1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

literature, culture, and the popular. Through critical
enquiry and hands-on experience, students will also have
the opportunity to examine the implications of a global
culture increasingly dominated by new electronic writing
technologies, such as hypertext and multimedia.
A Literature major consists of ALM104 Texts and Contexts
at stage one, students are also encouraged to take AT1 13
Writing Fiction. This is followed by a combination of any
two of AL202 Contemporary Australian Writing, AL204
Reading, Writing and Criticism and AL205 American
Literature at stage two, and three of the following stage
three subjects, AL304 Cross-Cultural Perspectives, AL305
Australian Literature, AL306 Renaissance Literary Culture,
ALM310 Electronic Writing and ALM 312 Media and
Literature Project.
Subjects offered
Stage 1
ALM104 Texts and Contexts
AL102 Nature and the Machine Age: Pre and Post
Industrial Culture in Nineteenth Century
Literature
ALM104 Texts and Contexts
Stage 2
AA208 Twentieth Century European Literature and
Thought
AL202 Contemporary Australian Writing
AL204 Reading, Writing and Criticism
AL205 American Literature
Stage 3
AL304 Cross-Cultural Perspectives
AL306 Renaissance Literary Culture
AL307 Australian Literature
ALM310 Electronic Writing
ALM312 MedidLiterature Project
Media Studies
The approach in Media Studies is essentially analytical and
critical, although students can acquire hands-on skills in
publishing, electronic writing and radio production during
the later stages of the course.
Students doing a media major need to complete one stage
one media subject ALM104 Text and Contexts. Students
are also encouraged to consider taking AM105 The Media
in Australia. At stage two students doing the media major
need to complete two media subjects - AM203, AM208 or
AM209. At stage 3 students must complete three media
subjects for a media major and they can choose from
AM300, AM302, AM306, ALM310, AM311 or AM312.
Students intending to take the media major are advised to
read the prerequisites for each media subject to enable them
to undertake later stage media subject.
Enrolment into AM306, which is applicable to both
streams, is based on selection from applicants at the end of
first semester.
Su bjects offered
Stage 1
ALM104 Texts and Contexts
AM105 The Media in Australia
Stage 2
AM208 New Media: The Telecommunications
Revolution
AM203 Popular Culture
AM207 Cultural Representation in Australia
AM209 Media Voices, Media Style: The Process of
Journalism
Stage 3
ALM310 Electronic Writing
ALM312 Media/Literature Project
AM300 Cinema Studies
AM302 Radio Production and Criticism
AM306 Professional Attachment Program
AM311 Information Society: A Global Perspective
Philosophy and Cultural Inquiry
The subjects offered in Philosophy and Cultural Inquiry draw
on the traditional disciplines of philosophy, the history of
ideas, and the history and philosophy of science. They are
designed to introduce students to the techniques of
philosophical inquiry and analysis, and to some of the
important cultural and intellectual developments which have
shaped our lives and the way we see ourselves in relation to
the world. Many of the subjects give particular emphasis to the
interrelationships between science, technology and culture,
both from a historical and a contemporary perspective.
In addition to opening up new perspectives on our lives
and our culture, philosophical inquiry develops practical
skills in critical and creative thinking, reasoning and
argument, and conceptual analysis. These skills not only
play an important part in complementing studies in other
subject areas, but are also of great value in both
professional and personal life.
A major in Philosophy and Cultural Inquiry comprises
one semester subject at stage one, two semester subjects at
stage two, three semester subjects at stage three.
Some of the subjects offered below also may be used to
construct majors in Australian Studies, Cultural Studies, or
European Studies. Note, however, that students may not
double-count subjects for two majors. For example, if
AH204 Philosophy of Culture is counted as part of a major
in Philosophy and Cultural Inquiry, it cannot at the same
time be counted as part of a major in Cultural Studies.
Subjects offered
Stage 1
AH100 Introduction to Philosophy
AH101 History of Ideas
AH102 Theories of the Universe
AH103 Critical Thinking
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