VSA4830

Exploration and Immigration in the Cultural Imaginary

(ART)

Kate Rigby, Annette Van Den Bosch, Walter Veit

12 points + First semester + Clayton + 3 hours plus 21 hours private study per week

Synopsis: This unit examines the role of exploration and immigration in the European colonisation of the South Pacific, especially Australia and New Zealand, through the analysis and interpretation of a wide variety of written and visual texts and artefacts. The approach is multidisciplinary and intercultural, addressing the impact of exploration and immigration on indigenous peoples and their lands, colonial cultural identities and on European modernism. In particular, indigenous, colonial and modernist understandings of time and space, land and gender will be studied from postmodern, feminist and ecocritical perspectives.

Assessment: Seminar paper (3,000 words): 30% + Visual test (1,500 words): 20% + Research essay (4,500 words): 50%