Teaching
The Centre for Gippsland Studies contributes to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching within the School of Applied Media & Social Sciences. The resources of the Centre are also an invaluable aid to students throughout the campus.
Undergraduate teaching
- ATS1312 Modern World Events and Issues
- ATS1898 Understanding Globalisation and Change
- ATS2566/3566 Stories of Communities: (Re)discovering the Voiceless
- ATS2782 Alternative and Mainstream Communities
- ATS3797 Theories and Research in History and Politics
Community Studies
This a minor sequence which exposes students to current debates about the meaning, nature and outlook of communities. It brings together units from the Centre for Gippsland Studies, History-Politics, Community Welfare and Counselling, Sociology and the Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies:
- ATS1251 Introduction to Australian Indigenous Societies 1
- ATS1898 Understanding Globalisation and Social Change
- ATS2566/3566 Stories of Community: (Re)discovering the Voiceless
- ATS2736/3736 Environmental Sociology
- ATS2782 Alternative and Mainstream Communities
- ATS2823 Community Development
- ATS2825 Social Issues and Personal Values
In 2011 this will be updated to a major sequence which will include ATS2365/3365 Australian Indigenous Literature and ATS2894/3894 Accommodating Minorities in Australia?
Honours and postgraduate supervision
The CGS contributes to ATS4794 Research Writing in History and Politics and ATS4807 Selected Topics in Theory and Practice.
The Centre supervises theses on:
- local and community history
- heritage and museum studies
- oral history and memory
- environmental history topics
The Acting Director also supervises:
- Holocaust history
- Aboriginal history
Postgraduate research associated with the Centre for Gippsland Studies
- Corner Inlet, an Interplay Between Land and Sea
- Dreams and Realities: E.J. Brady and Mallacoota
- Intellectual Disability in the Latrobe Valley
- J.P. Campbell, Photographer
- Seachangers and Gippsland
- The 1977 SEC Maintenance Strike
Recent PhD completions
- The Leaving of Home: Experiences of British Child Evacuees who Later Migrated to Gippsland