Course description
Specialisation Requirements:
* one compulsory subject (12.5 points)
* one language elective (12.5 points)
* one culture elective (12.5 points)
* one general elective from either the language or cultural electives (12.5 points)
Compulsory subject
Subject Semester Credit Points
175-108 Intercultural Communication
This subject involves the main components of communicative events across cultures, the main linguistic approaches to analysing them, how they vary in a range of cultures from around the world, and the difficulties and misunderstandings these differen... Semester 2 12.50
Language electives
Subject Semester Credit Points
175-009 First Language Acquisition
This subject is an overview of some principal issues in first language acquisition, including children's language development (from pre-speech onwards), grammatical, semantic and pragmatic development, and the continued development of language t... Semester 1 12.50
175-010 Second Language Learning and Teaching
This subject will examine a range of theoretical models of second language acquisition, including Universal Grammar, interlanguage, the input hypothesis, and the interaction hypothesis. Individual factors including age, aptitude, motivation and indiv... Semester 2 12.50
175-011 Discourse & Pragmatics
This subject involves the study of language from pragmatic and discourse analytic perspectives. It will include topics such as: the collection and transcription of spoken language data; speech act theory, conversational implicature, deixis and perspe... Semester 2 12.50
175-016 Semantics
This subject is an introduction to the study of meaning, looking at the main linguistic approaches to the study of meaning, techniques of semantic analysis and argumentation, and problems of accounting for some selected areas of linguistic meaning. T... Semester 1 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
175-019 Language, Society and Culture
This subject examines how social and cultural factors influence language, and the role language plays in structuring and representing social categories across cultures. It examines how culture and language shape each other: how language represents an... Semester 2 12.50
175-200 Language and Media
This subject examines the role of language in media texts using approaches developed through the field of linguistics and applied linguistics. Using digitised video clips, the subject explores the relationships between aural and visual elements in me... Semester 1 12.50
175-202 Computer Mediated Communication
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
175-212 Language and Identity
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
119-200 Language and Society in Europe
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
110-214 Indonesian Languages in Social Context
This subject focuses on the role of personal, societal, and historical contexts in the use and development of languages in the Indonesian archipelago, focussing on specific Indonesian societies (eg. Batak, Javanese, Maluku) and the Indonesian nation ... Semester 2 12.50
Culture electives
Subject Semester Credit Points
100-182 Self and Other
One knows who one is by knowing who one is not. This subject is concerned with questions of identity. In particular, it considers how the senses of self and ‘other’ that we hold are always culturally constructed and maintained... Semester 2 12.50
121-107 Anthropology: Studying Human Diversity
Anthropology explores the different ways people live their lives. In this subject, an introduction to foundational knowledge in the discipline, students will be exposed to a variety of social and cultural forms around the world and the methods and th... Semester 2 12.50
800-175 An Ecological History of Humanity
An Ecological History of Humanity or "How we got to where we are", journeys through 150,000 years of human experience: climate change, the great migrations, health and disease, famine and plenty, war and peace, scientific and ... Semester 1 12.50
