Honours Coordinator or Prof Rodney Smith, Chair of Department
GOVT4102 Government Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: GOVT4101
refer to GOVT4101
GOVT4103 Government Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: GOVT4102
refer to GOVT4101
GOVT4104 Government Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: GOVT4103
refer to GOVT4101
Greek (Ancient)
GRKA1600 Introduction to Ancient Greek 1
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3x1 hour lectures and 1x1 hour tutorial per week Prohibitions: GRKA1001, GRKA2611, GRKA2620 Assessment: weekly assignments (30%), weekly quizzes (30%) and 1x2 hour exam (40%)
This unit provides the essential linguistic foundation to the study of Greek literature, philosophy, culture, and history. It is meant for students with no previous acquaintance with ancient Greek. The unit is valuable for all students interested in all aspects of European history, archaeology, language, literature and philosophy.
Textbooks
Mastronarde D. Introduction to Attic Greek. University of California Press 1993
GRKA1601 Introduction to Ancient Greek 2
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3x1 hour lectures and 1x1 hour seminar per week Prerequisites: GRKA1600 or GRKA1001 Prohibitions: GRKA1002, GRKA2612, GRKA2621 Assessment: weekly assignments (30%), weekly quizzes (30%) and 1x2 hour exam (40%)
This unit builds upon the linguistic foundations provided by GRKA1600. It offers further study of Greek grammar combined with the reading of Greek authors in the original.
Textbooks
Mastronarde D. Introduction to Attic Greek. University of California Press 1993
GRKA2600 Intermediate Greek 1
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3x1 hour lectures per week Prerequisites: HSC Greek or GRKA1601 or GRKA2621 or GRKA2612 or GRKA1002 Prohibitions: GRKA2603 Assessment: weekly assignments (50%) and 1x2 hour exam (50%)
This unit builds upon the linguistic foundations provided by GRKA1601 or GRKA2621. It completes the survey of Greek grammar and introduces students to the translation and detailed analysis of extended extracts from Classical authors.
GRKA2601 Intermediate Greek 2
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3x1 hour lectures per week Prerequisites: GRKA2600 or GRKA2603 Assessment: weekly assignments (50%) and 1x2 hour exam (50%)
This unit builds on acquired skills in the reading, translating and writing in Greek. The unit includes close reading of extended extracts from classics of Greek prose and poetry.
GRKA2620 Reading Greek 1
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3x1 hour lectures and 1x1 hour tutorial per week Prohibitions: GRKA1600, GRKA1001, GRKA2611 Assessment: weekly assignments (30%), weekly quizzes (30%) and 1x2 hour exam (40%)
This unit is designed for senior students who wish to begin the study of ancient Greek. It provides the essential linguistic foundation to the study of Greek literature, philosophy, culture, and history. It is meant for students with no previous acquaintance with ancient Greek. The unit is valuable for all students interested in all aspects of European history, archaeology, language, literature and philosophy.
Textbooks
Mastronarde D. Introduction to Attic Greek. University of California Press 1993
GRKA2621 Reading Greek 2
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3x1 hour lectures and 1x1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: GRKA1600 or GRKA2603 or GRKA2611 or GRKA2620 Prohibitions: GRKA1601, GRKA1002, GRKA2612 Assessment: weekly assignments (30%), weekly quizzes (30%) and 1x2 hour exam (40%)
This unit is designed for senior students who wish to continue the study of ancient Greek. It offers further study of Greek grammar combined with the reading of Greek authors in the original.
Textbooks
Mastronarde D. Introduction to Attic Greek. University of California Press 1993
GRKA3600 Advanced Greek
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3x1 hour lectures per week Prerequisites: GRKA2601 or equivalent Assessment: weekly assignments (50%) and weekly tests (50%)
This unit offers advanced study and practice in the literary language of ancient Greek. Particular emphasis will be given to the appreciation of Greek prose style through the analysis of Greek texts and through weekly exercises in Greek prose composition. Practice in unseen translation will hone the student's reading and comprehension skills in ancient Greek.
GRKA3602 Greek Epic
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3x1 hour seminars per week Corequisites: GRKA2601 or equivalent Assessment: participation (10%), 1x2000 word essay (40%) and 1x2 hour exam (50%)
The Iliad, the Odyssey and the poems of Hesiod are the classics of the classics. This unit offers an introduction to the language, style and content of the Greek epics which served as the foundations of Greek cultural identity and are the primary textual sources for Bronze Age, Geometric and Archaic Greek language, religion, history and thought.
GRKA3604 Greek Philosophical Texts
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3x1 hour seminars per week Corequisites: GRKA3600 or by permission of department Assessment: participation (10%), 1x2000 word essay (45%) and 1x2 hour exam (45%)
This unit offers a close reading in the original Greek of select classics of Greek philosophy with particular attention of the genres of philosophical expression and the linguistic, cultural and ideological background to Greek philosophical thought.
Textbooks
Denyer, Nicholas, ed. Plato. Protagoras. Cambridge, 2008
GRKA3606 Classics of Greek Literature
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3x1 hour lectures per week Corequisites: 18 GRKA credit points at 3000 level Assessment: 1x2000 word essay (40%), 1x2 hour exam (50%) and participation (10%)
In this unit we undertake advanced study of select genres of Greek literature, such as choral lyric, epinician, mime and the novel. It is intended for students with a firm command of Greek literary language and close familiarity with two or more other poetic or prose genres. Topics will be announced before the end of Semester 2 of the previous year.
GRKA2804 Greek (Ancient) Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GRKA2805 Greek (Ancient) Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
GRKA4011 Greek Honours A
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: two seminars, each seminar meeting for 3 hours per week for one semester Prerequisites: Credit average in 42 senior credit points of Greek including two of GRKA3603, 3604, 3605, 3606 plus 6 additional senior credit points of Greek, Latin or Ancient History. 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 Greek (Ancient) 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 a Greek 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 followng seminars are on offer in 2011:
Greek Epic (Prof Eric Csapo)
Greek Philosophical Texts (Assoc Prof Rick Benitez)
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 a Greek 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 followng seminars are on offer in 2011:
Greek Epic (Prof Eric Csapo)
Greek Philosophical Texts (Assoc Prof Rick Benitez)
For more information, contact Dr Alastair Blanshard, Honours coordinator.
GRKA4012 Greek Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: Refer to GRKA4011 Corequisites: GRKA4011 Assessment: Refer to GRKA4011
Refer to GRKA4011
GRKA4013 Greek Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: Refer to GRKA4011 Corequisites: GRKA4012 Assessment: Refer to GRKA4011
Refer to GRKA4011
GRKA4014 Greek Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: Refer to GRKA4011 Corequisites: GRKA4013 Assessment: Refer to GRKA4011
Refer to GRKA4011
Hebrew (Classical)
HBRW1111 Hebrew Classical B1
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 4x1-hr seminars/week Prohibitions: HBRW1311, HBRW2631 Assessment: 1x2hr exam (50%), continuous assessment (40%), class participation (10%)
This unit, for those beginning the study of Hebrew, brings students from their first acquaintance with the Hebrew alphabet to an understanding of the Hebrew language used in the Biblical texts. The unit is devoted to the study of the grammar and the principles of translation.
Textbooks
Contact the department
HBRW1112 Hebrew Classical B2
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 4x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: HBRW1111 Prohibitions: HBRW1312, HBRW2632 Assessment: 1x2hr exam (50%), continuous assessment (40%), class participation (10%)
This unit continues the study of grammar and classical Hebrew (Biblical) texts, as follows: grammar (2 hours per week), classical text (2 hours per week).
Textbooks
Contact the department
HBRW2623 Hebrew Classical 3
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 4x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: HBRW1112 or HBRW2402 or HBRW2632 or HSC Hebrew or equivalent Prohibitions: HBRW2115 Assessment: 2x2hr exams (60%), continuous assessment and class preparation (20%), 1x1500wd essay (20%).
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
The books of the Hebrew Bible are studied in the light of their setting and their literary and linguistic features. The course consists of: set classical texts (2 hours per week); and special background area study: Mishnaic Hebrew (2 hours per week).
Textbooks
Contact the department.
HBRW2624 Hebrew Classical 4
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 4x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: HBRW1112 or HBRW2402 or HBRW2632 or HSC Hebrew or equivalent Prohibitions: HBRW2116 Assessment: 2x2hr exams (60%), continuous assessment and class preparation (20%), 1x1500wd essay (20%)
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
The books of the Hebrew Bible are studied in the light of their setting and their literary and linguistic features. The course consists of: set classical texts (2 hours per week) and special background area study, Dead Sea Scrolls Hebrew (2 hours per week).
HBRW2631 Hebrew Accelerated C1
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 4x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: 18 Junior credit points including 12 credit points in a subject area from the School of Archaeology, Classics and Ancient History or from the Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies or from the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies Corequisites: 6 senior credit points in a subject area from the School of Archaeology, Classics and Ancient History or from the Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies or from the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies. Prohibitions: HBRW1111, HBRW1112, HBRW2401 Assessment: 1x2hr exam (50%), continuous assessment (40%), class participation (10%)
An introduction to Hebrew language for those whose existing corequisite units of study require a basic language ability. It is taught concurrently with the existing Hebrew B-stream.
HBRW2632 Hebrew Accelerated C2
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 4x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: HBRW2401 or HBRW2631 Prohibitions: HBRW1112, HBRW2402 Assessment: 1x2hr exam (50%), continuous assessment (40%) and class participation (10%)
This unit brings students to a level necessary for the study of Hebrew at an advanced level. It forms a bridge between Hebrew Accelerated C1 and other senior Hebrew units.
HBRW2651 Syriac 1
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1hr seminars/week Prerequisites: HBRW1112 or HBRW2402 or HBRW2632 or HSC Hebrew or equivalent Prohibitions: HBRW2911 Assessment: 1x2hr exam (60%), weekly assignments, exercises and class participation (40%).
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
For those beginning the study of Syriac this is a preparation for more advanced study of Syriac language and literature. It concentrates on the study of elementary Syriac grammar, prose composition and an introductory study of selections of texts from the Old and New Testament Peshitta.
Textbooks
Robinson, T.H., Paradigms and Exercises in Syriac Grammar, rev.edn. by L.H. Brockington, Oxford, OUP
HBRW2652 Syriac 2
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: HBRW2911 or HBRW2651 Prohibitions: HBRW2912 Assessment: 1x2hr exam (60%), weekly assignments, exercises and class participation (40%)
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
This unit builds on the foundation of Syriac 1. It concentrates on the study of advanced Syriac prose composition and selections of texts from the Old and New Testament Peshitta.
HBRW3653 Syriac 3
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: HBRW2912 or HBRW2652 Prohibitions: HBRW3911 Assessment: 1x2hr exam (50%), 1x2500wd essay (30%), continuous assessment (20%)
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
This unit continues the study of Syriac texts begun in Syriac 1 and 2. This unit concentrates on the study of selections of advanced Syriac Peshitta, Patristic texts, etc.
HBRW3654 Syriac 4
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: HBRW3911 or HBRW3653 Prohibitions: HBRW3912 Assessment: 1x2hr exam (50%), 1x2500wd essay (30%), continuous assessment (20%)
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
This unit builds on the foundation of Syriac 3. This unit concentrates on the study of more advanced Syriac Patristic and Hagiographical texts, etc., as well as a brief survey of the history of Syriac literature.
HBRW2801 Hebrew (Classical) In-Country Study A
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 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
For students studying in an approved course at an overseas tertiary level institution.
HBRW2802 Hebrew (Classical) In-Country Study B
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 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
For students studying in an approved course at an overseas tertiary level institution.
HBRW4011 Hebrew (Classical) Honours A
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: two seminars in semester 1 and one seminar in semester 2, each two hours per week Prerequisites: 48 senior credit points consisting of: (HBRW2113 or HBRW2623) and (HBRW2114 or HBRW2624) and (HBRW2115 or HBRW2625) and (HBRW2116 or HBRW2626); and 24 credit points from the department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies. Assessment: a thesis of 15000 words in length and 5000 words of written work or its equivalent for each seminar
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in Classical Hebrew consists of:
1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
2. two seminars in semester 1 and one seminar in semester 2, each two hours per week
The thesis should be of 15000 words in length. Each seminar requires 5000 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 2011:
Biblical Themes (Dr Ari Lobel)
Biblical Texts in Hebrew I (Prof Alan Crown)
Biblical Texts in Hebrew II (Assoc Prof Ian Young)
For more information, contact Assoc Prof Ian Young, Honours coordinator.
1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
2. two seminars in semester 1 and one seminar in semester 2, each two hours per week
The thesis should be of 15000 words in length. Each seminar requires 5000 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 2011:
Biblical Themes (Dr Ari Lobel)
Biblical Texts in Hebrew I (Prof Alan Crown)
Biblical Texts in Hebrew II (Assoc Prof Ian Young)
For more information, contact Assoc Prof Ian Young, Honours coordinator.
HBRW4012 Hebrew (Classical) Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: HBRW4011
Refer to HBRW4011
HBRW4013 Hebrew (Classical) Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: HBRW4012
Refer to HBRW4011
HBRW4014 Hebrew (Classical) Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: HBRW4013
Refer to HBRW4011
Hebrew (Modern)
HBRW1011 Hebrew Modern B1
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 4x1-hr seminars/week Assessment: 1x2hr mid-semester exam (30%), 1x2hr final exam (35%), continuous assessment and class preparation (equivalent to 2500wds) (35%)
This unit provides an introduction to Modern Hebrew. It is intended for students who have little or no previous knowledge and practice of the language. The unit fosters the development of oral communication skills relating to everyday topics. It includes learning the Hebrew alphabet and basic reading and writing skills as well as the introduction of basic vocabulary and language functions. It is imperative that all prospective students contact the coordinator to arrange for a placement test upon enrolment.
Textbooks
Chayat, S., Israeli, S., Kobliner, H. (2007) Hebrew from Scratch, Part I (new edition) Academon, Jerusalem.
HBRW1102 Hebrew Modern B2
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 4x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: HBRW1011 Prohibitions: HBRW1302 Assessment: 1x2hr mid-semester exam (30%), 1x2hr final exam (35%), continuous assessment and class preparation (equivalent to 2500wds) (35%)
This unit is an extension of the work done in HBRW1011 (B1). It further develops the language skills acquired in B1. This unit involves a range of learning styles that assist you to further develop and consolidate your listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.
Textbooks
Chayat, S., Israeli, S., Kobliner, H. (2007), Hebrew from Scratch, Part I (new edition) Academon, Jerusalem.
HBRW2603 Hebrew Modern 3
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 4x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: HBRW1102 Prohibitions: HBRW2103 Assessment: 1x2hr mid-semester exam (30%), 1x2hr final exam (35%), continuous assessment and class preparation (equivalent to 2500wds) (35%)
This unit is an extension of the work done in HBRW1102. It consists of an intensive study of spoken Modern Hebrew with emphasis on communicative skills that enable students to communicate in simple Hebrew for everyday situations. Simple literary texts and language components, which are orientated around relevant themes, are dealt with. A variety of different methods are used to explain grammatical structures, morphology and syntax and to provide examples in their use.
Textbooks
Chayat, S, Israeli S, Kobliner H. (2007) Hebrew from Scratch. Part I (new edition) Academon, Jerusalem.
HBRW2604 Hebrew Modern 4
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 4x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: HBRW2603 Prohibitions: HBRW2104 Assessment: 1x2hr mid-semester exam (30%), 1x2hr final exam (35%), continuous assessment and class preparation (equivalent to 2500wds) (35%)
This unit is an extension of the work done in HBRW2603. It uses a communicative approach to language learning. Students' active participation through teamwork, role-playing and other interactive techniques is an essential aspect of all classes. It is expected that by the end of this unit students will be able to take part in simple everyday Hebrew conversation.
Textbooks
Chayat, S., Israeli, S., Kobliner, H. (2007) Hebrew from Scratch, Part I (new edition) Academon, Jerusalem.
HBRW2605 Hebrew Modern 5
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 4x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: HBRW2604 Prohibitions: HBRW2105 Assessment: 1x2hr mid-semester exam (30%), 1x2hr final exam (35%), continuous assessment and class preparation (equivalent to 2500wds) (35%)
This unit picks up from HBRW2604. It covers language skills and knowledge of Level Beit. In addition to consolidating and further developing spoken communication and writing skills, this unit introduces the student to a variety of Modern Hebrew texts such as poems, songs, short stories and newspaper articles as well as some Classical Hebrew texts.
Textbooks
Chayat, S., Israeli, S., Kobliner, H. (2001) Hebrew from Scratch Part II, Academon, Jerusalem.
HBRW2606 Hebrew Modern 6
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 4x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: HBRW2605 Prohibitions: HBRW2106 Assessment: 1x2hr mid-semester exam (30%), 1x2hr final exam (35%), continuous assessment and class preparation (equivalent to 1500wds) (35%)
This unit is an extension of the work done in HBRW2605. By the end of the unit, students will be able to converse confidently in everyday Hebrew. As well, this unit is designed to enable students who wish to continue learning Modern Hebrew to make the transition into HBRW2607 and HBRW2608.
Textbooks
Chayat, S., Israeli, S., Kobliner, H. (2001) Hebrew from Scratch Part II, Academon, Jerusalem.
HBRW2607 Hebrew Modern 7
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 4x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: HBRW2106 or HBRW2606 or Modern Hebrew HSC Prohibitions: HBRW1301 Assessment: 1x2hr mid-semester exam (30%), 1x2hr final exam (30%), oral presentations (equivalent to 1000wds) (10%), continuous assessment and class preparation (equivalent to 2000wds) (30%)
This unit picks up from HBRW2606. Students further develop their speaking fluency while improving their grammar and usage. The ability to read a variety of Modern Hebrew texts, including newspaper articles, short stories, poems and other literary texts, which reflect socio-cultural issues from the 19th century to the present time, is further developed.
Special significance is attached to this unit. Upon its completion, students are eligible to be considered for admission to regular studies at the Hebrew University.
Special significance is attached to this unit. Upon its completion, students are eligible to be considered for admission to regular studies at the Hebrew University.
Textbooks
Cohen, M. (1992) Hebrew, what a Language (Agada shel Safa), Academon, Jerusalem.
HBRW2608 Hebrew Modern 8
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 4x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: HBRW1301 or HBRW2607 Prohibitions: HBRW1302 Assessment: 1x2hr mid-semester exam (30%), 1x2hr final exam (30%), oral presentations (equivalent to 1000wds) (10%), continuous assessment and class preparation (equivalent to 2000wds) (30%)
This unit is an extension of HBRW2607. Students will further improve their communicative skills while consolidating their grammatical knowledge. Special significance is attached to this unit. Upon its completion, students are eligible to be considered for admission to regular studies at the Hebrew University.
Textbooks
Cohen, M. (1992) Hebrew, what a Language (Agada shel Safa), Academon, Jerusalem
HBRW2609 Hebrew Modern 9
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 4x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: HBRW1302 or HBRW2608 Prohibitions: HBRW2303 Assessment: 1x2hr mid-semester exam (20%), 1x2hr final exam (25%), 1x750wd essay (20%), continuous assessment and class preparation (equivalent to 2000wds) (35%)
This unit picks up from HBRW2608. It is an intensive language-learning program covering Level Dalet. It is based both on communicative (speaking, listening) and writing (reading, writing) skills. Through using the Hebrew language in a range of contexts, students further extend and develop their communicative skills. As well, they are introduced to contemporary texts that reflect socio-cultural issues of Israeli society over the last two centuries.
Textbooks
Omlinsky, B., Weiss, Y. (2006) Ivrit be-Dalet Amot, Academon, Jerusalem.
HBRW2610 Hebrew Modern 10
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 4x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: HBRW1302 or HBRW2609 Prohibitions: HBRW2304 Assessment: 1x2hr mid-semester exam (20%), 1x2hr final exam (25%), 1x750wd essay (20%), continuous assessment and class preparation (equivalent to 2000wds) (35%)
This unit is an extension of HBRW2609. It further develops, enhances and extends students' good knowledge of Modern Hebrew. It is based on communicative (speaking, listening) and writing (reading, writing) skills.
Textbooks
Omlinsky, B., Weiss, Y. (2006) Ivrit be-Dalet Amot, Academon, Jerusalem.
HBRW2611 Hebrew Modern 11
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 4x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: HBRW2610 Prohibitions: HBRW2305 Assessment: 1x2hr mid-semester exam (20%), 1x2hr final exam (25%), 1x1000wd essay (20%), continuous assessment and class preparation (equivalent to 2000wds) (35%)
This unit is an extension of HBRW2610 and it covers Level Hey. Through using the Hebrew language in a range of contexts, students will have the opportunity to fine-tune their knowledge and usage of the language. As well, they will further extend and develop their understanding of the way in which various functions of the language come together. In addition, they will read and analyse contemporary literature and poetry, which reflect socio-cultural issues of Israeli society.
Textbooks
Barak, S., Simons, E. (1990) Kadima Hey. Academon, Jerusalem
HBRW2612 Hebrew Modern 12
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 4x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: HBRW1302 or HBRW2611 or equivalent knowledge as determined by the department Prohibitions: HBRW2306 Assessment: 1x2hr mid-semester exam (20%), 1x2hr final exam (25%), 1x1000wd essay (20%), continuous assessment and class preparation (equivalent to 2000wds) (35%)
This unit is an extension of HBRW2611. It offers an opportunity for in-depth examination of the linguistic functions of Modern Hebrew as they are manifested in literature and poetry. Through using the Hebrew language in a range of contexts, students will further extend and develop their understanding of the way in which various patterns of the language come together. As well, they will be introduced to contemporary texts, which reflect socio-cultural issues of Israeli society.
Textbooks
Barak, S., Simons, E. (1990) Kadima Hey. Academon, Jerusalem
HBRW4021 Hebrew (Modern) Honours A
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: Two seminars in semester 1 and one seminar in semester 2, meeting weekly for 2 hours each Prerequisites: Credit or better at 36 credit points of Modern Hebrew from among HBRW2605 to HBRW2612 Assessment: A thesis of 12000 words (in Hebrew) or 15000 words (in English) and 5000 words of written work or its equivalent for each seminar
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in Modern Hebrew consists of:
1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
2. two seminars in semester 1 and one seminar in semester 2, meeting weekly for 2 hours each
The thesis should be of 12000 words in length if written in Hebrew or 15000 words in length if written in English. Each seminar requires 5000 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%.
Seminars will be offered from the following list in 2011:
'Language in use' as reflected in MH Discourse
The Representation of Major Historical Events in Modern Hebrew Discourse
The Representation of the Human Landscape of Jerusalem
For more information, contact Yona Gilead, Honours coordinator.
1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
2. two seminars in semester 1 and one seminar in semester 2, meeting weekly for 2 hours each
The thesis should be of 12000 words in length if written in Hebrew or 15000 words in length if written in English. Each seminar requires 5000 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%.
Seminars will be offered from the following list in 2011:
'Language in use' as reflected in MH Discourse
The Representation of Major Historical Events in Modern Hebrew Discourse
The Representation of the Human Landscape of Jerusalem
For more information, contact Yona Gilead, Honours coordinator.
HBRW4022 Hebrew (Modern) Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: HBRW4021
Refer to HBRW4021
HBRW4023 Hebrew (Modern) Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: HBRW4022
Refer to HBRW4021
HBRW4024 Hebrew (Modern) Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: HBRW4023
Refer to HBRW4021
Heritage Studies
No major available.
HRTG3601 Heritage Museums and the Public Sphere
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2 hour seminar per week Prerequisites: HRTG2001 or HRTG2601 or ARHT2034 or ARHT2634 Prohibitions: HRTG3001 Assessment: 1x3000 word essay (55%), 1x seminar presentation (10%) and 1x3000 word seminar paper (35%)
This unit of study examines the relationship between heritage and the public. It considers the way in which the study of heritage sites and cultural material are used to construct public culture and public history. The birth of the modern museum as a public space, which houses the cultural heritage of communities and nations, will also be considered.
HRTG3602 Social History and Heritage Studies
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2 hour seminar per week Prerequisites: HRTG2001 or HRTG2601 or ARHT2034 or ARHT2634 Prohibitions: HRTG3002 Assessment: 1x4000 word research project (70%), 1x seminar presentation (10%) and 1x2000 word seminar paper (20%)
This unit of study examines the relationship between heritage studies and social history. It will explore issues of social history as they are represented in heritage studies and practices. International and historical debates about the way in which social history is used in heritage studies to develop new interpretations of the past will also be considered.
HRTG2804 Heritage Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
HRTG2805 Heritage Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
HRTG2806 Heritage Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
HRTG2809 Heritage Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
HRTG2810 Heritage Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
History
HSTY1025 The Middle Ages
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Assessment: 8x150wd tutorial exercises (25%), 1x1800wd essay (25%), tutorial participation (10%), 1x1500wd exam (40%)
The Middle Ages were actually a beginning, the birth and early growth of Europe's influential civilisation, shaping social relations and institutions in ways that still resonate today. From key moments in the lives of medieval men and women, we explore the Christianisation of England; rise of Islam and its impact on the Mediterranean; Vikings, Normans and Crusade; evolution of feudal relations; growth of towns and universities; creation of epic, romance and chivalry; and the deadly threat of inquisition and plague.
HSTY1031 Renaissance and Reformation (1498-1648)
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Assessment: 1x2500wd essay (50%), 1x2hr exam (40%) and participation (10%)
Starting with the brilliant culture of Renaissance Italy, with its courts, despots, republics, courtiers, diplomats, with its humanists, artists and their patrons, the course will then move to the religious, political, social and cultural revolution known as the Reformation, with its great theologians, preachers and writers like Luther, Calvin, More and Montaigne. Throughout the semester, attention will be paid to both 'high' and popular culture. The course will conclude with an examination of how these forces were played out in the English Revolution. Attention will also be given to Europe's 'discovery' and conquest of the New World.
HSTY1044 Twentieth Century Europe
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2,Summer Late Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prohibitions: HSTY1043 Assessment: 1x2500wd research essay (50%), 1x2hr exam (40%) and tutorial participation (10%)
This unit surveys Europe's twentieth century, examining the First World War, the Russian Revolution, fascism, the cultural ferment of the interwar years, the Second World War and the Holocaust, European empires and decolonization, Cold War culture and politics, and European unification. The transformations of the twentieth century took place in many different spheres of human existence, and this unit introduces students to some of the varieties of history and the diverse ways historians approach the past.
HSTY1045 Modern European History 1750-1914
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Assessment: 1x1000wd short essay (20%), 1x2000wd long essay (40%), 1x1hr exam (30%) and participation (10%)
This unit covers the dramatic changes in European life that marked the transition from pre-modern to modern societies. We will see that these changes emancipated many Europeans from legal and physical burdens while creating many new ones of their own. The catastrophes of the twentieth century have their roots in the period we examine, a period that culminated in the First World War and the spectacular explosion of the ideals of material and moral progress that had animated bourgeois elites. In particular, we discuss the transformations that took place in the key areas of human activity: politics and ideology; family life; work and technology; religious belief; colonialism; social class.
HSTY1076 American History from Lincoln to Clinton
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prohibitions: HSTY2035 Assessment: 1x500wd tutorial paper (15%), 1x1750wd essay (40%), 1x250wd group tutorial presentation (5%), 1x2hr exam (30%) and tutorial participation (10%)
This unit examines the United States in the years in which Americans felt their society, culture, politics, and individual and national identities, were taking new, 'modern' forms. It offers insights into a nation that is one of the principal forces shaping the world in which we live. We will explore topics such as the rise and fall of racial segregation, immigration, social reform movements, mass consumer culture, sexual revolution, and the changing stance of the United States in the world.
HSTY1089 Australia: Colonies to Nation
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Assessment: 1x2000wd research essay (40%), 1x2hr exam (40%), 1x500wd tutorial paper (10%) and tutorial participation (10%)
Was Australia the peacefully settled 'quiet continent'? First, this unit examines convict society, frontier conflict, the impact of gold, the emergence of cosmopolitan cities and the campaigns for responsible government. Second, it maps the creation of a nation state in the period after 1880, involving constitutional and political changes, the creation of foundation stories, the impact of war, and changing relations between settler and Indigenous Australians. Finally, we chart the nation's cultural, political and economic transformation into a modern, (and post colonial) society after 1945.
HSTY2304 Imperialism, 1815-2000
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of History, Ancient History or Asian Studies Assessment: 1x2000wd essay (40%), 1x1000wd source exercise (20%), 1x1.5 hour exam (30%) and participation (10%)
Empire is one of the key topics in human history, and we continue to live with the consequences of Europe's imperial age. This unit will examine imperialism, resistance to foreign rule, and decolonization from 1815 to the present. It will look at particular cases of expansion (especially the French and British examples), and examine the theories used to understand imperialism. Among specific themes that will be covered are the ideologies of empire and culture, gender, race, the environment, and imperialism and nationalism.
HSTY2601 Religion & Society: Conversion & Culture
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of History, Ancient History, or Asian Studies Prohibitions: HSTY2001 Assessment: 1x2250wd take-home exam (40%), 1x2250wd essay (50%), tutorial participation (10%)
In 13th-century Karakorum, capital of the Mongol empire, a debate was held between Christians, Muslims and Buddhists. Starting from this, we will examine religious change as cultural change thematically and comparatively with reference to Medieval European Christianity, Islam and Chinese Buddhism. This unique unit is for religious, indifferent and anti-religious people. It involves discussion of processes of acculturation and the interplay between religious and other aspects of cultural 'conversion', including language and art.
HSTY2607 Approaches to the Arab Israeli Conflict
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Winter Main Classes: 1x2 hour lecture and 1x1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points in History, Arabic and Islamic Studies, or Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies. Prohibitions: JCTC2008, GOVT2772 Assessment: 1x3500 word essay (50%), 1x1 hour exam (40%) and tutorial participation (10%)
This unit of study will provide students with a grounding in the historical context of and reasons for conflict in Israel/Palestine. It will enable them to identify the causes of conflict and attempted avenues for peace, as well as making them aware of the politicised nature of much of the scholarship on the region. The unit commences in the Ottoman period and traces the rival of aspirations of Zionism and Palestinian nationalism, as well as the geopoitical dimensions of the conflict.The unit will enable students to gain detachment from the dominant narratives about the issues so they are equipped to form their own judgements.
HSTY2619 Living in Colonial Australia
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of History, Ancient History, Economic History or Asian History and Culture Prohibitions: HSTY2019 Assessment: 1x3000wd essay (60%), 1x1500wd take-home exam (30%) and class participation (10%)
If "the past is a foreign country", how did people live in colonial Australia? Taking a fresh perspective on Australia's history by focusing on everyday life, we question our assumptions that Australia was settled by people not that different from ourselves. Considering the economic, social and cultural impact of colonization and exploring the contested aims of diverse groups within this emerging society, we will discover why colonial Australia was stranger and more fascinating than you ever imagined.
HSTY2627 Living Memory: Popular Uses of the Past
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Winter Main Classes: 2x1 hour lectures and 1x1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points of History, Ancient History, or Asian Studies Assessment: 2x1500 word tutorial papers (60%), 1x1.5 hour exam (30%) and tutorial participation (10%)
This unit considers the ways the past is understood in popular culture. Often beyond the influence of trained historians, the present has used (and abused) the past in film and literature, Anzac commemoration, the heritage industry, tourism, memories of immigration or teenage angst, rose-coloured childhoods, political strategies of nostalgia and amnesia. Students will explore the relationship between history and memory, examine private and public commemoration and, making use of living memory, try out some oral history.
HSTY2629 Sex and Scandal
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2,Summer Main Classes: 2x1 hour lectures and 1x1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of History, Ancient History, or Asian Studies Prohibitions: HSTY2029 Assessment: 1x2500 word essay (50%) and 1x2000 word take-home exam (35%), participation (15%)
What makes a scandal? This unit examines a number of sensational case studies from England, America and Australia, beginning with the outrage surrounding Marie-Antoinette and then weaving through the increasingly strait-laced nineteenth century, in which scandals abounded, destroying reputations, rulers and families. It was not behaviour itself, but the ever-changing interpretations of behaviour that gave rise to condemnation and scandalised indignation. Examining occasions when social rules have been flouted allows us to consider the ways in which such rules are themselves constituted, maintained and challenged.
HSTY2634 Columbus to Lincoln: America Before 1865
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of History, Ancient History, or Asian Studies Prohibitions: HSTY2034 Assessment: 1x500wd essay plan and annotated bibliography (5%), 1x2000wd essay (40%), 1x2000wd take-home exam (40%) and tutorial particpation including submission of weekly questions (15%)
This unit surveys almost four centuries of American history, from its early Native American origins to the Civil War. We will look at European colonization and settlement, the slave trade and the American Revolution - an event that promised liberty and equality for all, even while delivering it to so few. We will then explore westward expansion, early industrialization and dramatic changes in gender, race and class relations, concluding with the divisions that caused the cataclysmic American Civil War.
HSTY2640 Twentieth Century China
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of History, Ancient History, Economic History or Asian History and Culture Prohibitions: HSTY3071, HSTY3072 Assessment: 1x1750wd essay (35%), 1x2250wd essay (35%), 1x individual or group oral presentation (equivalent to 500wds) (15%), tutorial participation (15%)
In the 1920s, China was likened to a sleeping lion - one whose roar would shake the world when it awoke. This prediction has already proved true more than once. Why was China ever said to be "asleep"? How did a whole nation awaken, to what, and with what results? This unit of study traces the forces of nationalism and revolution through China's tumultous twentieth century. We focus upon making sense, in Chinese terms, of events that outsiders have found baffling.
HSTY2659 Nationalism
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of History, Ancient History or Asian Studies Prohibitions: HSTY2059 Assessment: 1x500wd oral tutorial presentation (10%), tutorial participation (10%), 1x2000wd essay (40%), 1x2hr exam (40%)
Nationalism is surely one of the most potent forces in the modern era. It has generated wars and shaped identities, forged common bonds and torn populations apart. When and how did nationalism first appear? How should we understand this peculiarly modern phenomenon? After looking at the way scholars have understood nationalism, we delve into nineteenth- and twentieth-century case studies, considering along the way how literature, art and popular culture have been crucial vehicles for furthering nationalist sentiment.
HSTY2660 Violence in Italy
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of History, Ancient History or Economic History Prohibitions: HSTY2060 Assessment: 1x2000wd essay (35%), 1x1000wd journal (25%), 1x1500wd take-home exam (30%), tutorial participation (10%)
Violence is a feature of all human societies in every era. This unit examines the cultural significance of violence in Italy, from the Ancient Roman amphitheatre to the language of twentieth-century Fascist violence and post-war Italy's confrontation with left and right-wing terrorism, the 'years of lead', and Italy's continuing struggle with the Mafia. Themes include violence in Medieval, Renaissance and Early-Modern urban culture, gender and sexuality, crime and punishment in the Enlightenment, and Romantic representations of violence in the nineteenth century.
HSTY2664 Communicating Culture in the Middle Ages
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of History, Ancient History or Asian Studies Prohibitions: HSTY2064 Assessment: 1x1000wd tutorial paper (20%), 1x2000wd essay (40%), 1x1500wd exam (30%), tutorial participation (10%)
This is a unit about people and cultures. Women and men, merchants and monks, Christians and Jews all formed the cultures, classes and statuses which constituted late medieval European society. The study themes of this unit focus on the means by which ideas, cultures and expectations were constructed and transmitted, and include topics such as healthcare, civic life, the body, gender and sexuality, religious beliefs and practices, otherness, death, political theory, art and architecture, travel.
