Teaching profile for the National Centre for Australian Studies

Australian Studies is part of a global conversation. Our undergraduate program offers a gateway to Australia, visiting sites of significance right across the country and exploring the ideas and landmarks that have helped shape Australians’ sense of themselves. You can choose from a range of offerings attuned to the needs and interests of international students.

• Australian idol: the symbols, myths and icons that imagine and express a people, a nation, a land. View more information about the Australian idol unit.
• Anzac legends: Chart the changing mythology of “Anzac”, learn how war has defined Australian identity and positioned the nation in Asia and the world. View more information about the Anzac legends unit.
• Broken earth: Australian environmental history: travel the country and examine Australians’ ever changing relationship with the land. View more information about the Broken earth unit.
• Sport and society: cultural history, popular recreation, the intersection of the local and the global. View more information about the Sport and society unit.
• The Anzac Battlefield Tour: Based at the Prato Study Centre. Students will participate in a study tour of the Gallipoli peninsula and a cruise through the historic Greek islands to the WWII battlefields of Crete. View more information about the Studying in Florence, Gallipoli and Crete unit.

The National Centre for Australian Studies also hosts a highly successful graduate program, with one of the largest international enrolments in the Faculty of Arts.

• The tourism program: showcasing the Australian travel industry to the world. View more information about the graduate tourism program.
• The communication and media studies: Interrogating the way the media shapes our understanding of the world. View more information about the communications and media studies program.
• The publishing and editing program: a vocationally oriented program securing coveted placements in the publishing industry. View more information about the publishing and editing program.
• Journalism and Australia studies: a new two year course equipping journalism students with an in-depth knowledge of contemporary Australia. View more information about the journalism and Australian studies program.