The Pacific Studies minor employs an interdisciplinary framework to introduce historical and contemporary issues in Oceania. It also offers a basic framework to examine the ways in which knowledge about the region, and the region itself, have been framed, constructed and represented, with a particular focus on indigenous epistemologies and voices. Students engage with scholarly and policy debates of critical contemporary importance in the region, including gender, climate change, globalization, the arts, development, and peace, conflict and intervention. The minor provides students with opportunities to further explore the Pacific through the disciplinary lenses of archaeology, anthropology, indigenous studies, political science, literature, philosophy, and visual arts.
Learning Outcomes
- Critically apply theoretical frameworks and research techniques to understand the global significance of Oceania as a region of diverse societies, cultures and languages
- Demonstrate an understanding of diverse disciplinary approaches and methods drawn from the humanities, social sciences and environmental studies, to synthesize knowledge about Oceania and its place in the world
- Demonstrate a nuanced understanding of the diversity of indigenous, popular culture, policy and scholarly perspectives on and within Oceania
- Evaluate knowledge and ideas and debate issues using academic and other approaches addressing a variety of scholarly, policy and public audiences
- Exercise critical thinking and judgement in identifying and solving problems individually as well as collaboratively
Relevant Degrees
Requirements
This minor requires the completion of 24 units, which must consist of:
12 units from the following compulsory courses:
PASI1011 Pacific Encounters: An introduction to Pacific Studies
PASI2001 Pacific Studies in a Globalizing World
12 units from the following contextual courses:
ARCH2005 Archaeology of the Pacific Islanders
ASIA2093 Natural Resource Conflicts in Asia and the Pacific
ENVS2005 Island Sustainable Development: Fiji Field School (12 units)
PASI1012 Pacific Worlds: critical inquiry in Oceania
PASI2002 Australia in Oceania in the 19th and 20th centuries
PASI2030 Study Tour: Regional Policymaking for Pacific Development
PASI3001 Politics and Development in the Contemporary Pacific
PASI3005 Pacific Islands Field School
PASI3013 Environment and Development in the Pacific
POLS2055 Pacific Politics
STST2003 Australia and Security in the Pacific Islands
WARS2004 War in the Islands: The Second World War in the Pacific
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