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The University of New South Wales

Undergraduate Courses

The undergraduate program in Australian Studies enables students to construct a multi-disciplinary major focusing on Australian history and culture. 

In 2008 there are two core courses at level 1: AUST1001 Australia: Representations, Identites and Difference and AUST 1003 Australian Environmental History. Upper level courses are taught and administered through different Schools in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

Australian Studies Courses 2008

Semester One

AUST2026 Music of Aboriginal Australians
AUST2028 Australian Cinema and Television
AUST2033 Australian Masculinities
AUST2034 Women and Men: Gender in Australia

Semester Two

AUST1001 Australia: Representations, Identities and Difference
AUST1003 Australian Environmental History
AUST2010 Society and Environmental Process
AUST2015 Contemporary Australian Women writers
AUST2019 Inventing Australia: Race, nation, identity, 1901-1949
AUST2027 Staging Australia
AUST3103 Urban Legends: The History of Sydney

Prize

The Bill Ashcroft Prize in Australian Studies ($250.00) is awarded each year to the best performance in an undergraduate essay on Australian Studies.