HIS202: Australia and its Asian Context

Understanding Australia's present engagement with Asia demands awareness of longer term attitudes towards Asia. This unit fosters an understanding of distinctive features of Australian history in the light of perceptions of Asia, for example cultural baggage carried by Australia's first white inhabitants, how this affected their understandings of non-European peoples, and Australia's history of 'dependent relations' on external protectors. It examines contemporary relations between this country and its region and contemplates the implications of 'Australia's Asian context' for national identity.

Points	4
Enrolment Options	Murdoch: S2-internal, S2-external
Contact Time	Lectures: up to 2 hours per week; seminars: 1 hour per week.
Prerequisites	Nil. Co-requisite: Internet access if studying externally.
School	School of Social Sciences and Humanities
Unit Coordinator	Dr Jan Gothard Position: Senior Lecturer E-mail: J.Gothard@murdoch.edu.au Location: Murdoch Campus Social Sciences Room 2.012 Phone: Prefix: +618 9360 2998
Unit Contacts	Contact Phone Prefix: +618 Location Explanation of Location Codes Teaching Period(s) Dr Jan Gothard Senior Lecturer (J.Gothard@murdoch.edu.au) 9360 2998 Murdoch Campus Social Sciences Room 2.012 MURDOCH S2: Internal (02/08/2010 - 26/11/2010)   MURDOCH S2: External (02/08/2010 - 26/11/2010)

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Key to Offshore Campus Location abbreviations: APMISIN Asia Pacific Management Institute (Singapore) CEJTOKYO Chiropractic Education Japan (Tokyo) JKURASHIKI NET Corporation (Kurashiki, Japan) KDUPG KDU College (Penang, Malaysia) KDUPJ KDU College (Petaling Jaya, Malaysia) SGP-REPOLY Republic Polytechnic (Singapore) SMANUFED Singapore Manufacturing Federation ZHENGZHOU Zhengzhou University (China)