HSTY2670 New York, New York
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Summer Late Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of History, Ancient History, or Asian Studies Assessment: 2x1500wd essays (60%), 1x1500wd take-home exam (30%) and tutorial participation (10%)
New York, New York is the city so great they named it twice. This unit explores the history and representation of New York City, from its beginnings as a Dutch settlement down to 9/11, using the archetypal modern metropolis as a window on American history. We look at the people, images and events that defined the city, including such icons as the Five Points, Central Park, Harlem, the Empire State Building, Yankee Stadium and the Brooklyn Bridge.
HSTY2672 Britain and the World: C.1837-1914
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of History, Ancient History or Asian Studies Assessment: 1x1000wd draft essay (20%), 1x2000wd final essay (40%), 1x1000wd take home exam (30%) and tutorial participation (10%)
This unit explores the political, social and cultural significance of Britain's foreign engagements c.1837-1914, including war (e.g. Crimean War, Afghan Wars, Maori Wars, Boer War), 'gunboat diplomacy' (e.g. the Royal Navy in the Pacific) and colonial rule (especially India, Ireland and Australia). Special emphasis will be given to the role these engagements played in fostering or challenging a sense of British identity among a wide range of men and women, both in Britain and the wider world.
HSTY2673 Lived Experience in Modern China
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 credit points of Junior History, Ancient History, or Asian Studies Assumed knowledge: No prior knowledge of Chinese history is assumed Assessment: participation (15%), 1x1750wd essay (35%), 1x2250wd essay (35%) and 1x individual or group oral presentation (15%)
Said Mao Zedong in 1926, "The soldier fights, the bandit robs, the thief steals, the beggar begs, and the prostitute seduces." The industrial worker (perhaps a child aged seven) toiled, and the peasant grew crops but went hungry. What do we know of the lives of such people? Exactly what changed over the ensuing decades? This unit of study offers a social history of subaltern life in twentieth-century China, from the 1911 revolution until recent times.
HSTY2677 Australia: Politics and Nation
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of History, Ancient History, Economic History or Asian History and Culture Assessment: 1x2500wd essay (40%), 1x1000wd historiography assessment (20%), 1x1-hr exam (30%) and tutorial participation (10%)
This unit examines the intersection between political culture and nationalism in Australia, with particular attention to the question of when (and if?) Australia became an 'independent' nation. It examines the content and character of British race patriotism in Australia before 1945 and the gradual unravelling of this British myth in the post-war period. Among other issues, the unit explores the end of 'White Australia', the rise of multiculturalism, engagement with Asia, Aboriginal reconciliation and republicanism.
HSTY2682 Portraits of Medieval Women
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of History, Ancient History or Asian Studies Prohibitions: HSTY3696 Assessment: 1x1000wd tutorial paper (20%), 1x2000wd essay (40%), 1x1500wd exam (30%), tutorial participation (10%)
Prostitutes, nuns, saints, mothers, mystics, alewives, pilgrims - the lives of medieval women in the 12th-15th centuries were rich and varied. Their experience and contributions to their medieval worlds come alive through insights into such broad categories such as family and marriage, intellectual and spiritual life, as well as through focused case studies. Students in this unit engage with the lives of medieval women through an array of textual and iconographic portraits as well as through a splendid scholarly literature.
HSTY2686 Food, Environment and Culture in Europe
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of History, Ancient History, or Asian Studies Assessment: 1x1500wd short essay (30%), 1x2500wd research essay (50%), 2x250wd tutorial assignments (10%), tutorial participation (10%)
Does environment determine culture, or vice versa? This unit explores the connections between the natural world and human society in premodern Europe (ca 1200-1800), and investigates how food served as the crucial link between the two. From individual to international, we will trace the meanings that nourishment carried. Topics will include landscape and agriculture; embodiment, medicine and health; feasts and famines; colonization and 'globalization'; taste, delicacies and aesthetics; and the challenges and implications of early industrialization.
HSTY2687 Alliance: Australia-USA Relations
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of History, Ancient History, or Asian Studies Assessment: 1x1000wd Historiography assessment (20%), 1x2000wd essay (40%), 1x1.5hr exam (30%), tutorial particpation (10%)
This unit examines the history of Australian-American relations from the early twentieth century to today. Topics covered include the respective US and Australian approaches to the world, defence cooperation, the creation of ANZUS, Vietnam, recognition of China and approaches to the alliance from Whitlam to Howard. Among other questions, the unit asks whether the relationship has been one of simple subservience, or whether politicians and policymakers have tried to use the alliance to further Australia's own national interests.
HSTY2690 Australia's Underworld: Stories & Method
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of History, Ancient History or Asian Studies Assessment: 1x500wd essay proposal (10%), 1x4000wd research essay (80%), participation (10%)
This unit explores Australia's forgotten stories: the cross-dressers and prostitutes, crooks and impostors, maverick reformers, entertainers and oddballs who find little place in the 'national story', but whose lives are stitched into the fabric of our past. How do historians frame questions to capture the richness of this social experience? What sources and research techniques do they employ? With a significant research project as its major task, the unit will equip you to discover new stories for yourself.
HSTY2691 Writing History
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of History, Ancient History, or Asian Studies Prohibitions: HSTY2901, ANHS2691 Assessment: 1x1400wd book or journal review (30%), 1x1000wd reflective essay (30%), 1x600wd diary (5%), 1x3000wd diary (25%), tutorial participation (10%)
How do we write history? How and why do our approaches to events, lives, and ideas differ from those taken by historians in the past? What is the relationship between historical scholarship and society? To answer these questions, we will examine History's history, social theories (e.g. Marxism, feminism, structuralism, post-structuralism), various historical methods, and processes of historical research and publication. Far from dry discussion, this lively unit focuses on debates that fire up historians, past and present.
HSTY2692 International and Diplomatic History
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1 hour lectures and 1x1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 credit points of Junior History, Ancient History or Asian Studies Assessment: 1x700 word document assignment (20%), 1x2300 word essay (40%), 1x1.5 hour exam (40%)
This unit surveys the history of internationalist thinking and the practice of diplomacy since the seventeenth century; varieties of internationalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and the historical development of international institutions. It offers students an understanding of the latest scholarship on international and diplomatic history and the chance to investigate the international past for themselves through the use of primary sources.
HSTY1801 History Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
HSTY1802 History Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
HSTY2805 History Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
HSTY2806 History Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
HSTY2809 History Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
HSTY2810 History Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
HSTY2811 History Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
HSTY4011 History Honours A
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 2x2-hr seminars/week in Semester 1 Prerequisites: 48 senior credit points of History (up to 18 credit points of which may be cross-listed), including HSTY2691, with an average mark in those units of study of credit or better. Students who do not meet this requirement, however, may apply to the Honours Coordinator for a waiver to permit their entry into the honours program. Assessment: a thesis of 18000-20000 words and 6000-8000 words of written work of written work or its equivalent for each seminar
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in History consists of:
1. a thesis 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 6,000-8,000 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%.
Honours seminars are only offered in Semester 1. Students must begin their program in the March semester and mid-year entry to History Honurs is not permitted.
The following seminars are on offer in 2011:
Beyond Orientalism (Prof Helen Dunstan)
Victorian Culture (Dr Frances Clarke)
Southern Crossings (Dr Kirsten McKenzie)
History in Tourism, Tourism in History (Mr Richard White)
Ways of Seeing the Italian Renaissance (Dr John Gagné)
Monuments (Prof Robert Aldrich)
Worlds of Medieval Women (Dr Julie Smith)
Place and Meaning in the Past (Dr Lyn Olson)
Science, Race and History (Prof Warwick Anderson)
Writing Global Histories (Prof Alison Bashford)
1. a thesis 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 6,000-8,000 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%.
Honours seminars are only offered in Semester 1. Students must begin their program in the March semester and mid-year entry to History Honurs is not permitted.
The following seminars are on offer in 2011:
Beyond Orientalism (Prof Helen Dunstan)
Victorian Culture (Dr Frances Clarke)
Southern Crossings (Dr Kirsten McKenzie)
History in Tourism, Tourism in History (Mr Richard White)
Ways of Seeing the Italian Renaissance (Dr John Gagné)
Monuments (Prof Robert Aldrich)
Worlds of Medieval Women (Dr Julie Smith)
Place and Meaning in the Past (Dr Lyn Olson)
Science, Race and History (Prof Warwick Anderson)
Writing Global Histories (Prof Alison Bashford)
HSTY4012 History Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: Refer to HSTY4011 Corequisites: HSTY4011
Refer to HSTY4011
HSTY4013 History Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: Refer to HSTY4011 Corequisites: HSTY4012
Refer to HSTY4011
HSTY4014 History Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: Refer to HSTY4011 Corequisites: HSTY4013
Refer to HSTY4011
Indigenous Australian Studies
KOCR2600 Indigenous Australia: An Introduction
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: (2 x 1hr lec & 1 x 1hr tut)wk Prerequisites: 18 Junior credit points Prohibitions: KOCR2100 Assessment: one 2000 word essay (40%); one tutorial presentation (10%); one 1000 word tutorial paper (20%); 2 x critical reviews(30%)
This unit of study explores the historical, social and political contexts of the survival and growth of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and philosophies. The unit is structured around the themes of representation and identities; the colonisation of land and people; and resistance and agency. It will provide students with an introduction to Indigenous philosophies and theories by examining 'contact history' and resistance within a critical framework.
KOCR2602 Issues in Indigenous Rights
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1 x 1hr lec and 1 x 2hr tut Prerequisites: KOCR2100 or KOCR2600 Prohibitions: KOCR2102 Assessment: seminar (30%) seminar paper (20%), essay (50%)
In the second half of the 20th Century Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples began to culturally and politically recover from the effects of colonisation and assimilation. Having had fundamental human rights severely limited by state and federal legislation, and having experienced years of disempowerment, dislocation and social disruption, Indigenous peoples have sought to reclaim independent social and political power. This unit of study explores national and international developments in this history, addressing issues of political and social representation, and examining contemporary analyses of Indigenous rights to self-determination in legal, political and community spheres.
KOCR2603 Indigenous Health and Communities
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1 x 1hr lec and 1 x 2hr tut Prerequisites: KOCR2100 or KOCR2600 Assessment: tutorial presentation (20%), critical review (30%), essay (50%)
The continuing poor health status of Indigenous people is well documented. However, attempts at improving Aboriginal health have often been met with inappropriate policy and practice. The challenge in improving Aboriginal health lies partly in improving the knowledge of non-Indigenous Australians of the historical, cultural and contemporary issues which impact on health. This unit of study will provide opportunities for meaningful contact with Indigenous Australians as a foundation for building partnerships with Indigenous people to improve Aboriginal health.
KOCR2604 Colours of Identity: Indigenous Bodies
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1 x 2hr lec and 1 x 2hr tut per wk Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points Corequisites: KOCR2100 or KOCR2600 Assessment: presentation and paper (30%), essay (40%), exam (30%)
This unit of study explores the history and formation of Indigenous Australian identity. Combining contemporary theoretical and historical approaches we will explore the ways in which Indigenous Australians were constructed by colonial discourses. We will identify and critically analyse sites of power and processes of cultural dissemination and transmission and consider how such identities were racialised, gendered and subordinated. We will explore the arena of cultural politics and investigate the ways in which Indigenous agency has manifested, for example, through innovative critical perspectives, political activism and withholding labour, and through creative re-presentations in a variety of media, in film, documentary, photography and prose.
KOCR2605 Speaking Gamilaraay 1
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1 x 3hr seminar/wk Assessment: Homework sheets (35%), Oral performance (45%), Essay (20%)
Gamilaraay is an Indigenous Australian language from the mid-northwest of NSW that is currently undergoing revitalisation. This unit of study will provide students with a basic competence in speaking, understanding, reading and writing Gamilaraay sufficient to recognise and construct simple utterances in the language, and to understand its relationships with other languages. Classes will take the form of three-hour intensive oral workshops that progressively develop each student's abilities in the language. Assessment will be by short written assignments based on lesson content and an appraisal of individual oral/aural performance together with a short essay on Gamilaraay culture or a related topic.
KOCR2607 Indigenous Creative Expression
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1 x 3hr seminar/wk Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points Assessment: essay (40%), seminar presentation (25%) and
creative exhibit (35%)
This unit of study aims to give students the opportunity to critically engage with a variety of artistic and creative practices undertaken by Indigenous Australians. It's envisaged that students will be encouraged to critically examine and understand the role of Indigenous performance/theatre, writing, dance, film, visual arts and music in Indigenous Australian cultural maintenance.
KOCR2609 Indigenous Political Movements
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1 x 2hr lecture/week and 1 x 1hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: KOCR2600 and KOCR2602 Assessment: presentation (20%), short essay (30%), research essay (40%), participation (10%)
While indigenous populations throughout the world vary greatly, the commonality between populations is generally, but not always, their experience of imperialism and colonisation. This unit introduces students to the political movements of indigenous 'nations' within the Pacific Rim. The 20th century movements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people will
be examined in the broader context of political resistance movements of indigenous people of New Zealand, the Americas and Pacific island nations and the growth of indigenous movements globally.
be examined in the broader context of political resistance movements of indigenous people of New Zealand, the Americas and Pacific island nations and the growth of indigenous movements globally.
KOCR2610 Indigenous Community Development
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1 x 1hr lecture/week and 1 x 2hr seminar/week Prerequisites: KOCR2600 and KOCR2603 Assessment: participation (10%), presentation (20%), essay (30%), field task (40%)
This unit of study examines how community development approaches can influence health and wellbeing outcomes for Indigenous peoples. Students will examine past approaches, current trends and theories underpinning community development. Students will reflect on their role in working with Aboriginal communities to develop processes that build capacity in health delivery and support Indigenous self determination. This unit also considers the nature of ethical research practice within an Indigenous community setting.
KOCR2611 Issues in Indigenous History
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1 x 2hr lecture/week and 1x 1 hrs tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 credit points junior history Corequisites: KOCR2600 Assessment: participation (10%), review (30%), essay (60%)
Indigenous History in Australia. You will examine how Indigenous responses to colonialism have been variously interpreted; explore Indigenous perspectives on the writing and representation of Indigenous History in historiography, documentary and feature film and literature; and examine the legacy of the past in the present. The unit also considers questions of historical evidence, the uses of evidence and the different ways of presenting history.
KOCR3602 Race, Racism and Indigenous Australia
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2 x 1hr lecture/week and 1 x 1hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: KOCR2600 Assessment: presentation (35%), resource (30%), case study (35%)
This unit explores theories of race and racism focussing on Indigenous Australian race relations. Opportunity is provided to understand the development of Racism as an impact on individuals - victim and perpetrator; and systemic systems at local, national and international levels. The unit explores what racism means in the social justice agenda through issues such as: equity and anti-racism; in particular the direct impact of racism as a tool in the creation of social and economic disadvantage in Australian Indigenous communities.
KOCR3607 Reawakening Australian Languages
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1 x 2hr semesinar per week, Fieldwork excursion Prerequisites: KOCR2600 Assessment: presentation and paper (20%), essay (40%), field report (40%)
Australia holds an unenviable record for its loss of Indigenous languages and actively pursues a de facto policy of English monolingualism. This unit examines how Indigenous communities are resisting this trend and reviving so-called extinct languages through examining the roles of language policy and planning, community activism, language centres, education, technology and the linguistic processes involved. Lecture and seminar content is supplemented by a fieldwork excursion (at additional cost) to a regional language centre and associated school programs.
Indonesian Studies
INMS1101 Indonesian 1A
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x2-hr tutorial/week Prohibitions: Native or near native speakers of Indonesian or Malay, HSC Continuers, or Extension Indonesian or Beginners Indonesian with 75% or above Assessment: 10xweekly language exercises (equivalent to 1000wd) (20%), 2xoral assessments (equivalent to 1500wd) (30%), 1xresearch assignment (equivalent to 1000wd) (20%), 2xin-class tests (equivalent to 1000wd) (30%)
First year Indonesian is designed to give beginning students a solid basis from which to continue Indonesian Studies at higher levels. It combines 3 hours per week of intensive Indonesian language instruction and private language study with a series of English-language lectures that introduces students to Indonesian culture and society.
Textbooks
Materials may be purchased from the University Copy Centre
INMS1102 Indonesian 1B
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x2-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: INMS1101 Prohibitions: INMS1301, INMS1302 Assessment: 10xweekly language exercises (equivalent to 1000wd) (20%), 2xoral assessments (equivalent to 1500wd) (30%), 1xresearch assignment (equivalent to 1000wd) (20%), 2xin-class tests (equivalent to 1000wd) (30%)
Indonesian 1B is designed to further build students' understanding of the language in preparation for the study of Indonesian at higher levels. It combines 3 hours per week of intensive Indonesian language instruction and private language study with a series of English-language lectures that extends students' knowledge of Indonesian culture and society.
Textbooks
Materials may be purchased from the University Copy Centre.
INMS2601 Indonesian 2A
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x2-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: INMS1102 or HSC Continuers or Extension Indonesian or HSC Beginners Indonesian 75% and above Prohibitions: 8 credit point units of study numbered INMS2101 or above Assessment: 10xweekly language exercises (equivalent to 1000wd) (20%), 2xoral assessments (equivalent to 1500wd) (30%), 1xresearch assignment (equivalent to 1000wd) (20%), 2xin-class tests (equivalent to 1000wd) (30%)
This unit emphasises practice in the spoken form of standard Indonesian, along with development of reading and writing skills. Reading of texts related to modern Indonesian society will develop students' understanding of the social and cultural contexts in which Indonesian is used.
Textbooks
Materials may be purchased from the University Copy Centre
INMS2602 Indonesian 2B
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x2-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: INMS2101 or INMS2601 Prohibitions: 8 credit point units of study numbered INMS2102 or above Assessment: 10xweekly language exercises (equivalent to 1000wd) (20%), 2xoral assessments (equivalent to 1500wd) (30%), 1xresearch assignment (equivalent to 1000wd) (20%), 2xin-class tests (equivalent to 1000wd) (30%)
This unit consolidates and develops the skills acquired in INMS2601, and is designed to prepare students for advanced study of Indonesian. Students will study important social issues and the language required to discuss, read and write about them as well as learning to understand and speak colloquial Indonesian.
Textbooks
Materials may be purchased from the University Copy Centre
INMS3601 Indonesian 3A
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x2 hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: INMS2102 or INMS2602 Prohibitions: 8 credit point units of study numbered INMS3101 or above Assessment: 10xweekly language exercises (equivalent to 1000wd) (20%), 2xoral assessments (equivalent to 1500wd) (30%), 1xresearch assignment (equivalent to 1000wd) (20%), 2xin-class tests (equivalent to 1000wd) (30%)
Indonesian 3A is designed to extend students' knowledge and understanding of Indonesian language and culture. It combines intensive Indonesian language instruction with a series of Indonesian-language lectures that extends students' knowledge of Indonesian culture and society on a variety of contemporary topics.
Textbooks
Materials may be purchased from the University Copy Centre
INMS3602 Indonesian 3B
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x2-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: INMS3101 or INMS3601 Prohibitions: 8 credit points of units of study numbered INMS3102 or above Assessment: 10xweekly language exercises (equivalent to 1000wd) (20%), 2xoral assessments (equivalent to 1500wd) (30%), 1xresearch assignment (equivalent to 1000wd) (20%), 2xin-class tests (equivalent to 1000wd) (30%)
Indonesian 3B further extends students' knowledge and understanding of Indonesian language and culture. It combines intensive Indonesian language instruction with a series of Indonesian-language lectures that extends students' knowledge of Indonesian culture and society.
Textbooks
Materials may be purchased from the University Copy Centre
INMS3607 Indonesia: The Challenges of Development
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture week, 1x2-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: INMS3102 or INMS3602 Assessment: 10xweekly tasks (equivalent to 1000wd) (20%) 1xresearch presentation (equivalent to 1500wd) (30%) 1xessay portfolio (equivalent to 500wd) (10%), 1xresearch essay (equivalent to 1500wd) (40%)
This unit is designed for native speakers, near native speakers and advanced learners of Indonesian. It is one of six advanced units offered on a rotating basis, which can be taken in any order. Drawing on English and Indonesian language academic publications and other Indonesian-language resources, students will engage in research, writing and scholarly discussion in Indonesian on economic and governance challenges Indonesia faces, in particular corruption and other forms of criminality, and their implications for ordinary Indonesians.
INMS3608 Indonesia in Search of Modernity
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture week, 1x2- hr seminar/week Prerequisites: INMS3102 or INMS3602 Assessment: 10xweekly tasks (equivalent to 1000wd) (20%) 1xresearch presentation (equivalent to 1500wd) (30%) 1xessay portfolio (equivalent to 500wd) (10%), 1xresearch essay (equivalent to 1500wd) (40%)
This unit is designed for native speakers, near native speakers and advanced learners of Indonesian. It is one of six advanced units offered on a rotating basis, which can be taken in any order. Drawing on English and Indonesian language academic publications and other Indonesian-language resources, students will engage in research, writing and scholarly discussion in Indonesian on the disruption of Indonesians' traditional relationships with their natural and social environment by urbanisation, globalisation and rapid technological transformation.
INMS2650 Indonesian In-Country Study A
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: As prescribed by the host institution Prerequisites: INMS1102 or INMS2101 or INMS2601 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
Students enrolled in this unit will complete an approved program of study at a tertiary institution in Indonesia, normally through the Australian Consortium for In-Country Indonesian Studies (ACICIS). Students can earn 6 credit points for every 3 semester credits (sks) successfully completed at an Indonesian tertiary institution, to a maximum of 24 credit points in any one semester. Credit may also be awarded pro rata when a student has successfully completed a summer (or equivalent) in-country Indonesian-language program. Intending students must consult the Indonesian Studies Coordinator prior to undertaking any in-country program for which credit will be sought.
INMS2651 Indonesian In-Country Study B
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: As prescribed by the host institution Prerequisites: INMS1102 or INMS2101 or INMS2601 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
Students enrolled in this unit will complete an approved program of study at a tertiary institution in Indonesia, normally through the Australian Consortium for In-Country Indonesian Studies (ACICIS). Students can earn 6 credit points for every three semester credits (sks) successfully completed at an Indonesian tertiary institution, to a maximum of 24 credit points in any one semester. Credit may also be awarded pro rata when a student has successfully completed a summer (or equivalent) in-country Indonesian-language program. Intending students must consult the Indonesian Studies Coordinator prior to undertaking any in-country program for which credit will be sought.
INMS2652 Indonesian In-Country Study C
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: As prescribed by the host institution Prerequisites: INMS1102 or INMS2101 or INMS2601 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
Students enrolled in this unit will complete an approved program of study at a tertiary institution in Indonesia, normally through the Australian Consortium for In-Country Indonesian Studies (ACICIS). Students can earn 6 credit points for every three semester credits (sks) successfully completed at an Indonesian tertiary institution, to a maximum of 24 credit points in any one semester. Credit may also be awarded pro rata when a student has successfully completed a summer (or equivalent) in-country Indonesian-language program. Intending students must consult the Indonesian Studies Coordinator prior to undertaking any in-country program for which credit will be sought.
INMS2653 Indonesian In-Country Study D
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: As prescribed by the host institution Prerequisites: INMS1102 or INMS2101 or INMS2601 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
Students enrolled in this unit will complete an approved program of study at a tertiary institution in Indonesia, normally through the Australian Consortium for In-Country Indonesian Studies (ACICIS). Students can earn 6 credit points for every three semester credits (sks) successfully completed at an Indonesian tertiary institution, to a maximum of 24 credit points in any one semester. Credit may also be awarded pro rata when a student has successfully completed a summer (or equivalent) in-country Indonesian-language program. Intending students must consult the Indonesian Studies Coordinator prior to undertaking any in-country program for which credit will be sought.
INMS2654 Indonesian In-Country Study E
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: As prescribed by the host institution Prerequisites: INMS1102 or INMS2101 or INMS2601 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
Students enrolled in this unit will complete an approved program of study at a tertiary institution in Indonesia, normally through the Australian Consortium for In-Country Indonesian Studies (ACICIS). Students can earn 6 credit points for every three semester credits (sks) successfully completed at an Indonesian tertiary institution, to a maximum of 24 credit points in any one semester. Credit may also be awarded pro rata when a student has successfully completed a summer (or equivalent) in-country Indonesian-language program. Intending students must consult the Indonesian Studies Coordinator prior to undertaking any in-country program for which credit will be sought.
INMS2655 Indonesian In-Country Study F
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: As prescribed by the host institution Prerequisites: INMS1102 or INMS2101 or INMS2601 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
Students enrolled in this unit will complete an approved program of study at a tertiary institution in Indonesia, normally through the Australian Consortium for In-Country Indonesian Studies (ACICIS). Students can earn 6 credit points for every three semester credits (sks) successfully completed at an Indonesian tertiary institution, to a maximum of 24 credit points in any one semester. Credit may also be awarded pro rata when a student has successfully completed a summer (or equivalent) in-country Indonesian-language program. Intending students must consult the Indonesian Studies Coordinator prior to undertaking any in-country program for which credit will be sought.
INMS2656 Indonesian In-Country Study G
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: As prescribed by the host institution Prerequisites: INMS1102 or INMS2101 or INMS2601 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
Students enrolled in this unit will complete an approved program of study at a tertiary institution in Indonesia, normally through the Australian Consortium for In-Country Indonesian Studies (ACICIS). Students can earn 6 credit points for every three semester credits (sks) successfully completed at an Indonesian tertiary institution, to a maximum of 24 credit points in any one semester. Credit may also be awarded pro rata when a student has successfully completed a summer (or equivalent) in-country Indonesian-language program. Intending students must consult the Indonesian Studies Coordinator prior to undertaking any in-country program for which credit will be sought.
INMS2657 Indonesian In-Country Study H
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: As prescribed by the host institution Prerequisites: INMS1102 or INMS2101 or INMS2601 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
Students enrolled in this unit will complete an approved program of study at a tertiary institution in Indonesia, normally through the Australian Consortium for In-Country Indonesian Studies (ACICIS). Students can earn 6 credit points for every three semester credits (sks) successfully completed at an Indonesian tertiary institution, to a maximum of 24 credit points in any one semester. Credit may also be awarded pro rata when a student has successfully completed a summer (or equivalent) in-country Indonesian-language program. Intending students must consult the Indonesian Studies Coordinator prior to undertaking any in-country program for which credit will be sought.
INMS2805 Indonesian Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
INMS2806 Indonesian Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
INMS2807 Indonesian Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
INMS2808 Indonesian Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
INMS4011 Indonesian and Malay Studies Honours A
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: Two seminars, each seminar meets weekly for 3 hours for one semester Prerequisites: A major in Indonesian Studies with a Credit average or better, or departmental permission. Assessment: A thesis of 18000-20000 words and 6000-8000 words of written work or its equivalent for each seminar.
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in Indonesian 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 three hours for one semester (one of which must be the Indonesian Research Seminar, offered in Semester 1).
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 20%.
The following seminar is on offer in 2011:
Indonesian Research Seminar (Dr Michele Ford)
Students will be allocated a suitable second unit of study by their supervisor in consultation with the Honours coordinator.
For more information, contact Dr Michele Ford, 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 (one of which must be the Indonesian Research Seminar, offered in Semester 1).
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 20%.
The following seminar is on offer in 2011:
Indonesian Research Seminar (Dr Michele Ford)
Students will be allocated a suitable second unit of study by their supervisor in consultation with the Honours coordinator.
For more information, contact Dr Michele Ford, Honours coordinator.
INMS4012 Indonesian and Malay Studies Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: INMS4011
Refer to INMS4011
INMS4013 Indonesian and Malay Studies Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: INMS4012
Refer to INMS4011
INMS4014 Indonesian and Malay Studies Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: INMS4013
Refer to INMS4011
International and Comparative Literary Studies
ICLS2621 Love in Different Languages
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: At least 18 junior credit points from any department in the Faculty of Arts from Table A, of which 12 credit points are from one subject Assessment: 1x1000wd class presentation (10%), 2x2500wd essays (90%)
What is the meaning of "love"? Is it the same for different individuals and cultures at different periods? How does it relate to the profound crisis of meaning in contemporary society? What is its relationship to desire, language and death? Why do the Greeks have three words for love and the English one? This unit of study explores the theme of love in a variety of national literatures including English, Greek, French and Italian.
ICLS2624 Great Books 1: The Human Condition
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 18 Junior credit points from any department in the Faculty of Arts from Table A, of which 12 credit points are from one subject Prohibitions: ICLS2625 Assessment: 1x5 minute oral presentation with one page written plan (equivalent to 1000wds) (10%), 1x2500wd essay (45%), 1x2500wd take home exam (45%)
What are the great spiritual and philosophical works of world literature? How have they come to be so regarded? What is it that has made them so enduring and adaptable? What is their relevance to a postmodern society? This unit introduces, in English and from a contemporary perspective, some of the literary cornerstones of reflection on the human condition and seeks to reveal and understand some of their continuing power.
ICLS2637 Watching Stars: Film and the Star System
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: At least 18 junior credit points from Part A of the table of units of study, of which 12 credits points are from one subject Assessment: 1xoral presentation (20%), 2x2500wd essays (80%)
This unit will investigate how film stars reflect national preoccupations and how they achieve national and transnational fame. It will examine and compare several major film stars from several cultures and will analyse their star image through, for example, their on-screen performance in film adaptations, their celebrity bodies and faces and their representations in the popular media. Students will be introduced to film star theories. Students will have to attend at least 4 film screenings.
ICLS3631 What is Literature? Crosscultural Views
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 18 Part A junior credit points of which 12 must be taken in the same subject Assessment: 1xtutorial presentation (10%), 2x2500wd essays (90%)
Adopting a comparative cross-cultural approach, this unit considers different cultures' responses to the questions: what is literature? what is its purpose? and what value does it have? Drawing upon literatures in both English and translation from different parts of the world and different periods in history, this unit explores conceptions of literary theory, criticism and interpretation within traditional, modern and postmodern settings. Notions such as authorship, textual integrity, literature and identity, and literature and history, will be considered.
ICLS2801 Int Comparative Literary Studies Exch
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ICLS2802 Int Comparative Literary Studies Exch
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ICLS2803 Int Comparative Literary Studies Exch
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ICLS2804 Int Comparative Literary Studies Exch
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ICLS4011 Int Comparative Literary Studies Hons A
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 3 semester-length seminars of 2 hours per week per seminar Prerequisites: Credit average in 48 senior credit points of ICLS, of which at least 36 senior credit points should be from ICLS units including exchange units, and 12 may be from cross-listed units from the School of Languages and Cultures or the Department of English. A reading knowledge of one language other than English is also required. Students not meeting these criteria may apply for special permission from the Director of ICLS. Special transitional entry arrangements will be made for students undertaking Honours in 2010. Assessment: A thesis of 12000-15000 words and 6000 words of written work or its equivalent for each seminar.
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in International Comparative Literary Studies consists of:
1. a thesis written under the supervision of two members of the ICLS 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 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%.
Honours students will take the following core ICLS seminars in 2011:
Literary Comparison: History and Methods (Semester 1)
Comparative Studies and Literary Debates (Semester 2)
A third seminar is to be chosen from a list of literature and culture seminars offered within the School of Languages and Cultures. Contact the ICLS Program Director for details. Special permission may be sought to enrol in a third seminar not on this list but offered within the Faculty of Arts and relevant to the student's thesis topic.
For more information, contact Dr Bronwyn Winter, Director of ICLS and Honours coordinator.
1. a thesis written under the supervision of two members of the ICLS 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 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%.
Honours students will take the following core ICLS seminars in 2011:
Literary Comparison: History and Methods (Semester 1)
Comparative Studies and Literary Debates (Semester 2)
A third seminar is to be chosen from a list of literature and culture seminars offered within the School of Languages and Cultures. Contact the ICLS Program Director for details. Special permission may be sought to enrol in a third seminar not on this list but offered within the Faculty of Arts and relevant to the student's thesis topic.
For more information, contact Dr Bronwyn Winter, Director of ICLS and Honours coordinator.
ICLS4012 Int Comparative Literary Studies Hons B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ICLS4011
Refer to ICLS4011
ICLS4013 Int Comparative Literary Studies Hons C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ICLS4012
Refer to ICLS4011
ICLS4014 Int Comparative Literary Studies Hons D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ICLS4013
Refer to ICLS4011
International and Global Studies
Available to Bachelor of International and Global Studies students only
INGS1001 Power and Money in Global Society
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1hr lectures/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x600wd assignment (15%), 1x400wd tutorial presentation (10%), 1x1700wd essay (35%) and 1x1.5hr exam (40%)
Note: This unit is available only to students in the Bachelor of International and Global Studies
Making sense of a rapidly-changing economic and political world is a challenging agenda. This unit introduces a range of approaches to understand global economic and political integration and shifting power. In particular, the unit focuses on how the roles of nation states, international organizations and globalizing markets are changing, and the way conflicts that arise with these changes are being and might be addressed.
Textbooks
Unit reader available at the University Copy Centre
INGS1002 Global Culture and Society
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1hr lectures/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prohibitions: GBST1001 Assessment: 1x1500wd essay (30%) and 1x2500wd essay (60%) and 1x500wd tutorial presentation (10%)
Note: this unit is available only to students in the Bachelor of International and Global Studies
This inter-disciplinary unit will develop students' understanding of themes in and approaches to Global Studies. It will introduce students to conceptual frameworks of 'the global' and identify the core perspectives used by anthropology and sociology to analyse issues such as: the emergence of global economic, political, cultural and social processes; population movements; national, international, and global identities; diasporas and diasporic cultures; colonialism, post-colonialism and self-determination movements; discourses of international law, human rights and cosmopolitanism, appreciating the politics of the intercultural.
Textbooks
unit reader available at the University Copy Centre
INGS2601 Transnational Spaces and Networks
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: INGS1001 and INGS1002 or permission from Bachelor of International and Global Studies Director. Assessment: 1xportfolio assignment (including personal reading journal, annotated bibliography, press extracts and analytical report) (equivalent to 3000wds) (70%), 1xgroup oral presentation and plan (equivalent to 1200wds) (20%), 1xmid-semester peer review exercise (10%)
Note: This unit is available only to student in the Bachelor of International and Global Studies
How are "areas" or "regions" constituted and defined, geopolitically, culturally, economically, linguistically? What key supranational and transnational factors shape global, regional and local identities and public spaces and the ways they communicate? This second year core unit of the Bachelor of International and Global Studies will address key issues and theoretical approaches in transnational, area and diaspora studies and in global communications. It is jointly taught by the School of Languages and Cultures and the Department of Media and Communications.
INGS3601 Current Global Issues
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1hr lecture/week, 12x1hr or 6x2hr tutorials/week Prerequisites: INGS1001 and INGS1002 and INGS2601 Corequisites: may be completed concurrently with INGS2601 with approval of Director Assessment: 1x1500wd essay (25%) and 1x1500wd group assignment (25%) and 1x3000wd essay based on contribution to group assignment (50%)
Note: not available to students outside BIGS
This 'capstone' unit in International and Global Studies focuses on case studies of contemporary problems (e.g. wars, natural disasters, economic and diplomatic crises). Groups of students will track particular cases to analyse interactions between social, cultural, political and economic institutions (including governments, aid agencies, the United Nations and others) and informal networks at the domestic, regional and international levels. In doing so, they will acquire high-level competency in theories, ethics, and methodologies informing interdisciplinary, team-based assessments of global issues.
