AustLit
Texts
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The Lucky Country
Ringwood
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Penguin
,
1964
Z1005731
1964
single work
non-fiction
(taught in 2 units)
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Reclaiming patriotism: nation building for Australian progressives!$!Tim Soutphommasane!$!!$!!$!
Degrees
Description
How do you develop research expertise on Australia and so contribute to informed debate about issues facing the nation? This topic enables students to draw on their experience of the Australian Studies major to pursue research on an issue of contemporary concern to Australia. Areas for research will be identified at the start of semester, and students will develop research and writing techniques over the semester to produce a position paper on a specific issue, suitable for presentation to government, other organisatons or industry. Research questions can be developed in relation to topics such as national identity, international relations, the environment, various social and political movements or issues and the media.
Objectives
1. Understanding of the ways in which a variety of disciplines can be drawn upon to understand Australias past and present
2. Comprehend the nature of Australian Studies as an interdisciplinary methodology
3. Ability to work within a student cohort to develop an understanding of the study of Australia
Assessment
500 word research proposal 15% (due mid-semester), and a 3500 word 'position paper' 85% (due during the examination period).
Hurdle requirement: students must attend a minimum of 75% of tutorials in order to pass this subject. Assessment submitted late without an approved extension will be penalised at 10% per day; after five days, no late assessment will be accepted. In-class tasks missed without approval will not be marked. All pieces of written work must be submitted to pass this subject.
Supplementary Texts
Prescribed and essential texts are listed above. The broader reading list will include: Steven Angelides and Barbara Baird, Histories of Sexualities. Larissa Behrendt, Achieving Social Justice: Indigenous Rights and Australia's Future. Judith Brett and Anthony Moran, Ordinary People's Politics. Susan Carruthers, The Media at War. David Carter, Dispossession, Dreams and Diversity. Inga Clendinnen, The History Question: Who Owns the Past?. Tim Flannery, Country. Patricia Grimshaw et al, Creating a Nation. Ghassan Hage, Against Paranoid Nationalism. Clive Hamilton, Affluenza: When Too Much is Never Enough. Peter A Jackson and Gerrard Sullivan, Multicultural Queer: Australian Perspectives. Phillip Knightley, The First Casualty. Mark Peel, The Lowest Rung. Richard White, Inventing Australia
Other Details
Offered in:
2011, 2009
Current Campus:
Parkville
Levels:
Undergraduate
