MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996

Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia

Caution Copyright © Monash University 1996
ISBN 1320-6222

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

OUTLINE OF STUDIES - METROPOLITAN CAMPUSESPart 1

General information
Availability of subjects in 1996

Outline of studies - metropolitan campuses Part 2

General information

The faculty offers the Bachelor of Arts degree on each of the Caulfield, Clayton and Peninsula campuses and the Bachelor of Arts (Humanities and Social Sciences), Bachelor of Arts (Journalism and Communication) and Bachelor of Arts (Psychology and Humanities) on the Gippsland campus. Also available on the Caulfield campus is the Bachelor of Arts (Police Studies). For information concerning courses in art and design, which are taught by a subfaculty of the Faculty of Arts, students should refer to the Art and Design handbook. The range of subjects and the available range of major and minor sequences are different on each campus. All subjects offered on the Caulfield, Clayton and Peninsula campuses are detailed below. Subjects offered on the Gippsland campus are detailed in the Gippsland section of this handbook.

The following statements apply to all         
entries in this section of the handbook.

Campuses

Bachelor of Arts studies are available on each of the Caulfield, Clayton and Peninsula campuses, and the Bachelor of Arts degree regulations included in this volume apply regardless of the campus on which studies are undertaken. Regulations for all other degrees offered by the Faculty of Arts are also contained in this handbook.

Semesters

Teaching is normally conducted over two semesters each year, the first running from March to June and the second from July to October. At the end of each semester a formal examination is conducted and students receive final results for all subjects undertaken in the preceding semester. All subjects taught by the Faculty of Arts are one semester long, and a full-time student normally enrols in subjects to the value of twenty-four points in each semester. Attention should be paid to the semester in which each subject is offered when planning enrolment. A few departments may choose to offer subjects for the degree during the summer semester (December to February) and students should contact individual departments for details.

Students wishing to undertake studies via distance education are directed to the Gippsland section of this handbook.

Attendance and written work

Students are reminded that under Regulation 3, `Completion of a subject', they must submit written work and attend tutorials, seminars, laboratory work, and so on, as required by the department or centre. Students who fail to do so, or whose work is otherwise unsatisfactory, may not be given credit for the relevant subject.

Notice boards

Departmental notice boards are used to notify departmental information, eg dates for submitting essays. Such information will also be announced in lectures but the only form of written notice will be that on the boards. Ignorance of the information will not be considered a sufficient excuse if the notice has been displayed on the board for two weeks.

Enrolment in single subjects

Suitably qualified people may be permitted to enrol for a subject or subjects on a non-credit basis. These courses are normally available to (i) graduates who need to upgrade their previous studies in order to satisfy the requirements for admission to honours or MA preliminary or MA Part I; (ii) other applicants wishing to undertake studies in individual subjects.

All such students must satisfy normal tertiary entry requirements, and those applicants who are candidates for a degree or diploma at another tertiary institution must gain written permission from that institution to credit their Monash studies towards their degree or diploma.

A fee is charged by the university for all courses that are not being credited towards a degree or diploma. At present the fee for forty-eight points of study is $3504 with those students taking fewer than forty-eight points being charged on a pro rata basis (eg a six-point subject will cost $438). This fee must be paid to the university at the time of enrolment and cannot be deferred.

Single subject (non-credit) enrolments are only available in subjects included in List A (I) up to a maximum of twelve points in any one semester. Students should also note that enrolment in any subject in which a quota applies (and in which a candidate for the degree has been or would therefore be refused enrolment) can only be undertaken with the permission of the faculty board in exceptional cases.

Complementary course

A student enrolled for a course in the Faculty of Arts (undergraduate or postgraduate) may apply to take a subject which is not available at Monash at one of the other Victorian universities. Some special conditions apply. For example undergraduate students who gain permission to enrol for a subject on this complementary course basis are required to complete among their subjects specific sequences at Monash, such as the third part of a major sequence in one discipline.

