Undergraduate Courses
  • 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.

Australian Studies Minor

The Australian Studies minor has been designed to introduce students to the various ways issues in Australian culture and society are addressed and analysed. The minor explores key themes and events in Australia's past and their impact on the present through questions about national identity, social, cultural and political diversity, race and gender. Crossing between disciplines, this minor aims to offer an insight into the disputes, complexities and contradictions that contribute to what it means to be Australian today.

Minor Study

A minor in Australian Studies will consist of at least 28 credit points of subjects from the course structure listed below. It must include the two core subjects AUST101 and AUST 350. The remaining subjects can be taken from the list of elective subjects. Students may not cross-count any subjects from the minor in any other minor or major study.

Subject Code

Subject Name

Credit Points

Session

Core

AUST101

Australian Studies: Cultures and Identities

6

Autumn

AUST 350

Debates in Australian Cultural History

8

Autumn

Electives

HIST220

Living Australia 1800-2000: The autobiography of working class Australia

8

Autumn

HIST239

Water in Australia: An Environmental History

8

N/O 2014

INDS203

Critical Themes in Indigenous Studies

8

Spring

POL302

Foundations of Australian Political Culture

8

N/O 2014

Other Information

For further information email: lha-enquiries@uow.edu.au

Last reviewed: 5 March, 2014