Where and how do we encounter the traveller? This course will explore the spiralling routes of travellers and their imaginings as they confront sites of contact, connection and exchange in writing Australia. In particular, this course studies contemporary travel literatures about Australia . It focuses on drifters, settlers, migrant and diasporic observers as well as refugees and global travellers. The texts and theoretical material examined in this course investigate the rifts and entanglements between peoples, places, cultures, ways of seeing, knowing and being in the world. The emphasis will be on writing that is preoccupied with contemporary postcolonial debates regarding difference, marginality, liminality and hybridity within transcultural and transnational contexts. The course facilitates advanced creative and critical responses to this writing.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
- research, critically analyse, discuss and write about a text or series of texts, using a relevant theoretical approach;
- research and compose short fiction that engages with creative and critical work on travel and migration; and
- research, critically analyse, discuss and present on a text or film about a journey, using an appropriate theoretical approach.
Indicative Assessment
- In-class Presentation and Discussion (500 words) (10) [LO 3]
- Critical Essay (3000 words) (45) [LO 1]
- Creative response and critical commentary (2000-3000 words) (45) [LO 2]
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Workload
130 hours of total student learning time over three weeks of a summer intensive, which is made up of:
36 hours of seminar
2 hours of film screening
92 hours of independent student research, reading and writing
Inherent Requirements
Not applicable
Requisite and Incompatibility
Prescribed Texts
Murrray Bail, Eucalyptus (Melbourne: Text, 1998)
Behrouz Boochani, No Friend but the Mountains (Picador, 2018)
Raimond Gaita, Romulus my Father (Melbourne: Text, 1998)
Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Fees
Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.
Commonwealth Support (CSP) Students
If you have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). More information about your student contribution amount for each course at Fees.
- Student Contribution Band:
- 1
- Unit value:
- 6 units
If you are a domestic graduate coursework student with a Domestic Tuition Fee (DTF) place or international student you will be required to pay course tuition fees (see below). Course tuition fees are indexed annually. Further information for domestic and international students about tuition and other fees can be found at Fees.
Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.
| Units | EFTSL |
|---|---|
| 6.00 | 0.12500 |
Course fees
- Domestic fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2024 | $4080 |
- International fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2024 | $6000 |
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Summer Session
| Class number | Class start date | Last day to enrol | Census date | Class end date | Mode Of Delivery | Class Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1529 | 22 Jan 2024 | 25 Jan 2024 | 25 Jan 2024 | 08 Feb 2024 | In Person | N/A |