Applicants should note that quotas may apply to the number of places available in certain subjects at neighbouring universities. Applications normally close by mid-November (for re-enrolling students) or early February (for students enrolling in the Faculty of Arts for the first time). Application forms are available from the Arts faculty office on all campuses.

Assessment

Where arrangements for assessment have not been finalised, they will be decided and announced within the first four weeks of teaching.

Timetables

Lecture timetables are normally available each December for the coming year's teaching, and will be provided to all current students at re-enrolment. Each new student will be sent a copy of the timetable at the time offers of places in Faculty of Arts courses are received.

Text lists

Texts are listed under individual subjects in the following categories:

Prescribed texts

Students should obtain copies of these for their personal use. Library copies are provided in minimal numbers.

Recommended texts

Students should ensure ready access to one or more appropriate titles. In the absence of prescribed texts for a course, certain titles in this category are often of particular importance.

Students in doubt should consult their lecturers or tutors before making a purchase. The bookshop may be consulted for up-to-date information on any text listed in these categories.

Reading lists

These lists are normally available from departments at the beginning of a course. Books mentioned which fall into the categories already described should be available from or through the bookshop. Others are available from the library, or if required for purchase may be ordered through the bookshop.

Availability of subjects in 1996

Some departments may not be able to offer in 1996 all subjects set out in their outline of studies. The decision will depend on student demand and the availability of staff. The availability of honours studies in ancient history, anthropology, Asian languages and studies, classical studies, comparative literature and cultural studies, English, French, geography, German, history, Japanese, linguistics, music, philosophy, politics, Romance languages, sociology and visual arts is guaranteed, and honours may be offered in other disciplines or interdisciplinary programs subject to sufficient student demand and availability of staff. Similarly, it is not guaranteed that all major and minor sequences listed will be available. Students will be notified as early as possible of the withdrawal of any subject.

The following are lists of subjects prepared by the Faculty of Arts to assist students in designing their study programs in accordance with the requirements as set out in the BA regulations.

Subjects are listed in their respective disciplines which are arranged in alphabetical order. Only those subjects offered in 1996 are listed. Only some of the subjects a student may take while a candidate for the BA degree are found below; information about subjects likely to be offered in subsequent years is contained in the outline of studies.

List A.(I)

