Within the Faculty of Arts, there is a wide range of courses in both humanities and social science areas which contain material on Australia. Students enrolled in the BA can pursue an interest in Australian studies in one of two ways. They can choose a program of study in the general Bachelor of Arts which will allow them to take subjects with an Australian focus or content (and this is possible in a variety of disciplines), or enrol in the Bachelor of Arts (Australian Studies). There are two core subjects (not offered in 1995), namely AUS2010 (Constructing the Australian landscape) and AUS2020 (Perspectives on the Australian city).
Students can also undertake two summer school courses, AUS1010S (Out of empire) and AUS1020S (Democracy and nation), details below.
For postgraduate courses, please refer to the entry under National Centre for Australian Studies in the Arts graduate handbook.
Bachelor of Arts in Australian studies
This specialised degree provides students interested in Australian studies with a more structured course of study and recommends disciplines and subjects which deal particularly with Australia.
Students enrol in the specialised degree at the start of second year, having satisfactorily completed a first year of the general Bachelor of Arts. The necessary prerequisites for entry to the specialised Bachelor of Arts (Australian Studies) are first-year sequences in at least two disciplines from a list of disciplines which offer subjects with Australian content or an Australian focus. At first-year level these are: economics, economic history, English, geography and environmental science, history, linguistics, politics, sociology and visual arts. In addition, the Koorie Research Centre offers a major sequence with special units at second and third-year levels. The departments of Japanese Studies and Music, and the Centre for Women's Studies offer subjects with Australian content at second and/or third-year level.
The structure of the specialised Bachelor of Arts in Australian studies at pass level is a double major: one major to be chosen from a list of designated sequences and the second major constructed around a thematic sequence comprising a first-year sequence in English, history, geography, visual arts, politics or sociology, followed by two special second-year units, namely AUS2010 (Constructing the Australian landscape) and AUS2020 (Perspectives on the Australian city), and units to the value of twenty-four points to be chosen from units in relevant disciplines. Students therefore take a minimum of fifty-two points over three years in each of their major sequences. Students are required to take a minimum of twenty-four points of subjects with Australian content in each of their two major sequences. For the remaining forty points out of the necessary total 144 points, which must include at least twenty-four points at first-year level (including one other first-year sequence), students may select subjects from other disciplines. An honours year is also available.
Australian studies in the Bachelor of Arts
A list of the subjects with Australian content that can be taken either as units within the BA or as part of sequences in designated disciplines in the specialised degree in Australian studies are given below. Full details are to be found in the entries for the relevant department or centre. Some listings are subject to change and students should consult the appropriate departments.
Australian studies
First year
* AUS1010S Out of empire (Summer school)
* AUS1020S Democracy and nation (Summer school)
Second year
* AUS2010 Constructing the Australian landscape (not offered in 1995)
* AUS2020 Perspectives on the Australian city (not offered in 1995)
Fourth year
* AUS4100 Religion in Australian society
Economics
Students can undertake a major or minor in economics within the BA in one of three ways: Economics, economic studies and economic history. Subjects with significant Australian content are as follows:
First year
* ECO1520 Economic history: Japan and Australia
* ECO1000 Economics
* ECO1010 Economics
Second year
* ECO2360 Environmental economics
* ECO2530 Economic history of Victoria
* ECO2510 Australian economic history
* ECO2720 Income distribution
* ECO2830 Industrial organisation in Australia
* ECO2880 Economic and social issues
Third year
* ECO3010 Current issues in economic policy
* ECO3710 Labour economics
* ECO3690 International economics
* ECO3810 Public finance
English
First year
* ENH1080 Inventing Australia: Australian cultural stereotypes (not offered in 1995)
Second year
* ENH2150 Australian urban fictions
* ENH2290 Publishing in Australia (not offered in 1995)