Italian Studies
ITLN1611 Introductory Italian 1
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 4x1-hr seminars/week Prohibitions: ITLN1101, ITLN1201, ITLN1301, ITLN1621, ITLN1631 Assessment: class participation (10%), written assignments (equivalent to 1000wd) (10%), 1x1000wd class test (20%), aural/oral tests (equivalent to 500wd) (25%), 1x2hr final exam (35%)
Note: A student who is qualified to enter a higher level course may not enrol in a lower level course. Students who have taken Beginners HSC Italian proceed to ITLN2611; students who have taken Continuers and / or Extension HSC Italian proceed to ITLN2631. Students who have any formal training or previous knowledge of Italian from other sources are required to identify themselves to the department as soon as possible.
This unit of study is for absolute beginners with no previous knowledge of the language. It introduces students to the main structures of the Italian language and the basic vocabulary to communicate successfully in everyday situations. All four language skills are developed, with a particular focus on grammatical accuracy. Students are strongly advised to also take ITLN1613.
Textbooks
Gruppo Italiaidea, Italian Espresso 1, Alma, 2006
ITLN1612 Introductory Italian 2
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 4x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: ITLN1611 or ITLN1101 Prohibitions: ITLN1102, ITLN1202, ITLN1302, ITLN1632 Assessment: class participation (10%), written assignments (equivalent to 1000wd) (10%), 1x1000wd class test (25%), aural/oral tests (equivalent to 500wd) (20%), 1x2hr final exam (35%)
This unit builds on the competence acquired in ITLN1611. Students are introduced to more complex grammatical structures, extend their vocabulary and ability to communicate in everyday situations, and further develop their reading ability through a range of different texts.
Textbooks
Gruppo Italiaidea, Italian Espresso 1, Alma, 2006
ITLN1613 Introduction to Modern Italian Culture
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x2-hr tutorial/week Prohibitions: ITLN1612 Assessment: class participation (10%), 1x2000wd essay (35%), 1xclass test (equivalent to 1500wd) (30%), 1xpresentation (equivalent to 1000wd) (25%)
This Unit will present a variety of twentieth-century Italian texts (short stories, novels, films) and the cultural, social and political developments which constitute their context, from the end of the Second World War up to the 1990s. Students will be encouraged to develop a critical understanding of the selected texts, and a sound knowledge of and sensitivity towards the major issues which have contributed to the identity of contemporary Italy.
ITLN2611 Intermediate Italian 3
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3x1-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: ITLN1612, ITLN1102 or HSC Italian Beginners Prohibitions: ITLN2631, ITLN2101, ITLN2201, ITLN2301 Assessment: class participation (10%), written assignments (equivalent to 1000wd) (10%), 2x1000wd language tests (35%), 2x250wd grammar tests (20%), 1x500wd aural/oral tests (25%)
This unit activates and consolidates the principal structures of the language and introduces complex structures, providing a variety of activities to suit most learning styles. It offers an up-to-date image of Italian life and culture and opportunities to discuss cross-cultural issues. First year students attending this unit are strongly advised to also take ITLN1613.
Textbooks
De Rôme, Soluzioni! A Practical Guide to Italian Grammar
ITLN2612 Intermediate Italian 4
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: ITLN2611 or ITLN2101 Prohibitions: ITLN2632, ITLN2202, ITLN2302 Assessment: class participation (10%), written assignments (equivalent to 1000wd) (10%), 2x750wd language tests (35%), 1xoral presentation (equivalent to 500wd) (10%), 2x250wd grammar tests (15%), aural/oral tests (equivalent to 500wd) (20%)
This unit consolidates and expands both receptive and productive skills through a variety of learning tasks, to be carried out individually and/or in group. It aims at fluency and accuracy and it fosters independent learning.
Textbooks
De Rôme, Soluzioni! A Practical Guide to Italian Grammar
ITLN2631 Senior Italian 3
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: ITLN1632, ITLN1202, ITLN1302 or HSC Continuers Prohibitions: ITLN2611, ITLN2201, ITLN2101, ITLN2301 Assessment: class participation (10%), written assignments (equivalent to 1000wd) (15%), 2x1000wd language tests (35%), 2x250wd grammar tests (20%), aural/oral tests (equivalent to 500wd) (20%)
This unit provides consolidation in and activation of all four language skills, with a particular emphasis on speaking and writing. It offers an up-to-date image of Italian society and opportunities to discuss cross-cultural issues. Reflection on the language system aims at introducing complex structures, developing awareness at syntactic level and self-awareness about individual language performance. First year students attending this unit are strongly advised to also take ITLN1613.
Textbooks
De Rôme, Soluzioni! A Practical Guide to Italian Grammar
ITLN2632 Senior Italian 4
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: ITLN2631, ITLN2201 or ITLN2301 Prohibitions: ITLN2612, ITLN2202, ITLN2302 Assessment: class participation (10%), written assignments (equivalent to 1000wd) (10%), 2x750wd language tests (30%), 2x250wd grammar tests (20%), oral presentation (equivalent to 500wd) (10%), aural/oral tests (equivalent to 500wd) (20%)
This unit builds on the competence acquired in ITLN2631 and further develops the four language skills within the cultural context of contemporary Italy. It aims at fostering both fluency and accuracy as well as independent learning skills.
Textbooks
De Rôme, Soluzioni! A Practical Guide to Italian Grammar
ITLN3611 Senior Italian 5
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: ITLN2612 or ITLN2202 Prohibitions: ITLN3631, ITLN3201, ITLN3301 Assessment: class participation (10%), written assignments (equivalent to 100wd) (10%), 1xoral presentation (equivalent to 500wd) (15%), 2x750wd language tests (30%), 2x250wd grammar test (15%), aural/oral tests (equivalent to 500wd) (20%)
This unit furthers competence in all aspects of the language, with a particular focus on advanced reading and writing skills. It deals with different aspects of Italian contemporary society through a variety of text types and levels of formality, encouraging cross-cultural appreciation and discussion.
Textbooks
De Rôme, Soluzioni! A Practical Guide to Italian Grammar
ITLN3612 Senior Italian 6
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: ITLN3611 or ITLN3201 Prohibitions: ITLN3202, ITLN3302 Assessment: class participation (10%), written assignments (equivalent to 100wd) (10%), 1xoral presentation (equivalent to 500wd) (15%), 2x750wd language tests (30%), 2x250wd grammar test (15%), aural/oral tests (equivalent to 500wd) (20%)
This unit offers opportunities for advanced and carefully planned language practice. It aims to develop the student's linguistic awareness and to reflect on the Italian language system as a whole, while dealing with different aspects of Italian contemporary society and culture.
Textbooks
De Rôme, Soluzioni! A Practical Guide to Italian Grammar
ITLN3631 Senior Italian 7
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: ITLN2632 or ITLN2302 Prohibitions: ITLN3611, ITLN3301, ITLN3201 Assessment: class participation (10%), written assignments (equivalent to 100wd) (15%), 1xoral presentation (equivalent to 500wd) (10%), 2x750wd language tests (35%), 2x250wd grammar test (15%), aural/oral tests (equivalent to 500wd) (15%)
This unit furthers competence in all aspects of the language, with a particular focus on the discourse level and on advanced reading and writing skills. It deals with different aspects of Italian contemporary society through a variety of text types and levels of formality.
Textbooks
De Rôme, Soluzioni! A Practical Guide to Italian Grammar
ITLN3679 Filming Fiction: The Italian Experience
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: One of ITLN1612, ITLN1632, ITLN1102, ITLN1202, ITLN1302, HSC Italian Continuers or Beginners Assessment: class participation (10%), 1xoral presentation (equivalent to 1500wd) (20%), written assignments (equivalent to 2000wd) (30%), 1x2500wd final essay (40%)
An examination of the relationship between Italian cinema and fiction. Do they speak a common language? Do they employ comparable techniques? Who copies whom? This unit investigates these and other questions by analysing the adaptation of selected contemporary Italian novels into film.
ITLN3681 Representations of Southern Italy
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: ITLN2612 or ITLN2631 or ITLN2632, or ITLN3611 or ITLN3612 or ITLN3631 Prohibitions: ITLN3761 Assessment: class participation (10%), 1xoral presentation (equivalent to 1500wd) (20%), 1x2000wd class test (30%), 1x2500wd essay (40%)
In this unit, we will analyse and discuss novels by contemporary Italian writers as well as some films.
ITLN3682 Fiction of Youth
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: ITLN1612 or ITLN2611 or ITLN2612 or ITLN2631 or ITLN2632 or ITLN3611 or ITLN3612 or ITLN3631 Prohibitions: ITLN3763 Assessment: class participation (10%), 1xoral presentation (equivalent to 1500wd) (20%), 1x2000wd class test (30%), 1x2500wd essay (40%)
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
This unit (conducted in Italian) examines a range of Italian novels from the second half of the twentieth century whose authors or protagonists are young. We will conduct a literary analysis of the texts, considering aspects such as genre, viewpoint and style. Furthermore, we will study specific topics related to the themes of youth, paying attention to the historical and social background of the text.
Textbooks
Moravia, A., Agostino, Bompiani, 2000.
ITLN3685 Linguistic Issues in Migration
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: ITLN2611 or ITLN2612 or ITLN2631 or ITLN2632 or ITLN3611 or ITLN3612 or ITLN3631 Prohibitions: ITLN3754 Assessment: class participation (10%), 1xoral presentation (equivalent to 1500wd) (25%), 1x2000wd class test (25%), 1x2500wd final essay (40%)
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 main linguistic phenomena that occur in the contact between majority and minority languages in a context of migration, using the Italo-Australian community as a case.
Textbooks
Course pack available from University Copy Centre.
ITLN3687 Focus on Writing in Italian
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: One of ITLN3631, ITLN3612, ITLN3301, ITLN3202 or ITLN3611 Prohibitions: ITLN3401 Assessment: class participation (15%), written assignments (equivalent to 3500wd) (40%), 1xpresentation (equivalent to 1000wd) (20%), 1x1500wd class test (25%)
This unit is designed specifically for students with advanced knowledge of Italian. Students will analyse and produce written texts of varying text types and writing techniques. They will also focus on specific strategies for written communication.
Textbooks
Course pack available from University Copy Centre.
ITLN3688 Advanced Italian: Translation
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: One of ITLN3611, ITLN3612, ITLN3631, ITLN3202, ITLN3301 Prohibitions: ITLN3402 Assessment: written assignments (equivalent to 2000wd) (30%), 1xoral presentation (equivalent to 1000wd) (15%), 2x1500wd class tests (55%)
The unit is concerned with translating and interpreting from and into Italian, exploring modes, techniques and genres.
Textbooks
Texts available from the department.
ITLN3691 Italian Literature: 1200-1860
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: ITLN1612 or ITLN2611 or ITLN2612 or ITLN2631 or ITLN2632 or ITLN3611 or ITLN3612 or ITLN3631 Prohibitions: ITLN2902 Assessment: 1x1500wd essay (25%), 1x3000wd essay (50%), written assignments (equivalent to 1500wd) (25%)
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program. It is also strongly recommended for intending Exchange students.
Through analysis of representative texts and exploration of their contexts, this honours/exchange preparation unit surveys major figures, works, schools and movements in Italian literary culture from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century.
ITLN3694 Dante and the Middle Ages
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 2x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: 18 Part A junior credit points Assessment: 1x2000wd essay (30%), 1x1500wd class test (20%), quizzes (equivalent to 1000wd) (40%) and class participation (10%)
This unit studies Dante's Divine Comedy in its entirety as an enduring work of poetry, a major text of the European literary tradition, and the most comprehensive synthesis of Medieval culture. We will look at how literature works in relation to the language and the rhetorical tradition in which it expressed on the one hand, and, on the other, the historical, philosophical and theological culture it expresses and interprets. This unit will be taught in English.
ITLN3695 Love in Italian Culture
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week Prerequisites: 18 Table A junior credit points Assessment: 1x3000wd final essay (40%), 1x1500wd class test (25%), 1xpresentation (equivalent to 1500wd) (25%), class participation (10%)
What is love? Italian authors throughout the centuries have provided many different interpretations. Drawing upon major works of Italian literature, this unit will explore a range of texts from the Middle Ages through to the 19th century that deal with love, its cultural and social contexts. The texts will be considered within the context of the visual culture of the time. This unit will be taught in English.
ITLN1801 Italian Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ITLN1802 Italian Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ITLN2811 Italian Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ITLN2812 Italian Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ITLN2813 Italian Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ITLN2814 Italian Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ITLN2815 Italian Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ITLN2816 Italian Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ITLN2817 Italian Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ITLN4011 Italian Honours A
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: Two seminars that meet weekly for two hours a week. Prerequisites: Students must have qualified for the award of the pass degree with a major in Italian (36 senior credit points). They will have completed an additional 12 credit points, normally including the special entry unit ITLN3691. Intending Honours students should attain a Credit average result in senior Italian units of study taken as a part of their major. Assessment: A thesis of 18000-20000 words and 6000-8000 words of written work or its equivalent for each seminar.
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in Italian Studies consists of:
1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more academic staff
2. two seminars that meet weekly for two hours per week for one semester.
The thesis should be of 18000-20000 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 20%.
The following seminars are on offer in 2011:
Sem 1: Rebellion and innovation in narrative and language: from the Sixties to the Nineties (Dr Giorgia Alù and Dr Antonia Rubino)
Sem 2: Medieval and Renaissance Italian Culture - (Dr Francesco Borghesi)
For more information, contact Dr Antonia Rubino, Honours coordinator.
1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more academic staff
2. two seminars that meet weekly for two hours per week for one semester.
The thesis should be of 18000-20000 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 20%.
The following seminars are on offer in 2011:
Sem 1: Rebellion and innovation in narrative and language: from the Sixties to the Nineties (Dr Giorgia Alù and Dr Antonia Rubino)
Sem 2: Medieval and Renaissance Italian Culture - (Dr Francesco Borghesi)
For more information, contact Dr Antonia Rubino, Honours coordinator.
ITLN4012 Italian Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ITLN4011
Refer to ITLN4011
ITLN4013 Italian Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ITLN4012
Refer to ITLN4011
ITLN4014 Italian Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ITLN4013
Refer to ITLN4011
Japanese Studies
JPNS1611 Japanese 1
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Summer Main,Winter Main Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 2x1-hr tutorials/week Prohibitions: JPNS1111, any HSC Japanese Course Assessment: continuous class assessment (i.e. weekly quizzes, speaking, writing, listening tests) (equivalent to 2000wds) (50%), 1x2-hr exam (50%)
This beginners' unit introduces basic communication skills in understanding and speaking Japanese. Students will also learn to write the two Japanese syllabaries and approximately 60 kanji characters and to recognise at least 100 kanji characters in context. Relevant socio-cultural information is integrated with the language learning. This unit also includes a weekly culture lecture.
Textbooks
Genki I, Eri Banno et al
JPNS1612 Japanese 2
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 3x1-hr tutorials/week Prerequisites: JPNS1111 or JPNS1611 Prohibitions: JPNS1121 Assessment: continuous class assessment (i.e. weekly quizzes, speaking, writing, listening tests) (equivalent to 2000wds) (50%), 1x2-hr exam (50%)
This unit develops both the basic communication skills and the learning skills introduced in semester one. Students will continue to learn to use and understand Japanese in meaningful, everyday contexts. They will be able to write more than 150, and to recognise at least 200 kanji characters in context. Relevant socio-cultural information is integrated with the language learning.
Textbooks
Genki I, Eri Banno et al
JPNS2611 Japanese 3
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3x1-hr tutorials/week Prerequisites: 65% or more in HSC Japanese Beginners or less then 70% in Japanese Continuers, or JPNS1121 or JPNS1612 Prohibitions: JPNS1114, JPNS2212 Assessment: continuous assessment (including class quizzes, tests and written assignments) (equivalent to 3000wds) (75%), 1x1hr exam (25%)
This unit consolidates basic grammar and introduces intermediate grammar, through communicative methods and reading practice. By the end of the semester, students should be able to keep up a conversation for a short time in a dialogue, to write short passages without the assistance of dictionaries, to read narrative texts, and to recognise the difference between written and spoken modes of communication in Japanese. Students will be able to write approximately 200 kanji and to recognise about 300 kanji.
Textbooks
Genki II, Eri Banno et al
JPNS2612 Japanese 4
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3x1-hr tutorials/week Prerequisites: JPNS1114 or JPNS2212 or JPNS2611 Prohibitions: JPNS1124, JPNS2222 Assessment: continuous assessment (including class quizzes, tests and written assignments) (equivalent to 3000wds) (75%), 1x1hr exam (25%)
This unit aims to consolidate basic grammar and introduce intermediate grammar through communicative methods and reading practice. By the end of the semester, students are expected to be able to sustain a conversation about a selected topic for several minutes in a dialogue, to write a well-structured short essay without the assistance of dictionaries, and to read Japanese texts on a wide variety of topics. They will be able to write approximately 300 kanji and to recognise about 400 kanji.
Textbooks
Genki II, Eri Banno et al
JPNS2621 Japanese 5
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3x1-hr tutorials/week Prerequisites: HSC Japanese Extension or Japanese Continuers 70% or above or JPNS1124 or JPNS2222 or JPNS2612 Prohibitions: JPNS2213 Assessment: continuous assessment, weekly quizzes (equivalent to 200wds) (5%), tests (speaking, writing, listening and reading comprehension tests) (equivalent to 2300wds) (51%), 1x2hr exam (44%)
This unit aims to develop students' speaking, writing and reading skills for the intermediate level of Japanese, so that they are able to use Japanese in a variety of situations. Students will be expected to achieve the following linguistic skills: switch to appropriate speech style in formal and informal situations; express opinions and thoughts; write about 350 kanji and recognise at least 600 kanji. Writing and reading practice will consolidate grammatical, lexical and cultural knowledge.
Textbooks
Intermediate Japanese, Akira Miura et al
JPNS2622 Japanese 6
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3x1-hr tutorials/week Prerequisites: JPNS2621 or JPNS2213 Prohibitions: JPNS2223 Assessment: continuous assessment, weekly quizzes (equivalent to 200wds) (5%), tests (speaking, writing, listening and reading comprehension tests) (equivalent to 2300wds) (51%), 1x2hr exam (44%)
This unit aims to consolidate and extend intermediate level linguistic skills, through the acquisition of conversational strategies such as notions of apology, reasoning, opinions and explanations. Besides oral practice, writing and reading practice will help strengthen grammatical, lexical and cultural knowledge. Students will be able to read about 850 kanji and write about 500 kanji by the end of the semester. The above aims will be achieved by exploring various topics relating to contemporary Japan through authentic materials.
Textbooks
Intermediate Japanese, Akira Miura et al
JPNS2660 Introduction to Japan
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: JPNS1121 or JPNS1612 Prohibitions: JPNS2622, JPNS3622, JPNS3632 Assessment: 1x1500wd group project (26%), 2xquizzes (1250wds each) (2x20%), 1x1000wd essay (17%), role play (equivalent to 1000wds) (17%)
This unit aims to introduce to students of Japanese language core knowledge on Japanese society, history and culture. The unit will be taught in English but will acquaint students with key words and concepts in Japanese. Themes to be covered may include: social structures; contemporary issues and their historical backgrounds; language use in Japanese society; literary and cultural trends; urban culture.
JPNS2670 Modern Japanese Literary Masterpieces
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: JPNS1124 or JPNS2222 or JPNS2612 Prohibitions: JPNS3116; JPNS3621; JPNS2301; JPNS3631; JPNS3301 Assessment: 1x2hr final exam (33%), 1x1hr mid-semester exam (17%), 1x1000wd presentation (17%), 1x1500wd essay (25%), continuous assessment (equivalent to 500wds) (8%)
This unit of study aims at improving students' language skills by reading modern Japanese literature, which is expressed at a different level from daily use. The comprehension of Japanese literary texts enables students to gain an insight into the writers' themes and expressions and is relevant to contemporary life. When necessary, English translations will be used in conjunction with authentic Japanese material. Students are expected to develop a critical appreciation of Japanese literature.
JPNS2671 Japanese Sociolinguistics
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: JPNS1124 or JPNS2222 or JPNS2612 Prohibitions: JPNS3621, JPNS3622, JPNS3631, JPNS3632, JPNS2301, JPNS2302, JPNS3301, JPNS3302, JPNS3114 Assessment: continuous assessment including online learning activities (10%), 1x1500wd essay (35%), 1xclass test (25%), 1x2hr exam (30%)
This unit will explore some important characteristics of the Japanese language from social perspectives. The characteristics to be explored are concerned with the ways in which Japanese people use language systems to express their own social identity and their relationships with others: both the people they are talking to and the people they are talking about. Authentic texts will be provided by selecting from a range of reading materials such as academic essays, novels and newspaper articles.
JPNS2672 Japanese Media Culture and New Japan
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: JPNS1124 or JPNS2222 or JPNS2612 Prohibitions: JPNS3106, JPNS3621, JPNS3631 Assessment: continuous assessment, including 2xclass quizzes (equivalent to 1000wds each) (34%), discussions and research based project (equivalent to 2500wds) (41%), 1x1.5hr exam (25%)
This unit aims to explore the new Japan and its youth cultures and to guide students to understand and broaden their knowledge of changing aspects of Japanese culture and society. Topics from Japanese traditions through to contemporary culture will be analysed. Learning activities include reading media texts (e.g. newspaper articles), video analysis, discussion, research and video conferences. The unit also provides students with opportunities to pursue their interests and develop cultural knowledge and communication skills.
JPNS3621 Japanese 7
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3x1-hr tutorials/week Prerequisites: JPNS1123 or JPNS2223 or JPNS2622 Prohibitions: JPNS2301 Assessment: 1x1500wd presentation (25%), kanji and online quizzes (equivalent to 1500wds) (25%), 1x1000wd composition test (17%), 1x2hr exam (33%).
Classes will involve a range of learning styles for further development of speaking, listening, reading and writing skills. Classes are divided into two components: communication and reading. In communication classes excercises will include discussion, short surveys, role-plays, short reading and translation exercises. Reading will be focused on contemporary journalistic and sometimes literary writing. By the end of this unit of study, students will be able to read approximately 1100 kanji and write 600 kanji.
Textbooks
Authentic Japanese: Progressing from Intermediate to Advanced, Osamu Kamada et al
JPNS3622 Japanese 8
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3x1-hr tutorials/week Prerequisites: JPNS3621 or JPNS2301 Prohibitions: JPNS2302 Assessment: 1x1500wd presentation (25%), kanji and online quizzes (equivalent to 1500wds) (25%), 1x1000wd composition test (17%) and 1x2hr exam (33%)
This unit is designed to consolidate and extend skills acquired in JPNS3621. Classes are divided into two components: communication and reading. In communication classes, exercises will include discussion, short surveys, role-plays, reading passages and short translation exercises. Reading classes will be focused on a variety of contemporary writing styles. By the end of this unit of study, students will be able to read approximately 1350 kanji and write 700 kanji.
Textbooks
Authentic Japanese: Progressing from Intermediate to Advanced, Osamu Kamada et al
JPNS3631 Japanese 9
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr tutorials/week Prerequisites: JPNS2302 or JPNS3622 Prohibitions: JPNS3301 Assessment: continuous class assessment including essay writing (equivalent to 1000wds) (17%), 1x1000wd mid-term exam (17%), group and individual presentations (equivalent to 2000wds) (33%), 1x2hr exam (33%)
This unit aims at the further development of skills beyond the intermediate level of Japanese. The goals of the unit include the development of skills in language analysis; the understanding of unfamiliar texts of a non-specific nature; the ability to summarise, to evaluate texts critically and to appreciate authentic Japanese texts, including literary texts. At the conclusion of the course, students will be able to write 800 kanji and recognise some 1600 kanji.
JPNS3632 Japanese 10
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr tutorials/week Prerequisites: JPNS3301 or JPNS3631 Prohibitions: JPNS3302 Assessment: 1x1hr mid-semester exam (1000wds) (17%), 1x1500wd presentation (25%), 1x1000wd essay (17%), continuous assessment (equivalent to 500wds) (8%), 1x2hr exam (33%)
This unit aims at revising and extending students' language skills to a higher level in order to achieve confidence and proficiency in expressing views in written and spoken Japanese. Students are expected to develop analytical skills in reading a variety of contemporary texts from different genres, to evaluate information critically, and to express opinions through discussions on a wide range of research topics. Students will be able to write 1000 kanji and recognise some 1945 Joyo kanji.
JPNS3673 Japanese Society
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: JPNS1123 or JPNS2223 or JPNS2622 or JPNS1125 Prohibitions: JPNS3314 Assessment: continuous class assessment, including class quizzes, tests, presentation and written assignments (equivalent to 5000wds) (83%), 1x1hr exam (17%)
Is Japan a unique country? What are the similarities and differences between Japan, Australia and other countries? This unit of study offers students the opportunity to explore various aspects of contemporary Japanese society and culture through reading Japanese texts in the original, through group discussions, and through cross-cultural comparisons. Students will develop their own opinions on a range of social and cultural issues while improving their reading, analytical, and both oral and written communication skills.
JPNS3675 Japanese Cinema
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week Prerequisites: JPNS2622 Assessment: film analysis (equivalent to 2000wds) (33%), 1x2000wd essay (34%), 1x2hr semester exam (33%)
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program
Cinema is an essential part of cultural life in Japan, which has one of the richest film traditions in the world. This unit introduces the history of Japanese cinema through lectures on important films organised according to major themes and genres. Besides weekly screenings of films, lectures will be richly illustrated with film excerpts. Students will gain an overall insight into the role of cinema in Japanese society and gain the ability to analyse films critically.
JPNS3676 Monsters & Ghosts: Japanese Fantasy & SF
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: JPNS1123 or JPNS1125 or JPNS2223 or JPNS2622 Assessment: 2x500wd in-class quizzes (2x8%), 1x1500wd presentation (25%), 1x1500wd essay (25%), 1x2000wd research project (34%)
The course will focus on fantasy and science fiction as means of representing the Other in modern Japanese literature and popular culture. Building on Tzvetan Todorov's definition of the fantastic as a hesitation between the realistic and the supernatural, it will analyse the way in which Japanese fantasy tackles issues of modernity, gender and cultural difference in a variety of genres and media, including the novel and short story, manga, anime and film, from the Meiji period to the present.
JPNS3841 Japan In-Country Study 1
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: 12 Junior JPNS credit points 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
Approved course in a tertiary level institution in Japan.
JPNS3842 Japan In-Country Study 2
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: 12 Junior JPNS credit points 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
Approved course in a tertiary level institution in Japan.
JPNS1801 Japanese Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
JPNS1802 Japanese Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
JPNS2811 Japanese Exchange 3
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
JPNS2812 Japanese Exchange 4
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
JPNS2813 Japanese Exchange 5
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
JPNS2814 Japanese Exchange 6
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
JPNS2815 Japanese Exchange 7
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
JPNS4011 Japanese Honours A
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: Two seminars, each seminar meets weekly for 2 hours for one semester Prerequisites: Credit average or better in the major plus 12 additional senior credit points, including ASNS3690 Approaches to Research in Asian Studies. They may include one 6-credit point Japan-related Asian Studies unit of study. Assessment: A thesis of 18000-20000 words and 6000-8000 words of written work or its equivalent for each seminar.
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in Japanese 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 18000-20000 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 20%.
The following seminars are available for 2011:
Theory and Methods in Asian Studies (Dr Olivier Ansart)
The Underside of Modern Japan (Dr Mats Karlsson)
For more information, contact Dr Matthew Stavros, 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 18000-20000 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 20%.
The following seminars are available for 2011:
Theory and Methods in Asian Studies (Dr Olivier Ansart)
The Underside of Modern Japan (Dr Mats Karlsson)
For more information, contact Dr Matthew Stavros, Honours coordinator
JPNS4012 Japanese Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: JPNS4011
Refer to JPNS4011
JPNS4013 Japanese Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: JPNS4012
Refer to JPNS4011
JPNS4014 Japanese Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: JPNS4013
Refer to JPNS4011
Jewish Civilisation, Thought and Culture
JCTC1001 Palestine: Roman Rule to Islam
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Assessment: 1x2hr exam (40%), 1x2000wd essay (30%), 1x500wd synopsis of a tutorial paper (20%) and class participation (10%)
How did the religion and history of the Jewish people change from the Second Temple to the rabbinic period? Explore the history and religion of the Jews during the watershed period in Palestine under Roman rule. Study the Hellenist influence on Judaism, the development of different sects, including the Dead Sea sect, and the emergence of Christianity. Lectures (2 hours a week) focus on the history of the period. Tutorials (1 hour a week) deal with broad questions such as who is a Jew and universalism and chosenness in Judaism together with a knowledge and understanding of basic Jewish belief and practice. Students will gain insights into the evolution of Judaism from pagan times to the present. At the upper level, students can study Medieval Judaism, Holocaust and Israel.
Textbooks
Ben-Sasson, H.H (ed) A History of the Jewish People, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1976
JCTC1002 Jewish Settlement Outside Palestine
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: JCTC1001 Assessment: 1x2hr exam (40%), 1x2000wd essay (30%), 1x500wd synopsis of a tutorial paper (20%) and class participation (10%)
Do you wish to understand the gradual dispersion of Jews from Palestine? Study this unit to understand the spread of Judaism from Palestine into Africa and Asia. Students will study the story of Muhammed and the rise of Islam; the place of the Jew under Islamic law and the rapid Islamic conquest of much of the known world. They will learn about the dispersed diaspora communities in Babylon and Egypt and the development of Jewish communities in India and China from their early origins to the present day. Lectures are 2 hours and focus on the history of the period. The tutorials (1 hour a week), deal with moral, ethical and philosophical questions relating to Judaism. Discussions will explore the existence and nature of God, prophecy, the Messiah, Torah and the commandments, conversion to Judaism and Jewish attitudes to other faiths.
JCTC2603 Jews Under the Crescent and the Cross
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: JCTC1001 or one of HSTY1022, HSTY1031, HSTY1043, HSTY1044, HSTY1045, HSTY1076, HSTY1088, RLST1001, RLST1002 Prohibitions: JCTC2003 Assessment: 1x2hr exam (40%), 1x2000wd essay (30%), 1x500wd synopsis of a tutorial paper (20%) and 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.
The story of Jews living under the Crescent (Muslim rule) and the Cross (Christian rule) comprises a vibrant period of Jewish history. The unit explores Jews under Muslim rule in Spain and the experiences of Jews under Christian rule in Germany, France and England in the Medieval period, including the problems of Christian antisemitism and the Crusades. These are seminal periods in the development of Jewish thought, with the contribution of great commentators and philosophers including Moses Maimonides.
JCTC2604 From Expulsion to Regeneration
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: JCTC1001 or one of HSTY1022, HSTY1031, HSTY1043, HSTY1044, HSTY1045, HSTY1076, HSTY1088, RLST1001, RLST1002 Prohibitions: JCTC2004 Assessment: 1x2hr exam (40%), 1x2000wd essay (30%), 1x500wd synopsis of a tutorial paper (20%) and 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.
One of the most traumatic events in Jewish history was the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492. Explore the reasons behind the expulsion and the ways in which new centres of Jewish life emerged, especially in Eastern Europe. Light will also be shed on the establishment of Jewish communities in the Netherlands and England on the eve of emancipation when the new ideas of the Enlightenment paved the way for the rise of the modern Jew.
JCTC2605 From Emancipation to the Holocaust
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: JCTC1001 or one of HSTY1022, HSTY1031, HSTY1043, HSTY1044, HSTY1045, HSTY1076, HSTY1088 Assessment: 1x2hr exam (40%), 1x2000wd essay (30%), 1x500wd synopsis of a tutorial paper (20%) and 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 is designed to introduce students to the turbulent history of European Jewry, 1750 to 1933. Against the background of far-reaching transformation in almost every aspect of society and culture, the Jew's entry into the modern world will be examined. At the centre stands the process of acculturation, integration, assimilation and Zionism, as well as the responses by non-Jewish society, especially the rise of modern antisemitism.
JCTC2606 The Holocaust: History and Aftermath
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: JCTC1001 or 6 junior credit points from History Prohibitions: JCTC2006 Assessment: 1x3000wd essay (50%), 1x1500wd essay (30%) and class participation (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 provides an in-depth study of the Holocaust. Special emphasis will be placed on the development of Nazi ideology, in particular racial antisemitism, and the gradual implementation of this policy towards the Jews and other victim groups from 1933 to 1945. Other themes focus on the responses of the victims and the role of the by-standers, as well as post-war politics of memory and other issues, including Holocaust denial and war crimes prosecution.
JCTC2607 Israel in the Modern Middle East
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: JCTC1001 or one of HSTY1022, HSTY1025, HSTY1031, HSTY1043, HSTY1044, HSTY1045 Assessment: 1x2000wd essay (30%), 1x500wd synopsis of tutorial paper (20%), 1x2hr exam (40%), and 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.
Israel's position in the modern Middle East and the wider world from state formation to the present has been shaped by social, political and economic processes. Study these processes in the context of the nature of Israeli society and the major foreign policy decisions taken by Israeli leaders. Topics to be studied include: the genesis and development of Zionism, democracy and religion in Modern Israel, post-Zionism, the role of the Holocaust in Israel, Jerusalem and the settlements.
JCTC1801 Jewish Civilization Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
JCTC2811 Jewish Civilisation Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
JCTC2812 Jewish Civilisation Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
JCTC2813 Jewish Civilisation Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
JCTC2814 Jewish Civilisation Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
JCTC2815 Jewish Civilization Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
JCTC2816 Jewish Civilisation Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
JCTC4011 Judaic Studies Honours A
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: Two seminars that meet weekly for two hours for each semester Prerequisites: A major in Jewish Civilisation with a Credit average, plus 12 credit points in an associated language (Hebrew Classical OR Hebrew Modern OR Yiddish) or an Honours preparation course from an associated discipline (History, Government or Studies of Religion). Assessment: A thesis of 20000 words and 4000-5000 words of written work or its equivalent for each seminar
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in Jewish Civilization, Thought and Culture 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 each semester.
The thesis should be of 20000 words in length. Each seminar requires 4000-5000 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%.
Students will choose two IV Honours options. Students can choose to specialise in either the Classical or Modern period. Their dissertation must be in their area of speciality. Seminars will be offered from the following list in 2011:
Classical Period:
Biblical Themes (Dr Ari Lobel)
Biblical Texts in Hebrew (Assoc Prof Ian Young).
Modern Period:
Yiddish Literature in Translation (Dr Jennifer Dowling)
The Evolution of Judaism in the New World (Assoc Prof Suzanne Rutland)
Modern Hebrew Literature (Ms Yona Gilead)
For more information, contact Assoc Prof Suzanne Rutland, 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 each semester.
The thesis should be of 20000 words in length. Each seminar requires 4000-5000 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%.
Students will choose two IV Honours options. Students can choose to specialise in either the Classical or Modern period. Their dissertation must be in their area of speciality. Seminars will be offered from the following list in 2011:
Classical Period:
Biblical Themes (Dr Ari Lobel)
Biblical Texts in Hebrew (Assoc Prof Ian Young).
