Australian studies
Australian Studies encourages students to analyse and investigate issues associated with Australian society and culture in a global context.
At La Trobe, Australian Studies units are taught by many world-renowned academics from the disciplines of:
- archaeology
- anthropology
- art history
- cinema studies
- English, history
- linguistics
- media studies
- politics
- sociology
- theatre and drama.
Melbourne is the ideal environment for Australian Studies students, offering a range of unique cultural resources. Students have access to resources such as:
These galleries have some of the finest collections of Australian and international art in the world.
For cinema and media students, Melbourne offers a diverse program of new Australian plays and films, and access to the Australian Centre of the Moving Image's extensive public film library.
Australian Studies units are highlighted in the Study Abroad Guide 2009 with a symbol of Australia. Or for more information, visit our Australian Studies website.
Discover Australia
Discover Australia is a semester length unit offered as that allows students to combine an in-depth study of Australian issues with comparative analyses of other countries and cultures in the region and the world.
The unit is multi-disciplinary and promotes active learning through the use of web activities, film, plus lectures, intensive workshops and some excursions.
The topics covered in this unit include:
- Aboriginal Australia
- From convicts to free settlers
- Race relations, landrights and reconciliation
- Immigration and multiculturalism - what works?
- The politics of water
- Governance - states/nation/region
- The city and the bush
- Cultural icons - sports/sex/violence and poetry?
- Gender - from Germaine Greer to Kylie Minogue
- National identity in film and literature
- Australia in a globalising world
- Is Australia in Asia?
Field Trips
La Trobe University 's Department of Zoology offers exciting and adventurous field trips to:
- the Great Barrier Reef's Heron Island
- Kangaroo Island in South Australia
- the Mallee, an outback district of Victoria bordered by Big Desert and Little Desert.
If you are a zoology Study Abroad student (download the Study Abroad Guide (PDF 2.6MB) for a list of zoology units) you are also able to take part in these unique trips.
