HENA03831U English - Free topic: Australia: The Dream and the Reality
Volume 2014/2015
Content
Today Australia is one of
the most multi-cultural nations in the world. All those who came to
visit or to settle, came with an idea of Australia and an
associated set of expectations and goals. This subject explores the
gap between an imagined Australia and an Australian ‘reality’ from
earliest maps and exploratory trips, through European ‘settlement’
and ‘contact’ with Indigenous peoples, the Chinese on the
goldfields and the White Australia policy, to post WWII immigration
and recent experiences of ‘boat people’. This history will be
investigated though a wide range of textual evidence – maps,
diaries & journals, letters, newspaper articles, cartoons,
visual art, autobiography/ memoir/life-writing, short stories, film
and novel. Why did these various peoples come to Australia? What
were their expectations? What were their first impressions? How did
they adapt to culture shock? How did they reconcile the dream with
the reality? How did those ‘already here’ respond to the
‘strangers’? How might the tensions in today’s Australia in
relation to questions of ethnic and cultural difference and
migration policy have been shaped by this history of ‘gap’ between
the imagined Australia and the reality of Australia? What is the
relationship between media representation, public reaction,
political response and policy making? I will also ask students to
consider Australian colonisation, immigration, multi-cultural and
refugee policy in relation to conditions in Europe in general and
Denmark in particular.
Teaching and learning methods
Class
instruction
Workload
- Category
- Hours
- Lectures
- 28
- Preparation
- 176,75
- Total
- 204,75
Exam 1 (Exam form A - KA 2013-ordning)
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Other
Criteria for exam assesment
Exam 2 (Exam form A - KA 2008-ordning)
- Credit
- 15 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Other
Criteria for exam assesment
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- HENA03831U
- Credit
- See exam description
- Level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
- 1 semester
- Placement
- Autumn
- Schedule
- See link to schedule
- Study board
- Study board of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Contracting department
- Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Course responsibles
- Eva Rask Knudsen (5-6a77667870456d7a7233707a336970)
Lecturers
Anne Collett
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