Modern Period:
Yiddish Literature in Translation (Dr Jennifer Dowling)
The Evolution of Judaism in the New World (Assoc Prof Suzanne Rutland)
Modern Hebrew Literature (Ms Yona Gilead)
For more information, contact Assoc Prof Suzanne Rutland, Honours coordinator.
JCTC4012 Judaic Studies Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: JCTC4011
Refer to JCTC4011
JCTC4013 Judaic Studies Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: JCTC4012
Refer to JCTC4011
JCTC4014 Judaic Studies Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: JCTC4013
Refer to JCTC4011
Korean Studies
KRNS1621 Korean 1
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x2-hr tutorial/week Prohibitions: KRNS1101 Assessment: 1x1hr exam (30%), 2xoral tests (30%), 3xquizzes (18%), 6xvocabulary tests (12%), 6xhomework assignments (10%)
This unit is a comprehensive beginners course which will lay the foundation for acquiring oral, aural, reading and writing skills in Korean. Students will acquire oral communication skills based on the given grammar points and topics. Various communicative approaches will be employed for the class activities. Students are required to give group presentations during the semester. On the basis of grammar introduced, the reading and writing of short texts will be done in each week.
KRNS1622 Korean 2
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x2-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: KRNS1621 or KRNS1101 Prohibitions: KRNS1102 Assessment: 1x1hr exam (30%), 2xoral tests (30%), 3xquizzes (18%), 6xvocabulary tests (12%), 6xhomework assignments (10%)
This unit is a comprehensive beginners course which will lay the foundation for acquiring oral, aural, reading and writing skills in Korean. Students will acquire oral communication skills based on the given grammar points and topics. Various communicative approaches will be employed for class activities. Students are required to give group presentations during semester. On the basis of grammar introduced, the reading and writing of short texts will be done in each week.
KRNS2621 Korean 3
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x2-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: KRNS1102 or KRNS1622 Prohibitions: KRNS2001 Assessment: 1x2hr exam (30%), 2xoral tests (40%), 2xquizzes (10%), 6xvocabulary tests (10%), 6xassignments (10%)
As an intermediate language unit, students are expected to gain extensive language skills in a diverse range of communicative settings. Interactive exercises and activities will provide students with opportunities to practice and improve their skills in speaking, reading and writing.
KRNS2622 Korean 4
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x2-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: KRNS2001 or KRNS2621 Prohibitions: KRNS2002 Assessment: 1x2hr exam (30%), 2xoral tests (40%), 2xquizzes (10%), 6xvocabulary tests (10%), 6xassignments (10%)
As an intermediate language subject, students are expected to gain extensive language skills in a diverse range of communicative settings. Interactive exercises and activities will provide students with opportunities to practice and improve their skills in speaking, reading and writing.
KRNS2671 Translation and Interpretation
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x3-hr workshop/week Prerequisites: KRNS1302 or KRNS1632 or native speakers of Korean Prohibitions: KRNS2400 Assessment: 1x2hr exam (30%), 1xoral interpretation test (15%) and 10xassignments (55%)
This unit aims at providing students with such useful skills in Korean language as translation and interpretation from Korean into English and vice-versa. The unit is divided into three modules: Korean-English translation, English-Korean translation and interpretation. Students will learn how to translate and interpret texts chosen from both print and audio-visual media from a wide range of fields, including society, culture, politics, economics, science and technology.
KRNS2672 Issues in Korean Language
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: KRNS1302 or KRNS1632 or native speakers of Korean Prohibitions: KRNS2515 Assessment: 1x2000wd essay (40%), 1x1hr exam (35%), 1xtutorial presentation and 500wd summary (15%), contribution to tutorial discussion (10%)
This unit provides a detailed survey of issues related to the Korean language in relation to its social and cultural background. The major topics include its romanisation systems, historical development, writing systems, dialects and slang expressions, language use in the Internet, language and gender, and Korean as a foreign language. In addition to a semester-final examination, students will conduct a small project to tackle some sociolinguistic issues. Students are required to present the results of their project in the class and to submit a written report.
KRNS2675 Contemporary Korean Society and Culture
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points in Arts Prohibitions: KRNS2500 Assessment: 1x2000wd essay (35%), 1x2hr exam (40%), 1xtutorial presentation and 500wd summary (15%), contribution to tutorial discussion (10%)
This unit will provide students with a good understanding of contemporary Korean society and culture by examining not only current issues in Korea (such as legal, political, economic, educational and family matters), but also the Korean people's living style affected by these various issues. The latter will include daily life, gender issues, business culture, entertainment, youth and popular culture. Students also look at the application and/or implication of a certain Korean culture or practice to domestic and international communities; e.g. to South Korea which pursues rapid globalisation or to a multi-cultural society like Australia.
KRNS3621 Korean 5
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: KRNS2002 or KRNS2622 Prohibitions: KRNS3001 Assessment: 1x2hr exam (40%), 8xvocabulary tests (20%), 8x200wd essays (20%), 2xoral tests (20%)
This unit aims to further develop oral and written communication skills beyond the intermediate level. Students will acquire fluency in oral communication, with particular emphasis on sophistication and formality of speech. Reading and writing skills are developed through the use of structured texts from the prescribed textbook and selections of authentic reading materials from a range of sources.
KRNS3622 Korean 6
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: KRNS3001 or KRNS3621 Prohibitions: KRNS3002 Assessment: 1x2hr exam (40%), 8xvocabulary tests (20%), 8x200wd essays (20%), 2xoral tests (20%)
This unit follows on from KRNS3621 and is designed to extend the student's command of the Korean language beyond the level completed in the previous semester. Through readings of authentic works from Korean newspapers, magazines and academic texts, and structured discussions based on these materials, this unit will introduce students to a wide range of sentence patterns, enrich their vocabulary and enable them to read advanced texts independently.
KRNS2681 Korean In-Country Study A
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: KRNS1101 or KRNS1621 or KRNS1301 or KRNS1631 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
Approved course in an overseas tertiary level institution.
KRNS2682 Korean In-Country Study B
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: KRNS1101 or KRNS1621 or KRNS1301 or KRNS1631 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
Approved course in an overseas tertiary level institution.
KRNS1801 Korean Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
KRNS2811 Korean Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
KRNS2812 Korean Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
KRNS2813 Korean Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
KRNS2814 Korean Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
KRNS2815 Korean Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
KRNS4011 Korean Honours A
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: two seminars, each seminar meets weekly for 2 hours for one semester Prerequisites: Students must obtain a Credit average or better in their Korean Studies major and have taken an additional 12 credit points from KRNS or cross-listed ASNS units, including ASNS3690: Approaches to Research in Asian Studies. Assessment: A thesis of 18000-20000 words and 6000 - 8000 words of written work or its equivalent for each seminar.
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in Korean 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 18000-20000 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 20%.
Students may choose seminars from the following areas in 2011:
Korean Language and Linguistics
Korean History and Thought
Korean Media and Communication
For more information, contact Dr Duk-Soo Park, 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 18000-20000 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 20%.
Students may choose seminars from the following areas in 2011:
Korean Language and Linguistics
Korean History and Thought
Korean Media and Communication
For more information, contact Dr Duk-Soo Park, Honours coordinator.
KRNS4012 Korean Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: KRNS4011
Refer to KRNS4011
KRNS4013 Korean Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: KRNS4012
Refer to KRNS4011
KRNS4014 Korean Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: KRNS4013
Refer to KRNS4011
Latin
LATN1600 Introductory Latin 1
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3x1 hour lectures and 1x1 hour tutorial per week Prohibitions: LATN1001, LATN2611, LATN2620 Assessment: written assignments (40%), class quizzes (20%) and 1x2 hour exam (40%)
This unit is designed for beginners, though it is available to anyone who has not completed HSC Latin. No previous knowledge of a foreign language is assumed and all grammatical concepts encountered will be explained. The unit introduces the basics of Latin through the study of elementary grammar and, using selected readings from a range of Roman authors, provides an introduction to Latin literature.
LATN1601 Introductory Latin 2
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3x1 hour lectures and 1x1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: LATN1600 or LATN1001 or LATN2611 Prohibitions: LATN1002, LATN2612, LATN2621 Assessment: weekly assignments (40%), class quizzes (20%) and 1x2 hour exam (40%)
This unit builds on the knowledge and skills acquired in LATN1600 and introduces further accidence along with most subordinate clause types and common constructions. Grammatical knowledge is reinforced by translation from and into Latin, while reading skills are further consolidated through the reading of prose and verse texts. The unit provides both a basis for further Latin study and essential background for students specialising in subjects such as Ancient History, Archaeology, Medieval Studies and Philosophy.
LATN2600 Intermediate Latin 1
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3x1 hour lectures and 1x1 hour tutorial (optional for those who have passed HSC Latin) per week Prerequisites: HSC Latin or LATN1601 or LATN2612 or LATN2621 or LATN1002 Prohibitions: LATN2603, LATN1101 Assessment: written assignments (40%) and 1x2 hour exam (60%)
This unit concentrates on consolidating the basic knowledge acquired in the first year of Latin or at school though language study and the close reading of one or two texts (to be advised on the department of Classics & Ancient History web site prior to commencement of lectures). The texts will also be studied from the viewpoint of their literary qualities and generic and socio-historical background.
LATN2601 Intermediate Latin 2
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3x1 hour lectures per week Prerequisites: LATN2600 or LATN1101 Prohibitions: LATN1102 Assessment: written assignments (30%), 1x1500 word essay (30%) and 1x2 hour exam (40%)
This unit concentrates on consolidating the basic knowledge of the Latin language already acquired though language study and the close reading of one or two important texts (to be advised on the department of Classics & Ancient History web site prior to commencement of lectures). Acquaintance with Roman literature will also be expanded through studying these texts with a view to evaluating their literary aims and qualities and examining their generic and socio-historical background.
LATN2620 Reading Latin 1
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3x1 hour lectures and 1x1 hour tutorial per week Prohibitions: LATN1600, LATN1001, LATN2611 Assessment: written assignments (40%), class quizzes (20%) and 1x2 hour exam (40%)
This unit allows students specialising in areas such as Ancient History to acquire a knowledge of basic Latin at senior level. The unit, though aimed at beginners, is available to anyone who has not completed HSC Latin. The unit introduces the basics of the Latin language through the study of elementary grammar and, using selected readings from a range of Roman authors, provides an introduction to Latin literature.
LATN2621 Reading Latin 2
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3x1 hour lectures and 1x1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: LATN2620 or LATN2611 Prohibitions: LATN1601, LATN1002, LATN2612 Assessment: written assignments (40%), class quizzes (20%) and 1x2 hour exam (40%)
This unit builds on the knowledge and skills acquired in LATN1600 and introduces further accidence along with most subordinate clause types and common constructions. Grammatical knowledge is reinforced by translation from and into Latin, while reading skills are further consolidated through the reading of prose and verse texts. The unit provides both a basis for further Latin study and essential background for students specialising in subjects such as Ancient History, Archaeology, Medieval Studies and Philosophy.
LATN3600 Advanced Latin
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3x1 hour lectures per week Prerequisites: LATN2601 or LATN2604 or LATN1102 Prohibitions: LATN3607 Assessment: written assignments (40%), language exercises (20%) and 1x2 hour exam (40%)
This unit concentrates on providing students with the advanced language skills necessary for the understanding and appreciation of more difficult Latin authors. These skills will be fostered both by formal language classes and by the close reading of Latin texts (to be advised on the department of Classics & Ancient History web site prior to commencement of lectures). Through this reading, students will also gain familiarity with the style and language of some important Latin authors.
LATN3602 Latin Epic 2
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3x1 hour lectures per week Corequisites: LATN2601 Assessment: written assignments (50%), 1x2 hour exam (40%) and class participation (10%)
This unit is aimed at students who have taken introductory Latin and are in their 2nd or 3rd year of Latin. It is not recommended for students with HSC Latin who are in their 3rd year. The aim is to provide familiarity with the style and the literary and socio-historical background of Latin epic through the reading of selections from canonical authors (texts to be advised on the department of Classics & Ancient History web site).
LATN3603 Latin Imperial Poetry
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3x1 hour seminars per week Corequisites: LATN3600 or LATN3607 Assessment: written assignments (50%) and 1x2 hour exam (50%)
This unit, which concentrates on the poetry of the Empire, aims to expand students' knowledge of this period of Roman literature through a study of one or more important texts (to be advised on the department of Classics & Ancient History web site prior to commencement of lectures). Language skills necessary for the understanding of the texts will be assumed and emphasis placed on interpretation, literary appreciation and the generic and/or historical background of the texts.
LATN3605 Latin Republican Prose
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 3x1 hour seminars per week Prerequisites: LATN3600 or LATN3607 Assessment: written assignments (55%) and 1x2 hour exam (45%)
This unit, which concentrates on the prose literature of the Republic, aims to expand students' knowledge of this period of Roman literature through a study of one or more important texts (to be advised on the department of Classics & Ancient History web site prior to commencement of lectures). Language skills necessary for the understanding of the texts will be assumed and emphasis placed on interpretation, literary appreciation and the generic and/or historical background of the texts.
LATN1801 Latin Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
LATN1802 Latin Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
LATN2804 Latin Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
LATN2805 Latin Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
LATN2806 Latin Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
LATN2810 Latin Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
LATN2811 Latin Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
LATN4011 Latin Honours A
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: two seminars, each seminar meeting for 3 hours per week for one semester Prerequisites: Credit average in 42 senior credit points of Latin including two of LATN3603, 3604, 3605, 3606 plus 6 additional senior credit points of Greek, Latin or Ancient History. 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 Latin 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 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 followng seminars are on offer in 2011:
Latin Imperial Poetry (Assoc Prof Lindsay Watson)
Latin Republican Prose (Dr Robert Cowan)
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 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 followng seminars are on offer in 2011:
Latin Imperial Poetry (Assoc Prof Lindsay Watson)
Latin Republican Prose (Dr Robert Cowan)
For more information, contact Dr Alastair Blanshard, Honours coordinator.
LATN4012 Latin Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: Refer to LATN4011 Corequisites: LATN4011 Assessment: Refer to LATN4011
Refer to LATN4011
LATN4013 Latin Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: Refer to LATN4011 Corequisites: LATN4012 Assessment: Refer to LATN4011
Refer to LATN4011
LATN4014 Latin Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: Refer to LATN4011 Corequisites: LATN4013 Assessment: Refer to LATN4011
Refer to LATN4011
Legal Studies
For continuing Bachelor of Arts and Sciences students only - no major available.
SLSS1001 Introduction to Socio-Legal Studies
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1hr lectures/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: class participation (10%), 1x1500wd take-home exam (40%) and 1x3000wd essay (50%)
Note: available to Bachelor of Arts and Sciences and Bachelor of Socio-Legal Studies only
This unit provides students with an introduction to the understanding of legal ideas, institutions and practices in their social and historical contexts. It will provide an historical overview of legal institutions and forms of law in Australia, the place of the idea of the rule of law in state-formation, liberalism, processes of civilisation and colonialism, law and the public/private distinction, changing conceptions of human rights, as well as outlining the central features of the various fields of law.
Textbooks
unit reader will be available through the Copy Centre
SLSS1003 Law and Contemporary Society
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: tutorial attendance and participation (10%), 1x2000wd essay (40%) and 1x2hr exam (50%)
Note: available to Bachelor of Arts and Sciences and Bachelor of Socio-Legal Studies only
This unit provides an understanding of the central themes and issues in social scientific analyses of the operation of law in society. After briefly outlining the various ways in which social life is organised in terms of law, the unit will examine a range of key concerns in the development of legal ideas, institutions and processes today, including the increasing legal regulation of private life, law and science, human rights, the globalisation of law, terrorism, risk and security, law and social inequality and citizenship.
Textbooks
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Linguistics
LNGS1001 Structure of Language
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week and 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prohibitions: LNGS1004, LNGS1005 Assessment: 10x150wd short problem based assignments (30%), 1x1hr (1000wd) equivalent mid-term exam (20%) and 1x2hr (2000wd) equivalent final exam (50%)
This unit is a comparative look at the general structure of human language. It looks at the sounds of human language: how the speech organs make them and their variety, in particular, a detailed description of English consonants and vowels and how to transcribe them. It investigates what is a possible word in English and other languages. It looks at the way speakers put words together to form sentences and how and why is English different from Japanese or even Irish.
Textbooks
V. Fromkin, R. Rodman, N. Hyams, P. Collins, M. Amberber and Mark Harvey. 2009. An Introduction to Language. Cengage Learning. Sixth Edition
LNGS1002 Language and Social Context
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week and 1x1-hr tutorial/week Assessment: 5x250wd short assignments (40%), 1x1-hr (1000wd) equivalent mid-term exam (20%) and 1x2hr (2000wd) equivalent final exam (40%)
This unit introduces the study of the interrelationship between language and society. It is concerned with phenomena of language change and how that leads to varieties in a language. How are these varieties linked to social differences? What distinguishes male speech from female speech or what are the linguistic styles of different social classes or ethnic groups? What is slang, or jargon, and what distinguishes a casual conversation from an interview?
Textbooks
Mesthrie, R., Swann, J., Deumert, A., Leap, W. 2000. 'Introducing Sociolinguistics'. Edinburgh University Press
LNGS2602 Syntax
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week and 1x1-hr workshop/week Prerequisites: LNGS1001 or LNGS1005 or LNGS1004 Prohibitions: LNGS2002 Assessment: 5x2500wd problem sets (60%), 1x2hr (2000wd equivalent) problem based exam (40%)
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
Syntax deals with how we combine words into phrases, clauses and sentences and how we understand these combinations. Syntax is almost purely internal to language and plays a major role in organising the language system. We look at syntactic concepts in English, languages of Europe and Asia, and those of small traditional communities around the world. Using a problem solving approach, we develop explicit models to describe syntactic phenomena that allow generalisations leading to testable predictions about possible structures.
LNGS2603 Functional Grammar
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week and 1x1-hr workshop/week Prerequisites: One of ENGL1000, ENGL1005, ENGL2619, ENGL2647, LNGS1001, LNGS1002, LNGS1003, LNGS1004, LNGS1005, LNGS2601, LNGS2602, LNGS2604, LNGS2620, LNGS2621, MECO1001, MECO1003, WRIT1001 Prohibitions: LNGS2003 Assessment: 5x500wd term assignments (50%) and 1x2 hour exam (50%)
This unit takes a functional view of grammar, considering the ways in which English is organised to build up our picture of reality, to enable us to interact in conversation and to make our contribution coherent and relevant. It is designed to give students analysis skills in the analysis of ideational, interpersonal and textual meaning in the clause, the nature of inter-clausal relations, and the structure of nominal, verbal and adverbial groups and prepositional phrases.
Textbooks
Geoff Thompson, Introducing Functional Grammar
LNGS2604 Discourse Analysis
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lecture/week and 1x1-hr workshop/week Prerequisites: One of ENGL1000, ENGL1005, ENGL2619, ENGL2647, LNGS1001, LNGS1002, LNGS1003, LNGS1004, LNGS1005, LNGS2601, LNGS2602, LNGS2603, LNGS2620, LNGS2621, MECO1001, MECO1003, WRIT1001 Prohibitions: LNGS2004 Assessment: 4x500wd term assignments (40%) and 1x2500wd essay (60%)
This unit of study provides an introduction to discourse analysis, which is concerned with the way in which texts are organised in relation to their social context. In linguistics, the term 'discourse' covers both a) the organisation of linguistic units above the sentence level (cohesion), and b) language in use or context (register and genre). The unit will include analysis of texts combining language with image, from the perspective of critical discourse analysis.
Textbooks
J R Martin & David Rose, Working with Discourse, 2nd edn
LNGS2611 Australia's Indigenous Languages
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture,1x1-hr language learning tutorial/week Prerequisites: (One of LNGS1001, LNGS1004, LNGS1005) and (one of LNGS1002, LNGS1003) Assessment: 2x1000wd problem sets (40%), 1x2500wd project (60%)
This unit of study aims to give an overview of the languages of indigenous Australians. Of the 250 distinct Aboriginal languages spoken in 1788, most are dead or dying and just 20 languages are expected to survive another few generations. This unit of study will challenge this grim and oft-quoted statistic. We will see that new Aboriginal languages have emerged, apparently moribund languages have been gaining strength and distinctive Aboriginal ways of talking have survived. We consider why some languages have prospered while others have declined. We explore how Australian languages have responded to the challenges of non-Aboriginal settlement, in such arenas as education, land rights and health.
LNGS2612 Language Variation and Change
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week Prerequisites: Two of LNGS1001, LNGS1002, LNGS1003, LNGS1004 and LNGS1005 Prohibitions: LNGS2026, LNGS2006 Assessment: 1x mid-term exam (30%), 1x3000wd research project (60%) and 1x1000wd presentation (10%) Practical field work: Data gathering for research project
Human language varies with the social context, and on all linguistic levels (pronunciation, lexis, syntax, discourse structures etc). It not only shows variation in context but also across time. Again, all linguistic levels are affected. You will learn about variation analysis, the many factors that impact upon variation; the forms of variation; how to conduct sociolinguistic variation studies; the mechanisms of language change; constraints on change; and the way in which change is embedded in the larger linguistic system.
LNGS2617 Cross-Cultural Communication
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2,Winter Main Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: Either (two of LNGS1001, LNGS1002, LNGS1003, LNGS1004, LNGS1005) or (Credit average in 12 Senior credit points from one of the foreign languages (French, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, Arabic, Spanish, German, Latin, Modern Greek, Ancient Greek, Indonesian, Malay, Korean, Thai, Yiddish, Hebrew, Syriac, Aramaic, Sanskrit) Prohibitions: LNGS3903, LNGS3923 Assessment: 1x1500wd presentation (25%), 1x1500wd problem set (25%), 1x3000wd essay (50%)
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
In today's globalized and multicultural societies, cross-cultural communication is common enough. Even so, it continues to be a challenge, both for people who engage in cross-cultural communication on a daily basis, and for researchers trying to describe and understand it. In this unit of study we will consider a variety of discourse-analytic approaches to studying cross-cultural communication, including conversation analysis, speech act theory, interactional sociolinguistics, the ethnography of communication, and critical discourse analysis. In our analyses of actual samples of cross-cultural communication we will pay particular attention to the social positioning of participants in an interaction, and the ways in which social relationships (particularly of power and intimacy) between participants are reflected in their linguistic practices. The unit will end with exploring applied perspectives, particularly on cross-cultural communication in educational, courtroom and workplace interactions.
LNGS2620 Phonetics
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week and 1x1-hr tutorial lab/week Prerequisites: LNGS1001 Prohibitions: LNGS2601 Assessment: 4x250wd short assessments (30%), 3x100wd transcription tasks (20%), 1x1000wd mid-term exam (20%) and 1x2500wd final exam (30%)
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 provide an introduction to the study of articulatory, acoustic and perceptual phonetics. Approaching the study of phonetics from both the theoretical and practical sides, students will learn about the anatomical and physiological bases of the production of speech sounds. They will learn to produce and discern a wide range of the sounds observed in human languages and have practise in transcribing these sounds as well as applying these skills to the wider field of transcription, for example song texts/musical transcription. An introduction to the physical (acoustic) properties of speech sounds provides the basis for an understanding of what acoustic factors matter in speech perception.
LNGS2621 Phonology
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week and 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: LNGS1001 Prohibitions: LNGS2601 Assessment: 5x400wd problem sets (45%), 1x1000wd mid-term exam (20%), 1x2000wd final exam (35%)
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 provide a foundation in the principles and methods of linguistic argumentation particularly with respect to phonological analysis and the interaction of phonetics and phonology. Development of theories from SPE through to Optimality Theory. Topics include: basic phonological analysis; distinctive features, underlying representations, abstractness, rules and constraints, the role and function of prosodic structure: the prosodic hierarchy syllables, tone and stress, markedness.
LNGS3601 Semantics and Pragmatics
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week and 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: one of LNGS2602 [Syntax], LNGS2603 [Functional Grammar], ENGL2619 [Semiotics of Language] and ENGL2653 [Varieties of English Grammar] Prohibitions: LNGS3026, LNGS3006 Assessment: 3x500wd exercises (40%) and 1x3000wd essay (60%)
Note: Compulsory for Honours students; other students may select as an option. This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
Semantics deals with the meaning of words, phrases, sentences and texts, and the relations between those meanings. Pragmatics deals with how speakers use context and shared information to convey information additional to the semantic content of what they say, and with how hearers make inferences on the basis of this information. Our goal is to explore the diversity of ways in which meaning can be expressed linguistically in different languages, as well as of what constitutes evidence for meaning.
LNGS3603 Morphology
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: (one of LNGS2620, LNGS2621) and (one of LNGS2602, LNGS2603) Prohibitions: LNGS3025 Assessment: 1x1000wd equivalent tutorial paper (20%), 2x1000wd problem sets (30%), 1x3000wd essay (50%)
This unit of study covers the following issues: morphological typology and classifications; formal properties of morphological phenomena: concatenative morphology, affixation; nonconcatenative morphology: root and pattern morphology, reduplication, truncations, hypocoristic formation; formal representation of morphological processes; functional aspects of morphology categories, grammatical relations, classification system; current models of morphology.
LNGS3605 Structure and Use of a Language
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2hr seminar Prerequisites: LNGS2601 [or LNGS2001] and one of LNGS2602, LNGS2002, LNGS2003, LNGS2603 Prohibitions: LNGS3904 Assessment: 3,000 word essay [this may be staged to include abstract preparation, and to incorporate revision on the basis of feedback from this and from the tutorial paper which may include peer feedback], tutorial paper (equiv. 1,000 words), 2 assignments each ca. 1,000 words
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit to students enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
A language other than English is chosen for analysis (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and discourse), and for description of the ways it is used (ethnography of speaking including speech acts, speech events, registers and genres). It is examined in its areal, genetic, historical, social and typological context. We also examine sources of data and their reliability, and the way findings are presented (reference and teaching grammars and linguistic papers).Pidgens and Creoles willl be discussed in 2006.
LNGS3607 Genre and Register
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: LNGS2603 or LNGS2604 or LNGS3608 Prohibitions: LNGS3007 Assessment: 1x1200wd genre staging exercise (15%), 1x1000wd field analysis (20%), 1x1000wd mode analysis (20%), 1x1000wd tenor analysis (20%), 1x1800wd contrastive text analysis (25%)
This unit will focus on the analysis of genre and register, from a functional linguistics perspective. The issue of modelling genre relations will be examined in detail, including typological and topological approaches. Register analysis will be considered from the perspective of well studied registers such as analysts. Attention will also be given to qualitative and quantitative techniques, and to multi-modal analysis (including verbiage, image, music).
LNGS3608 Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week and 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: LNGS1001 and LNGS1002 Assessment: 1x1000wd corpus design, building and discussion (20%), 1x1000wd corpus analysis (20%), 1x2000-2500wd research essay (60%)
'The language looks different when you look at a lot of it at once'. This unit of study introduces you to corpus linguistics - the use of computer software to look at a lot of language at once. Corpus linguistics is currently surging in Europe and taking off in North America. This unit of study is one of very few on offer in Australia. Together we will explore the linguistic insights corpus linguistics has to offer and how these have affected modern theories of language. You will also explore methods involved in corpus design and analysis and undertake your own corpus linguistic research project.
Textbooks
Baker, P. 2006. Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis. London/New York: Continuum
LNGS3692 Media Discourse
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: LNGS2603 or LNGS2604 Prohibitions: LNGS3912 Assessment: 1x500wd assignment (5%), 1x1500wd assignment (35%), 1x3000wd assignment (60%)
'Sexy, healthy and 100% Australian-owned!' This unit examines linguistic approaches to media discourse. The language of news texts and television series will form a special focus of the unit, along with how images are used to construe meaning. We will explore general aspects of media institutions (news and television), the ways in which social identities are constructed in the media, differences between the language of various types of media texts, the rhetoric of persuasion and the discourses of popular culture.
LNGS1801 Linguistics 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 Linguistics 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 Linguistics.
LNGS2805 Linguistics 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 Linguistics 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 Linguistics.
LNGS2806 Linguistics 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 Linguistics 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 Linguistics.
LNGS2809 Linguistics 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 Linguistics 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 Linguistics.
LNGS2810 Linguistics 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 Linguistics 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 Linguistics.
LNGS2811 Linguistics 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 Linguistics 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 Linguistics.
LNGS2812 Linguistics 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 Linguistics 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 Linguistics.
LNGS4011 Linguistics Honours A
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 2 hour seminar per option per week Prerequisites: Credit average in 48 senior credits points, including at least three of the five units LNGS3601, LNGS2602, LNGS2604, LNGS2620, LNGS2621 Assessment: 1x18000-20000wd thesis (50%) and 2 seminars x 6000-8000wds of written work or its equivalent per seminar (50%) OR 1x12000-15000wd thesis (40%) and 3 seminars x 6000-8000wds of written work or its equivalent per seminar (60%)
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in Linguistics consists of:
1) a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff, which may include members of staff from other departments for students undertaking joint honours.
2) two (or three) seminars that meet weekly for two hours for one semester.
3) an unassessed support seminar that meets weekly for one hour for one semester
If you chose the two seminar option you write a thesis of 18000-20000 words. The thesis is worth 50% of the final Honours mark in this option.
If you chose the three seminars option you will write a shorter thesis of 12000-15000 words. The thesis is worth 40% of the final Honours mark in this option.
Students considering further academic work in the field should choose the longer thesis.
Each seminar requires 6000-8000 words of written work or its equivalent.
Seminars will be offered from the following list in 2011:
Systemic Functional Linguistics master-class
In depth study of the structure of a language
Honours special seminar
1) a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff, which may include members of staff from other departments for students undertaking joint honours.
2) two (or three) seminars that meet weekly for two hours for one semester.
3) an unassessed support seminar that meets weekly for one hour for one semester
If you chose the two seminar option you write a thesis of 18000-20000 words. The thesis is worth 50% of the final Honours mark in this option.
If you chose the three seminars option you will write a shorter thesis of 12000-15000 words. The thesis is worth 40% of the final Honours mark in this option.
Students considering further academic work in the field should choose the longer thesis.
Each seminar requires 6000-8000 words of written work or its equivalent.
Seminars will be offered from the following list in 2011:
Systemic Functional Linguistics master-class
In depth study of the structure of a language
Honours special seminar
LNGS4012 Linguistics Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: LNGS4011
Refer to LNGS4011
LNGS4013 Linguistics Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: LNGS4012
Refer to LNGS4011
LNGS4014 Linguistics Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: LNGS4013
Refer to LNGS4011
Media and Communications
Available to Bachelor of Arts (Media and Communications) students only
MECO1001 Australian Media Studies
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week and 1x1-hr tutorial/week Assessment: 1x1200wd essay (30%), 1x1800wd essay (40%) and 1x2hr exam (30%)
Note: available to BA (Media and Comm) and BSc (Media and Comm) students only
This unit offers an introduction to the history and theory of media and communications studies. Students will gain a foundation in key concepts, methodologies and theorists in the field. They will also explore the interdisciplinary roots of media and communications studies and acquire basic research skills. By the end of the unit students should be familiar with major shifts in the history and theory of media and communications studies and with basic concepts and methodologies in the field.
Textbooks
It is recommended that students purchase a reader from the University Copy Centre
MECO1002 Media and Communications Landscapes
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x2-hr tutorial/week Assessment: 1x1250wd product or company profile (30%), 1x1250wd market or 'segment' report (30%) and 1x2hr exam (40%)
Note: Note: available to BA (Media and Comm) and BSc (Media and Comm) students only
This unit introduces students to the key ideas, trends, organisations and institutional bodies that shape and define the 'landscape' in which media and communications practitioners operate. It offers students an opportunity to gain a foundational understanding of the media and communications field in Australia that will be important for placing professional work done in media and communications in a social, cultural, historical, economic and political context.
Textbooks
Stuart Cunningham and Graeme Turner, (eds.), The Media and Communications in Australia, Third Edition, Allen and Unwin, 2010
MECO1003 Principles of Media Writing
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week and 1x1-hr tutorial/week Assessment: 1x400wd word news story (20%), 1x500wd colour news story (20%), 1x700wd broadcast script (20%), 1x2-hr exam (30%), attendance and participation (10%)
Note: available to BA (Media and Comm) and BSc (Media and Comm) students only
This unit will give students foundational skills in writing for the print and broadcast media. Students will learn the elements of journalistic style, how to structure news and feature articles, how to script basic broadcast and online news, and be introduced to the principles of interviewing and journalistic research.
Textbooks
Course reader
MECO2601 Radio Broadcasting
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week and 1x2-hr workshop/week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points of MECO units Prohibitions: MECO2001 Assessment: 1x500wd equivalent radio news writing and presentation exercise (20%), 1x2500wd equivalent live group radio production and documentation (40%), 1x2000wd listening and reflection journal (30%), participation (10%) Practical field work: Students are encouraged to join the University of Sydney Radio Society
Note: available to BA (Media and Comm) and BSc (Media and Comm) students only
This unit is designed to introduce students to the history, nature and contemporary status of radio. It specifically considers such concepts as news values and the role of the Internet in audio broadcasts. Students will also apply critical analytical approaches to radio and online broadcast texts. Practically, the unit offers an introduction to radio presentation and production, using professional quality digital audio recording and editing facilities.
Textbooks
Phillips, G and Lindgren, M (2002) Australian Broadcasting Journalism Manual, 2nd edn., Oxford University Press
MECO2603 Media Relations
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week and 1x2-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points of MECO units plus one of the following (WRIT1001, WRIT1002, ENGL1025, ENGL1007) Prohibitions: MECO2003 Assessment: 1x2500wd media relations campaign (35%), 1x1000wd equivalent press conference presentation (20%), 1x1000wd final exam (35%) and tutorial participation (10%)
Note: available to BA(Media and Comm) and BSc (Media and Comm) students only
This unit of study will examine the relationships between stakeholders with an interest in public communication including the environmental groups, media, the corporate sector, government, not for profit industries and health and community relations. This unit provides an overview of media relations theory including issue framing, agenda setting, and co-relational development. It examines image, reputation and relationship building. Students learn to develop a media relations campaign strategy, budget and timeline, using tactical approaches for successful media relations. Students will learn to identify controlled and uncontrolled media, set research priorities and objectives and framing a client response.
Textbooks
A Required course reader can be purchased from the University Copy Centre
MECO3601 Video Production
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x 2-hr workshop/week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points of MECO units plus (one of WRIT1001, WRIT1002, ENGL1025, ENGL1007) Prohibitions: MECO3001 Assessment: 1x1300wd equivalent 80 second news piece (25%), 1x2000wd equivalent six-minute video (50%) and 1x1200wd analysis in exam format (25%) Practical field work: This is a practical media production and theory unit.
Note: Available to BA (Media and Comm) and BSc (Media and Comm) students only.
This is an introduction to the theory and practice of digital video production, with a strong practical component, emphasizing information-based programming (news, current affairs, corporate video, documentary and infotainment). Students will be expected to produce short video items individually and in groups, using professional standard desktop editing software.
Textbooks
Course Reader available from the University Copy Centre
MECO3602 Online Media
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1hr lecture/week and 1x2-hr/week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points of MECO units plus one of the following (WRIT1001, WRIT1002, ENGL1025, ENGL1007) Prohibitions: MECO3002 Assessment: 1x group produced web site (50%), 1x2-hr exam (30%) and 1x website proposal (20%) Practical field work: This unit will involve substantial group web site production project
work outside of class time.
Note: Available to BA(Media and Comm) and BSc (Media and Comm) students only.
