Identity

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2012:

Estimated total time commitment: 3 contact hours per week plus 5 additional hours per week. Total of 8 hours per week.

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

Who we are and what we do is all tangled up in our identity. This subject considers how identities are constructed and maintained through mediated processes of self and other. The subject investigates the myriad demands and devices that figure in constructing our senses of self and other (including language, leisure, beliefs and embodied practices). By exploring identity in diverse contexts, across time and place, the subject maps varying conceptions of self and other and how these conceptions are constructed and maintained. A key focus is on how these mediated conceptions of self and other are translated into material practices of inclusion, exclusion, discrimination, violence and criminalisation.

Students who complete this subject should:

• have a foundational knowledge of concepts and approaches to the study and investigation of culture and identity
• appreciate both disciplinary and multi-disciplinary approaches to the investigation and understanding of culture and identity
• appreciate cross-cultural and cross-epochal approaches to understanding culture and identity.

A Bibliographic Exercise due in Week 4 (250 words, 10%), a Critical Analysis Exercise due in Week 6 (750 words, 20%) an Essay due in Week 9 (1500 words, 35%) and an Exam during the Examination Period (1.5 hours, 35%).
This subject has a minimum hurdle requirement of 75% tutorial attendance and 75% skills workshop attendance. Regular participation in tutorials is required. Assessment submitted late without an approved extension will be penalised at 10% per day. All pieces of written work must be submitted to pass this subject.

TBA

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

• Critial thinking and analysis through recommended reading, essay writing and tutorial discuission
• Research through competent use of the library and other information sources, and the definition of areas of inquiry and methods of research.
• Engagement with the methodologies of the humanities and social sciences
• Critical self-awareness, being open to new ideas and possibilities through learning how to construct an argument
• Communicating knowledge and arguments intelligibly and economically through essay writing and tutorial discussion
• Ability to assess the strength of an argument through recommended reading, essay writing and tutorial discussion
• Time management and planning through managing and organising workloads for recommended reading, essay and assignment completion.