Course overview
This course will consider a range of texts from Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Texts will include poetry, short fiction, novels and films, which will be considered in terms of their historical and literary contexts, together with approaches to style, genre and technique. Literary analysis will take account of factors including nation, canon formation, critical race and whiteness, Indigeneity, colonisation, place, class, gender, and sexuality.
Course learning outcomes
- Specialised knowledge of Australian and New Zealand cultural history, including significant literary and filmic texts
- Knowledge of major issues in Australian Studies and New Zealand Studies
- The skills and discipline to research, synthesise, organise and present information, using a range of technologies as appropriate
- The ability to communicate ideas effectively and accurately, in both oral and written forms and to argue from evidence
- The ability to set appropriate goals and to work independently
- The ability to set appropriate goals and work cooperatively with peers
- The capacity to analyse structural and intercultural power relations and be ethically informed by them