Locating Australia: culture, nation, region
Cathy Greenfield
12 points
* 2 hours per week (seminar)
* Second semester
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Gippsland
* Prerequisites: First degree with a major in English, mass
communications or related discipline(s)
Objectives On successful completion of the subject students should be able to demonstrate an understanding of how a variety of literary and other media texts are involved in the formation and negotiation of national and regional identities; the capacities to describe and analyse arguments surrounding these identities, national literatures, and national and international communication technologies; use of appropriate theoretical and cultural frameworks for research on these issues in areas of their own choosing.
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 Essay one (3000 words): 30%
* Essay two (6000 words):
70%
Prescribed texts
Anderson B R Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism Verso Editions, 1991
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