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Discipline First-year Second-year Third-year level level level subjects subjects subjects American studies Dissent in American society AST2100 AST3100 American and European postwar art, 1945 to the AST2130 AST3130 present The other side of the avant-garde: twentieth century AST2150 AST3150 women's art history Forms of narrative cinema AST2190 AST3190 Early America: the American people and the United AST2230 AST3230 States 1492-1877 Modern America: the American people and the United AST2240 AST3240 States, 1877-1960 Popular music AST2250 AST3250 Society, nature and settlement in the New World AST2290 AST3290 Modern architecture and urbanism, 1907-1968 AST2310 AST3310 Contemporary America: the United States and the AST2360 AST3360 American people 1940-1992 America: the decay of the liberal dream AST2370 AST3370 American literature - from puritanism to AST2410 AST3410 postmodernism Modern American literature: writing the South AST2430 AST3430 Television studies AST2770 AST3770 Seeking a new world order: the US and international AST2960 relations Ancient Greek Introductory Ancient Greek 1 AGR1010 Introductory Ancient Greek 2 AGR1020 Language and literature A AGR2210 Language and literature B AGR2220 Language and literature C AGR2230 Language and literature B AGR3220 Language and literature C AGR3230 Language and literature D AGR3240 Anthropology Contemporary anthropology ANY1010 Anthropology of social change ANY1020 Magic, science and religion ANY2110 Race and sexual politics ANY2130 Understanding prejudice and discrimination ANY2160 Comparative social structures ANY2190 Culture and conflict in Indonesia ANY3230 The anthropology of witchcraft and sorcery ANY3250 Advanced anthropology part I ANY3290 Advanced anthropology part II ANY3300 Comparative sociology of `development' ANY3370 Civilisation and its malcontents ANY3430 Australia in Papua New Guinea ANY3470 The third world ANY3480 Society and culture in South East Asia ANY3490 A comparative examination of cultures in South and ANY3510 South East Asia Socioecology ANY3570 Systems theory ANY3590 Urbanisation in the third world ANY3610 Feminism cross-culturally ANY3630 Structuralisms and poststructuralisms ANY3640 The social construction of disabilities ANY3650 Applied statistics Applied statistics IA (Arts) MAT1711 Computer aided statistical analysis MAT2711 Applied statistics IB (Arts) MAT1722 Contemporary data analysis MAT2740 Applied regression analysis I MAT2751 Design and analysis of experiments I MAT2761 Design and analysis of experiments II MAT2762 Design and analysis of experiments III MAT2763 Applied multivariate data analysis I MAT2781 Robust and nonparametric methods MAT2790 Archaeology Origins of Western Civilisation 1: the Bronze Age ARY1010 Origins of Western Civilisation 2: the Mediterranean ARY1020 world from 1000 BCE-14 CE Coins, the archaeologist and the ancient historian ARY3550 Minoans and Myceneans ARY2570 Dating in archaeology ARY3760 Minoan problems ARY3790 Imperial Egypt and the Mediterranean world ARY3930 Greek and Roman Egypt ARY3950 The archaeology and history of ancient Egypt: ARY2970 6000-1550 BC The archaeology and history of ancient Egypt: ARY2990 1550-30 BC Art history and theory Contemporary visual culture VSA1010 Making art history VSA3010 Transformations of the visual VSA1020 European art, 1900-1940 VSA2110 VSA3110 American and European postwar art VSA2130 VSA3130 The other side of the avant-garde: twentieth century VSA2150 VSA3150 women's art history Australian art: 1880s to the present VSA2230 VSA3230 Current architecture VSA2250 VSA3250 Australian architecture VSA2270 VSA3270 Modern architecture and urbanism, 1907-1968 VSA2310 VSA3310 History of photography, part 1, 1839-1940 VSA2410 VSA3410 History and theory of photography, part 2 VSA2430 VSA3420 Sixteenth-century studies VSA2510 VSA3510 Baroque art VSA2530 VSA3530 Italian medieval art VSA2550 VSA3550 Into the nineties VSA3570 French medieval art VSA2610 VSA3610 The idea of Venice VSA2790 VSA3790 Asian studies Introduction to Asian civilisations, part 1 ASN1010 Introduction to Asian civilisations, part 2 ASN1020 