Travel, Landscape and Place

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2009:

For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Student Support and Engagement Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Overview, Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Generic Skills sections of this entry.

It is University policy to take all reasonable steps to minimise the impact of disability upon academic study, and reasonable adjustments will be made to enhance a student's participation in the University's programs. Students who feel their disability may impact on meeting the requirements of this subject are encouraged to discuss this matter with a Faculty Student Adviser and Student Equity and Disability Support: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/disability

• have developed skills in an engagement with the history of, and critical engagement with the genres of travel and place writing;
• have developed skills in identifying subject matter that will assist in producing travel and place writing essays;
• have developed skills in the areas of observational work and additional research skills that will assist in producing travel and place writing essays;
• have developed skills in engaging as both readers and writers with travel and place writingÂ’s narrative practice through an engagement with a range of themes discussed within the workshop format;
• have developed skills in the realisation of the creative potential by utilising a range of visual and written texts (such as photography, journals and film) when developing travel and place writing projects;
• have developed skills in using a notebook/journal as a documentary, creative and writing resource;
• have developed skills in both the presentation and responses of their creative writing through the writing workshop approach to learning and practice.

This subject potentially can be taken as a breadth subject component for the following courses:

• Bachelor of Biomedicine
• Bachelor of Commerce
• Bachelor of Environments
• Bachelor of Music
• Bachelor of Science
• Bachelor of Engineering

You should visit learn more about breadth subjects and read the breadth requirements for your degree, and should discuss your choice with your student adviser, before deciding on your subjects.

• have acquired research skills through competent use of the library and other information sources, and the definition of areas of inquiry and methods of research;
• have acquired skills in critical thinking and analytical skills through recommended reading, essay writing and tutorial discussion, and by determining the strength of an argument;
• have acquired skills in thinking in theoretical terms through workshops, essay writing and engagement in the methodologies of the humanities and social sciences.