Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
Synopsis This subject offers a general introduction to the study of what `nation' and `region' has come to involve in contemporary cultural studies, focusing specifically on Australia as well as its links to the Asia-Pacific region. Frameworks are drawn from literary studies and studies in mass communication. The subject acquaints students with differing approaches to the study of the nation, which includes the study of relationships between and within nations as well as between nation and region. It examines how these are shaped, mediated and contested around various media texts. Assessment options will be designed to enable students with a single undergraduate major in either English or in mass communications to pursue these orientations through the subject.
Assessment Two essays (4500 essays): 50% each