AUSTRALIA IN THE PAST AND PRESENT Autumn 2015


Week 1: Introduction. Aims and methods. Survey of issues discussed at the course.

  29.9.    Reading: CHA Chapter 1

              Video: Women of the sun


Week 2:  Concept of identity: social, ethnic, personal

6.10..            Indigenous people and their way of life (contributions)

                     Reading: CHA Chapter.  2

                                   Eve Mumewa D.Fesl: Conned!  Chapter 1


Week 3: Aborigines and their encounters with the white settlers

13.10.         Reading: K.S. Prichard: Flight

                                                    N’Goola)

                   Video: Rabbit-proof Fence


Week 4:  Aborigines today. Thinking White?

20.10.           Reading: Brady, V.: Polyphonies of the self: The challenge of Aboriginal Aust.

                                     Morgan Sally: My Place

                      Video: Samson and Delilah


Week 5: Immigration. Convicts.

27.10.           Reading: CHA Chapter 3

                              Tasma)

                              Clarke: His natural Life /One hundred Lashes

                              Warung: A bar of steel


Week 6:  19ct.Australia / settlers, squatters, gold rush….

   3.11.          Reading: CHA Chapter 4

                                    Patterson: Clancy of the overflow

                     Video: Man from Snowy River


Week 7: End of the century. The Bulletin. OZ Myths. Ned Kelly. Women. Trade Unions.

10.11.           Reading: CHA Chapter 5

                                     Franklin: My brilliant career.

                     Video: My brilliant career.


Week 8: Search for Australian self-identity. Commonwealth (legislation).

24.11.             Reading :  CHA Chapter 6

                                Another America (in Inventing Australia).

                      Video : Picnic at hanging rock.


Week 9: Australia in Wars.

  1.12.            Reading :  CHA Chapter 7

                      Video: Gallipolli


Week 10: Post-War Australia, end of 20ct., immigration, minorities

8.  12.          Reading: CHA Chapter 8

                     Video: Father


Week 11     Australia multicultural. Recent demographic trends.

15.12.               Video: Immigration policy Australia documentary






Reading:

Ward, R.: Concise History of Australia – in ELF

McMillan Anthology of Australian literature (MAAL)


Also (among other things on Australia to be found in the library):

Aboriginal Australia

Inventing Australia

Images of Australia

The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature

Hughes, Robert : Fatal Shore

www. Australian aborigines

www. Indigenous Australia


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Australia