AJL18095 Narrating Australian Places

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2022
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Taught in person.
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Martina Horáková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Martina Horáková, Ph.D.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Supplier department: Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 10:00–11:40 G25
Prerequisites
( AJ01002 Practical English II || AJL01002 Practical English II )
A good command of English in spoken and written form, interest in the studies of Australia.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 1/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25
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Course objectives
This course introduces students to the field of Australian Studies through a focus on different Australian places. It asks how these places are often simultaneously understood and imagined as Indigenous Country, as the site of colonisation and settler homemaking, or as locations of a modern multicultural nation. The process of narration plays an important role in such understandings and imaginings of places and we will focus on how and why such narratives (in the broadest sense) are constructed and what forms they might take. Starting out from an engagement with the Aboriginal Australian concept of ‘Country’, we will focus on iconic Australian locations such as the outback, the beach, the city, or the border and ask how they are narrated across a range of cultural productions including literature, film and the visual arts.
The course is part of the EDUC alliance and has been developed collaboratively between Masaryk University, Czech Republic, and the University of Potsdam, Germany. To allow for close collaboration between lecturers and students from both universities, the course will be partially co-taught. Students must generally be able to attend all classes listed in the schedule. Ideally, students from both universities will interact, discuss various things and work together on assignments. Because of the different academic calendars and semester schedules at Masaryk and Potsdam, the synchronous (online) classes will be planned, for example, twice a week for a few weeks in April and May 2022.
Learning outcomes
After finishing this course students will be acquainted with basic facts of Australian history and culture and they will understand better some cultural concepts related to spaces and places as contested sites of conflicting interests. They will have also practiced reading complex texts in English, critical thinking, disucssing various topics in class, writing analytical papers.
Teaching methods
mini-lectures; group and class discussions; student presentations;
Assessment methods
Students will be assessed according to their perfomance in class as well as their written expressions in individual and project assignments.
Language of instruction
English
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