This unit examines how uses of the Internet, the Web and other online media and devices, such as mobile phones and iPads, are changing the media landscape. Students will become familiar with key theoretical and cultural issues in online media, and learn to critically analyse internetworked media productions and processes. They will also gain practical skills in writingand producing content for the web through team development of blogs and websites.
Textbooks
Flew, Terry (2008) 'New Media: An Introduction'. 3rd Edition. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
MECO3603 Media, Law and Ethics
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week and 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points of MECO units plus one of the following (WRIT1001, WRIT1002, ENGL1025, ENGL1007) Prohibitions: MECO3003 Assessment: 1x1700wd essay (40%), 1x2-hr (2000wd equivalent) exam (40%), 1x800wd online posting (20%)
Note: Available to BA (Media and Comm) and BSc (Media and Comm) students only. Students wishing to enrol should see Steven Maras (unit of study coordinator) or Marc Brennan (undergraduate coordinator).
MECO3603 will introduce students to the area of Media, Law and Ethics through discussion of key legal, ethical, and cultural issues relevant to journalism and the professional fields of public communication. Students will be given an introductory survey of the main ethical theories in Western thought to establish a framework within which to examine specific ethical issues that relate to media. They will also be introduced to those aspects of the law that impinge on the work of media professionals.
Textbooks
Course Reader of key articles available from the University Copy Centre
MECO3605 Media Globalisation
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week and 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points to MECO units plus one of the following (WRIT1001, WRIT1002, ENGL1025, ENGL1007) Prohibitions: MECO3005 Assessment: 1x2000wd essay (40%), 1x tutorial presentation/debate (20%) and 1x2-hr exam (40%)
Note: Available to BA (Media and Comm) and, subject to departmental approval, students undertaking a major in Cultural Studies.
This unit aims to demonstrate the complexity of media globalisation and to examine in depth some of the common assumptions associated with the term. While the unit will consider the impact of global market forces (i.e. cheap labour in developing countries, environmental issues, etc), it is interested in the dynamics of globalisation more generally, and media globalisation more specifically. Students can expect to appreciate that media globalisation is a complex proposal that involves formats, localisation, symbolic currency and negotiation.
Textbooks
It is recommended that students purchase a reader from the Copy Centre
MECO3606 Advanced Media Writing
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x2-hr workshop/week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points to MECO units plus one of the following (WRIT1001, WRIT1002, ENGL1025, ENGL1007) Prohibitions: MECO3006 Assessment: 3x1300wd feature articles in different genres (85%) and 2x tutorial presentations (15%)
Note: Available to BA(Media and Comm) and BSc (Media and Comm) students only.
This unit of study will build on foundational writing, research and interviewing skills acquired in MECO1003 Principles of Media Writing. The focus will be on writing for print media and will emphasise advanced feature and opinion writing genres. Students will also study the history of print media genres and consider theoretical issues relevant to feature writing.
Textbooks
Course reader
MECO3609 Critical Practice in Media
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: (12 junior and 42 senior credit points of MECO units) and (one of WRIT1001, WRIT1002, ENGL1025, ENGL1007) Assessment: 1x1000wd project proposal (20%), 1x5000wd research project (80%)
Note: Available to BA(Media and Comm) and BSc (Media and Comm) students only.
This unit of study is designed to draw together the key elements of theoretical and practical knowledge and skills that students have acquired in their media and communications studies. Using historical, cultural and industry-based frameworks and case studies, this unit of study will assist students to better understand the relationship between theory and practice in the field and assist them to become critical practitioners. By the end of the unit, students will be able to identify key debates around the relationship between theory and practice and demonstrate an awareness of how critical thinking and media production are capable of mutually informing each other in practice.
Textbooks
Readings will be available online through WebCT and/or the Library electronic reserve
MECO3671 Media and Communications Internship
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: there are no lectures, but attendance may be required at a program of industry talks Prerequisites: 30 senior credit points of MECO, including (MECO3603 or MECO3003). Students may not enrol in MECO3671 prior to the second semester of their 3rd year. Prohibitions: MECO3701, MECO3702 Assessment: Students must satisfy the requirements of an internship contract with their workplace, including attendance and performance, as evaluated through a workplace supervisor report.
Note: Available to BA(Media and Comm) and BSc (Media and Comm) students only.
The internship consists of a work placement comprising a minimum of 140 working hours in a media organisation, assisted and supervised by both the workplace and the department. Placements may include print, broadcast, online and new media, public relations and advertising organisations. Students will be required to present a 2000 word journal recounting their experiences during the internship. The internship and internship journal are assessed on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis.
MECO3672 Internship Project
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 4x2-hr seminars/semester, 2x2hr lectures/semester Prerequisites: 30 senior credit points of MECO, including two of (MECO3602, MECO3603, MECO3002, MECO3003) Corequisites: MECO3671 Prohibitions: MECO3701, MECO3702 Assessment: 1x4000wd research essay (100%)
Note: Students may not enrol in MECO3672 prior to the first semester of their 4th year. All students must attend the Week One lecture, at which they sign up for one of 3 cycles of 4 x 2-hour seminars.
This unit is based around the production of a 4000 word critical research essay drawn from issues encountered during and after the internship. Students are required to attend a cycle of four seminars, which they will direct (in the presence of the unit coordinator) to discuss and refine their research approaches and questions. Students will also need to submit documentation of their research question and approach before submitting their essay.
Textbooks
Stokes, Jane (2002) How to do Media and Cultural Studies, London: Sage
MECO4011 Media and Communications Honours A
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 4x2hr seminars/week in semester 1, 6x 0.5hr supervisor consultations/semester Prerequisites: Average of high credit or above in senior units within the completed BA (Media and Communications) Assessment: 1x18-20000wd thesis (60%) and 4x4000wd seminar papers (40%)
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in Media and Communications consists of:
1. A thesis written or produced under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
2. Four seminars that meet weekly for two hours each during semester one.
(Note that mid year enrolment is not available.)
Students from other institutions are accepted into the program, and are requested to provide samples of previous academic work as well as a proposal.
For more information, contact Dr Marc Brennan, Honours coordinator.
1. A thesis written or produced under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
2. Four seminars that meet weekly for two hours each during semester one.
(Note that mid year enrolment is not available.)
Students from other institutions are accepted into the program, and are requested to provide samples of previous academic work as well as a proposal.
For more information, contact Dr Marc Brennan, Honours coordinator.
MECO4012 Media and Communications Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: MECO4011
Refer to MECO4011
MECO4013 Media and Communications Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: MECO4012
Refer to MECO4011
MECO4014 Media and Communications Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: MECO4013
Refer to MECO4011
MECO4605 Honours Thesis A
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 6x0.5-hr consultations/semester Assessment: either 1x12000-15000wd thesis or (a media production of an agreed size plus 1x6000-8000wd essay assessed as one piece of work)
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: Available only to students who commenced Media and Communications Honours prior to 2010
Research and writing towards an honours thesis on an approved topic under the supevision of an academic member of staff. The thesis is completed over two semesters in conjunction with MECO4606, MECO4607 and MECO4608.
Available only to students enrolled in the BA (Media and Communications ) before 2010.
Available only to students enrolled in the BA (Media and Communications ) before 2010.
MECO4606 Honours Thesis B
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: MECO4605
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: Available only to students who commenced Media and Communications Honours prior to 2010
Refer to MECO4605
MECO4607 Honours Thesis C
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: MECO4606
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: Available only to students who commenced Media and Communications Honours prior to 2010
Refer to MECO4605
MECO4608 Honours Thesis D
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: MECO4607
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: Available only to students who commenced Media and Communications Honours prior to 2010
Refer to MECO4605
Medieval Studies
MDST2611 Medieval Heroes and Heroines
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 2x1-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: At least 18 junior credit points from Table A, of which 12 credit points are from one subject area Assessment: 2x1500wd essays (66.6%), 1x1500wd equivalent class presentation (33.4%)
Note: This unit of study may be counted towards majors in History, French Studies, English, and European Studies
The Middle Ages presents a remarkable range of heroic characters, from mythical dragon-slayers (Beowulf) to historical figures (Joan of Arc), and many medieval archetypes still familiar in modern culture have emerged from that period: the 'knight in shining armour', Crusaders, martyrs, rulers, and lovers. This unit considers their significance for the medieval public and addresses theoretical issues such as the definition of a hero/ine and the extent to which the concept has evolved from the Middle Ages to modern times.
MDST2612 Byzantium between East and West
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 2x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points from Table A of which 12 credit points are from one subject area Assessment: 2x2000wd essay (70%), 1x1000wd tutorial presentation (20%) and participation (10%)
Note: this unit of study may be counted towards majors in History and Modern Greek
This unit investigates the role that Byzantium played throughout the Middle Ages as the cultural interface between East and West between 330 and 1453. It examines the various forms of interaction that took place within Byzantium and because of Byzantium between Eastern and Western Europe, Europe and Asia, and Christianity and Islam. It further explores pre-modern perceptions of identity, social class, economy, and gender. Its main focus is to delineate the wide range of exchanges that took place throughout the Middle Ages between societies through cultural diffusion, military campaigns, material culture and political ideologies.
MDST2614 The Legend of King Arthur
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 2x1-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points from Table A, of which 12 credit points are from one subject area Assessment: 1x1000wd essay (25%), 1x2000wd essay (50%) and 1x10 minute class presentation (25%)
Note: This unit of study may be counted towards a Major in History. Students wanting to enrol should contact Andrea Williams.
The Arthurian legends treat many themes central to literature throughout the ages: love, betrayal, death, spirituality. This unit is highly innovative in that it is taught live (via video link and WebCT) by a team of international experts from Sydney, the UK, Continental Europe and the US. We survey the Arthurian legend in its multiple manifestations across time and place, covering texts from the Middle Ages to the present day as well as representations in the visual arts (illuminated manuscripts, film).
MDST4011 Medieval Studies Honours A
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week for each seminar option Prerequisites: Credit average in at least 48 senior credit points from Medieval Studies units of study or from cross-listed units of study (including at least two MDST units of study to the value of 12 credit points). Assessment: 1x15000-20000wd thesis (40%), 3x6000-8000wd seminar papers (60%)
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in Medieval Studies consists of:
1. a thesis of 15000-20000 words in length, written under the supervision of a member of academic staff nominated by the Honours Coordinator.
2. three 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. Seminars are chosen from relevenant subject areas by the Honours candidate in consultation with the Honours Coordinator.
The thesis is worth 40% of the final Honours mark and each of the seminars is worth 20%.
It is important that prospective Honours students consult the Co-ordinator to ensure that their choice of senior level units of study is appropriate to their intentions for the Honours Year.
1. a thesis of 15000-20000 words in length, written under the supervision of a member of academic staff nominated by the Honours Coordinator.
2. three 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. Seminars are chosen from relevenant subject areas by the Honours candidate in consultation with the Honours Coordinator.
The thesis is worth 40% of the final Honours mark and each of the seminars is worth 20%.
It is important that prospective Honours students consult the Co-ordinator to ensure that their choice of senior level units of study is appropriate to their intentions for the Honours Year.
MDST4012 Medieval Studies Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: MDST4011
Refer to MDST4011
MDST4013 Medieval Studies Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: MDST4012
Refer to MDST4011
MDST4014 Medieval Studies Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: MDST4013
Refer to MDST4011
Modern Greek Studies
MGRK1601 Junior Modern Greek 1
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr language tutorials/week, 2x1-hr practicals/week commencing week 2 Prohibitions: MGRK1101 Assessment: 2xtests (equivalent to 800wd total) (30%), 3xquizzes (equivalent to 800wd total) (30%), 1x2hr exam (equivalent to 2000wd) (30%), 1xoral exam (equivalent to 400wd) (10%)
Practical language classes for students who have very little or no prior knowledge of Greek. The unit is based both on communicative methodology and a functional approach to language. By using the Greek language in a range of contexts, students will develop spoken communication (speaking and listening) skills and to a lesser extent written communication (reading and writing) skills.
Textbooks
Supplied through the department
MGRK1602 Junior Modern Greek 2
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr language tutorials/week, 2x1-hr practicals/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: MGRK1101 or MGRK1601 Prohibitions: MGRK1102 Assessment: 2xtests (equivalent to 800wd total) (30%), 3xquizzes (equivalent to 800wd total) (30%), 1x2hr exam (equivalent to 2000wd) (30%), 1xoral exam (equivalent to 400wd) (10%)
This unit is a continuation of MGRK1601. It aims at strengthening students' oral communication skills and further developing their written skills. Having completed MGRK1602, students in their second year will normally enter MGRK2601.
Textbooks
Supplied through the department
MGRK1621 Junior Modern Greek 3
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 2x1-hr language tutorials/week, 1x1-hr totorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: Modern Greek Continuers or Modern Greek Extension Prohibitions: MGRK1101, MGRK1501, MGRK1401 Assessment: 6xwritten tasks (equivalent to 1000wd total) (30%), 1x1hr final exam (equivalent to 1000wd) (20%), 1x1400wd short essay (35%), 1xtake home test (equivalent to 600wd) (15%)
This unit revises and consolidates the main structures of Greek grammar and syntax and provides an overview of recent Greek history. The language component focuses on developing writing and reading skills by introducing students to the essential morphological structure of the Greek language. The history component offers an insight to some of the most important issues of Greek history since the enlightenment.
Textbooks
Supplied through the department.
MGRK1622 Junior Modern Greek 4
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 2x1-hr language tutorials/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: MGRK1621 or MGRK1401 Prohibitions: MGRK1101, MGRK1102, MRGK1402 Assessment: 6xwritten tasks (equivalent to 1000wd total) (30%), 1x1hr final exam (equivalent to 1000wd) (20%), 1x1400wd short essay (35%), 1xtake home test (equivalent to 600wd) (15%)
This unit is a continuation of MGRK1621. Enrolment into this unit without completion of MGRK1621 is possible after consultation with the chair of the department.
MGRK2601 Senior Modern Greek 1
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr language tutorials/week, 2x1-hr practicals/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: MGRK1102 or MGRK1602 Prohibitions: MGRK1501, MGRK2001 Assessment: 2xtests (equivalent to 800wd total) (20%), 3xquizzes equivalent to 400wd total) (10%), 5xcompositions (equivalent to 1200wd total) (30%), 2xoral presentations (equivalent to 400wd total) (10%), 1xoral test (equivalent to 400wd) (10%), 1x1hr exam (equivalent to 1000wd) (20%)
The core of this unit is practical language segments aimed particularly at developing skills of listening, speaking and writing. It also provides introductory lectures on the history and culture of speakers of Greek in the post-classical world. Political and social developments described in lectures will be linked to the reading of texts; some in Greek, illustrating how Greek culture and literature have reacted to historical change and ideological repositioning.
Textbooks
Supplied through the department.
MGRK2602 Senior Modern Greek 2
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr language tutorials/week, 2x1-hr practicals/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: MGRK2001 or MGRK2601 Prohibitions: MGRK1502, MGRK2002 Assessment: 2xtests (equivalent to 800wd total) (20%), 3xquizzes equivalent to 400wd total) (10%), 5xcompositions (equivalent to 1200wd total) (30%), 2xoral presentations (equivalent to 400wd total) (10%), 1xoral test (equivalent to 400wd) (10%), 1x1hr exam (equivalent to 1000wd) (20%)
This unit is a continuation of MGRK2601, and builds upon the knowledge and skills acquired during Semester 1.
Textbooks
Supplied through the department.
MGRK2603 Style and Expression
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 2x1-hr tutorials/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: MGRK1402 or MGRK1622 or MGRK2002 or MGRK2602 Prohibitions: MGRK2203 Assessment: 4xcompositions (equivalent to 1500wds total) (30%), 4xexercises (equivalent to 1500wds total) (30%), 1xtake home exam (equivalent to 1500wd) (40%)
The unit builds on the structures analysed in MGRK1622 and MGRK2602. Its particular purpose is to develop students' ability to write substantial continuous passages of Greek, concentrating on different methods for the effective building of clauses into sentences and sentences into paragraphs.
Textbooks
Supplied through the department.
MGRK2605 Theory and Practice of Translation B
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 2x1-hr tutorials/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: MGRK1202 or MGRK1402 or MGRK1622 or MGRK2002 or MGRK2602 Prohibitions: MGRK3211 Assessment: 2xassignments (1000wd total) (20%), 2xclass tests (equivalent to 2000wd total) (50%), 1x1500wd essay (30%)
This unit focuses on translation from English to Greek. Its main focus is the study of translating strategies of specialised texts and explains changes in their structure. Students are expected to learn how translation works as a semantic transition from one language to the other and be able to understand the necessary changes they must introduce during the translation process in order to make the text semantically functional in Greek.
MGRK2622 The Other Road to Greek Modernity
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: At least 18 junior credit points from Table A of the table of units of study, of which 12 credit points are from one subject Prohibitions: MGRK2501 Assessment: 1xclass presentation (equivalent to 1000wd) (20%), 1x3000wd essay (45%), 1xtake home exam (equivalent to 2000wd) (35%)
This unit examines attempts to modernise Greek Literature at the beginning of the 20th century by C.P Cavafy, K. Karyotakis and other poets, together with a new trend in Greek criticism put forward by T. Agras and K. Paraschos. These efforts were later overshadowed and marginalised by the dominant discourse of Greek Modernism, which is associated with the group known as the Generation of the 1930's. Parallels are drawn with the European literary context and relevant developments in Greek political life.
MGRK2655 Modern Greek Art
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: At least 18 junior credit points from Table A of the table of units of study, of which 12 points are from one subject Prohibitions: MGRK2506 Assessment: 1xclass presentation (equivalent to 1000wd) (20%), 1x3000wd essay (45%), 1xtake home exam (equivalent to 2000wd) (35%)
What happened to Greek artists after the Fall of Constantinople in 1453? Did they all become cultural refugees, like El Greco and created their masterpieces in other cultures? But then what happened to all those who stayed behind and established the modern Greek state in 1821? This unit examines the development and the physiognomy of modern Greek art from the establishment of the Modern Greek state to this day. Movements, individual artists and theorists are discussed in their chronological sequence and contextualised within the framework of Greek society.
MGRK2675 New Testament Greek and its World A
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 2x1-hr tutorials/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points in any subject Prohibitions: MGRK2525 Assessment: 1x2000wd final essay (60%), 2xwritten assignments (1500wd total) (20%), 1xclass presentation (equivalent to 1000wd) (20%)
This unit explores, by means of language, the world, the ideas and the formation of the New Testament as the foundation book of Christian tradition. Language becomes the starting point for the structural analysis of the various books comprising the New Testament and for the close reading in their meaning. It also raises issues of translation and interpretation which were crucial for the establishment of major Christian doctrines and ethical values in different cultures. Finally, it offers a thorough examination of critical discussions about the continuing influences of the New Testament and investigates the discipline of New Testament studies in the beginning of the 21st century.
MGRK2691 Sociolinguistics in the Greek Diaspora
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: Credit or above in MGRK1402 or MGRK1622 or MGRK2002 or MGRK2602 Prohibitions: MGRK2904 Assessment: 2xpresentations (1500wd total) (30%), 1x2000wd essay (30%), 1xtake home exam (equivalent to 2500wd) (40%)
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
This unit will examine Greek bilingualism from a historical and sociolinguistic perspective, including a brief comparative study of Katharevousa, its phonetics, morphology and syntax. This unit will also look at sociolinguistic aspects of bilingualism in relation to Greeks of the Diaspora.
Textbooks
Supplied through the department
MGRK3633 Greekness and Hellenism
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: MGRK1621 or MGRK2601 Prohibitions: MGRK2503 Assessment: 1x2500wd essay (40%), 1xtake home exam (equivalent to 2500wd) (40%), 1xpresentation (equivalent to 1000wd) (20%)
How did the Greeks deal with their long and varied past? Are they Greeks, Romioi or Hellenes? This unit will critically examine the major perceptions of the Greek cultural identity put forward by Greek intellectuals and artists from the enlightenment to-date, placing particular emphasis on views which arose after the formation of the modern Greek nation-state. It will deal with issues of identity, tradition, nation, cultural continuity and discontinuity and it explore their relevance to the Greek Australian experience.
MGRK3692 Theories of Literature
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: Credit or above in MGRK1402 or MGRK1622 or MGRK2002 or MGRK2602 Prohibitions: MGRK3901 Assessment: 1x3000wd essay (45%), 1x class presentation (equivalent to 1000wds) (20%), 1x take home exam (equivalent to 2000wd) (35%)
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
This unit introduces students to the major literary and cultural theories of the twentieth century and develops a wide variety of concepts, theoretical approaches and methodologies useful for the analysis of Modern Greek literature and culture.
Textbooks
Supplied through the department
MGRK2811 Modern Greek Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
MGRK2812 Modern Greek Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
MGRK2813 Modern Greek Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
MGRK2814 Modern Greek Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
MGRK2815 Modern Greek Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
MGRK4011 Modern Greek Honours A
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: Two 2 hour seminars per week, one in Semester 1 and one in Semester 2 Prerequisites: A major in Modern Greek plus 12 additional credit points which must include MGRK2904 or MGRK2691 and MGRK3901 or MGRK3692. Assessment: A thesis of 18000-20000 words and 6000 words of written work or its equivalent for each seminar.
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in Modern Greek 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 18000-20000 words. Each seminar requires 6000 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 2011:
Greek Cinema (Assoc Prof Karalis) Semester 1
From Homer to Ritsos (Dr Anthony Dracopoulos) Semester 2
For more information, contact Dr Anthony Dracopoulos, 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 18000-20000 words. Each seminar requires 6000 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 2011:
Greek Cinema (Assoc Prof Karalis) Semester 1
From Homer to Ritsos (Dr Anthony Dracopoulos) Semester 2
For more information, contact Dr Anthony Dracopoulos, Honours coordinator.
MGRK4012 Modern Greek Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: MGRK4011
Refer to MGRK4011
MGRK4013 Modern Greek Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: MGRK4012
Refer to MGRK4011
MGRK4014 Modern Greek Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: MGRK4013
Refer to MGRK4011
Music
MUSC1501 Concepts of Music
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2 hour lecture & 1 tutorial/wk Prerequisites: At least 67% in the NSW HSC Music 2 or Music Extension, IB High Level Music or the equivalent skills as determined by the Chair of Unit Prohibitions: MUSC1503, MUSC1504, MUSC2693 Assessment: Seven composition exercises (60%), two aural tests plus class work assessment in weekly aural tutorials (40%).
Note: The Arts Music Unit holds a diagnostic test in the week before Semester 1 begins for those students who have not passed the prescribed HSC courses yet believe they have the equivalent aural and harmonic skills to attend Concepts of Music. Please contact the Unit for details by mid February.
Research-based analysis of fundamental compositional concepts in a wide range of Western and non-Western musical styles (classical, popular, traditional, etc.) in order to complete set exercises in musical composition, complemented by integrated aural tutorials. The course will focus on aspects of melody, harmony and rhythm. All exercises are to be presented in neat, hand-written notation in book format.
MUSC1503 Fundamentals of Music I
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 1hr lecture and 2x 1hr tutorials (aural and written)/wk Prohibitions: MUSC1501, MUSC2693 Assessment: Written and online music theory assessment (30%), aural assessment (20%), attendance and participation (10%), exam (40%).
An introduction to basic music literacy skills, including learning to read and write music, and an understanding of fundamental aspects of its structure and composition. The material covered in this unit of study concentrates upon the basics of music theory and listening to ensure that participants have a solid grounding for a firm understanding of music notation and organisation.
MUSC1504 Fundamentals of Music II
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1hr lecture and 2 x 1hr tutorials (aural & written)/wk Prohibitions: MUSC1501 Assumed knowledge: Material covered in MUSC1503. Students interested in taking this unit who have not completed MUSC1503 are advised to see the co-ordinator beforehand to ascertain that they have the required knowledge. Assessment: Written and online music theory assessment including final exam (60%), aural assessment including final exam (30%), attendance and participation (10%).
A more advanced exploration of music literacy skills. The material covered in this course ranges from the broad to the specific: from an examination of musical elements and the way they are used in a variety of musical genres through to specific compositional aspects such as four-part writing or analysis of melodic writing across musical cultures. Listening skills are developed in this unit of study.
MUSC1506 Music in Western Culture
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2hr lecture and 1 hr tut/wk Assumed knowledge: The ability to follow a musical score while listening to the music and some prior knowledge of elementary music theory. Assessment: Tutorial work (40%), 2000 word essay (40%), 60 minute exam (20%)
An historical study of Western music from the Classical Greeks to the present day focussing upon the problems of canon formation and the impact of music notation upon musical performance and composition throughout the ages. Analytical study of a number of works by major composers shows how musical meaning is constructed in relation to the development of tonality and other stylistic conventions.
MUSC1507 Sounds, Screens, Speakers: Music & Media
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2hr lecture and 1 tut/wk Assessment: Two 1,000 word assignments (2x25%); one 500 word test (10%); one 2,000 word assignment (30%), attendance and participation (10%).
Music has been dramatically shaped and reshaped by every major change in communications technology in the 20th century from vinyl discs to MP3s. In this unit of study we will analyse such issues as the ways in which the early recording industry transformed jazz, the blues and country music, how the presentation of music on radio and television changed how the music industry created new musical celebrities, and the challenges the music industry faces as digital technology transforms the creation, distribution and consumption of music.
MUSC2612 Arts Music Concert Performance 1
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2 x 2 hr tutorials/week Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points, AND audition (contact the Unit one week before semester begins) Assessment: 40 minute concert performance (repertoire not to be counted in any other performance course) (55%); Attendance at relevant classes, concerts and tutorials (10%); Programme notes (750 words) (20%); Tutorial presentation (15%).
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Performance on any instrument, in any style (classical, jazz, pop, traditional etc.) in lunch-time concerts in the Great Hall and the Old Darlington School. Students receive a written report, an advisory interview after each concert, peer student critiques and corrections to programme notes (all of which are meant to develop a scholarly, analytical research basis towards the practical performance of music). It is advised that MUSC2612 and MUSC2613 be taken over two consecutive semesters.
MUSC2613 Arts Music Concert Performance 2
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2 x 2 hr tutorials/week Prerequisites: MUSC2612 Assessment: 45 minute concert performance (repertoire not to be counted in any other performance course) (55%); Attendance at relevant classes, concerts and tutorials (10%); Programme notes (850 words) (20%); Tutorial presentation (15%).
Performance on any instrument, in any style (classical, jazz, pop, traditional etc.) in lunch-time concerts in the Great Hall and the Old Darlington School. Students receive a written report, an advisory interview after each concert, peer student critiques and corrections to programme notes (all of which are meant to develop a scholarly, analytical research basis towards the practical performance of music). It is advised that MUSC2612 and MUSC2613 be taken over two consecutive semesters.
MUSC2614 Composition Workshop 1
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2 hour workshop/week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points in music or with permission from the co-ordinator Assessment: Attendance and participation in classes and concerts (30%), composition portfolio and process diary (60%), aural and/or written presentations (10%)
A forum in which students are given an opportunity in a supervised environment to hear their original compositions rehearsed and performed, usually by other participating students. The workshops may be themed around particular genres and musical techniques which vary from semester to semester. eg. music theatre; drone-based compositions; song-writing; sound and rhythm; creating a sound space; media composition etc. The workshop encourages public performance term concerts of new music composed by workshop participants and acts as a forum for lectures from visiting composers and other music industry specialists.
MUSC2615 Advanced Concepts
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2 hour lecture & 1 tutorial/week Prerequisites: MUSC1501 or MUSC1504 or MUSC2693 Assessment: Six composition exercises (60%), two aural tests plus class work assessment in tutorials (40%).
This unit of study is one possible prerequisite for MUSC4011 Music Honours A. Analysis of compositional concepts in melody and harmony (demonstrated by students in compositional output presented in neat, hand-written notation). Music from a wide range of Western and non-Western musical styles is studied. Aural training tutorials complement these studies.
MUSC2631 Music and Everyday Life
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2 hour lecture/week Prerequisites: 12 junior music credit points or MUSC2693 Assessment: Fieldwork project paper (4000 words) (40%); ethnographic description of a musical event (1000 words) (25%); critical response paper (1000 words) (25%), class presentations and participation (10%).
Note: Students will normally have completed either MUSC1501 Concepts of Music or MUSC1504 Fundamentals of Music II or MUSC2693 Advanced Fundamentals of Music.
This unit is a prerequisite for MUSC4011 Music Honours A (for BA Hons in Music). What can we learn from non-textual approaches to understanding music? The primary goal of this unit of study is to study music not as a composer, producer, performer, listener or audience member, but as an ethnographer. That is, analysing music through an observational, experiential and intellectual understanding of how people make and take meaning from music.
MUSC2651 Re-presenting Australia in Music
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2 hour lecture and 1 hr tut/week Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points Assumed knowledge: An ability to read music at a basic level and an understanding of fundamental musical terminology would be an advantage in this unit of study but is not essential. Assessment: One 3000 word essay, or individual project (60%); a listening test 750 words (15%); 3 on-line quizzes (15%); attendance and participation (10%)
This unit of study is concerned with how Australian music reflects, and may, to some extent, shape our national identity. We will ask how Australia sounds itself as a nation. What stories about ourselves does our music tell? What are the characteristics of Australian music that are different and unique? How does our music situate Australians in a globalised community?
MUSC2653 Introduction to Digital Music Techniques
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 3 hr lecture/demonstration/week Prerequisites: 18 Junior credit points Assessment: Sound recording and editing assignment (40%); creative assignments (40%); class presentation, online assessments, attendance and participation (20%).
Note: An ability to read music at a basic level and an understanding of fundamental musical terminology as covered in MUSC2699 is an advantage in this unit of study but is not essential.
This unit is an introduction to the use of digital sound and music in creative and multimedia contexts. It is a practical course in which students are introduced to tools of sound creation and manipulation. Students will undertake creative projects as a means to approach learning. In addition, participants will be exposed to a number of approaches to electroacoustic music creation across the 20th and 21st centuries.
MUSC2663 Survey of Film Music
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2 hour lecture and 1 hour tut/week Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points Assessment: Review assignments 2,000 wd (30%), final paper 2,500 wd (50%), participation (20%)
This unit is an introductory survey of the history and aesthetics of film music from the late 1890s to the present day. Topics for discussion will include the dramatic function of music as an element of cinematic narrative, the codification of musical iconography in cinematic genres, the symbolic use of pre-existing music, and the evolving musical styles of film composers.
MUSC2664 Popular Music and the Moving Image
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1 hr lecture, 1 hr tut/week Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points Prohibitions: MUSC2662 Assessment: Musical analysis (20%), industrial critique (20%), Listening and viewing test (20%), Final Project 3,000 wd (30%), Participation (10%).
The range of media channels through which we experience popular music has proliferated in recent years. The emotive power of music is used to tell stories, sell products and connect people to one another. This unit of study will analyse the use of popular music in a broad range of multimedia forms from film and television to video games and the use of digital media to disseminate a multitude of musical multimedia productions.
MUSC2685 Music of Bach
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2 hr lecture and 1 hr tut/week Prerequisites: 12 junior music credit points or MUSC2693, or with the permission of the coordinator Assessment: 2 listening tests equivalent to 500 words (20%), 2 essays 2,000 words each (70%), attendance and tutorial participation (10%)
This course will study the life and works of J.S.Bach. Detailed analysis of a selected number of Bach's compositions, as well as those of his sons, will be combined with a study of the musical culture in which they worked and lived. Reception, performance practice issues (including embellishment), transcriptions (by Bach and others) will also be studied.
MUSC2693 Advanced Fundamentals of Music
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2 hr lect/wk and 1 hr tut/week Prerequisites: MUSC1504 or advanced music theory qualifications (eg Grade 6 musicianship, IB high level music) Prohibitions: MUSC1501, MUSC2615 Assumed knowledge: Material covered in MUSC1504 Fundamentals of Music 2 Assessment: 7 compositional exercises (sometimes subdivided into smaller components); 3 aural tests (100%).
Research-based analysis of fundamental compositional concepts in a wide range of Western and non-Western musical styles (classical, popular, traditional, etc.) in order to complete set exercises in musical composition, complemented by integrated aural tutorials. The course will focus on aspects of melody, harmony and rhythm. All exercises are to be presented in neat, hand-written notation in book format.
MUSC2699 The Language of Music
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2 hr lecture, 1 hr tut/week Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points Prohibitions: MUSC1501, MUSC1503, MUSC1504, MUSC2611, MUSC2693, JAZZ1621, MCGY1008 Assessment: Exam (35%), tutorial and online assessment (35%), two in-class listening tests (20%), attendance and participation (10%)
This unit of study is designed for students who wish to obtain a firm grasp of technical terms used to describe music. Basic music notation and aural (listening) skills will also form part of this unit of study. It is appropriate for senior level students who may wish to undertake other music units of study and contribute to these with a solid and informed understanding of musical terminology.
MUSC3604 Arts Music Concert Performance 3
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2 x 2 hr tutorials/week Prerequisites: MUSC2613 Assessment: 50 minute concert performance (repertoire not to be counted in any other performance course) (55%); Attendance at relevant classes, concerts and tutorials (10%); Programme notes (1,000 words) (20%); Tutorial presentation (15%).
Advanced performance on any instrument in any style (classical, jazz, pop, traditional, etc.) in lunch-time concerts in the Great Hall, and the Old Darlington School. Students receive a written report, an advisory interview after each concert, peer student critiques and corrections to programme notes (all of which are meant to develop a scholarly, analytical research basis towards the practical performance of music). It is advised that MUSC3604 and MUSC3605 be taken over two consecutive semesters.
MUSC3605 Arts Music Concert Performance 4
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2 x 2 hr tutorials/week Prerequisites: MUSC3604 Assessment: 55 minute concert performance (repertoire not to be counted in any other performance course) (55%); Attendance at relevant classes, concerts and tutorials (10%); Programme notes (1.200 words) (20%); Tutorial presentation (15%).
Advanced performance on any instrument, in any style (classical, jazz, pop, traditional etc.) in lunch-time concerts in the Great Hall, and the Old Darlington School. Students receive a written report, an advisory interview after each concert, peer student critiques and corrections to programme notes (all of which are meant to develop a scholarly, analytical research basis towards the practical performance of music). It is advised that MUSC3604 and MUSC3605 be taken over two consecutive semesters.
MUSC3609 Musicology
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2 hr seminar/wk Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points in music, or by arrangement with the coordinator Assessment: Written assessments (50%), weekly summaries of readings (30%), participation (20%)
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
What do we study when we study music? What kinds of stories do we tell about the history of music? What are the central issues, questions, and concerns that drive the study of music? This unit of study will begin to answer these questions and provide an overview of historical musicology as an academic discipline. In addition, students will also learn and practice the research skills necessary to find and evaluate sources, and to define and develop an area of interest. These skills will provide a solid foundation for the independent research work necessary in the Honours year.
MUSC3611 Composition Workshop 2
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2 hr workshop/week Prerequisites: MUSC2614 Assessment: Attendance and participation in classes and concerts (30%); composition portfolio and process diary (60%); aural and/or written presentations (10%)
In this unit of study, students will further develop their skills in music composition under the instruction of the co-ordinator. Students will build upon compositional skills and structures explored in MUSC2614, at a higher level. The workshop encourages public performance term concerts of new music composed by workshop participants.