Behavioural studies Behavioural studies A WEL1320 Behavioural studies B WEL1340 Business Chinese Business Chinese 1 CBL1010 Business Chinese 3 CBL2010 Business Chinese 5 CBL3010 Business Chinese 2 CBL1020 Business Chinese 4 CBL2020 Business Chinese 6 CBL3020 Business Japanese Business Japanese 1A JBL1010 Business Japanese 3B JBL2010 Business Japanese 5C JBL3010 Business Japanese 2A JBL1020 Business Japanese 4B JBL2020 Business Japanese 6C JBL3020 Business Japanese 1B JBL1030 Business Japanese 3C JBL2030 Business Japanese 2B JBL1040 Business Japanese 4C JBL2040 Business Japanese IC JBL1050 Business Japanese 2C JBL1060 Cambodian (Kmer) Introductory Cambodian (Khmer), part 1 CAM1110 Introductory Cambodian (Khmer), part 2 CAM1120 Intermediate Cambodian (Khmer), part 1 CAM2210 Intermediate Cambodian (Khmer), part 2 CAM2220 Post-advanced Cambodian (Khmer), part 1 CAM1510 Post-advanced Cambodian (Khmer), part 2 CAM1520 Post-advanced Cambodian (Khmer), part 3 CAM2610 Post-advanced Cambodian (Khmer), part 4 CAM2620 Chinese Beginning Chinese, part 1 CHI1110 Intensive beginning Chinese (summer school), part 1 CHI1111 Beginning Chinese, part 2 CHI1120 Intensive beginning Chinese (summer school), part 2 CHI1122 Intermediate Chinese, part 1 CHI1210 CHI2210 Intermediate Chinese, part 2 CHI1220 CHI2220 Advanced intermediate Chinese, part 1 CHI1310 CHI2310 CHI3310 Advanced intermediate Chinese, part 2 CHI1320 CHI2320 CHI3320 Chinese newspaper readings, part 1 CHI3330 Chinese newspaper readings, part 2 CHI3340 Advanced Chinese, part 1 CHI1410 CHI2410 CHI3410 Advanced Chinese, part 2 CHI1420 CHI2420 CHI3420 Chinese readings in a discipline area, part 1 CHI2430 CHI3430 Chinese readings in a discipline area, part 2 CHI2440 CHI3440 Chinese business communication, part 1 CHI2450 CHI3450 Chinese business communication, part 2 CHI2460 CHI3460 Chinese for dialect speakers, part 1 CHI1470 CHI2470 CHI3470 Chinese for dialect speakers, part 2 CHI1480 CHI2480 CHI3480 Advanced Chinese, part 3 CHI1510 CHI2510 CHI3510 Advanced Chinese, part 4 CHI1520 CHI2520 CHI3520 Chinese readings in a discipline area, part 3 CHI3530 Chinese readings in a discipline area, part 4 CHI3540 Professional Chinese language internship, part 1 CHI3550 Professional Chinese language internship, part 2 CHI3560 Language study abroad program CHI3990 Cinema studies Reading film narrative A ENH1100 Reading film narrative B ENH1110 Film and ideology ENH2520 ENH3520 Drama into film ENH2830 ENH3830 Forms of narrative cinema VSA2191 VSA3191 Film and national culture ENH2540 ENH3540 Novel into film ENH2810 ENH3810 National fictions (British) ENH2930 ENH3930 Alternatives in documentary film: an Australian VSA2710 VSA3710 focus Classical history and culture The age of Athens CHC1030 The age of Augustus: Rome's golden era CHC1040 Myth into culture CHC2050 Epic poetry CHC2110 CHC3110 From Republic to Empire CHC2210 CHC3210 Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War CHC2220 CHC3220 Classical drama CHC2230 CHC3230 Atoms and the solar system: two studies in ancient CHC2250 CHC3250 Greek science From Tiberius to Domitian CHC2310 CHC3310 Women in Roman society CHC2410 CHC3410 Wit and humour in literature, film and cartoon CHC2510 CHC3510 Alexandria-Jerusalem-Rome: connections and conflict CHC2590 CHC3590 Roman life and literature CHC2610 CHC3610 Late fifth-century Athenian literature and society CHC2630 CHC3630 Fourth-century Athens CHC2650 CHC3650 Gender representations in classical literature CHC2670 CHC3670 Languages and sources of Roman classical history and CHC2810 CHC3810 culture I Languages and sources of Roman classical history and CHC2830 CHC3830 culture II Language and sources of Ancient Greek classical CHC2850 CHC3850 history and culture I Language and sources of Ancient Greek classical CHC2870 CHC3870 history and culture II Comparative literature, critical theory and cultural studies Gender and genre: masculinity in film CLS3007 Text and context I CLS1010 Sexed media, media-ted sex CLS3010 Text and context II CLS1020 Introduction to cultural studies I CLS1040 Image and appearance: the construction of values in CLS2040 CLS3040 the twentieth-century