Australia

This course examines the cultural, industrial and technological history of commercial rock and popular music from the 1950s onwards.

This course examines the evolution of design over the last century, drawing on the prominent theoretical frameworks, practices and perspectives that have influenced and shaped the discipline. It covers the shift from traditional production-based practices to human-centred design and more recent thinking around decolonised and post-anthropogenic futures.

This course examines the critical frameworks, essential terms, and research skills that are key both to the practice of literary studies and to any detailed and persuasive interrogation of the written word. It covers canonical texts from the late sixteenth century to the twentieth century to gain a foundational understanding of literary history and theory, and the characteristics of three major genres: drama, poetry, and prose fiction.

This course examines traditions, perspectives and concepts of media studies. Starting with the familiar and the everyday, this course covers the breadth of contemporary media studies from television and the tradition of mass media studies, to telephony and the study of networked media and communication technologies. With an eye on the way that television and telephony have adapted to changing realities over the decades, this course explains how media and communication technologies have transformed the rhythms of everyday life, the organization of domestic space, the boundaries between private and public, and our sense of involvement with national and public collectivities. In addition, the course examines the concept of mediation by exploring how both television and telephony shape the experience of time, distance, immediacy and liveness.

This course examines the world of the supernatural and paranormal from both historical and contemporary perspectives.