MUSC3622 Musical Alchemy
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2hr lecture and 1hr tut/week. Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points Assessment: Tutorial paper (30%), Essay 2,000 wd (40%), Listening test (30%)
Arrangements, covers, remixes, transcriptions, reworkings, recycling, borrowing: the history of reusing existing material to create new music is one that can be traced from the medieval period to the present day. This unit of study will examine the variety of approaches taken to creative transformation in music by composers and musicians in various musical traditions in high art and popular music genres. Ability to read music notation is required.
MUSC3639 Music Journalism
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1 hr lecture, 1 hr tut/week. Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points Assessment: Exercises in music journalism and reviewing 4,000 wd (50%), final paper 2,000 wd (30%), participation (20%)
Even as the 'Age of Newspapers' seems to be coming to an end, human beings' need for authoritative commentary on music remains as strong as ever. Along with surveying the history of music journalism from the early eighteenth century up to the present day, this unit of study offers participants the chance to try their hands at various forms of music journalism.
MUSC3640 Rhythms and Sounds of Latin America
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2 hr lecture, 1 hr tut/week Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points Assessment: Essay 2,500 wd or creative project with reflective statement (50%), Listening assessment (20%), Exam (30%)
Latin American music has become a powerful force in today's music industry, but its rich diversity and cultural contexts are not always acknowledged. This unit of study surveys a number of Latin American popular, folk and indigenous musical traditions in terms of their cultural milieu and historical development. Various musical, historical and cultural concerns are examined with a practical and creative involvement with these styles. Particular emphasis will be placed on the compositional characteristics and the repertoire pertinent to these traditions.
MUSC3699 Understanding Music: Modes of Hearing
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2 hr lecture, 1 hr tut/week Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points Assessment: Analyses eq. 1,500 words (30%), final paper 3,000 words (50%), tutorial participation (20%)
This unit of study deals with the different ways in which we comprehend music and with the different ways in which that comprehension might be explained. It deals with modes of hearing and musical analysis for the purpose of leading students towards a deeper knowledge of how music in various genres (ranging from the classical mainstream to the twentieth-century avant-garde, from Tin Pan Alley songs to punk rock and hip-hop) is understood. A good working knowledge of musical terminology and vocabulary is required, to the level as covered in MUSC2699. This is the required unit of study for a music major in an Arts degree.
MUSC2810 Music Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
MUSC2812 Music Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
MUSC2813 Music Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
MUSC4011 Music Honours A
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 2 hr Dissertation Seminar/week, plus fortnightly supervision Prerequisites: Credit results in MUSC3609, and either MUSC2631 or MUSC2615, plus a Music Major with credit average results in 36 senior music credit points. Assessment: 15,000 - 20,000 word thesis which may include a creative component equivalent to 6000 words (50%); Dissertation Seminar (20%); 12 credit points in Arts or Music units of study (30%).
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours BA in Music is both a completion at a high standard of an academic education in music, and a preparation for postgraduate study in music. Intending Honours students should speak to the Honours co-ordinator before enrolling. Honours requirements are: A dissertation on a topic agreed with the course coordinator, but normally negotiated by the end of the previous year in the course of MUSC3609 Musicology. A research-based creative component (performance, composition, curation) equivalent to up to 6000 words may, with permission of the supervisor, be included as an integral part of the dissertation, and a further 12 credit points in Arts or Music (subject to approval).
MUSC4012 Music Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: MUSC4011
Refer to MUSC4011
MUSC4013 Music Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: MUSC4012
Refer to MUSC4011
MUSC4014 Music Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: MUSC4013
Refer to MUSC4011
Pali
No major available.
PALI1001 Pali A
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Assessment: 3x1000wd class tests (32%), 1xoral recitation (8%), class participation (10%), 1x2-hr exam (50%)
Pali is a major canonical language of Buddhism. The scriptures of the Theravada School of Buddhism, which represent the oldest Buddhist writings preserved in an Indic language, are in Pali as are the commentaries and historical literature of the School. This unit will provide a grounding in the language and enable the student to read simple texts in Pali.
Textbooks
Warder, A. K., Introduction to Pali (Pali Text Society, Oxford, 1991)
PALI1002 Pali B
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: PALI1001 Assessment: 3x1000wd class tests (32%), 1xoral recitation (8%), class participation (10%), 1x2hr exam (50%)
This unit is an extension of Pali A. By the end of the unit, students will have completed Pali grammar and be in a position to read both scriptures and commentaries.
Textbooks
Warder, A. K., Introduction to Pali (Pali Text Society, Oxford, 1991
Peace and Conflict Studies
No major available.
PACS2002 History and Politics of War and Peace
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points, of which 6 must normally be in either HSTY, GOVT, SCLG or LAWS Assessment: tutorial attendance and oral presentation made to the tutorial as part of a group (10%), 1x1500wd tutorial exercise (30%), 1x2000wd essay (40%) and 1x1hr 1000wd in-class exam (20%)
Note: this unit is taught jointly with the Department of History and can be counted towards a History major
International history is often constructed on a chronology based on the incidence of war. In turn, this serves to normalise the idea of war and armed confict in understanding the past. This unit will scrutinise these methodological presumptions by examining international history since the start of the nineteenth century with a focus on peacemaking and on the evaluation of local, national, and international efforts to limit armed conflict and to promote peace and reconciliation.
Textbooks
reader to be available at the Copy Centre
Performance Studies
PRFM2601 Being There: Theories of Performance
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points in no more than two subject areas including at least 12 from Table A. Prohibitions: PRFM2001 Assessment: 1x1500wd take home exam (30%), 1x1000wd mid-semester essay (25%), tutorial assignment (15%) and continuous assessment (30%)
What is performance, and how can we understand what it is that performance does? This unit of study will introduce students to the study of performance, and the particular problems associated with approaching a phenomenon that is often ephemeral, experiential in nature, and frequently shrouded in mystery. Students will learn key theoretical and methodological approaches to the study and practice of a range of performance genres, including, but not limited to theatre and other artistic practices.
Textbooks
Selected readings available from the University Copy Centre
PRFM2602 Performance: Production & Interpretation
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Summer Late Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x2-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points in no more than two subject areas including at least 12 credit points from Table A Prohibitions: PRFM2002 Assessment: 1x750wd brief semiotic analysis of a poster/flyer advertising a theatre performance and description/analysis of a moment from the actual performance (20%), 1x1250wd tutorial paper (with an appendix of brief homework tasks/research notes) arising from a performance-making exercise in workshops (30%),
1x2500wd completed performance analysis essay, including a reflective commentary on methodology (50%) Practical field work: Students will undertake some workshop exercises in their tutorials and will attend professional theatre productions outside class times
How do the members of an audience make meaning from their experience of theatrical performance? How (and to what extent) can theatre-makers guide this process through the use of text, movement, spatial design, costuming, lighting, sound and other production elements? In this unit of study, students will attend events at a number of Sydney theatres and develop a critical language for analysing live performance. Practical workshops will also provide an introduction to theatre production techniques.
Textbooks
Selected readings available through the Unversity Copy Centre
PRFM2603 Between Impro & Text: Making Performance
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x2-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points in no more than two subject areas including at least 12 from Table A Prohibitions: PRFM3005 Assessment: 1x1200-1500wd tutorial paper related to group performance work (40%), 1x2500wd essay on rehearsal practices (50%), continuous assessment and formative tasks (10%)
Some performances seem firmly text-based (a David Williamson play; the libretto/score of a Wagnerian opera). Others involve more or less spontaneous "composition-in-performance" (Commedia dell' Arte, Theatresports, "free jazz"). Yet, whatever the form, performance is always the thing you get when skilled artisans "assume a responsibility to an audience and to tradition as they understand it" (Dell Hymes). In this unit, we analyse the interactions between literary and primarily oral traditions of performance, questioning assumptions about the historical primacy of texts.
Textbooks
Selected readings available from the University Copy Centre
PRFM3603 Playing Politics
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x3-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: (PRFM2601 and PRFM2602) or (PRFM2001 and PRFM2002) Prohibitions: PRFM3015, PRFM3026 Assessment: 1x500wd equivalent tutorial and reading tasks (10%), 1x2000wd essay (50%), 1x2000wd contribution towards a group research dossier (40%)
Many theatre practitioners and performance artists have sought to make their work an explicit cultural intervention into movements of social and political change. Here we will critique in detail, and to some extent explore practically, the strategies adopted by a number of key artists and companies, both past and present: from Brecht to Boal, from 'community theatre' to 'contemporary performance'. We will also consider the way protest actions and, indeed, mainstream processes of parliamentary democracy appear to have become increasingly theatricalised.
Textbooks
Selected readings available from the University Copy Centre
PRFM3604 Embodied Histories
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week (weeks 1 - 5) and 1x4-hr seminar/week (weeks 6 - 13) Prerequisites: (PRFM2601 and PRFM2602) or (PRFM2001 and PRFM2002) Prohibitions: PRFM3021 Assessment: 1x1000wd essay (40%), 1x3500wd essay (60%) Practical field work: 2 hour workshop - weeks 6 to13 only
Can we investigate and understand historical moments and social movements through a study of dancing bodies? In this unit we will be looking at popular dance practices in western cultures over time. From the Charleston, the Lindy and Jive, through musical comedy and jazz, to gogo, disco and hip hop we will develop an understanding of the relationship between movement, music, time and place. This will be done through a combination of observation and practical participation. No previous dance training is required.
Textbooks
Selected readings available through the University Copy Centre
PRFM3605 Cross-Cultural and Hybrid Performance
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x3-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: (PRFM2601 and PRFM2602) or (PRFM2001 and PRFM2002) Prohibitions: PRFM3023, PRFM3028 Assessment: 1x group tutorial presentation (25%), 1x1000wd tutorial paper (30%), 1x3000wd essay (45%)
This unit will analyse the development of cross-cultural and hybrid performance in Australia, Britain and the United States. Concentrating on a range of Indigenous and non-indigenous performance practices - football mascots, contemporary dance, pop music and text based theatre - we will utilise postcolonial theories, as applied to performance, to explore diverse understandings of innovation and appropriation, ownership and copyright in colonial and post-colonial societies since the 1950s.
Textbooks
Selected readings available through the University Copy Centre
PRFM3606 Approaches to Acting
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x3-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: 18 junior credit points in no more than two subject areas including at least 12 from Part A of the Table of Units of Study Prohibitions: PRFM3022 Assessment: 1x2500wd essay (40%), 1x group presentation (20%), 1x1000wd write-up (20%), 6x80-100wd interlocutions (10%) 1x500wd formative literature summary (10%)
All theories of acting are grounded in implicit theories about the human self: to Stanislavsky, for example, the self is a repository of memories; while for Meyerhold, the self is a biomechanical resource. We will survey - and experiment with - a range of theories of acting, from Quintilian to Mamet, Zeami to Suzuki, uncovering the assumptions about human being underlying each. The unit involves a workshop component, although no experience is necessary: you will not be assessed on your acting ability.
Textbooks
A course reader will be available from the University Copy Centre
PRFM3620 Performance Production Internship
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: (PRFM2601 and PRFM2602) or (PRFM2001 and PRFM2002) Assessment: 1x evaluation of internship (40%), 1x4000wd reflective journal (60%) and completion of Seymore Centre Internship Practical field work: 40-hrs of work placement
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
This internship consists of a work placement comprising 40 working hours at the Seymour Centre, assisted and supervised by both the Centre staff and the department. During the placement students will experience different facets of the operation of a major arts centre. Roles may include lighting, sound, stage management, administration or marketing. Following their internships students will be required to complete a journal that analyses and contextualises their experience.
PRFM3961 Rehearsal Studies
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x3-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: Credit results in either (PRFM2601 and PRFM2602) or (PRFM2001 and PRFM2002) Corequisites: PRFM3962 and sufficient units for a major in Performance Studies Assessment: 1x3000wd essay (60%), 1x1500wd tutorial workbook (30%), preparation for seminar discussions (10%) Practical field work: Full time attendance for 2 weeks in the mid-year break
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 is structured around a performance project involving professional actors and a director. Students observe and analyse a rehearsal process, which will take place during the mid year break. In this unit, the theoretical and methodological groundwork is laid: accounts of rehearsal by participants and observers, ethnographic theory, video recordings of rehearsal, prompt books and other materials are examined with a view to establishing an appropriate level of awareness of the task and a methodological approach.
Textbooks
Course Reader
PRFM3962 Rehearsal to Performance
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x3-hr seminar for six weeks Prerequisites: (Credit results in PRFM2601 and PRFM2602) or (credit results in PRFM2001 and PRFM2002) Corequisites: PRFM3961 and sufficient units for a major in Performance Studies Assessment: 1x4500wd casebook of rehearsal process (100%) Practical field work: Full-time attendance at rehearsals of a performance project during 2 weeks of July mid-year break
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
In the July break students observe professional actors and directors in rehearsal, they document and record the process with a view to writing a casebook about it. The classes in the first part of the session provide an opportunity to unpack the experience, to undertake some analysis of the resulting performance, and to rethink the theoretical and methodological issues in light of the practical experience.
Textbooks
Course Reader
PRFM1801 Performance 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 Performance Studies at an approved overseas university should enrol in this unit. Such students must seek approval for their proposed course of study from the Chair of Department.
PRFM2805 Performance 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 senior unit of study in Performance Studies at an approved overseas university should enrol in this unit. Such students must seek approval for their proposed course of study from the Chair of Department.
PRFM2806 Performance 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 senior unit of study in Performance Studies at an approved overseas university should enrol in this unit. Such students must seek approval for their proposed course of study from the Chair of Department.
PRFM2810 Performance 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 senior unit of study in Performance Studies at an approved overseas university should enrol in this unit. Such students must seek approval for their proposed course of study from the Chair of Department.
PRFM2811 Performance 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 senior unit of study in Performance Studies at an approved overseas university should enrol in this unit. Such students must seek approval for their proposed course of study from the Chair of Department.
PRFM2812 Performance 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 senior unit of study in Performance Studies at an approved overseas university should enrol in this unit. Such students must seek approval for their proposed course of study from the Chair of Department.
PRFM4011 Performance Studies Honours A
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 1x 2-hr seminar/week (Semester 1): Critical Theory and Performance, 1x 2-hr seminar/week (Semester 1): Contemporary Performance, 1x 2-hr seminar/week (Semesters 1 & 2): Research Methods/Group Supervision, 1x2-hr seminar (Semester 1, auditing only): Postgraduate Research Seminar, participant-observation fieldwork (equivalent to 4 weeks full-time), 1x1hr-2hrs/fortnight with thesis supervisor (Semester 2 only) Prerequisites: Credit results in PRFM3961 and PRFM3962 (or PRFM3901 and PRFM3902) and Credit average in a further 36 senior credit points of PRFM units Assessment: 1x12000-15000wd thesis (33.5%), 1x12000-15000wd casebook (based on participant-observation fieldwork) (33.5%), 2 seminars x 4500wds of written work or its equivalent per seminar (33%) Practical field work: Workshops and placement in a theatre company to observe a creative process in progress; group supervision meeting.
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in Performance Studies consists of:
1. a 12000-15000 word thesis written under the supervision of a member of the academic staff
2. a 12000-15000 word casebook based on fieldwork observations of the training/rehearsal/preparation processes involved in a genre of cultural performance
3. two assessable coursework seminars - 4500 words each (Critical Theory and Performance and Contemporary Performance)
4. a research methods seminar (formative assessment only) and auditing of the departmental postgraduate/staff research seminar.
For more information, contact Dr Amanda Card, Honours Coordinator, or Dr Paul Dwyer, Chair of Department.
1. a 12000-15000 word thesis written under the supervision of a member of the academic staff
2. a 12000-15000 word casebook based on fieldwork observations of the training/rehearsal/preparation processes involved in a genre of cultural performance
3. two assessable coursework seminars - 4500 words each (Critical Theory and Performance and Contemporary Performance)
4. a research methods seminar (formative assessment only) and auditing of the departmental postgraduate/staff research seminar.
For more information, contact Dr Amanda Card, Honours Coordinator, or Dr Paul Dwyer, Chair of Department.
PRFM4012 Performance Studies Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: PRFM4011
Refer to PRFM4011
PRFM4013 Performance Studies Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: PRFM4012
Refer to PRFM4011
PRFM4014 Performance Studies Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: PRFM4013
Refer to PRFM4011
Philosophy
PHIL1011 Reality, Ethics and Beauty
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2 hour lecture and 1x1 hour tutorial per week Prohibitions: PHIL1003, PHIL1004, PHIL1006, PHIL1008 Assessment: tutorial participation (10%), 1x2000 word essay (30%) and 1x2 hour exam (60%)
This unit is an introduction to central issues in metaphysics, ethics and aesthetics. It opens with general questions about reality, God, personal identity and free will. The middle section of the unit will consider questions about values, goodness and responsibility. The final part is concerned with the question "what is art", the nature of aesthetic judgment and the role of art in our lives.
Textbooks
Readings will be available from the University Copy Centre.
PHIL1012 Introductory Logic
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Summer Late Classes: 1x2 hour lecture and 1x1 hour tutorial per week Assessment: tutorial participation (10%), 2 assignments (40%) and 1x2 hour exam (50%)
An introduction to modern logic: the investigation of the laws of truth. One essential aspect of good reasoning or argumentation is that it is valid: it cannot lead from true premises to a false conclusion. In this course we learn how to identify and construct valid arguments, using techniques such as truth tables, models and truth trees. Apart from being a great aid to clear thinking about any subject, knowledge of logic is essential for understanding many areas not only of contemporary philosophy, but also linguistics, mathematics and computing.
PHIL1013 Society, Knowledge and Self
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1 hour lectures and 1x1 hour tutorial per week Prohibitions: PHIL1010 Assessment: tutorial participation (10%), 1x2000 word essay (30%) and 1x2 hour exam (60%)
This unit is an introduction to central issues in political philosophy, theories of knowledge and philosophical conceptions of the self. The first part will consider the state, freedom and political obligation. The second part will examine some of the major theories of knowledge in the modern philosophical tradition. The final section will look at conceptions of the self as a knowing and acting subject.
Textbooks
Readings will be available from the Copy Centre
PHIL1016 Mind and Morality HSC
Credit points: 6 Session: Summer Main,Winter Main
Note: This unit is available to HSC students only
If a robot told you that it was in pain, would you believe it? If it is wrong to kill animals, should we try to stop animals from killing each other? How do you know what the colour red looks like to your friends? What do these philosophical puzzles reveal about ourselves, our minds, and our responsibilities towards others? This one-unit HSC course focuses on contemporary disputes regarding the nature of the mind, personal identity and ethics. As you engage with these issues, you will be introduced to the philosophical theories that underpin our notion of ourselves and our place in the world, and you will improve your ability to analyse and present complex ideas and arguments.
PHIL2600 Twentieth Century Philosophy
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2 hour lecture and 1x1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy Prohibitions: PHIL2000 Assessment: tutorial participation (10%), 1x2500 word essay (40%) and 1x2 hour exam (50%)
Main developments in philosophical thought in the twentieth century. Topics include: logical atomism; logical positivism and its attack on metaphysics; conceptual analysis; Quine, holism, behaviourism, and the overthrow of positivism; the resurgence of metaphysics; functionalism in the philosophy of mind; modal realism. Essential background for understanding how philosophy is done today in English-speaking countries.
Textbooks
Ayer AJ. Language, Truth and Logic. London. Penguin 2001
PHIL2610 Exploring Nonclassical Logic
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2 hour lecture and 1x1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: PHIL1012 Introductory Logic OR permission from coordinator Prohibitions: PHIL3214 Assessment: assignments (50%) and 1x2 hour exam (50%)
Classical logic is what you study in introductory units such as PHIL1012. This unit covers major extensions of and alternatives to classical logic, such as temporal, modal, intuitionist, relevance, and many-valued logics. As well as looking at the internal workings of these logics, we examine some of their applications, and the philosophical issues surrounding them.
PHIL2615 Intermediate Logic
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2 hour lecture and 1x1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy and PHIL1012 or PHIL2203 or PHIL2628. Prohibitions: PHIL2215, PHIL3215 Assessment: 1x2 hour exam (50%) and weekly exercises (50%)
The axiomatic approach to classical logic. The focus is on proofs of the main metalogical results - consistency, completeness, etc - for the propositional and predicate calculi.
PHIL2617 Practical Ethics
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Summer Late Classes: 1x2 hour lecture and 1x1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points Prohibitions: PHIL2517 Assessment: 1x2500 word essay (40%), tutorial participation (10%), tutorial presentation (10%) and 1x2000 word take-home exam (40%)
This unit draws on contemporary moral philosophy to shed light on some of the most pressing practical, ethical questions of our time, including euthanasia, abortion, surrogacy, censorship, animal rights, genetic testing and cloning and environmental ethics. By the end of the unit, students should have a good understanding of these practical ethical issues; and, more crucially, be equipped with the conceptual resources to think through new ethical questions and dilemmas as they arise in their personal and professional lives.
Textbooks
Readings will be available from the University Copy Centre
PHIL2618 Aesthetics and Art
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2 hour lecture and 1x1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy. Prohibitions: PHIL2518 Assessment: 1x2500 word essay (50%) and 1x2000 word take-home exam (50%)
Why is art important to us? What is an aesthetic response to something? What is the relation between art and aesthetics? Is there such a thing as objective interpretation of an artwork? Or is it all a matter of taste? Should we believe in "the death of the author"? What is the relation between art and representation, expression and emotion? We shall discuss these and other questions (e.g. modernity, metaphor) from the perspective of an historical approach to the philosophical study of aesthetics and art.
Textbooks
Readings include Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Tostoy, Collingwood, Danto, Fried, and Cavell. These will be made available from the University Copy Centre.
PHIL2622 Reality, Time & Possibility: Metaphysics
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2 hour lecture and 1x1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy Assessment: 1x1400 word essay (33%), 1x2000 word essay (45%) and 11 short multiple choice quizzes (22%)
This is a unit in metaphysics: the discipline that tells us about the nature of the world. The unit carries on from the Reality component of first year. We engage with questions like: What is time? What is space? What makes something a person? How much change can I undergo and still be me? Are objects four-dimensional space-time worms? Do the past or future exist, and could we travel to them? Are there numbers?
PHIL2623 Moral Psychology
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Winter Main Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy. Prohibitions: PHIL2513, PHIL3513 Assessment: 1x2500wd essay (50%) and 1x2000wd take-home exam (50%)
We go beyond the question of which actions are morally right to consider the following: How should we evaluate motives and emotions? Is anyone actually virtuous, or are we all weak-willed, self-deceived confabulators? Are any actions or persons evil? When should we feel guilty or ashamed? Should forgiveness be unconditional? Is morality the product of Darwinian natural selection, or of culture and learning? Is there any objective truth in morality, or are moral claims merely subjective or culturally relative?
Textbooks
Readings available from the University Copy Centre
PHIL2627 Philosophy and Psychiatry
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2 hour lecture and 1x1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy. Prohibitions: PHIL2227 Assessment: 2x2250 word essays (100%)
Can the concept 'mental illness' be a valid one? What might delusions tell us about the structure of the mind? What assumptions underlie attempts to classify mental disorder? Can we be justified in compelling people to submit to psychiatric treatment? This unit will examine philosophical questions raised by mental disorder and our attempts to understand/treat it, and will connect psychiatry to debates in philosophy such as the mind/body problem, the concept of a person, and the possibility of knowledge.
Textbooks
Readings will be available form the University Copy Centre
PHIL2629 Descartes and Continental Philosophy
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2 hour lecture and 1x1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy Prohibitions: PHIL2004, PHIL3004 Assessment: 1x1000 word tutorial exercise (30%), 1x1000 word presentation (20%), 1x2500 word essay (50%)
Descartes is generally regarded as the founder of modern philosophy, and in this unit we look both at his own contribution, and at his influence on the subsequent course of philosophical thought in the work of Malebranche, Spinoza, and Leibniz. Just over half the unit will be devoted to Descartes' own thought, and we will look at the various stages in the development of his ideas. In the second half of the unit, we will examine the ideas of his successors on selected metaphysical themes, above all on perception and the mind/body question.
Textbooks
R. Descartes, Discourse on Method and Other Writings, trans. D. Clarke (Penguin paperback)
PHIL2632 Modernity in Crisis
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2 hour lecture and 1x1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points in Philosophy Prohibitions: PHIL2532, PHIL3532 Assessment: 1x500 word tutorial paper (10%), 1x2000 word essay (50%), 1x2000 word take-home exam (40%)
This unit continues the themes developed in Theorising Modernity into the Twentieth Century. We will see how the new realities of free markets, democracy, the state and bureaucracy, individualism and cultural rationalisation presented new problems and opportunities and gave rise to new theoretical frameworks for their comprehension. The unit will focus on the work of Weber, The Frankfurt School, Foucault and Habermas.
Textbooks
Readings will be available from the University Copy Centre
PHIL2634 Democratic Theory
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2 hour lecture and 1x1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points in Philosophy Prohibitions: PHIL2514 Assessment: presentation (10%), 1x2000 word essay (45%) and 1x2000 word take-home exam (45%)
A unit in normative political philosophy. The unit will examine ideas of democracy, as well as historical foundations of these ideas, and it will do so in order to address key issues in contemporary democratic theory, such as the tension between republican and liberal ideas, the relationship between justice and democracy, the challenges of social and cultural pluralism, the limits of democratic inclusion, and, importantly, the nature of political legitimacy and the challenge of a suitably inclusive justification of political principles.
PHIL2635 Contemporary Political Philosophy
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2 hour lecture and 1x1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy Prohibitions: PHIL3535, PHIL2535 Assessment: 1x2000 word essay (50%), 1x500 word tutorial paper (10%) and 1x2000 word take-home exam (40%)
A critical introduction to the major schools of thought in contemporary political philosophy, organized around the theme of inclusion and exclusion. The inclusive ambitions of liberal political theory will be confronted with objections from thinkers motivated by concern with various facets of social and political exclusion, notably based on the categories of gender, cultural difference, deviancy and statelessness. Debates relating to refugees and asylum seekers will be considered in the latter part of this unit of study.
Textbooks
Kymlicka, W. Introduction to Contemporary Political Philosophy, OUP, 2nd edition.
PHIL2642 Critical Thinking
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2,Winter Main Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points in any units within the University Assessment: 1x1500wd essay (30%), 1x in-class test (20%) and 1x2hr exam (50%)
An introduction to critical thinking and analysis of argument. By examining arguments drawn from diverse sources, including journalism, advertising, science, medicine, history, economics and politics, we will learn how to distinguish good from bad arguments, and how to construct rationally persuasive arguments of our own. Along the way we will grapple with scepticism, conspiracy theories and pseudoscience. The reasoning skills imparted by this unit make it invaluable not only for philosophy students but for every student at the University.
PHIL2643 Philosophy of Mind
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2 hour lecture and 1x1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy Prohibitions: PHIL2213, PHIL3213, PHIL2205 Assessment: 1x2500 word essay (60%) and 1x2000 word take-home exam (40%)
An introduction to modern theories of the nature of mind, and some important contemporary issues in the philosophy of mind. Topics will include the problem of mental representation (how can minds think about the world?), the relationship of minds to brains, and the problem of consciousness.
Textbooks
The Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, D. Braddon-Mitchell and F. Jackson, Blackwell, Oxford 1997
PHIL2644 Critical Theory: From Marx to Foucault
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2 hour lecture and 1x1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points Assessment: 1x2000 word essay (50%), 1x2000 word take-home exam (40%), 1x500 word tutorial paper (10%)
The idea of critical theory emerged as an attempt to go beyond the alleged impasses of philosophy and actually challenge the world. This unit will consider various phases in the history of this project: from Marx, the Frankfurt School, to Foucault and Habermas. It will examine both the innovations and weaknesses of these various formulations in their historical context, as well as considering contemporary efforts to reanimate the idea of critical theory.
PHIL2645 Philosophy of Law
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy Prohibitions: PHIL2510, PHIL3510 Assessment: 1x2500wd essay (50%) and 1x2hr exam (50%)
This unit looks at fundamental issues in the philosophy of law, including the role of law, civil liberties, legal obligation, punishment, responsibility and morality. It considers questions about whether or not a legal system is necessary, arguments for anarchy, and reasons for safeguarding freedoms from the force of law. It considers arguments for obedience to law, and seeks a moral justification of punishment. The discussion of practical issues in law leads to consideration of relation between law and morality.
Textbooks
Readings will be available from the University Copy Centre.
PHIL2647 The Philosophy of Happiness
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2,Summer Late Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points Assessment: 1x2500wd essay (45%), 1x2000wd take-home exam (45%) and tutorial participation (10%)
We all want to be happy and to live a worthwhile life. But what is happiness? Why should we want it? And how do we get it? These are among the most fundamental questions of philosophy. We will evaluate the answers of major thinkers from ancient and modern and eastern and western traditions; and consider the implications of current psychological research into the causes of happiness for the question of how to live well, as individuals and as a society.
Textbooks
Readings available from the University Copy Centre
PHIL2649 The Classical Mind
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy or ANHS1600 Prohibitions: PHIL2613, PHIL2614, PHIL3639 Assessment: tutorial participation (10%), 1x in-class test (15%), 1x1500wd essay (25%) and 1x2hr exam (50%)
An introduction to the philosophical outlook, conceptions, and arguments of Classical Greek philosophy. This unit will survey the rich period of Greek thinking from 600 BCE to the beginning of the Common Era, examining the Presocratics, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Hellenistic philosophers. This unit will demonstrate the incredible originality of Greek philosophy, and reveal both its legacy in and differences from philosophy today.
PHIL2651 Bodies and Passions
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2 hour lecture and 1x1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 Junior credit points in Philosophy Assessment: 1x tutorial presentation (20%), 1x in class test (30%) and 1x2000 word essay (50%)
This unit is an introduction to theories of the passions. Paying special attention to Descartes, Spinoza and Hume, it will explore the notion that the body is the source of error and irrationality. However, bodily passions and associations also are crucial to our wellbeing and can make positive contributions to cognitive processes. In addition to the study of central figures in the history of philosophy, this unit aims to provide historical grounding for important issues in contemporary moral psychology.
PHIL3615 Pragmatism
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2 hour lecture and 1x1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 12 credit points in Philosophy Prohibitions: PHIL3015 Assessment: 1000 word tutorial exercises (2x20%) and 1x2500 word essay (60%)
This unit of study will consider the emergence and recent developments of the distinctive philosophical outlook known as "American Pragmatism". We shall discuss various pragmatist approaches to central philosophical topics such as truth, mind, knowledge, logic, naturalism, apriority, and the fact/value distinction. A central theme will be the philosophical importance of the appeal to practice and the agent's point of view. Readings will include works by William James, C.S. Pierce, John Dewey, Robert Brandom, Wilfred Sellars, and Richard Rorty.
PHIL3638 Hegel
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2 hour lecture and 1x1 hour tutorial per week Prerequisites: 16 Senior credit points in Philosophy. Prohibitions: PHIL3038, PHIL3509 Assessment: tutorial presentation (10%), 1x essay (50%) and 1x take-home exam (40%)
This unit will focus on Hegel's mature social and political ideas as present in Elements of a Philosophy of Rights. Hegel offers one of the great alternative conceptualisations of modern politics and state to the dominant classical liberal tradition This course will contextualise his ideas in terms of both their own development and of Hegel's philosophy as a whole. However, the emphasis will be on a careful reconstruction of Hegel's mature political philosophy and his critique of his most important competitors both then and now.
Textbooks
Hegel G W F, Elements of the Philosophy of Rights, (Ed Wood A), CUP 1991
PHIL1801 Philosophy Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
PHIL2804 Philosophy Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
PHIL2805 Philosophy Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
PHIL2806 Philosophy Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
PHIL2810 Philosophy Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
PHIL2811 Philosophy Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
PHIL2812 Philosophy Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
PHIL4011 Philosophy Honours A
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: two 2 hour seminars per week Prerequisites: 48 credit points of Philosophy at Senior level, with a credit average or better, and including 6 credit points from each of the three programs (History of Philosophy; Epistemology, Metaphysics & Logic; Aesthetics, Ethics and Political Philosophy). Intending Honours students are strongly encouraged to discuss their unit choices with the Honours Coordinator at the beginning of their third year. The department places importance on the breadth of the philosophical education of its Honours graduates, and encourages intending Honours students to avoid over-specialisation at Senior level Assessment: a thesis of 12,000-15,000 words, 4,000-5,000 words of written work or its equivalent for each seminar and a 20 minute mini-conference presentation
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in Philosophy 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 12,000-15,000 words in length. Each seminar requires 4,000-5,000 words of written work or its equivalent.
The thesis is worth 40% of the final Honours mark and each of the seminars is worth 15%.
The following seminars are on offer in 2011:
Advanced Philosophy of Science (Prof Paul Griffiths)
Cosmopolitanism and Community (Dr Thomas Besch)
Rawls (Dr Thomas Besch)
Scepticism (Dr David Macarthur)
Conceiving Responsibility (Dr Justine McGill)
Sympathy (Dr Anik Waldow)
"Mere" Life (Dr John Grumley)
Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein (Dr David Macarthur)
Romanticisim (Prof Paul Redding)
Davidson (Dr Anik Waldow)
For more information, contact Dr John Grumley, 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 12,000-15,000 words in length. Each seminar requires 4,000-5,000 words of written work or its equivalent.
The thesis is worth 40% of the final Honours mark and each of the seminars is worth 15%.
The following seminars are on offer in 2011:
Advanced Philosophy of Science (Prof Paul Griffiths)
Cosmopolitanism and Community (Dr Thomas Besch)
Rawls (Dr Thomas Besch)
Scepticism (Dr David Macarthur)
Conceiving Responsibility (Dr Justine McGill)
Sympathy (Dr Anik Waldow)
"Mere" Life (Dr John Grumley)
Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein (Dr David Macarthur)
Romanticisim (Prof Paul Redding)
Davidson (Dr Anik Waldow)
For more information, contact Dr John Grumley, Honours Coordinator.
PHIL4012 Philosophy Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: Refer to PHIL4011 Corequisites: PHIL4011 Assessment: Refer to PHIL4011
Refer to PHIL4011
PHIL4013 Philosophy Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: Refer to PHIL4011 Corequisites: PHIL4012
Refer to PHIL4011
PHIL4014 Philosophy Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: Refer to PHIL4011 Corequisites: PHIL4013 Assessment: Refer to PHIL4011
Refer to PHIL4011
Political Economy
ECOP1001 Economics as a Social Science
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Summer Main Classes: 2x1hr lectures/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 2x1000wd essays (30%), 1x400wd tutorial paper (5%), 1x1.5hr exam (50%) and tutorial participation (15%)
Economic concerns are central to modern society and politics. Yet economists are deeply divided in their views about how the economy works and how it could be made to work better. This unit of study explores the principal competing currents of economic thought - classical, neo-classical, institutional, Marxian and Keynesian. It looks at how these rival economic theories influence views about economic policy and the future of capitalism. This provides a solid foundation for subsequent study of economics and political economy.
Textbooks
F. Stilwell, Political Economy: the Contest of Economic Ideas (Oxford U.P.)
ECOP1003 International Economy and Finance
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1hr lectures/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x1000wd essay (20%), 1x2000wd essay (40%), 1x1.5hr exam (30%) and tutorial participation (10%)
The world economy has changed dramatically since World War 2, especially with the renewed 'globalisation' from the 1980s. This unit traces the historical patterns of globalisation. It analyses the debates about whether globalisation has been for the better or worse overall, and who would have been the winners and the losers in this process. The unit explores the changing theories that have been used to explain and evaluate global economic integration. The unit concurrently explores the forms of, and debates about, the regulation of economic activity on a global scale, addressing the development and changing roles of states and international agencies and evaluates their capacity to generate global equity and economic stability.
