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Engaging in the Humanities 100 311922 - Students learn how to find information and to communicate their ideas effectively and professionally in the context of the Humanities.
311923 Making Meanings 103 Engage critically with the culture in which you live via a wide variety of written and audio-visual materials, texts and sources. The way knowledge is constructed and operates in society. The ways in which meaning and knowledge are produced, circulated and received.
311924 Narrating Selves 101 Narratives underpin a range of cultural artefacts. This unit explores key elements of narrative construction such as story and narration; time and space; narrating perspective and voice. It also examines the ways in which their elements function in relation to audiences and their social contexts.
311925 Senses of Place 100 The study of senses of place interrogates our understandings of identity, of home, of belonging and of not belonging. Places, our daily places, the places of our memories or our imaginings, are imbued with cultural, symbolic, collective and individual meanings, they are where we make and unmake community, they are the spaces within which we imagine, make and live our lives.
311926 Communicating with Asia: Languages and Societies 100 This unit is designed to promote awareness of the variations in communication patterns in different Asian cultures, and to enhance the ability to communicate more effectively with Asia. It covers the main East Asian societies - Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese and Korean, and explores the relationships between culture and language/behaviour, and potential cross-cultural communication problems that may arise from the differences between Asian and Australian societies.
311927 The Design Experience 100 Design is a fundamental human activity that is conducted in many varied ways. This unit investigates design as an intellectual activity that produces material artefacts aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. It offers interdisciplinary, practice-based inquiry into design using case-study methodology, and provides a critically-reflective base for exploring and engaging with the concept of design culture.
311928 Art and Creativity 100 Engage and challenge practices of creativity, innovation and aesthetic experience in contemporary life. Students investigate contemporary forms of cultural practice in order to articulate and represent new critical ways of thinking.

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