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2025 unit information
Trimester 3*: Burwood (Melbourne)
This unit is available to International students and Exchange students only.
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Intensive mode (early January - dates TBA):
6 x 1-hour on-campus lectures per intensive
6 x 1-hour on-campus seminars per intensive
5 x 2-hour on-site practical experience (field trips) per intensive (dates to be confirmed)
Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.
*In Trimester 3 only, this unit is offered in intensive mode commencing early January at Burwood (Melbourne) only
The unit studies current debates, issues and concerns in the understanding of contemporary Australian society and culture. It focuses on the interests of international students who need skills and understandings for work and study in Australia. Through an introduction to the key issues facing Australians today, the unit aims to develop students' skills for working and communicating in the international context; locate Australia in various global contexts, within the British Empire, Asia, the global economy, politics and international relations; and take an international perspective on diversity and difference in Australian culture and society, through a range of studies of popular culture, histories, settlement, landscape and people.
Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs)
Articulate and understand some key issues currently animating Australia Today
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
Gain a comprehensive overview of Australian history, society, politics and culture; to allow an informed cultural orientation to Australia
Research, structure and write an essay, field research report and in-class exercises in English to an acceptable academic standard, using scholarly conventions
GLO2: Communication
GLO3: Digital literacy
Utilising the field methods of participation and observation along with other research techniques, analyse the experience of an Australian cultural artefact and locate it into to its wider social and historical setting
GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO5: Problem solving
Utilise the skills and knowledge presented in the unit to interrogate current politics, landscapes and issues and locate them into an international context
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
The texts and reading list for AIX290 can be found via the University Library. Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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Tuition fees increase at the beginning of each calendar year and all fees quoted are in Australian dollars ($AUD). Tuition fees do not include textbooks, computer equipment or software, other equipment or costs such as mandatory checks, travel and stationery.
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