- Students are to follow the requirements of the Handbook for the year they commenced the course.
However, the subject links below do not contain the subject information for the current year. You can view current subject information through the new Course Handbook.
War and Society
War has long pre-occupied scholars from a broad range of disciplines. It has been a dominant element in notions of empire and nation-building, popular culture, creative writing, film, television and memory. War has both united and divided societies and it has affected public and social policy. It reaches from the international arena to the homes of individual families. War has been both demonised and glorified - and is a touchstone in debates over gender. The War and Society major is a broad interdisciplinary major that examines the way war has been represented and analysed from different disciplinary perspectives. Implicit in the major are questions about the nature of war, its definitions, its economic, political and social aspects, and its consequences.
Major Study
A major in War and Society consists of a minimum of 52 credit points. The subjects making up the major are to be chosen from the list below, with 24 credit points at 300 level including WAR 300 as the compulsory subject.
Minor Study
A minor in War and Society consists of a minimum of 28 credit points including WAR300.
Honours
Study Program
Subject Code |
Subject Name |
Credit Points |
Sessions |
Core | |||
WAR 300 |
War and Society |
8 |
Autumn |
100 level | |||
HIST110 |
The Premodern World |
6 |
Autumn |
HIST111 |
The Modern World |
6 |
Spring |
200 level | |||
ARTS202 |
International Studies |
8 |
N/O 2012 |
HIST203 |
Australians and the Great War |
8 |
Autumn |
HIST215 |
National Stories |
8 |
N/O 2012 |
HIST232 |
Russia in War and Revolution |
8 |
Summer |
HIST265 |
Gallipoli Study Tour |
8 |
Winter |
HIST270 |
Western Front Study Tour |
8 |
N/O 2012 |
POL225 |
International Relations: Issues, Concepts and Theories |
8 |
Autumn |
SOC224 |
Violence, Fear and Civilisation: The Evolution of States |
8 |
Spring |
300 level | |||
ENGL337 |
Sex, Power and Chivalry: Medieval to Modern Literature |
8 |
Autumn |
ENGL366 |
Black Writing from Africa, the US and the Caribbean |
8 |
Autumn |
HIST322 |
Twentieth Century Dictatorships |
8 |
Autumn |
INDS300 |
Indigenous Peoples and Decolonisation: Global Perspectives |
8 |
Autumn |
MACS390 |
Media, War and Society |
8 |
Autumn |
POL303 |
Complex Peace Operations |
8 |
N/O 2012 |
POL368 |
Protest and Power: America in the Sixties |
8 |
N/O 2012 |
Other Information
Further information is available at http://coursefinder.uow.edu.au/ or email: Arts - fac-arts@uow.edu.au