Entry requirementsStudents who are currently enrolled in an undergraduate degree course at the University of Melbourne.
Academic titleDiploma in Arts (Australian Studies)
Course descriptionFirst Year Recommended subjects
Subject Semester Credit Points
166-101 Australian Politics
This subject is an introduction to Australia's political institutions including the Constitution, the High Court, Parliament, Cabinet and the Prime Minister, the bureaucracy and the Federal system. We will examine Australia's major politica... Semester 1 12.50
166-103 International Politics
This subject provides students with an introduction to the actors, institutions, dynamics and key debates that make up international politics. It equips students to ‘go behind the news’ of world affairs and understand the deep... Semester 1 12.50
166-107 Media, Politics and Society
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
166-111 Australian Society
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
Second/third Year Core subjects
Students must take three of the following core subjects at second/third-year toward their Australian studies major. These subjects are intended to provide a survey of Australian culture and society.
No more than two of the following Australian studies 102-coded subjects may be taken within a 12 month period of enrolment
Australian studies
102-214 Australia Now
102-003 Australia and America
102-005 Exploring Central Australia
102-211 Migrant Nation: Culture and Identity
102-213 Face, Place, Race: Images of Australia
Screen studies
107-087 Australian Cinema
Geography
121-021 Environmental Politics and Management
History
131-051 Aboriginal & Pacific Islander Histories
131-073 Human Rights in Australian History
131-240 Controversies in Australian History
Linguistics and applied linguistics
175-018 Language in Aboriginal Australia Not Offered
Political science
166-038 Indigenous Rights: Land and Heritage
Subject Semester Credit Points
102-214 Australia Now
This subject introduces students to key social, political and environmental issues which are shaping contemporary Australia. It is ideal for international students, for students whose main area of study lies outside the humanities, and for students w... Semester 1, Semester 2 12.50
102-003 Australia and America
This subject examines, in a comparative context, historical and cultural developments in the United States and Australia from the mid-19th century until the present day. In tracing the similarities and differences in the experiences of these two nati... Semester 1, Semester 2 12.50
102-005 Exploring Central Australia
Exploring Central Australia is an interdisciplinary subject designed to guide students towards a 'shaping' experience of Central Australia. It is a subject designed to prompt academic inquiry in the context of a first-hand encounter - an in... Semester 2 12.50
102-211 Migrant Nation: Culture and Identity
This subject allows students to engage critically with Australia as a migrant nation, identifying its complex nature through a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Topics covered include the history and politics of Australian immigration, multicultu... Semester 1 12.50
102-213 Face, Place, Race: Images of Australia
This subject examines the role of visual images and exhibiting practices in the historical and contemporary development of Australian culture and identity. Themes of 'places', real and imagined: the city, the suburbs, the bush, the beach an... Semester 2 12.50
SCRN20006 The Global Australian Cinema
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
121-021 Environmental Politics and Management
This subject explores a range of contemporary environmental issues in Australia and other postcolonial states and the ways in which people in these places engage with and manage these issues. Examining the history of the emergence and management of ... Semester 2 12.50
AIND20004 Aboriginal & Pacific Islander Histories
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
131-073 Human Rights in Australian History
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
131-240 Controversies in Australian History
This subject examines controversial episodes in the Australian past that commanded public attention, gave rise to heated argument and exposed national divisions. Controversies such as the Myall Creek Massacre, the Eureka rising, the campaign for fema... Semester 2 12.50
175-018 Language in Aboriginal Australia
This subject develops an appreciation of the role of language in Aboriginal Australia, traditionally and today. On completion of the subject, students should have a general knowledge of the linguistic features which characterise Australian Aboriginal... Semester 1 12.50
166-038 Indigenous Rights: Land and Heritage
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
Second/third Year Optional subjects
Subject Semester Credit Points
102-214 Australia Now
This subject introduces students to key social, political and environmental issues which are shaping contemporary Australia. It is ideal for international students, for students whose main area of study lies outside the humanities, and for students w... Semester 1, Semester 2 12.50
102-003 Australia and America
This subject examines, in a comparative context, historical and cultural developments in the United States and Australia from the mid-19th century until the present day. In tracing the similarities and differences in the experiences of these two nati... Semester 1, Semester 2 12.50
102-005 Exploring Central Australia
Exploring Central Australia is an interdisciplinary subject designed to guide students towards a 'shaping' experience of Central Australia. It is a subject designed to prompt academic inquiry in the context of a first-hand encounter - an in... Semester 2 12.50
102-210 From Mateship to Mardi Gras
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
102-211 Migrant Nation: Culture and Identity
This subject allows students to engage critically with Australia as a migrant nation, identifying its complex nature through a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Topics covered include the history and politics of Australian immigration, multicultu... Semester 1 12.50
107-046 Contemporary Australian Art: 1968 to Now
This subject examines contemporary artistic practice in Australia, from 1968 to the present. A broad variety of media will be considered, including painting, sculpture, installation, performance, photography, video and multimedia technologies. Artist... Semester 2 12.50
107-028 Australian Art: Rock to Pop
This subject provides a scholarly introduction to the history of art in Australia, at the same time incorporating new perspectives, approaches and ideas. It demonstrates ways of interpreting Australian art through its relationship to historical event... Semester 2 12.50
107-030 Contemporary Aboriginal Art
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
SCRN20002 Television and Commodity Culture
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
SCRN20006 The Global Australian Cinema
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
ELIT20004 Colonial and Postcolonial Writing
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
ELIT20008 Aboriginal Writing
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
106-063 Aboriginal Cultural Studies
This subject studies Aboriginal dance, theatre and popular music, cultural and sporting festivals and governmental arts funding agencies and Aboriginal arts organisations. It focuses on theoretical and political issues which arise from Aboriginal cul... Semester 1 12.50
CULS30002 Contemporary Cultural Theory
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
121-021 Environmental Politics and Management
This subject explores a range of contemporary environmental issues in Australia and other postcolonial states and the ways in which people in these places engage with and manage these issues. Examining the history of the emergence and management of ... Semester 2 12.50
121-017 Society and Environments
This subject aims to think critically and rigorously about the relationship between social and natural worlds. Its primary purpose is to question the idea that the environment exists outside of, and independent from, the realms of science, culture, p... Semester 1 12.50
AIND20004 Aboriginal & Pacific Islander Histories
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
131-033 A History of Sexualities
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
131-073 Human Rights in Australian History
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
131-071 Museums, Objects, Spectacles
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
131-093 Migrants, Refugees & Australian Society
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
131-210 Total War: Asia & the Pacific 1931-1952
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
HIST20041 Resisting Colonialism: Australia-Pacific
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
136-213 Environmental History of Australia
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
136-313 Environmental History of Australia (Sc3)
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
166-004 Change & Conflict in Australian Society
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
166-012 Australian Political Economy
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
166-022 Public Policy Making
Who makes the public decisions that impact on all aspects of society? How do they make them? Is our society better off for the policies that result? These are the sorts of questions public policy analysts (government policy advisers, NGOs, and academ... Semester 2 12.50
166-035 Australian Foreign Relations
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
166-038 Indigenous Rights: Land and Heritage
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
166-230 On Country Learning: Indigenous Studies
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
THTR20011 Australian Theatre
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50