Disciplines and areas of study
North American studies
Program Coordinator: Dr Diane Kirkby.
Students may qualify for a degree with a major in North American studies by completing at least 130 credit points, including 30 credit points at first year level, 40 credit points at second year level and 60 credit points at third year level, from the units listed below. A major is made up of approved combinations of units from the disciplines of art history, cinema studies, English, history, anthropology, sociology, and politics.
Important notice: Not all of the units listed below will be available every year. See the unit lists for the specific disciplines, where units unavailable in 2008 will be noted.
Programs of study
| Unit title | Unit code |
|---|---|
| First year units (15 credit points) | |
| Art from Rembrandt to Warhol: constructing the modern | ARH1ARW |
| Conquest of the Americas | HIS1CAM |
| Culture and Globalisation: introduction to anthropology | ANT1CAG |
| Economy, Environment and Human Rights: world in transition | POL1EEH |
| States, Nations and Security: world in transition | POL1SNS |
| Second or third year units (20 credit points) | Unit code |
| America since 1945: pop art, politics and popular culture | HIS2AWA/HIS3AWA |
| American Literature of the Twentieth Century | ENG2ALT/ENG3ALT |
| America’s War in Vietnam | HIS2AWV/HIS3AWV |
| Civil War to Civil Rights in the USA | HIS2CWU/HIS3CWU |
| Hollywood Cinema | CST2CLH/CST3CLH |
| Contemporary World Cinema | CST2CFI/CST3CFI |
| Film Noir: alienation and darkness in the cinema | CST2FNO/CST3FNO |
| Genre Studies: the western film | CST2GES/CST3GES |
| International Relations: the Cold War and the great powers | POL2INR/POL3INR |
| Introduction to American Politics | POL2IAP/POL3IAP |
| Making America: from Pocahontas to Jazz and Prohibition | HIS2MAM/HIS3MAM |
| Melodrama and Morality | CST2MEM/CST3MEM |
| Native American Endurance | HIS2NAE/HIS3NAE |
| US Civil Rights Movement 1954-1968 | HIS2UCR/HIS3UCR |
A full description of these units (including the unit name, unit code, credit points, campus/location, unit coordinator, class requirements, assessment, prerequisites, and readings) appears at the end of each discipline entry. For the most recent descriptions of all units, please access the unit database at www.latrobe.edu.au/udb_public.