Type of Action

	Course Deletion		Requisite Change
	Course Revision		Repeatability Change
	Description Change		Diversity Option
	Title Change		General Education Option
	Number Change		area:
X	Contact Hour Change		Computer Requirement
X	Credit Change		Writing Requirement
	Add Cross-listing		Other

 

Effective Term: Fall ’01
New/Current Course Number: 880 - 280		Crosslist Number: 617 - 280
Old Course Number: ________-______/_______

 

New/Current Course Title:	Introduction to Australian Studies: Australian Society and Culture
15 Character Abbreviation:	No change
25 Character Abbreviation:	No change
Sponsor(s):	Bruce Wiegand, Paul Adogamhe
Department(s):	Sociology, International Studies/Political Science
College(s):	L&S
Other Programs Affected:	Political Science

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Attach the following:

I. Detailed explanation of changes (use FROM/TO format)

Change credit
From: 3-5
To: 3

Change contact hours
From: 48-80
To: 48
 

Due to problems with regulations and logistics, the travel portion of the course (1-2 credits) will not be able to be included as a variable credit part of the course. Content of the basic 3-credit classroom portion of the course will not change, but the travel component will have to be offered as a separate 491 Travel Study course.

Week 2
Theme: Racial and National Identities
session 1: Mapping Australia: Landscapes and Population (slide presentation)
session 2: "The British Empire" (30-minute video segment) and Discussion

Week 3
Theme: Racial and National Identities
session 1: The Ideology of a "White Australia"
session 2 "For King and Country" (30-minute video segment) and Discussion

Week 4
Theme: Racial and National Identities
session 1: "March to Nationhood" (30-minute video segment) and Discussion
session 2: A Nation of Immigrants

Week 5
Theme: Racial and National Identities
session 1: Map and Population Quiz
session 2: Toward a Multicultural Australia

Week 6
Theme: Comparisons with the United States
session 1: Comparing Political Symbols of Nationhood
session 2: Comparing Systems of Social Stratification

Week 7
Theme: Comparisons with the United States
session 1: Australia through American Eyes: Analyzing "Crocodile Dundee"
session 2: Australia in American Literature: Bill Bryson’s The Sunburned Country

Week 8
session 1: Mid-Term Examination
Theme: Australia-Asia Interdependencies
session 2: "Australian Empire and Asia" (30-minute video segment) and Discussion

Week 9
Theme: Australia-Asia Interdependencies
session 1: Australian Perceptions of Asia: 1901 to the Present
session 2: "Part of Asia": Ketting and Engagement Policy

Week 10
Theme: Australia-Asia Interdependencies
session 1: "Entering Asia" (30-minute video segment) and Discussion
session 2: Asian Communities in Australia

Week 11
Theme: Impacts of Globalization on Australia
session 1: Global Financial Capital and Australian Small Family Businesses
session 2: Australian Reactionary Politics: The "One Nation" Party

Week 12
Theme: Impacts of Globalization on Australia
session 1: National Identity and Globalization
session 2: "Towards a Republic" (30-minute video segment) and Discussion

Week 13
Theme: Contemporary Debates: Racial Justice
session 1: The Australian Debate Surrounding Aboriginal Reconciliation
session 2: The American Debate Surrounding Repatriations

Week 14
Theme: Contemporary Debates: The Environment
session 1: Analyzing Cane Toads (film)
session 2: Environment: The Driest Continent

Week 15
Theme: Contemporary Debates: Tax Reform
session 1: The Goods and Services Tax (GST)
session 2: The Global Political Economy of Tax Reform
Term Paper Due

Week 16
session 1: A Summary of Themes
session 2: Australian Studies as a Field of Inquiry

Week 17
session 1: A Semester’s Review

FINAL EXAMINATION
 
 

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+Alomes, Stephen. 1998. A Nation at Last ? London: Angus and Robertson.

+Attwood, Bain. 1989. The Making of the Aborigines. Sydney, Allen and Unwin.

+Attwood, Bain, and Andrew Markus. 1999. The Struggle for Aboriginal Rights. Sydney: Allen and Unwin.

Bell, R., and P. Bell. 1993. Implicated: The United States in Australia. Melbourne, Oxford University Press.

+Bennett, S. 1999. White Politics and Black Australians. Sydney: Allen and Unwin.

Bennett, T., (ed.). 1992. Celebrating the Nation. Sydney: Allen and Unwin.

Brawley, Sean. (1995). The White Peril, Foreign Relations and Asian Immigration to Australasia and North America 1919-78. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press.

Brett, Judith. 1992. Robert Menzies' Forgotten People. Sydney: Macmillan.

Broinowski, Alison. 1992. The Yellow Lady: Australian Impressions of Asia. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

+Castles, F., (ed.). 1991. Australia Compared: People, Policies, Politics. Sydney: Allen and Unwin.

Castles, Stephen, Mary Kalantzis, Bill Cope, and Michael Morrissey. 1988. Mistaken Identity: Multiculturalism and the Demise of Nationalism in Australia. Sydney: Pluto Press.

Conway, Jill Ker. 1992. The Road from Coorain, London: Minerva.

Damousi, J., and M. Lake, (eds.). 1995. Gender and War: Australians at War in the Twentieth Century. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.

Darien-Smith, Kate and Paula Hamilton, (eds.). 1994. Memory and History in Twentieth Century Australia. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

+Freeman, Gary P., and James Jupp, (eds.). 1992. Nations of Immigrants: Australia, The United States, and International Migration. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

Gammage, Bill. 1975. The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War. Melbourne: Penguin.

Griffiths, Tom. 1996. Hunters and Collectors. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.

Grimshaw, P., M. Lake, A. McGrath and M. Quartly. 1994. Creating a Nation. Melbourne: McPhee Gribble.

Hirst, John. 1994. A Republican Manifesto. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

+Jordens, Ann-Mari. 1995. Redefining Australians: Immigration, Citizenship, and National Identity. Sydney: Hale and Iremonger.

+Jupp, James. 1991. Immigration. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

McGillivray, Mark and Gary Smith (eds.). 1997. Australia and Asia. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

McQueen, Humphrey. 1991. Japan to the Rescue: Australian Security Around the Indonesian Archipelago During the American Century. Melbourne, Heinemann.

+Murphy, John and Judith Smart. 1997. The Forgotten Fifties: Aspects of Australian Society and Culture in the 1950s. Melbourne: Historical Studies.

+Reynolds, Henry. 1987. Frontier: Aborigines, Settlers, and Land. Sydney: Allen and Unwin.

+Schaffer, Kay. 1988. Women and the Bush: Forces of Desire in the Australian Cultural Tradition. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.

+Spillman, Lyn. 1997. Nation and Commemoration: Creating National Identities in the United States and Australia. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.

+Walker, David. 1999. Anxious Nation: Australia and the Rise of Asia, 1850 to 1939. Brisbane, Queensland University Press.

+Walter, James, (ed.). 1989. Australian Studies: A Survey. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

Ward, Russel. 1966. The Australian Legend. 2nd ed. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.

Winston, George 1986. Monarchy to Republic: Australian Republican Government. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.