ECOP1004 Economy and Society
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1hr lectures/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x1000wd essay (20%), 1x2000 word essay (40%), 1x1.5hr exam (30%) and turorial participation (10%)
This unit examines the processes by which economic activity is embedded within a broader social structure. Attention is given to the key institutions that channel economic activity, the processes by which capitalist markets are regulated, and the distinctive features of capitalist economies. The subject is organised around a range of conceptual tools which elaborate these themes, followed by analysis of particular case studies that illustrate the social constitution, dynamics and regulation of particular markets.
ECOP2011 Economics of Modern Capitalism
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1hr lectures/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: ECOP1001 and either (ECOP1002 or ECOP1003 or ECOP1004) Prohibitions: ECOP2001 Assessment: 1x1500wd essay (40%), 1x2hr exam (40%), tutorial participation and presentation (20%)
This unit of study examines the economic theory that emerged with the formation and development of capitalism. It explores the key theoretical focuses of political economy, classical, neo-classical and general equilibrium theories, before proceeding to analyze the economics of Keynes and post-Keynesian theory, and reflecting on contemporary macroeconomic debates, including production, the distribution of income and economic growth.
ECOP2012 Social Foundations of Modern Capitalism
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1hr lectures/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: ECOP1001 and (ECOP1002 or ECOP1003 or ECOP1004) Prohibitions: ECOP2002 Assessment: 1x2000wd research essay (40%), 1x1.5hr exam (40%), seminar presentation (10%) and seminar participation (10%)
Economic activity is 'embedded' within a broader social structure, making the study of institutional and social forces a crucial element in understanding the historical fabric and functioning of the economy. This unit looks at the institutions, such as of capital, labour, the family and the state that channel economic activity and also at the importance of class and other social struggles in the historical transformations of those institutions. It examines how governments respond to the imperatives for economic and social order, including how the state acts to regulate institutions, and socio-economic relations, to establish stability and maintain capital accumulation. Several illustrative case studies and policy areas are studied.
ECOP2601 Analysis of Business Cycles
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1hr lectures/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: ECOP1001 and (ECOP1002 or ECOP1003 or ECOP1004) Assessment: 1000wd essay (2x25%), 1x1.5hr exam (40%) and tutorial participation (10%)
This unit examines the various political economic aspects of business cycles. It surveys the predominant strands of thought, historical and contemporary, as to what causes cycles. The unit provides students with an overview of the ways that the upper turning point of a cycle has been, and is being, detected. Finally, it critically reviews how fiscal and monetary policies have been used to thwart the onset or soften the impact of crisis, drawing the implications for today's economic challenges.
ECOP2612 Economic Policy in Global Context
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1hr lectures/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: ECOP1001 and (ECOP1002 or ECOP1003 or ECOP1004) Assessment: 1000wd essays (2x25%), 1x1.5hr exam (40%) and tutorial participation (10%)
Some of the most contentious issues in political economy concern the role of the state in relation to contemporary economic problems. This unit of study examines particular economic policies, how they are shaped by competing theories, interests and ideologies, and how they operate in practice. Emphasis is placed on the Australian experience. Attention is also given to how economic policy is shaped by international economic conditions.
ECOP2911 Political Economy Honours II
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1.5hr seminar/week Prerequisites: Credit average in ECOP1001 and (ECOP1002 or ECOP1003 or ECOP1004) Corequisites: ECOP2011 or ECOP2012 Prohibitions: ECOP2901 Assessment: 1x1200wd seminar paper (15%) and seminar presentation (10%), 1x1500wd essay (20%), 1x2500wd research paper (40%) and seminar participation (15%)
This unit of study introduces students to some of the big debates in the social sciences, through an exploration of the meaning and limits of class concepts in social theory. Structure and agency, fact and interpretation, the politics of theory, and the nature of the Good Society are all considered. The unit is both an enrichment program adding breadth to the range of issues you study in Pass units of study, and an advanced program adding depth to your analytical and writing skills in Political Economy, in preparation for a third year studies and for a final honours year.
ECOP3012 Global Political Economy
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1hr lectures/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: ECOP1001 and (ECOP1002 or ECOP1003 or ECOP1004) Prohibitions: ECOP3002 Assessment: 1x1000wd essay (20%), 1x2000wd essay (40%), 1x1.5hr exam (30%) and 1x10 minute group presentation (10%)
This unit of study presents a historical and institutional perspective on the development of the capitalist world economy since 1945. The analysis starts with a historical and theoretical introduction covering the determinants of profits and accumulation and the role of external markets in economic growth. It then addresses key issues in this development including: the formation of the international monetary system and its crisis following the end of the long boom; and the global role of the United States and the formation of growth poles in Europe and in Asia.
ECOP3014 Political Economy of Development
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2,Summer Main Classes: 2x1hr lectures/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: ECOP1001 and (ECOP1002 or ECOP1003 or ECOP1004) Prohibitions: ECOP3004 Assessment: 1x1000wd essay (20%), 1x2500wd essay (40%), 1x1.5hr exam (30%) and tutorial presentation (10%)
This unit of study investigates the idea, theory and practice of economic development in low income countries. Students are introduced to particular theories explaining economic growth and the obstacles to development. These theories are applied to a range of contemporary issues in developing countries, such as industrialisation, structural adjustment and poverty, human rights, gender, the role of NGOs, development assistance and credit and debt drawing on case studies from different countries.
ECOP3015 Political Economy of the Environment
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1hr lectures/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: ECOP1001 and (ECOP1002 or ECOP1003 or ECOP1004) Prohibitions: ECOP3005 Assessment: 1x1500wd essay (35%), 1x1.5hr exam (30%), 1x 3000wd group case study (25%) and 1x group presentation (10%)
This unit of study critically examines the environmental foundations of the political economy. Two dimensions are explored: how economists and political economists theorise economic interactions with the environment; and how environmental problems emerge and are managed within the capitalist political economy. Attention is given to developing theories of environmental economics, ecological economics and range of radical critiques of human interactions with ecological systems. Individual environmental concerns are explored through a series of workshops that focus on the nature of the problems, policy prescriptions and the forces shaping particular environmental management strategies.
ECOP3017 Human Rights in Development
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: ECOP1001 and (ECOP1002 or ECOP1003 or ECOP1004) Prohibitions: ECOP3007 Assessment: 1x1000wd essay (20%), 1x2000wd essay (40%), 1x1.5hr exam (30%) and participation (10%)
This unit studies human rights in development. International debates about human rights and democratic legitimacy are linked to structural economic arguments and to cultural and structural debates over the process of socioeconomic change. This introduces the competing arguments over rights, the distinction between formal and effective rights and the social struggles that have created them. The approach of economic liberalism, emphasising property rights and the role of competition as an arbiter of equal opportunities in society, is discussed. The unit also includes international studies of indigenous rights and labour rights, the globalisation of capital and citizenship, and structural and cultural arguments over the nature of socio-economic change.
ECOP3019 Finance: Volatility and Regulation
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: ECOP1001 and (ECOP1002 or ECOP1003 or ECOP1004) Prohibitions: ECOP3009 Assessment: 1x1200wd essay (20%), 1x2000wd essay (35%), 1x1.5hr exam (35%) and tutorial presentation/participation (10%)
Foreign exchange, international bond and derivative markets have expanded dramatically over the past 20 years. This unit of study examines reasons for the growth of these markets and their vulnerability to some form of volatility and crisis. Case studies of individual corporate financial crises and national financial crises are considered. The unit also addresses the regulation of financial markets, both on a national and international scale. It looks at the history of regulation, key regulatory and monitoring agencies, and arguments for a new international financial architecture.
ECOP3620 Distribution of Income and Wealth
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: ECOP1001 and (ECOP1002 or ECOP1003 or ECOP1004) Assessment: 1500wd essays (2x30%), 1x1.5hr exam (30%) and tutorial participation (10%)
The distribution of income and wealth is unequal in all nations, but the extent of inequality varies. What determines the size of these disparities? How have they changed over time? How do governments influence the distribution of income and wealth? Are alternative economic policies feasible? This unit explores how political economic analysis can be applied to the study of these issues of economic inequality.
ECOP3911 Theories in Political Economy
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2hr seminar/week Prerequisites: 24 Senior ECOP credit points with a credit average including ECOP2911 or (ECOP2901 and ECOP2902) Prohibitions: ECOP3901 Assessment: 2x1500wd essays (50%), seminar presentation/write up (25%) and class participation (25%)
Note: Third year students who have not completed the prerequisites should consult the Department of Political Economy about alternative requirements.
This unit of study looks at the various theoretical frameworks within which political economic analysis is constructed. It compares the methodologies of the principal schools of economic thought with particular emphasis on the non-neoclassical approaches to the study of economic issues. The unit is required preparation for intending honours students but is also available to pass students with a credit average in previous units.
ECOP3912 Research in Political Economy
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr seminar/week Prerequisites: 24 Senior ECOP credit points with a credit average including ECOP2911 or (ECOP2901 and ECOP2902) Prohibitions: ECOP3902 Assessment: 1200wd papers (2x30%), 1x1200wd research proposal (30%) and participation (10%)
Note: Third year students who have not completed the prerequisites should consult the Department of Political Economy about alternative requirements.
This unit considers the variety of research methods that can be used in Political Economy. Discussion of methodology is a principal focus. Practical consideration is also given to research materials, bibliographical access, quantitative methods, surveys and fieldwork. This is important preparation for students intending to do an honours dissertation, but the unit is also available to pass students with a credit average in previous units.
ECOP1551 Political Economy Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ECOP1552 Political Economy Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ECOP2550 Political Economy Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ECOP2551 Political Economy Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ECOP2552 Political Economy Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ECOP3551 Political Economy Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ECOP3552 Political Economy Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ECOP3553 Political Economy Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
ECOP4001 Political Economy Honours A
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: two seminars that meet weekly for two hours each in Semester 1 Prerequisites: credit average in four senior ECOP units and ECOP2011, ECOP2612 (or ECOP2012 with permission), ECOP2911, ECOP3911 and ECOP3912. Requirements for the Pass degree must be completed before entry to level 4000 honours units of study. Students who do not meet this requirement may apply to the Honours Coordinator for a waiver to permit their entry to Honours Corequisites: ECOP4002, ECOP4003, ECOP4004 Assessment: a thesis of 18000-20000 words in length and 6000 words of written work or equivalent for each seminar
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in Political Economy 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 first semester
3. two day-long thesis progress workshops
The thesis should be of 18000-20000 words in length. Each seminar requires 6000 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 2011:
Theories of Social Formations (Dr Stuart Rosewarne)
Issues in Political Economy (Dr Elizabeth Hill)
For more information, contact Dr Susan Schroeder, 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 first semester
3. two day-long thesis progress workshops
The thesis should be of 18000-20000 words in length. Each seminar requires 6000 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 2011:
Theories of Social Formations (Dr Stuart Rosewarne)
Issues in Political Economy (Dr Elizabeth Hill)
For more information, contact Dr Susan Schroeder, Honours Coordinator
ECOP4002 Political Economy Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ECOP4001
refer to ECOP4001
ECOP4003 Political Economy Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ECOP4002
refer to ECOP4001
ECOP4004 Political Economy Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: ECOP4003
refer to ECOP4001
Studies in Religion
RLST1002 The History of God
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Summer Early Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week and 1x1-hr tutorial/week Assessment: 1x1hr exam (30%), 1x2500wd essay (50%) and 1x tutorial presentation (20%)
This unit is a general introduction to the emergence of the great religious traditions in the ancient world, with specific reference to the West Asian and Mediterranean regions. The unit of study includes the ancient religions of Egypt, Persia, Greece and Rome, as well as the foundations of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Special attention is given to the tensions between monotheism (one god) and polytheism (many gods). Students are expected to specialise in traditions and themes of their own choice in writing essays.
Textbooks
Course Reader
RLST1005 Atheism, Fundamentalism & New Religions
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Assessment: 1x2500wd essay (40%), 1x1000wd in-class test (30%), 1x1000wd oral presentation (20%) and participation (10%)
What is the 'new' atheism? How have globalisation and new media affected religious practice? This unit considers a broad range of recent high-profile events and contemporary debates and controversies in religion. Topics incluce: the supposed rise of fundamentalism, arguments over 'the death of God', new forms of spirituality and enchantment. Through the use of case studies, from UFO-religions to The Gospel of Judas, students examine the overarching theme: What is the future of religion?
RLST2605 Christianity and the Medieval World
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week and 1x1-hr tutorial/week Assumed knowledge: 12 Junior credit points of Studies in Religion or their equivalent to be assessed by the department Assessment: 1x2000wd essay (40%), 1x1500wd take home exam (35%) and tutorial presentation (25%)
This unit examines the history of Christianity from the late Roman Empire to the close of the Middle Ages. A survey of the chief landmarks of the Christian religion in its social setting, in terms of its significant beliefs, experiences and diverse cultural
expressions. A tutorial hour will be devoted to an exploration of some major philosophical and theological themes from Late Antique Christianity to the Middle Ages.
expressions. A tutorial hour will be devoted to an exploration of some major philosophical and theological themes from Late Antique Christianity to the Middle Ages.
Textbooks
Course Reader
RLST2606 Christianity as a Global Religion
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Summer Main Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prohibitions: RLST2006 Assumed knowledge: 12 junior credit points of Religion Studies, or equivalent as assessed by the Department Assessment: 1x1000wd tutorial presentation (25%), 1x2000wd essay (40%), 1x1500wd take home exam (35%)
This unit traces the development of Christianity from the early modern period into the twenty-first century. Numerous themes demand attention in order to understand the diversity of the contemporary churches in all their vitality and crises: colonialism, post-colonialism and Christian mission; the challenges of secularism, science and atheism; new media and technologies; pluralism and inter-religious dialogue; faith, religious experience and the nature of identity.
Textbooks
Course Reader
RLST2612 Ancient Gnosticism
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prohibitions: RLST2012 Assumed knowledge: 12 junior credit points of Religion Studies, or equivalent as assessed by the Department Assessment: 1x1000wd tutorial presentation (25%), 1x2000wd essay (40%) and 1x1500wd take home exam (35%)
This unit provides an overview of the Zoroastrian, Gnostic and Manichaean traditions, with particular emphasis on certain topics and themes. These include: Zoroaster and the context of Indo-Iranian religion; Christian gnosis; Hermeticism and alchemy; Manichaeism; dualism and the problem of evil; apocalypse and eschatology. A special feature of this unit is the use of new and unpublished texts and research deriving from ongoing fieldwork in the Middle East.
Textbooks
Course Reader
RLST2613 Philosophy of Religion: East and West
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prohibitions: RLST2013 Assumed knowledge: 12 Junior credit points of Religion Studies, or their equivalent to be assessed by the Department Assessment: 1x1000wd short essay (30%), 1x2500wd long essay (45%), 1x5-7min class presentation (500wds equivalent) (15%), tutorial participation (10%)
This unit examines a number of topics that are traditionally taken to demarcate the philosophy of religion. Primary among these are questions concerning the existence of an Ultimate Source or God and the nature of Self. Topics considered include ontology and radical difference, ethics, concepts of life after death and the soul. The implications of religious pluralism for religious faith will also be discussed.
RLST2620 Religion and Violence, Faith and Blood
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prohibitions: RLST2020 Assumed knowledge: 12 Junior credit points of Religion Studies, or their equivalent to be assessed by the Department Assessment: 1x1000wd tutorial presentation (25%), 1x2000wd essay (40%), 1x1500wd take home exam (35%)
The twentieth century faced an unprecedented range of near-global crises - wars, depressions, communist-capitalist confrontation, ethnic conflict, epidemics, ecological disasters, extraordinary technological advances, the radical questioning of traditional values (along with secularisation) followed by reactive fundamentalisms, as well as serious tensions between modern science and religious conservatism. This unit considers how these crises have been addressed in religious thought and action. It will discuss popular mentalities and new spiritualities together with responses in the thought and praxis of leading religious figures.
Textbooks
Course Reader
RLST2623 Meditation and Self Transformation
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prohibitions: RLST2023 Assumed knowledge: 12 junior credit points of Religion Studies Assessment: 1x2500wd essay (50%), 1x1500wd tutorial paper (20%) and 1x2-hr exam (30%)
Note: This unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program.
Introductory examination of systems of meditative practices found mainly in Hindu and Buddhist traditions. Reference will be made to practices followed within Christian traditions. Theoretical/doctrinal/textual foundations are critically examined, with attention to the interpretive problems they present. The unit of study aims to enable students to gain an intellectual understanding of meditation and an ability to consider critically the issues it raises.
Textbooks
Course Reader
RLST2626 Witchcraft, Paganism and the New Age
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week and 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prohibitions: RLST2026 Assumed knowledge: 12 Junior credit points of Religion Studies, or their equivalent to be assessed by the Department Assessment: 1x1000wd book review (30%), 1x3000wd essay (50%) and 1x tutorial presentation (20%)
The rebirth of paganism progressed steadily throughout the twentieth century. Pagans celebrate diversity and heterogeneity, in sharp contrast to the major Western traditions which were exclusive and doctrinally prescriptive. The interrelationships between pagans, goddess worshippers and witchcraft/occultism are fascinating and labyrinthine. This unit will explore three areas of modern religion, and attempt to assess the importance of their contribution for the future of religion.
Textbooks
Course Reader
RLST3601 Rethinking Religion
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 senior credit points of Religion Assessment: 1x2000wd essay (30%), 1x3000wd research proposal (50%), 1x1000wd oral presentation (10%) and participation (10%)
This unit investigates pressing contemporary issues in the method and study of religion. It prepares students for advanced research, including honours. Historical analysis of religion and contentious key terms are debated, as students are introduced to field studies methodology and other complex research strategies. Theoretical work is more tightly integrated in this unit with research practice and the unit is structured to nurture the student in an extended research project, helping them to find a dynamic and assured academic voice.
RLST1801 Religious 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 Studies in Religion 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.
RLST2804 Religious 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 senior unit of study in Religious 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.
RLST2805 Religious 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 senior unit of study in Religious 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.
RLST2806 Religious 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 senior unit of study in Religious 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.
RLST2809 Religious 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 senior unit of study in Religious 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.
RLST2810 Religious 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 senior unit of study in Religious 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.
RLST4011 Religious Studies Honours A
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: Credit average in 48 senior credit points of Studies in Religion Assessment: 1x 20000wd thesis (60%) and 2 seminars x 10000wds of written work or its equivalent per seminar (40%)
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in Studies in Religion consists of:
1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
2. two semester seminars that meet weekly for two hours.
The thesis should be of 20000 words in length. Each seminar requires 10000 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 2011:
Methodology and Issues in the Study of Religion
New Discoveries in Early Christian and Jewish Studies
For more information, contact Professor Iain Gardner, Honours Coordinator.
1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff
2. two semester seminars that meet weekly for two hours.
The thesis should be of 20000 words in length. Each seminar requires 10000 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 2011:
Methodology and Issues in the Study of Religion
New Discoveries in Early Christian and Jewish Studies
For more information, contact Professor Iain Gardner, Honours Coordinator.
Textbooks
Kees Bolle, The Enticement of Religion. University of Notre Dame Press, 2002
RLST4012 Religious Studies Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: RLST4011
Refer to RLST4011
RLST4013 Religious Studies Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: RLST4012
Refer to RLST4011
RLST4014 Religious Studies Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: RLST4013
Refer to RLST4011
Sanskrit
SANS1001 Sanskrit Introductory 1
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Assessment: 3x1000wd assignments (60%), 1x3-hr exam (40%)
This unit provides an introduction to Sanskrit. It is intended for students who have little or no previous knowledge of the language. Emphasis will be given to understanding the basic grammatical structures and the Devanagari script. Pronunciation will be given attention. There will be exercises in translation from Sanskrit to English and English to Sanskrit.
Textbooks
Egenes, T., Introduction to Sanskrit, Part One. Delhi. Motilal Banarsidass 1996
SANS1002 Sanskrit Introductory 2
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: SANS1001 Assessment: 3x1000wd assignments (60%), 1x3-hr exam (40%)
This unit is an extension of work done in SANS1001. By the end of the unit, students will have covered the grammar necessary for reading simple Sanskrit texts.
Textbooks
Egenes, T., Introduction to Sanskrit, Part Two. Delhi. Motilal Banarsidass 2000
SANS2601 Sanskrit Intermediate 1
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1.5-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: SANS1002 Prohibitions: SANS2001 Assessment: 3x1000wd assignments (60%), 1x3-hr exam (40%)
This unit will complete the more advanced grammatical forms in the first half of the semester and will then be devoted to reading classical Sanskrit literature, especially selections relevant to the study of Indian religion and culture. Readings will be drawn from the Hitopadesha and Mahabharata.
Textbooks
Lanman, C. R., A Sanskrit Reader, 2nd edn. (Satguru Publications, 1983)
SANS2602 Sanskrit Intermediate 2
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1.5-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: SANS2001 or SANS2601 Prohibitions: SANS2002 Assessment: 3x1000wd assignments (60%), 1x3-hr exam (40%)
This unit will be devoted to reading classical Sanskrit literature, especially selections relevant to the study of Indian religion and culture. Readings will be drawn from texts such as the Bhagavadgita, Mahabharata and Jatakamala.
Textbooks
Lanman, C.R., A Sanskrit Reader 2nd edn. (Satguru Publications, 1983)
SANS3601 Sanskrit Advanced 1
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1.5-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: SANS2002 or SANS2602 Prohibitions: SANS3001 Assessment: 3x1000wd assignments (60%), 1x3-hr exam (40%)
This unit will be devoted to reading a range of Sanskrit literature including more advanced poetical and philosophical texts. Readings will be drawn from texts such as the Ramayana, Buddhacarita and Yogasutras.
SANS3602 Sanskrit Advanced 2
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1.5-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: SANS3001 or SANS3601 Prohibitions: SANS3002 Assessment: 3x1000wd assignments (60%), 1x3-hr exam (40%)
This unit will be devoted to reading a range of Sanskrit literature including more advanced poetical and philosophical texts. Readings will be drawn from texts such as the Ramayana, Buddhacarita and the Yogasutras.
SANS3612 Sanskrit Research Preparation 2
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1.5-hr seminars/week Prerequisites: Credit result in SANS2001 or SANS2601 Assessment: 2x1000wd assignments (60%), 1x2000wd essay (40%)
Designed for students hoping to specialise in Indian and/or Buddhist Studies, this unit focuses on the classical languages of India, with a view to providing students with the ability to read and conduct research into Sanskrit texts in their original language.
SANS4001 Sanskrit IV Honours A
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: Two seminars, each seminar meets weekly for 2 hours for one semester Prerequisites: The completion of 8 senior units of study: a Credit average in senior level Sanskrit language units of study (SANS2601, SANS2602, SANS2612, SANS3601, SANS3602 and SANS3612) plus two additional units of study chosen from the following senior level Asian Studies units of study: ASNS2620 Classical Indian Philosophy, ASNS2621 Buddhist Philosophy, ASNS2623 India: Tradition and Modernity, ASNS2624 Understanding Buddhist Literature, ASNS2625 Buddhism in Modern Asia,
ASNS2626 Religious Traditions of South Asia, and / or any senior unit of Hindi / Urdu or equivalent as determined by the Department. Assessment: A thesis of 18000-20000 words and 6000 words of written work or its equivalent for each seminar.
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in Sanskrit 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 18000-20000 words in length. Each seminar requires 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 25%.
The thesis and departmental coursework topics must be chosen in consultation with the department. The following seminars are on offer in 2011:
Departmental Methodology (Dr Andrew McGarrity and Dr Mark Allon)
Departmental Coursework (Dr Andrew McGarrity and Dr Mark Allon)
For more information, contact Dr Andrew McGarrity, 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 18000-20000 words in length. Each seminar requires 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 25%.
The thesis and departmental coursework topics must be chosen in consultation with the department. The following seminars are on offer in 2011:
Departmental Methodology (Dr Andrew McGarrity and Dr Mark Allon)
Departmental Coursework (Dr Andrew McGarrity and Dr Mark Allon)
For more information, contact Dr Andrew McGarrity, Honours coordinator.
SANS4002 Sanskrit IV Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: SANS4001
Refer to SANS4001
SANS4003 Sanskrit IV Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: SANS4002
Refer to SANS4001
SANS4004 Sanskrit IV Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: SANS4003
Refer to SANS4001
Social Policy
SCPL2601 Australian Social Policy
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1 hour tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: SCLG1001 and SCLG1002 Prohibitions: SCPL3001 Assessment: 1x1500wd essay (35%), 1x 2000wd take-home exam (45%), participation in on-line discussions equiv 450wds (10%) and tutorial participation equiv 450wds (10%)
In this unit of study Australian social policy is explored: the legal and administrative framework; relationships between family and the state; employment, unemployment, unpaid work and welfare; the public/private mix; aged care policies, the culture of welfare state provision, indigenous policies, migration, multiculturalism and the formulation and delivery of social welfare services in Australia.
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SCPL2602 The Principles of Social Policy
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: SCLG1001 and SCLG1002 Prohibitions: SCPL3002 Assessment: class participation (10%), 1x2000wd essay (40%) and 1x2000wd take-home exam (50%)
The focus of this unit of study is on the concepts and principles underpinning the allocation of welfare, in the context of policy-making in Australia's complex society. Current debates on principles of allocation will be addressed, such as debates about social justice, welfare rights and social and economic needs. Australia's future policy directions are considered in relation to the parameters of international models of welfare.
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Social Sciences
For continuing Bachelor of Social Sciences students only.
SSCI3601 Social Sciences Internship
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: minimum 210 hours of monitored work-place experience, plus supervisory consultations Prerequisites: SSCI1001 or SSCI2001 or SSCI2601 and SSCI2002 or SSCI2602 and STAT1021 and SCLG2602 or SCLG2521 Prohibitions: SSCI3001 Assessment: will be determined on the basis of meeting the requirements. In order to meet these requirements, you need to attend the internship and receive a satisfactory report by your internship supervisor within your placement
Note: Bachelor of Social Sciences only
The internship provides an opportunity for students to gain practical experience in a professional setting as part of their academic training. Students undertake a minimum of 30 working days in a social sciences environment, from 3 to 5 days per week. They will be assisted and supervised by both the workplace and the department. Placements may include government departments, non-governmental organisations, community organisations, corporations, private consultancies, etc.
SSCI3602 Internship Research Paper
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: independent research with compulsory supervisory consultations Prerequisites: SSCI1001 or SSCI2001 or SSCI2601 and SSCI2002 or SSCI2602 and STAT1021 and SCLG2602 or SCLG2521 Corequisites: SSCI3001 or SSCI3601 Prohibitions: SSCI3002 Assessment: 1x4500wd (or equivalent) Internship research essay (50%) and 1x6000wd (or equivalent) professional journal (50%)
Note: Bachelor of Social Sciences only
The Internship Research Paper provides an opportunity for students to reflect on their research experiences during the internship in a social sciences environment (SSCI3601). Students will keep a reflective journal about their research experiences during the internship, which will form the basis of a research report to be submitted for assessment. Students, in consultation with a supervisor from the Bachelor of Social Sciences program, will formulate a topic for their research essay which should demonstrate the ability to reflect critically on the relation between their practical experience in their particular placement and social science theory more generally.
Socio-Legal Studies
SLSS1001 Introduction to Socio-Legal Studies
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 2x1hr lectures/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: class participation (10%), 1x1500wd take-home exam (40%) and 1x3000wd essay (50%)
Note: available to Bachelor of Arts and Sciences and Bachelor of Socio-Legal Studies only
This unit provides students with an introduction to the understanding of legal ideas, institutions and practices in their social and historical contexts. It will provide an historical overview of legal institutions and forms of law in Australia, the place of the idea of the rule of law in state-formation, liberalism, processes of civilisation and colonialism, law and the public/private distinction, changing conceptions of human rights, as well as outlining the central features of the various fields of law.
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SLSS1003 Law and Contemporary Society
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: tutorial attendance and participation (10%), 1x2000wd essay (40%) and 1x2hr exam (50%)
Note: available to Bachelor of Arts and Sciences and Bachelor of Socio-Legal Studies only
This unit provides an understanding of the central themes and issues in social scientific analyses of the operation of law in society. After briefly outlining the various ways in which social life is organised in terms of law, the unit will examine a range of key concerns in the development of legal ideas, institutions and processes today, including the increasing legal regulation of private life, law and science, human rights, the globalisation of law, terrorism, risk and security, law and social inequality and citizenship.
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SLSS2601 Socio-Legal Research
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 and 1x1hr computer lab/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: (SLSS1001 and SLSS1003) or (SLSS1001 and SLSS1002) Assessment: 1xtutorial presentation (20%), 1x2000wd content analysis exercise (40%) and 1x2000wd research essay (40%)
Note: available to Bachelor of Socio-Legal Studies only
This unit will develop an understanding of social science research methods as they apply to socio-legal studies. It will therefore discuss the theoretical aspects of research design and methodology and provide an overview of the main research methods applicable in socio-legal studies. These will include the development of research questions; examination of statutes, legislation, case law and law reform debates; library and archive research; content analysis and discourse analysis; interviewing; participant observation; data recording, coding and analysis; and research ethics.
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SLSS2603 Medico-Legal and Forensic Criminology
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: (SLSS1001 and SLSS1003) or (SCLG1001 and SCLG1002) Assessment: tutorial participation (10%), 1x500wd tutorial paper plus in-class presentation (15%), 1x1500wd essay (35%) and 1x2500wd take-home exam (40%)
Note: available to Bachelor of Socio-Legal Studies only
This unit of study explores the relationship between crime, law, medicine and science in society by specifically examining the history of criminal detection practices, death investigation systems and the coroner's office, the role of medicine and science in criminal justice and socio-legal management of the dead. Students will be introduced to developing areas in medico-legal and forensic criminology, and will explore specific issues and case studies such as human tissue and organ controversies.
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SLSS2604 Indigenous Social and Legal Justice
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: (SLSS1001 and SLSS1003) or (SLSS1001 and SLSS1002) Assessment: 1x1000wd workbook (30%), 1x500wd in-class presentation or equivalent (10%), 1x3000wd research essay (50%) and tutorial participation/attendance (10%)
Note: available to Bachelor of Socio-Legal Studies Students only
This unit will provide students with an appreciation of issues facing Indigenous peoples in the struggle for social and legal justice, focussing on the idea of Indigenous justice in Australia in the context of other comparable nations, such as the United States, Canada and New Zealand. We will compare specific examples or models of law and policy recognising Indigenous social and legal justice in specific areas, such as child protection, criminal justice, and land rights, in Australia and overseas.
SLSS2605 Crime, Media and Culture
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: SLSS1001 and (SLSS1002 or SLSS1003) and SLSS2603 Corequisites: SCLG2634 Assessment: 1x1000wd photo essay and/or critical commentary and/or book review (20%), 1x2000wd research essay (50%) and 1x1500wd take-home exam (30%)
This unit examines criminological approaches that explore intersections between crime/criminal justice, media forms and cultural dynamics. Topics include delinquent gangs, youth, subcultures and the law, folk devils and moral panics, cultural criminology, graffiti, edgework, television and fictional crime, serial killers, dark tourism, new technologies and social protest, surveillance, high crime, crime without frontiers.
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SLSS2801 Socio-Legal Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: Available to Bachelor of Socio-Legal Studies only
SLSS2802 Socio-Legal Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: Available to Bachelor of Socio-Legal Studies only
SLSS2803 Socio-Legal Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: Available to Bachelor of Socio-Legal Studies only
SLSS2804 Socio-Legal Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: Available to Bachelor of Socio-Legal Studies only
SLSS2805 Socio-Legal Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: Available to Bachelor of Socio-Legal Studies only
SLSS2806 Socio-Legal Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: Available to Bachelor of Socio-Legal Studies only
SLSS2807 Socio-Legal Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: Available to Bachelor of Socio-Legal Studies only
SLSS2808 Socio-Legal Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
Note: Available to Bachelor of Socio-Legal Studies only
SLSS4011 Socio-Legal Studies Honours A
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: two seminars, each seminar meets weekly for 2 hours for one semester Prerequisites: completion of all requirements of a Bachelor of Socio-Legal Studies with a credit average in senior level core and elective Socio-Legal Studies units. Requirements for the Pass degree must be completed before entry to level 4000 honours units of study. Assessment: a thesis of 18000-20000 words in length and 6000 words of written work or its equivalent for each seminar
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in Socio-Legal 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 each during Semester 1
The thesis should be of 18000-20000 words in length. Each seminar requires 6000 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 2011:
Socio-Legal Studies Honours A: Key Issues in Law and Society Research
Sociology Honours B: Practicing Sociology
For more information, contact Dr Greg Martin, 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 each during Semester 1
The thesis should be of 18000-20000 words in length. Each seminar requires 6000 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 2011:
Socio-Legal Studies Honours A: Key Issues in Law and Society Research
Sociology Honours B: Practicing Sociology
For more information, contact Dr Greg Martin, Honours Coordinator
SLSS4012 Socio-Legal Studies Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: SLSS4011
refer to SLSS4011
SLSS4013 Socio-Legal Studies Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: SLSS4012
refer to SLSS4011
SLSS4014 Socio-Legal Studies Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: SLSS4013
refer to SLSS4011
Sociology
SCLG1001 Introduction to Sociology 1
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Summer Early Classes: 2x1hr lectures/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x500wd precis (15%), 1x1500wd essay (35%), 1x2hr exam (35%) and participation (15%)
This unit introduces students to the study of sociology through an analysis of contemporary Australian society. Using a range of sociological concepts and theories, we will analyse society in the period known as 'modernity'. Students will be encouraged to analyse existing social phenomena through the prisms of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, multiculturalism and indigeneity.
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SCLG1002 Introduction to Sociology 2
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2,Winter Main Classes: 2x1hr lectures, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Assessment: 1x1200wd essay (40%), research and data tasks (15%), tutorial participation (10%) and 1x2hr exam (35%)
Students will continue to be introduced to sociology through the analysis of contemporary society. Through a focus on the sociology of everyday life, we will explore the relationships between various social and cultural forms, institutional sites and the practices of everyday life. Topics such as fame and celebrity, fashion and consumption, globalization community and belonging will be explored.
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SCLG2601 Sociological Theory
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week and 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: SCLG1001 and SCLG1002 Prohibitions: SCLG2001, SCLG2520 Assessment: written work 2500wds (60%) and 1x2hr exam (40%)
In this unit of study we will examine the main strands of sociological thought and identify the key concepts, debates and issues in the development of sociological theory. It will focus on the writings of leading social theorists and sociologists, their contribution to the development of a distinctly sociological theory, and their continuing impact on current theoretical debates in sociology. Topics covered will include: the origins of sociology; industrialism; classical theorists; sociology of urban society; interactionism and everyday life; psychoanalysis; sociology of knowledge and culture; feminist challenges to sociological paradigms; postmodernity and the future of society. This unit is mandatory for Sociology majors.