* ENH2690 Authority and identity in Australian literature
* ENH2720 Migrant visions: Australian self-imaging and the politics of cultural identity (not offered in 1995)
Third year
* ENH3150 Australian urban fictions
* ENH3290 Publishing in Australia (not offered in 1995)
* ENH3690 Authority and identity in Australian literature
* ENH3720 Migrant visions: Australian self-imaging and the politics of cultural identity (not offered in 1995)
Geography and environmental science
First year
* GES1000 Natural environment and human impact
* GES1020 Physical systems and the environment
* GES1042 Development: a global perspective
Second year
* GES2130 Soils, land use and the environment
* GES2150 Origin, stability and management of coastal and volcanic landscapes
* GES2170 Biogeography: the status of Australian vegetation
* GES2190 Climates of the earth boundary layer (proposed to be offered next in 1996)
* GES2250 Mankind-environment relationships: perspectives in cultural geography
* GES2290 Society, nature and settlement in the New World
* GES2630 Property and real estate markets (proposed to be offered next in 1996)
Third year
* GES3290 Society, nature and settlement in the New World
* GES3350 Resource evaluation and management
* GES3470 Development in Asia, Australia and the Pacific Basin
* GES3480 Dilemmas of policy and planning
* GES3512 Selected studies in meteorology and climatology
* GES3530 Fluvial geomorphology (proposed to be offered next in 1996)
* GES3550 Quaternary environments
History
First year
* HSY1030 Australia: immigrant nation
* HSY1040 Land, people and power: contemporary Australian history
Second year
* HSY2260 Australian Aboriginal history
* HSY2290 Twentieth century Australia: nation and identity
* HSY2300 Colonial Australia (not offered in 1995)
* HSY2310 The British Empire and Australia 1642-1852
* HSY2340 Australia and the British Empire 1852
* HSY2430 Melbourne: a short history of a great city
* HSY2650 Cities of the New World (proposed to be offered next in 1996)
Third year
* HSY3260 Australian Aboriginal history
* HSY3290 Twentieth century Australia: nation and identity
* HSY3310 The British Empire and Australia 1642-1852
* HSY3340 Australia and the British Empire 1852
* HSY3650 Cities of the New World (proposed to be offered next in 1996)
* HSY3740 Culture and society in Australia
Japanese studies
Second year
* JPS2810 Australia-Japan social relations
* JPS2910 Australia-Japan economic relations (proposed to be offered next in 1996)
Third year
* JPS3810 Australia-Japan social relations
* JPS3910 Australia-Japan economic relations (proposed to be offered next in 1996)
Koorie studies
Second year
* KRS2010 Koorie studies 1
* KRS2020 Koorie studies 2
Third year
* KRS3010 Koories and social justice
* KRS3020 Racism and prejudice
Linguistics
Second year
* LIN2150 English around the world
* LIN2350 Sociolinguistics
* LIN2370 Aboriginal languages of Australia
* LIN2530 Languages in contact
Third year
* LIN3150 English around the world
* LIN3350 Sociolinguistics
* LIN3370 Aboriginal languages of Australia
* LIN3530 Languages in contact
Politics
First year
* PLT1020 Australian politics and government
Second year
* PLT2170 Politics and the media in Australia
* PLT2210/2211 Political sociology (Clayton/Caulfield)
* PLT2290 Australia and Asia
* PLT2410 Politics and Australian culture
* PLT2700/2701 Australian state politics (Clayton/Caulfield)
* PLT2870 Australian democracy
* PLT2910 Australian political economy
Third year
* PLT3160 Australia and postmodernity (not offered in 1995)
* PLT3210/PLT3211 Political sociology (Clayton/Caulfield)
* PLT3410 Politics and Australian culture
* PLT3910 Australian political economy
Sociology
First year
* SCY1010 Introduction to sociology I
* SCY1020 Introduction to sociology II
Second year
* SCY2251 Sociology of childhood (Caulfield)
* SCY2230 Australian society: a developmental perspective
Third year
* SCY3000 Advanced sociology A.1 (most units)
* SCY3003 Advanced sociology B.1 (most units)
Visual arts
First year
* VSA1010 Contemporary visual culture
* VSA1040 Introduction to visual arts 4: Australian film and television
Second year
* VSA2230 Australian art: 1880s to the present
* VSA2270 Australian architecture: 1788 to the present (proposed to be offered next in 1996)
* VSA2770 Television studies
Third year
* VSA3230 Australian art: 1880s to the present
* VSA3270 Australian architecture: nationality and imported forms 1788 to the present (proposed to be offered next in 1996)
* VSA3710 Alternatives in documentary film: an Australian focus (proposed to be offered next in 1996)
* VSA3770 Television studies
Women's studies
Second year
* WMN2110 Representations of women and gender in Australian