Pacific Studies Minor

Total units 24 Units

Minor code PAST-MIN

Academic career Undergraduate

The Pacific Studies minor employs an interdisciplinary framework to explore important historical and contemporary issues in Oceania, and to critically examine the ways in which knowledge about the region, and the region itself, have been framed, constructed and represented, with a particular focus on indigenous epistemologies and voices. Students engage with scholarly and policy debates of critical contemporary importance in the region, including gender, climate change, globalization, the arts, development, and peace, conflict and intervention. The linguistic diversity of Oceania is reflected in the core courses of the major, which are infused with indigenous voices and languages. Electives provide students with opportunities to further explore the Pacific through the disciplinary lenses of archaeology, anthropology, indigenous studies, political science, literature, philosophy, and visual arts.

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Requirements

This minor requires the completion of 24 units, which must consist of:

12 units from completion of the following course(s):

Code	Title	Units
PASI1012	Pacific Worlds: critical inquiry in Oceania	6
PASI2001	Pacific Studies in a Globalizing World	6

12 units from completion of the following course(s):

Code	Title	Units
ARCH2005	The Archaeology of the Pacific Islanders	6
ARCH3019	Topics in Pacific Archaeology	6
ARCH3022	Long-term Biodiversity and Climate Change in Asia-Pacific	6
ASIA2301	The Peopling of Asia & the Pacific	6
ASIA3006	Practical Assignment in Asia and the Pacific	6-12
ASIA3012	Readings in Asian Societies and Histories	6
FREN2022	French Literature and The Pacific	6
FREN2026	New Caledonia: Field Work and Research	6
HIST2231	Exploration: Columbus to the Moon	6
PASI1010	Talking the Pacific: Melanesian pidgins and creoles in social context OR	6
PASI2010	Talking the Pacific: Melanesian pidgins and creoles in social context	6
PASI1011	Navigating Pacific Studies Online Course	6
PASI2002	Australia in Oceania in the 19th and 20th centuries	6
PASI2003	Environment, Conflict and Development in the Western Pacific	6
PASI2006	War in the Islands: The Second World War in the Pacific	6
PASI2020	An introduction to Languages of the Pacific	6
PASI3001	The Contemporary Pacific: Society, Politics and Development	6
PASI3005	Pacific Islands Field School	6
PASI3006	Navigating the Pacific: Mapping the study and research resources	6
POLS2055	Pacific Politics	6

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