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SCLG2602 Social Inquiry: Qualitative Methods
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: either SCLG1001 and SCLG1002 or SCWK2003 or SSCI1003 Prohibitions: SCLG2002, SCLG2521 Assessment: tutorial participation (20%), 2x1500wd research papers (60%) and one exam (20%)
This unit of study introduces students to a range of qualitative research methods in common usage throughout the social sciences. The course has both analytical and practical components. With regard to the former, students are introduced to the methodological issues in contemporary sociology and their impact on the research process. An emphasis will be placed on developing a critical ability to read sociological research, with an eye to understanding its methodological adequacy, the political and ethical issues that arise whilst conducting research, and debates over interpretation and the production of knowledge. With regard to the latter component, students will undertake practical exercises in order to learn to appreciate and use a selection of research approaches, methods and techniques.
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SCLG2603 Sociology of Health and Illness
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: SCLG1001 and SCLG1002 Prohibitions: SCLG2526 Assessment: 1x2000wd group project (45%) and 1x2500wd research essay (55%)
Students will be introduced to both past and current sociological perspectives of health and illness, including Parsonian, Marxist, Weberian, Feminist and Postmodern approaches. We will examine topics such as the social, unequal, structuring of illness; the construction of medical 'facts'; professional, corporate and state control over health care systems; medical controversies; iatrogenic illness; and medical technology.
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SCLG2604 Social Inequality in Australia
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Summer Main Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: SCLG1001 and SCLG1002 Prohibitions: SCLG2010, SCLG2529 Assessment: participation (10%) and either 1x700-800wd essay or 1x1500wd essay (30%) and 1x3000wd research essay (60%)
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 sociological approaches to social inequality. Questions about social inequality are integral to contemporary notions of equality, citizenship, human rights, social justice and emancipation. A central theme of the unit (and a central preoccupation of sociologists) is ways in which social relations of inequality are shaped, represented, experienced, negotiated and challenged in everyday life. Some important questions for this unit are: How do sociologists understand and explain patterns of inequality? What are the enabling and constraining factors shaping people's 'life chances'? How are social relations of inequality, experienced, challenged and disrupted? Is social inequality an inevitable condition of human existence?
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SCLG2605 Social Justice Law and Society
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week and 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: SCLG1001 and SCLG1002 Prohibitions: SCLG2017, SCLG2536 Assessment: 1xclass facilitation (20%), 1x2500wd reflective journal (50%) and 1x1500wd take-home exam (30%)
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 a range of approaches to social justice, including distributive and recognition or identity theories. We ask how one works out what a socially just society would look like, considering guiding principles such as desert, need, merit and equality of resources, opportunity or capabilities. We then link these ideas with principles and practices of legal equality and human rights law and specific contemporary social justice topics such as racial, gender, environmental and international justice.
SCLG2606 Media in Contemporary Society
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week and 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: SCLG1001 and SCLG1002 Prohibitions: SCLG2018, SCLG2537 Assumed knowledge: ability to access internet and basic web browsing skills Assessment: tutorial participation and oral equivalent of 1500wd (15%) and 1xposter equivalent 500wd (35%) and 1xtake-home exam (50%)
This unit will examine key issues and debates within current sociological writings on media in contemporary society. The tutorial discussions focus on media, including radio, film, television, video, print, news, current affairs programmes and advertising, all of which are considered in relation to media audiences. We will consider the research literature on the sociology of media in order to investigate methods of carrying out media research, particularly of media audience research. The aim is to encourage students to develop an informed understanding of media, including their own engagement with media in contemporary society, and to explore computer based technology as an educational tool for studying media in contemporary society.
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SCLG2607 Social Movements and Policy Making
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week and 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: SCLG1001 and SCLG1002 Prohibitions: SCLG2570 Assessment: tutorial participation oral equivalent of 1500wd (15%), poster equivalent of 500wd (35%) and 1xtake-home exam (50%)
Drawing on contemporary sociological analysis this unit critically explores participation, organization and outcomes of social movements. The unit explores the intersections between citizenship and democracy in relation to social movements and policy making. Moreover, the unit addresses links between societal and cultural arrangements and social movements for change. Students will have the opportunity to explore the theoretical ideas introduced in this unit by investigating a range of social movements, such as, anti-global movements, environmentalism and feminist movements.
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SCLG2608 Social Construction of Difference
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: SCLG1001 and SCLG1002 Prohibitions: SCLG2004, SCLG2523 Assessment: tutorial participation and attendance (5%), 1xannotated bibliography (20%), 1x2000wd essay (35%) and 1xtake-home exam (40%)
The focus of this unit of study is on the dynamics of the identification of 'difference' in society, including the processes of stigmatisation and demonisation of 'deviants'. The unit focuses on areas such as the debates surrounding the 'welfare underclass', unruly youth, refugees and asylum seekers, trans-gendered persons, the care of the mentally ill, etc. Significant theoretical debates will be addressed, including 'realism' vs. 'social construction', 'defining deviance down' (Moynihan; Hendershott), the 'Broken Windows' thesis (Wilson and Kelling) and Jock Young's theory of 'Essentialising the Other'.
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SCLG2609 Contemporary Cultural Issues
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week and 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: SCLG1001 and SCLG1002 Prohibitions: SCLG2501 Assessment: tutorial participation (15%), 1x1500wd essay (35%) and 1x2000wd take-home exam (50%)
This unit of study will examine key issues and debates within current sociological writings on culture. It will assess critically a range of cultural issues pertinent to structuralist, poststructuralist, deconstructionist as well as postmodern accounts of contemporary culture. An aim of this unit is to link concepts of culture to specific case studies, in order to facilitate the joining of theory with research. This aim will be achieved through addressing various issues, including analysis of cultural representations, popular culture, as well as the role of agency within cultural formations.
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SCLG2610 Science, Technology and Social Change
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/weel commencing week 2 Prerequisites: SCLG1001 and SCLG1002 Prohibitions: SCLG2504 Assessment: oral presentation plus attendance (20%), 1x2000wd essay (40%) and 1x2000wd take-home exam (40%)
This unit examines a range of sociological theories and debates concerning science and technology. Students will investigate the two-way relationship between science/technology and society, ie., the social shaping of science and technology, and the impact of science and technology on society. Issues to be examined include the social production of science and technology, the science-technology relationship, the politics and economics of science and technology, science and technology in medicine, in reproduction, in the workplace, and the role of science and technology in environmentalism and the environmental movement.
SCLG2611 Welfare States: A Comparative Analysis
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week and 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: SCLG1001 and SCLG1002 Prohibitions: SCLG2509 Assessment: class facilitation (10%), 1x1500wd essay (30%) and1x3000wd essay (60%)
Note: this unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program
Contemporary developments and debates concerning welfare in Australia are put into a new perspective when considered in comparison with welfare states throughout the world. In this unit of study, students will have the opportunity to compare Australian welfare arrangements and social policies with those in other industrialised countries. How do other countries conceptualise and make arrangements for people who are unemployed, or pregnant or sick, or old? What are the principles that underpin these arrangements and how can we account for the differences between countries? The unit will focus on social policies concerned with health, employment and unemployment, work and family, disability, ageing and childhood. Students will develop comparative analyses with both Western industrialised welfare states and the emerging Asian welfare states. In addition to developing knowledge of particular social policies in particular countries, students will explore the theoretical frameworks that have underpinned comparative welfare state analysis. They will also have the opportunity to interrogate the dominant discourses that have informed social policy development including those concerning rights, citizenship, obligations, reciprocity and social capital.
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SCLG2612 Self and Society
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week and 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: SCLG1001 and SCLG1002 Prohibitions: SCLG2510 Assessment: tutorial participation (10%), 1x1500wd take-home exam (30%) and 1x3000wd research essay (60%)
The nature of human subjectivity has fascinated and drawn the attention of thinkers from many different fields. While the questions, who are we? how do we become individual? are often asked, the ways of answering these questions constantly change. In this unit, the discursive construction of the self will be examined in the light of the political, technological and social changes which constantly influence the meanings and histories of self, subjectivity and identity. The unit will explore questions such as whether there is a human 'nature' which precedes or exists beyond society; whether historical circumstances determine human emotional response; whether new forms of technology and modes of communication influence self-knowledge; whether consumerism and materialism commodify identity; whether the roles played in everyday life and the management of social interactions produce or conceal who we are. The unit begins with commonsensical views on identity and proceeds to deconstruct them.
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SCLG2613 Sociology of Childhood and Youth
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1 hour tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: SCLG1001 and SCLG1002 Prohibitions: SCLG2522 Assessment: 1x1500wd annotated bibliography (30%), 1x1500wd essay (30%) and 1x2000wd take-home exam (40%)
This unit of study examines the main sociological approaches to childhood and youth in modern industrial societies, as well as the ways in which particular perspectives on childhood are central to all social theory. It will examine the debates surrounding the historical development of childhood, and the various approaches to the impact of state intervention and social policies on both the experiences of childhood and youth and the transition to adulthood. Specific topics discussed include; the social construction of child abuse, youth homelessness and youth criminality as social problems, the stolen generations, children and the law, the fertility decline, and the differentiation of childhood experience along lines of class, gender, race and ethnicity.
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SCLG2615 Law and Social Theory
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: SCLG1001 and SCLG1002 and (SCLG2601 or SCLG2001 or SCLG2520) Prohibitions: SCLG2535 Assessment: 1x1000wd workbook (20%), 1x2000wd research essay (50%) and 1x1500w take-home exam (30%)
Note: this unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program
This unit provides a detailed understanding of how the work of a broad range of social theorists contributes to a specifically sociological understanding of legal ideas, institutions and practices. After beginning with classical sociology - Durkheim, Marx and Weber, the unit will then discuss the contributions of the Frankfurt School, Habermas, Foucault, Bourdieu, Luhmann, Elias, and Selznick, as well as the more recent perspectives of postmodern and feminist social theory.
SCLG2616 Global Transformations
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: SCLG1001 and SCLG1002 Prohibitions: SCLG2560 Assessment: 1x2hr in-class exam (40%) and 10x250wd informal turorial presentations (60%)
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 contemporary processes of globalisation. It investigates cultural, economic, and political aspects of globalisation from a distinctively sociological perspective. Theories and data related to globalisation are also applied to world-transforming trends in areas such as immigration, population, technology, human rights, civil society, and democracy. Particular attention is given to the study of both pro- and anti- globalisation movements.
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SCLG2618 Violence, Imaginaries and Symbolic Power
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: SCLG1001 and SCLG1002 Prohibitions: SCLG2566 Assessment: participation (10%), 1xgroup presentation (10%), 1x1500wd take-home exam (30%) and 1x3000wd research essay (50%)
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 operation of symbolic power and diverse social manifestations of violence, from revolution through to eroticism. Of particular interest are social imaginaries and the way collective representations embody social creativity, legitimate social structures and inform projects of violent social reconstruction, including war, terrorism, nationalism and genocide. Social imaginaries are constitutive of nationalist visions of self-determining communities, capitalist wealth and social utopias. Different modes of critical analysis are introduced, like critical social theory, discourse analysis, and psychoanalysis.
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SCLG2619 Sociology of Sport
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: SCLG1001 and SCLG1002 Assessment: 10x45wd tutorial papers (10%), 1x600wd theory paper (20%), 1x2000wd essay (40%) and 1x1500wd take-home exam (30%)
This unit will examine the relationship between sport and society, particularly the formation and reproduction of social norms and groupings. Analysing society from modernist and post-structuralist perspectives, students will use social theories of discourse, identity formation and power relations to explore the role of sport in the development and reproduction of gender, sexual, class, racial and national groups. Topics discussed include sport as a vehicle of social empowerment or marginalisation, sport as colonialism, and sport as consumption and popular entertainment.
SCLG2620 Human Rights and Social Transformations
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: SCLG1001 and SCLG1002 Assessment: 1xclass debate (10%), 1x1500wd take-home exam (30%) and 1x2500wd essay (60%)
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 examine both how human rights discourses and institutions have transformed states and societies (and failed to do so) and how societies have transformed human rights, connecting this dynamic with broader questions about the relationship between norms, society and politics. It will consider the often implicit constraints, as well as the liberational potential of human rights, engaging debates about the relationship between human rights and culture, religion, colonialism, imperialism, liberal individualism and globalisation.
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SCLG2621 Power, Politics and Society
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: SCLG1001 and SCLG1002 Assessment: 1x2000wd research essay (45%) and 1xtake-home exam (55%)
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 examine the core theoretical perspectives in the sociology of power, political action and political structures (Weber, Michels, Lukes, Mills etc.) and the central empirical issues in political sociology. These issues include state formation and governance, political ideas and ideologies in a "knowledge society", political parties, social movements and interest groups, globalisation, modernity and post-modern politics. It will engage with these concerns in relation to a selection of contemporary Australian and global issues in political sociology.
SCLG2622 Sociology of Knowledge
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2 hour lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: SCLG1001 and SCLG1002 Assessment: 1x1000wd research essay (25%), 1x2000wd oral presentation (40%) and 1x1500wd research essay (35%)
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 formation, transmission and ownership of knowledge through several historical epochs. It highlights the way knowledge, in both oral and written form, reflects and expresses social structures and social processes. Students will be introduced to a range of theories about the relationship between knowledge and society, and to illustrative case studies (e.g. the patenting of diagnostic tests, the funding of research institutes and 'Think Tanks', and the buying and selling of 'expert knowledge').
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SCLG2623 Sociology of Terror
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: SCLG1001 and SCLG1002 Assessment: 1x1500wd essay (30%), 1x3000wd essay (60%) and class participation (10%)
This unit examines the relationship between terrorism and globalization. Explores themes of massacre, ethnic cleansing, and terrorism in the context of social uncertainty and crises in nation states. Examines the production of victims and the process of cultural symbolization of the body and the new social and political imaginaries emerging. Examines the uses of victimhood in trying to escape terror and achieve reconciliation. Draws on the work of Scarry, Kristeva, Appadurai, Nordstrom, Foucault, Zulaika and Taussig.
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SCLG2624 Human Rights and Social Protest
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: SCLG1001 and SCLG1002 Assessment: 1x1500wd essay (30%), 1x3000wd essay (60%) and tutorial participation (10%)
Explores the rise of human rights discourse and its relationship to moral and religious discourses on suffering and social justice across cultures. Focuses on victims of human rights abuse, the formation of communities of suffering and social movements around victimhood. Examines 'rights talk' as a global discourse and language of protest against social injustice and claims. Examines global human rights machinery and the ethics of humanitarian intervention. Cases studies from Latin America, Africa and the Middle East.
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SCLG2625 Sociology of Friendship
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: SCLG1001 and SCLG1002 Assessment: 1x2500wd research essay (50%), 1x500wd paper (20%), 1x20minute oral presentaton (20%), participation (10%)
This unit examines the sociology of friendship, its place within theories of late modern society and its significance for the individual. Students will gain a foundation in key debates about friendship across the social sciences and key theories in the field, both classical and contemporary. It explores the relevance of friendship to other sociological categories, including the public sphere, the family, community and the self. Students will learn to apply this knowledge to an understanding of society and social change.
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SCLG2626 Sociology of Religion
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: SCLG1001 and SCLG1002 Assessment: 1x2500wd research essay (30%), turorial participation (15%), 1x500wd tutorial presentation (15%) and 1x exam (40%)
This unit examines the ways in which the religious impulse has been expressed socially, the role of religion in society, the way in which individuals form and change religious commitments, the ways in which religious groups have been organised and evolve, the nature of belief as it is expressed collectively and individually, and controversies over the role of religion in social life. Illustrations from contemporary events will be used to explore major religious policy issues and controversies.
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SCLG2634 Crime, Punishment and Society
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week commencing week 2 Prerequisites: Two of SCLG1001, SCLG1002, SLSS1001, SLSS1002 or LAWS1100 Prohibitions: SCLG2566 Assessment: tutorial participation (10%), tutorial facilitation and 1500wd paper (20%), 1x1500wd essay (30%) and 1x2500wd take-home exam (40%)
The unit introduces students to the analysis of crime, detection and punishment in their historical, social, political and cultural contexts. It discusses the major theoretical perspectives on the explanation of crime as well as the role and functions of punishment. It examines a range of issues in understanding crime and criminal justice, including the cultural life of crime, forensic knowledges, policing and prisons, and youth and juvenile justice.
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SCLG3601 Contemporary Sociological Theory
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr seminar/week Prerequisites: SCLG1001 and SCLG1002 Prohibitions: SCLG3002 Assessment: attendance and participation (10%), 1xoral presentation (20%) and 1x4000wd essay (70%)
Note: this unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program
This unit provides a detailed introduction to key social theorists whose ideas are being used extensively in contemporary sociological theory and research. These theorists include: Irving Goffman, Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu. A particular focus is on approaches to human action in its various structural and cultural contexts, the possibilities and limits of human agency, and questions of social change.
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SCLG3602 Sociological Theory and Practice
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x3hr seminar/week Prerequisites: SCLG1001 and SCLG1002 Prohibitions: SCLG3003 Assessment: 1300wd group oral presentation (30%) and 1x1000wd project report (20%) and 1x2200wd research proposal (50%)
This unit addresses the political, ethical and practical problems that may arise during the process of conducting research. It will also examine the social and logical links between theory, method, data and analysis. In the seminars we will critically examine the work of other researchers to identify the strengths and weaknesses of their approaches. As part of their assessment, students will select a topic of their own and develop a theoretically informed research proposal.
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SCLG3603 Quantitative Methods for Social Science
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr seminar/week Prerequisites: SCLG1001 and SCLG1002 Assessment: 8x500wd research reports (80%) and 1x500wd equivalent oral presentation of results (20%)
Note: this unit is available as a designated 'Advanced' unit for students who are already enrolled in the BA (Advanced) degree program. It is also available to PE and GIR students
This course is intended to prepare undergraduate students to undertake independent quantitative analyses of social science data. Topics include: basic statistical numeracy, how to achieve quantitative results, how to write about quantitative analyses, and basic literacy in generalised linear models. The course is writing intensive. No specific prior mathematical training is assumed, though a basic grasp of simple algebra is expected. By the end of the course, students should be able to approach quantitative social science data with confidence.
SCLG3605 Urban Transformations: Society and Space
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2hr lecture/week, 1x1hr seminar/week Prerequisites: SCLG1001 and SCLG1002 Prohibitions: SCLG3002 Assessment: 1 oral presentation in tutorial (500wds) (10%), 1 research essay (2,500wds) (60%) and 1 critical review (1500wds) (30%)
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 processes of urbanisation in the industrial and post-industrial city. It focuses on key sociological concepts and theorisations of the urban experience - community, alienation, social space, social capital, migration, displacement, suburbanisation, slums, transformations of the built environment and capital accumulation. It also explores the relationship between cities and globalisation in the global north and south and the development of cities and megacities as intensified nodes of global production and consumption and inequality.
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SCLG1801 Sociology Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
SCLG2805 Sociology Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: SCLG1001 and SCLG1002
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SCLG2806 Sociology Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: SCLG1001 and SCLG1002
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SCLG2809 Sociology Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: SCLG1001 and SCLG1002
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
SCLG2810 Sociology Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: SCLG1001 and SCLG1002
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SCLG2811 Sociology Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: SCLG1001 and SCLG1002
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SCLG2812 Sociology Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Prerequisites: SCLG1001 and SCLG1002
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SCLG4011 Sociology Honours A
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: two seminars, each seminar meets weekly for 2 hours for one semester Prerequisites: 48 credit points of senior level Sociology (with credit average) including SCLG3602 Assessment: a thesis of 18000-20000 words in length and 6000 words of written work or its equivalent for each seminar
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in Sociology and Social Policy 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 each during Semester 1
The thesis should be of 18000-20000 words in length. Each seminar requires 6000 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 2011:
Sociology Honours A: Practicing Sociology
Sociology Honours B: Sociological Theory and Knowledge
For more information, contact Dr Jennifer Wilkinson, 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 each during Semester 1
The thesis should be of 18000-20000 words in length. Each seminar requires 6000 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 2011:
Sociology Honours A: Practicing Sociology
Sociology Honours B: Sociological Theory and Knowledge
For more information, contact Dr Jennifer Wilkinson, Honours Coordinator
SCLG4012 Sociology Honours B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: SCLG4011
refer to SCLG4011
SCLG4013 Sociology Honours C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: SCLG4012
refer to SCLG4011
SCLG4014 Sociology Honours D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: SCLG4013
refer to SCLG4011
Spanish and Latin American Studies
SPAN1611 Spanish Level 1
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Summer Main,Winter Main Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x2-hr tutorial/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week. Prohibitions: Not to be taken by students with prior knowledge of Spanish. Assessment: 3x300wd short language tests (20%), oral class tasks (equivalent to 300wds) (10%), 1x2hr final exam (40%), 1xgroup task (equivalent to 500wds) (10%), 1xmultiple choice test (10%), tutorial participation and WebCT tasks (10%)
Note: Students who have already studied Spanish at HSC level, or who have equivalent knowledge, may not take SPAN1611. Students should contact the department, which will determine the appropriate level of enrolment.
This unit of study is for absolute beginners or for students who have no substantial prior knowledge of Spanish. It focuses on the basic vocabulary and grammar necessary to introduce and talk about yourself and other people, and communicate successfully in simple everyday situations, both by speaking and in writing. It also provides an overview of the history, society and culture of the Spanish-speaking countries.
SPAN1612 Spanish Level 2
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2,Summer Late Classes: 1x2-hr tutorial/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: SPAN1611 or SPAN1601, or equivalent knowledge of Spanish Prohibitions: SPAN1002, SPAN1602 Assessment: 3x300wd short language tests (20%), oral class tasks (equivalent to 300wds) (10%), 1x2-hr final exam (40%), 1xgroup task (equivalent to 500wds) (10%), 1xmultiple choice test (10%), tutorial participation and WebCT tasks (10%)
Note: Students who have already studied Spanish at HSC level, or who have equivalent knowledge, may not take SPAN1612. Students should contact the department, which will determine the appropriate level of enrolment.
This unit of study builds on the skills acquired in SPAN1611. It continues to focus on everyday communication but introduces students to more complex grammatical structures such as the past tenses. It also continues our exploration of the history, society and culture of the Spanish-speaking countries.
SPAN2611 Spanish Level 3
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1-hr and 1x2-hr language class/week Prerequisites: SPAN1002 or SPAN1602 or SPAN1612 or 65% in HSC Spanish Beginners Prohibitions: SPAN2001, SPAN2601, HSC Spanish Continuers Minimum Mark 70%. Assessment: 4x400wd tests (30%), 1x5 minute oral presentation in Spanish (10%), 1x2-hr exam (50%), tutorial participation and web based tasks (10%)
This unit builds on the basic language skills acquired in SPAN1611 and 1612 or HSC Beginners Spanish. It will introduce you to more complex grammatical structures and expand your vocabulary so that you are able to communicate both in writing and speech in a wider variety of situations than you could previously. Activities used in the classroom will be designed to allow you to further explore the culture and history of the Spanish-speaking world as well as improving your Spanish.
SPAN2612 Spanish Level 4
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr and 1x2-hr language class/week Prerequisites: SPAN2611 or SPAN2601 Prohibitions: SPAN2002, SPAN2602, HSC Spanish Continuers Minimum Mark 70%. Assessment: 4x400wd tests (30%), 1x5 minute oral presentation in Spanish (10%), 1x2-hr exam (50%), tutorial participation and web based tasks (10%)
This unit builds on the language skills acquired in SPAN2611. It introduces you to more complex grammatical structures, and expands your vocabulary so that you are able to communicate both in writing and speech in a wider variety of situations, including some more formal or academic uses of the language. Activities used in the classroom are designed to allow you to further explore the culture and history of the Spanish-speaking world as well as improving your Spanish.
SPAN2613 Spanish Level 5
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1-hr and 1x2-hr language class/week Prerequisites: SPAN2612 or SPAN2602, or HSC Spanish Continuers Minimum 70%. Prohibitions: SPAN3601 or SPAN3602 Assessment: 1x30 minute listening test (15%), 1xlanguage portfolio (equivalent to 2000wds) (35%), 1x2-hr exam (45%), class participation (5%)
This unit builds on the language skills acquired in SPAN2612 or HSC Continuers Spanish. It will consolidate your previous knowledge of Spanish and extend it into more complex areas of grammar, vocabulary and expression, so that you are able to communicate in a wide variety of formal and informal situations. Activities used in the classroom are designed to allow you to further explore the culture and history of the Spanish-speaking world as well as improving your Spanish.
SPAN2614 Spanish Level 6
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr and 1x2-hr language class/week Prerequisites: SPAN2613 or SPAN2602 Prohibitions: SPAN3601 or SPAN3602 Assessment: 1x10-15 minute oral test (15%), 1xlanguage portfolio (equivalent to 2000wds) (35%), 1x2hr exam (45%), class participation (5%)
This unit builds on the language skills acquired in SPAN2613. By the end of this unit, you should be a competent and independent user of spoken and written Spanish in most general situations. Activities used in the classroom are designed to allow you to further explore the culture and history of the Spanish-speaking world as well as improving your Spanish.
SPAN2621 Spanish Culture 1
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: SPAN2601 or SPAN2611 Assessment: class participation (5%), 1x3000wd essay (45%), 1xoral presentation (equivalent to 1500wds) (30%), short written tasks (equivalent to 1500wds) (20%)
This unit, taught in Spanish, presents students with a variety of texts of mainstream Spanish literature and film, discussing major cultural trends in the context of the history of Spain in the twentieth century.
SPAN2622 Latin American Culture 1
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: SPAN2601 or SPAN2611 Assessment: 1x3000wd essay (50%), 1xoral presentation (equivalent to 1500wds) (20%), short written tasks (equivalent to 1500wds) (30%)
This unit, taught in Spanish, presents students with a variety of Latin American texts from modern and contemporary popular culture. Students are exposed to a range of different traditions and approaches to reading popular forms in the context of the history and culture of Latin America.
SPAN2631 Cultural and Social Change in Spain
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: 12 junior credit points Assessment: class participation (5%), 1xoral presentation in a small group (equivalent to 1000wds) and 1x1000wd individual written memorandum on research for the presentation (20%), 1x1hr mid-semester in-class test (25%), 1x3000wd research essay (50%)
Spanish society has changed dramatically over the last half century. The restrictions on personal freedoms that were part of the Franco regime have been lifted to reveal a liberal, tolerant European society that nevertheless still shows some elements of its conservative heritage. This unit (taught in English) explores contemporary Spanish society and culture to show the reasons for the changes, and their effects. The areas under discussion will be family, sexuality and gender; class, money and consumerism; and mass/popular culture.
SPAN2641 Filmmaking in the Latin American Context
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: 18 Part A junior credit points Assessment: 1x1500wd research journal (30%), 1x10 minute oral presentation (15%), 1x2500wd essay (40%), 1xacademic article review (10%), class participation (5%)
This unit, taught in English, will introduce you to Latin American film studies, comprising history, theory and criticism through the exploration of 'national' cinema industries. We will examine the history of film production of Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Brazil, looking at the cultural and socio-political context in which filmmaking should be placed. Apart from tracing the history of film production in such countries, we will be focusing on recent developments in this field from the 1990's to the present day.
SPAN3611 Spanish Level 7
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1-hr and 1x2-hr language class/week Prerequisites: SPAN2614 Prohibitions: SPAN3601 Assessment: 1x5 minute oral presentation (15%), 1xlanguage portfolio (equivalent to 2000wds) (35%), 1x2hr exam (equivalent to 2000wds) (45%), class participation (5%)
This unit is for students who wish to extend their knowledge of Spanish beyond the level of general competence achieved in SPAN2614. It focuses on the use of Spanish in a variety of formal and informal contexts, using authentic materials in order to help you deepen and perfect your Spanish. Class discussion and written tasks will allow you to improve your oral and written competence in Spanish as well as your analytical and communication skills.
SPAN3612 Spanish Level 8
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x1-hr and 1x2-hr language class/week Prerequisites: SPAN3611 or SPAN3601 Prohibitions: SPAN3602 Assessment: 1x10-15 minute oral test (15%), 1xlanguage portfolio (equivalent to 2000wds) (35%), 1x2hr exam (45%), class participation (5%)
This unit is for students who wish to extend their knowledge of Spanish to an advanced level of proficiency in all kinds of communicative situations. It focuses on the use of Spanish in a variety of formal and informal contexts, using authentic materials in order to help you deepen and perfect your Spanish. Class discussion and written tasks will allow you to improve your oral and written competence in Spanish as well as your analytical and communication skills.
SPAN3621 Latin American Film and Literature
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: SPAN2602 or SPAN2612 Prohibitions: SPAN3006 Assessment: class participation (10%), short written tasks (1500wds) (20%), 1xpresentation (equivalent to 1500wds) (20%), 1x3000wd final essay (50%)
In this unit (taught in Spanish) students are exposed to a range of literary and filmic works from Latin America. The unit examines how these two modes of cultural production have interacted and reshaped one another. Literary narratives have changed formally, stylistically and thematically due to the influence of several genres of Mexican, Brazilian and Argentinean cinema, as well as those of Hollywood and European cinema. The unit provides grounding in literary and film theory and familiarises students with debates around industry, audience reception and reading codes.
SPAN3622 Introduction to Spanish Translation
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Classes: 1x2-hr seminar/week Prerequisites: SPAN3601 or SPAN2613 or equivalent language knowledge. Assessment: translation tasks (equivalent to 2000wds) (20%), participation and group work in class (10%), 1xpresentation (equivalent to 1500wds) (20%), 1x1500wd translation analysis (30%), 1xfinal in-class test (equivalent to 1000wds) (20%)
This unit presents an introduction to various aspects of translation and provides practical work in both English and Spanish, translating from a wide range of materials. It will explore modes, techniques and genres in a variety of texts.
SPAN3623 Argentina for Export
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: SPAN2602 or SPAN2612 Assessment: 1x3000wd essay (45%), 1x1500wd research journal (25%), 1x500wd group presentation written plan (10%), 1x10 minute group presentation (equivalent to 1000wds) (20%)
This unit (taught in Spanish) explores the images associated with figures such as Eva Perón and Ernesto Che Guevara, the musical genre of tango and the seemingly boundless landscape of Patagonia. We will focus on the way in which different cultural elements frequently perceived as part of Argentina's cultural history have been created, appropriated and commodified within and beyond the country's national boundaries, giving special attention to globalisation as a framework for approaching the relationship between identity representation and commodification.
SPAN3671 The Stories of Spain: Texts and Contexts
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Prerequisites: 12 credit points at Junior level from Part A of the Table of Units of Study Assessment: 1x3000wd essay (50%), 1x in-class presentation (equivalent to 1500wd) (25%), 1x in-class written analysis (equivalent to 1500wd) (25%)
This unit, open to specialists and non-specialists, looks specifically at the types of stories being told in Contemporary Spain and investigates why they are of interest now. It also looks at the developmental nature of narrative. A selection of filmic and literary texts will be studied from different eras though the main focus will be on late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The texts will be supported with outside readings to make the stories told relevant to a present-day student.
SPAN1801 Spanish Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
SPAN1802 Spanish Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
SPAN3811 Spanish Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
SPAN3812 Spanish Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
SPAN3813 Spanish Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
SPAN3814 Spanish Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
SPAN3815 Spanish Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
SPAN3816 Spanish Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
SPAN3817 Spanish Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
SPAN3818 Spanish Studies Exchange
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
SPAN4011 Spanish & Latin American Studies Hons A
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Classes: Two seminars that meet weekly for two hours each, one in each semester. Prerequisites: 48 senior credit points in Spanish and Latin American Studies with at least a Credit average. At least 24 credit points must be in language units of study. Assessment: A thesis of 18000-20000 words in length and 7000-8000 words of written work or its equivalent for each seminar.
Note: Department permission required for enrolment
The Honours program in Spanish and Latin American 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, one in each semester.
The thesis should be of 18000-20000 words in length. Each seminar requires 7000-8000 words of written work or its equivalent.
The thesis is worth 60% of the final Honours mark and each of the seminars is worth 20%.
Students may choose, according to their needs, the following suggested pathway models of two seminar courses in 2011:
Cultural Studies in Hispanophone Contexts, Semester 1 (Dr Anne Walsh, Assoc Prof Kathryn Crameri and Dr Fernanda Peñaloza) AND Citizenship and Belonging in Latino USA, Semester 2 (Dr Vek Lewis) OR
Cultures and Languages of Spain, Semester 1 (Assoc Prof Kathryn Crameri) AND
Critical Theory and Methodologies, Semester 2 (Dr Vek Lewis, Dr Anne Walsh and Assoc Prof Kathryn Crameri)
For more information, contact Dr Vek Lewis, 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, one in each semester.
The thesis should be of 18000-20000 words in length. Each seminar requires 7000-8000 words of written work or its equivalent.
The thesis is worth 60% of the final Honours mark and each of the seminars is worth 20%.
Students may choose, according to their needs, the following suggested pathway models of two seminar courses in 2011:
Cultural Studies in Hispanophone Contexts, Semester 1 (Dr Anne Walsh, Assoc Prof Kathryn Crameri and Dr Fernanda Peñaloza) AND Citizenship and Belonging in Latino USA, Semester 2 (Dr Vek Lewis) OR
Cultures and Languages of Spain, Semester 1 (Assoc Prof Kathryn Crameri) AND
Critical Theory and Methodologies, Semester 2 (Dr Vek Lewis, Dr Anne Walsh and Assoc Prof Kathryn Crameri)
For more information, contact Dr Vek Lewis, Chair of Department.
SPAN4012 Spanish & Latin American Studies Hons B
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: SPAN4011
Refer to SPAN4011
SPAN4013 Spanish & Latin American Studies Hons C
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: SPAN4012
Refer to SPAN4011
SPAN4014 Spanish & Latin American Studies Hons D
Credit points: 12 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2 Corequisites: SPAN4013
Refer to SPAN4011
Writing
No major available.
WRIT1001 Academic English
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2,Summer Late,Winter Main Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Assessment: 10x200wd written assignments (40%), 1x1000wd oral presentation (20%) and 1x1500wd essay (40%)
Note: Upon registration for this unit students will be directed to an online diagnostic exercise.
The persuasive power of the English language emerges from its richness and variation. This unit teaches students to recognize these complexities as resources for the creative construction of meaning. Students will learn to communicate effectively and clearly in oral and written mediums and critically appraise the variable uses of English in academic contexts, analysing how English is employed across a variety of contexts, including television, technology, and virtual exchanges with universities around the world in the new, networked Writing Hub.
Textbooks
Alfano, C. and O'Brien, A. 2008. Envision. Second edition. New York: Pearson Longman
WRIT1002 Academic Writing
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1,Semester 2,Summer Late,Winter Main Classes: 2x1-hr lectures/week, 1x1-hr tutorial/week Assumed knowledge: WRIT1001 is not a prerequisite for WRIT1002, but successful completion of WRIT1001 would be advantageous to students undertaking WRIT1002 Assessment: 1x500wd annotated bibliography (10%), 1x1000wd critical reading task (20%), 3x500wd essays (30%), 1x1500wd final writing task (30%) and participation via online discussion postings (10%)
The ability to devise sound arguments is the cornerstone of success in both the university and the workplace. This unit introduces students to rhetorical reasoning and various theories and practices of academic argumentation. It is designed to improve writing and critical thinking abilities by teaching students to construct persuasive, ethical, and engaging arguments. The unit will focus on the production and reception of arguments across a range of genres, including digital environments. Tutorials are held in the new, networked 'Writing Hub' and feature virtual exchanges with universities around the world.
Textbooks
Lunsford, A. and Ruszkiewicz, J. Everything's An Argument. Fifth edition. Bedford-St Martin's