地域文化論Ⅱ

Week 1 Class topic: Introduction Reading and preparation: No reading Week 2 Class topic: Aboriginal Sydney: Gadigal Country Reading and preparation: 1. Extracts from History Team, Barani: Sydney’s Aboriginal History Website, City of Sydney, 2013. https://www.sydneybarani.com.au/***** 2.“Aboriginal Australia: A Timeline” Week 3 Class topic: Aboriginal Sydney Reading and preparation: 1. Extract from Dennis Foley and Peter Read, What the Colonists Never Knew: A History of Aboriginal Sydney, 2020. Week 4 Class topic: Colonial Sydney Reading and preparation: Extracts from: Grace Karskens, The Colony: A History of Early Sydney, 2010. Watkin Tench, Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson, 1796. Week 5 Class topic: Colonial Sydney Reading and preparation: Extracts from: Eleanor Dark. The Timeless Land, 1944. Eric Wilmot, Pemulwuy: Aboriginal Warrior, 1987. Week 6 Class topic: Assessment workshop Week 7 Class topic: Suburban Sydney Reading and preparation: “Life in Australia: Sydney” Tourism video, 1966. Week 8 Class topic: Suburban Sydney Reading and preparation: Home and Away television series episodes Extract: Delia Falconer, Sydney, 2011. Week 9 Class topic: Global Sydney Reading and preparation: Video: The Opening Ceremony of the Sydney Olympics, 2000 Week 10 Class topic: Global Sydney Reading and preparation: 1. Peter Spearritt, “Sydney, Australia and the World” 2. Gordon Waitt, “The City as Tourist Spectacle: Marketing Sydney for the 2000 Olympics” Week 11 Class topic: Sydney and the world Reading and preparation: Clara Law (dir.) Floating Life (1996), film Week 12 Class topic: Sydney and the world Reading and preparation: Extract, John Connell, ed. Sydney: The Emergence of a World City Week 13 Class topic: Course revision and assessment workshop

Teaching in this course consists of a face-to-face lecture and presentation for approximately 50 minutes, followed by tutorial style discussion among students and lecturer. Students are asked to prepare for class by reading or viewing the material set for discussion each week outside class time. The set reading and viewing for the course are designed to expose students to a variety of Australian cultural and historical texts. These are drawn from differing forms and genres, from historical writing, novels, web-based content, feature films, television drama and documentary, to allow engagement from students with various academic backgrounds. The emphasis in teaching and discussion falls first on the skills of close observation and analysis of texts, and then expands to encourage broader context and comparisons.

The assessment tasks measure engagement with the course materials and topics. These are divided in weight with greater emphasis placed on the larger, later task. The first piece of assessment is a short piece, set early in the semester, to introduce students to Australian content and learning approaches. 1. Individual Case Study This is a short, written study of a single text from the first half of the course. It should be a case study of that text’s representation of Sydney. The study should consider the text’s relation to the further reading and the place/context as outlined in lectures and developed through discussion. It may be presented using subtitled short paragraphs or in prose essay style. Further instructions will be available during term. Length: 700 words Worth: 40% Due date: ? 2. Comparative Essay This essay asks students to compare and discuss two of the topics set for study in the course. This essay should employ the set texts as evidence to explore the topics in comparison, in relation to further reading. Further research and scholarship may be useful in elaborating an argument and contextualising specific places and issues. Further instruction and essay questions to answer will be provided during term. Length: 1200-1500 words Worth: 60% Due date: ? Students may not write on the same topic or text for both tasks. Assessment will be based on: •Engagement with the texts •Conceptual understanding of the topics and contexts •Accuracy in use of material and evidence •Rigour and consistency in argumentation •Writing and expression •Scholarly referencing •Presentation

This course does not presume any familiarity with Australia or Australian Studies. It provides an introduction to Australia as a country and nation, including some of its history, politics and geography, as well as questions of identity and culture, through focusing on representations of its oldest and biggest city, Sydney. No experience of Sydney or Australia is needed. It also introduces students to methods in studying Australia. Like all ‘Area Studies’, Australian Studies has an interdisciplinary approach. It employs scholarship, evidence and thinking from many fields including History, Politics, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies, Geography, Indigenous Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Film and Media Studies, Art History, and other Humanities and Social Science disciplines. Over the last thirty years, however, it has also built up a central set of scholarly forums and institutions that define it as an area of study and scholarship. These are where the central debates in Australian Studies happen. So the course will also provide some examples of these debates.