Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
|---|---|---|
| Gold Coast | Term1 | Term1 |
| Online | Term1 | N/A |
Unit description
Using a postcolonial approach to the study of identity and culture, students explore the social, cultural and political formation of borders and borderlands. Through an investigation of race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender and class, various cultural texts are analysed. Students engage self reflexively with contemporary theories of multiculture, belonging, everyday life and dislocation.
Unit content
Module 1: Borders of belonging
Module 2: Bounding the nation
Module 3: Boundaries of culture
Module 4: Traversing boundaries
Module 5: Displaying and performing culture
Module 6: Borderlands and history
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | demonstrate an understanding of contemporary postcolonial theory concerned with borders and borderlands |
| 2 | self reflexively consider the implications of postcolonial theory in relation to questions of belonging, identity, multiculture and dislocation |
| 3 | critically investigate how issues of race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender and class intersect and interact |
| 4 | apply relevant aspects of cultural studies and postcolonial theory in an experientially based project. |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- demonstrate an understanding of contemporary postcolonial theory concerned with borders and borderlands
- self reflexively consider the implications of postcolonial theory in relation to questions of belonging, identity, multiculture and dislocation
- critically investigate how issues of race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender and class intersect and interact
- apply relevant aspects of cultural studies and postcolonial theory in an experientially based project.
Prescribed Learning Resources
- No prescribed texts.
- No prescribed resources/equipment.
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
Domestic
Commonwealth Supported courses
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Fee paying courses
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International
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