Introduction to cultural studies II CLS1050 Reading narrative texts CLS2050 CLS3050 Popular fiction and popular culture CLS2070 CLS3070 Comparative literary criticism CLS2090 CLS3090 Cultural studies: the consumer society CLS3110 Culture and society: introduction to cultural theory CLS2130 CLS3130 Belief and perception CLS2150 CLS3150 Chinese literature and modernity CLS2160 CLS3160 Forms of narrative cinema CLS2190 CLS3190 Literature and society in Indonesia CLS3220 Greek-Australian writing CLS2230 CLS3230 Sexing the text: constructions of female sexuality CLS2260 CLS3260 Gender and its representation in Indonesian societies CLS3310 Paris, Berlin, Vienna - the city and modernity CLS3320 1870-1918 Indonesian theatrical traditions CLS3360 Literature and society CLS2370 CLS3370 Women in Roman society CLS2410 CLS3410 Tolstoy and Dostoevsky: discourse of experience and CLS3420 alterity European cultural history: the Spanish Civil War CLS3430 Structuralism and poststructuralism CLS3470 Wit and humour in literature, film and cartoon CLS2510 CLS3510 Reading the past: European cinema, history and CLS3520 national identity Modernism in European literature CLS2530 CLS3530 Romanticism and revolution CLS2550 CLS3550 Writing women CLS2570 CLS3570 Gender representation in classical literature CLS2670 CLS3670 Alternatives in documentary film: an Australian CLS2710 CLS3710 focus Contemporary women's fiction and theory CLS2750 CLS3750 Television studies CLS2770 CLS3770 Women's writing in Latin America today CLS3780 Postmodernism and the novel CLS2790 CLS3790 In other worlds: post-colonial fiction CLS2800 CLS3800 Comparative drama of the twentieth century CLS3810 Structuralism and semiotics: Bakhtin, Lotman CLS2830 CLS3830 The novel in Eastern Europe CLS2910 CLS3910 Introduction to critical theory CRT2010 CRT3010 Rethinking bodies CRT2020 Reading Freud and Jung CRT2030 CRT3030 Freud and feminism CRT2050 CRT3050 Freudian fable CRT2060 CRT3060 Contemporary feminist theory CRT2240 CRT3240 Comparative sociology Advanced comparative sociology part I COS3030 Advanced comparative sociology part II COS3040 Japanese society COS3060 Bodily representations COS3070 Literature and society COS3080 Comparative social structures COS2110 Cultural studies: the consumer society COS3110 Culture and society: introduction to cultural theory COS2130 Understanding prejudice and discrimination COS2160 Race and sexual politics COS2230 Nationalism: an anthropological perspective COS3350 Comparative sociology of `development' COS3370 The third world COS3430 Civilisation and its malcontents COS3440 Structuralisms and poststructuralisms COS3470 Social theory and social history COS3480 State, society and nation COS3490 The social construction of disabilities COS3500 Feminism cross-culturally COS3630 Sexed media, media-ted sex COS3710 Australia-Japan social relations COS3810 Computer literacy An introduction to computers CMP0001 Drama and theatre studies The language of performance DTS1060 Theatrical music DTS2100 DTS3100 The place of performance DTS1160 Ideas of theatre DTS2000 DTS3000 Asian theatre: an introduction DTS2050 DTS3050 Tragedy DTS3130 Postcolonial drama DTS2190 DTS3190 The woman's part DTS2210 DTS3210 Modern drama DTS2270 DTS3270 Indonesian theatrical traditions DTS3310 Body, space, text: an introduction to the semiotics DTS2320 DTS3320 of performance Contemporary drama DTS2450 DTS3450 The study of dance DTS2500 DTS3500 Seventeenth-century French theatre DTS3610 Shakespeare DTS2630 DTS3630 Drama in performance DTS3800 Comparative drama of the twentieth century DTS3810 Drama into film DTS2830 DTS3830 Twentieth-century drama DTS2940 DTS3940 The playwright as social critic DTS2941 DTS3941 English Introduction to English literature ENH1010 Introduction to English literature ENH1011 Introduction to English literature ENH1012 Nineteenth century literature ENH1020 Heroes, lovers and monsters: the literary culture of ENH2020 ENH3020 medieval England Rewriting Victorian narratives: origins and oblivion ENH2030 ENH3030 The languages of fiction ENH1040 Property and power: British culture 1745-1799 ENH2040 ENH3040 Configurations of the female: