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Unit of Study CLST3002 - Borderlands: Identity, Culture and Belonging (2024)

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Unit description

Using a postcolonial approach to the study of identity and culture, students explore the social, cultural and political formation of borders and borderlands. Through an investigation of race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender and class, various cultural texts are analysed. Students engage self reflexively with contemporary theories of multiculture, belonging, everyday life and dislocation.

Unit content

Module 1: Borders of belonging

Module 2: Bounding the nation

Module 3: Boundaries of culture

Module 4: Traversing boundaries

Module 5: Displaying and performing culture

Module 6: Borderlands and history

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Gold Coast
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Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

demonstrate an understanding of contemporary postcolonial theory concerned with borders and borderlands

self reflexively consider the implications of postcolonial theory in relation to questions of belonging, identity, multiculture and dislocation

critically investigate how issues of race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender and class intersect and interact

apply relevant aspects of cultural studies and postcolonial theory in an experientially based project.

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