revising the myths ENH1050 Configurations of the female: revising the myth ENH1051 The language of performance ENH1060 Introduction to critical and literary theory ENH2060 ENH3060 Primitivism and progress ENH1070 Primitivism and progress ENH1071 The languages of literature ENH2080 ENH3080 The reader in history ENH1090 Literary women of the eighteenth century ENH2090 ENH3090 The reader in history ENH1091 Postcolonial drama ENH2100 ENH3100 Reading film narrative A ENH1100 Reading film narrative B ENH1110 Renaissance literature: power and love ENH2110 ENH3110 Text and context I ENH1111 Text and context II ENH1122 Literature and opposition, 1660-1800 ENH2130 ENH3130 Australian urban fictions ENH2150 ENH3150 The place of performance ENH1160 Freudian fable ENH2160 ENH3160 Old English ENH2170 ENH3170 Middle English ENH2190 ENH3190 The woman's part ENH2210 ENH3210 Shakespeare: interpretations and transmutations ENH2230 ENH3230 Sexing the text: constructions of female sexuality ENH2260 ENH3260 Modern drama ENH2270 ENH3270 Modern drama ENH2272 ENH3272 Publishing in Australia ENH2290 ENH3290 Romantic literature ENH2310 ENH3310 Romantic literature ENH2311 ENH3311 Body, space, text: an introduction to the semiotics ENH2320 ENH3320 of performance Victorian literature ENH2330 ENH3330 Literature and the Christian tradition ENH2340 ENH3340 Old English literature ENH3370 Middle English literature ENH3390 American literature: from puritanism to postmodernism ENH2410 ENH3410 Modern American literature: writing the South ENH2430 ENH3430 Contemporary drama ENH2450 ENH3450 Contemporary drama ENH2452 ENH3452 Modern English literature: modernism and ENH2470 ENH3470 postmodernism Contemporary English literature ENH2530 ENH3530 Contemporary English literature ENH2532 ENH3532 Romanticism and revolution ENH2550 ENH3550 Writing women ENH2570 ENH3570 Shakespeare: text and performance ENH2630 ENH3630 Poetry, text and performance ENH2650 ENH3650 Authority and identity in Australian literature ENH2690 ENH3690 Orientations: reading Asia ENH2710 ENH3710 Contemporary women's fiction and theory ENH2750 ENH3750 Short fiction: classic and contemporary ENH2770 ENH3770 Psychology and literature ENH2775 ENH3775 In other worlds: postcolonial literature ENH2800 ENH3800 Novel into film ENH2810 ENH3810 Drama into film ENH2830 ENH3830 Children's literature: a comparative study ENH2991 ENH3991 Formative influences: myths, legends and fairy tales ENH2993 ENH3993 in modern children's fantasy National fictions ENH2930 ENH3930 Twentieth-century literature ENH2960 ENH3960 Introduction to fiction writing ENH2980 ENH3980 Advanced fiction writing ENH2981 ENH3981 Formative influences: children's fantasy narratives ENH2990 ENH3990 Children's literature: a comparative study ENH2992 ENH3992 Writing theory and practice: an introduction ENH2995 ENH3995 English in use Introduction to English in Use: communication EIU1010 Introduction to English in Use: form and structure EIU1020 Form and function: English in context EIU2110 English: language and culture EIU3110 English language in use: one mode, many methods EIU2120 EIU3120 Making sense of the environment: English as the EIU2130 EIU3130 language of action and reflection English discourse: exploration, explanation and EIU3210 demonstration European studies Contemporary Europe: origins EUR1010 Contemporary Europe: East and West EUR1020 Europe today: problems of integration EUR2080 European economic history since 1945 EUR2100 EUR3100 The new Europe: cities and regions EUR2120 Nations seeking statehood EUR2130 EUR3130 The impossible dream of European unity EUR3240 The politics of work in Europe EUR3260 Paris, Berlin, Vienna: the city and modernity EUR3320 1870-1918 Russia since 1985: issues and institutions in EUR2340 EUR3340 conflict European cultural history: the Spanish Civil War EUR3430 Reading the past: European cinema, history and EUR3520 national identity Contemporary intellectuals and the idea of Europe EUR3620 German cinema EUR3630 State, markets and monopoly in contemporary western EUR3720 Europe European cultural history 1780-1920 EUR2840 EUR3840

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