The Pacific Studies minor employs an interdisciplinary framework to introduce historical and contemporary issues in Oceania. It also offers a basic framework to 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 minor provides students with opportunities to further explore the Pacific through the disciplinary lenses of archaeology, anthropology, indigenous studies, political science, literature, philosophy, and visual arts.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
1. Explain historical and current events and developments that have shaped the Pacific,
2. Identify the contemporary socio-cultural and political systems of the Pacific,
3. Explain developments in the Pacific in their regional and global context,
4. Understand the basic processes and disciplinary approaches through which current knowledge about the Pacific has developed.
Relevant Degrees
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 |
|---|---|---|
| PASI1011 | Pacific Encounters: An introduction to Pacific Studies | 6 |
| PASI2001 | Pacific Studies in a Globalizing World | 6 |
12 units from completion of the following course(s):
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| PASI1012 | Pacific Worlds: critical inquiry in Oceania | 6 |
| ARCH2005 | Archaeology of the Pacific Islanders | 6 |
| ASIA2087 | Peace Building in the Pacific and Asia | 6 |
| ASIA2093 | Natural Resource Conflicts in Asia and the Pacific | 6 |
| ASIA3053 | The Death of God in the Asia-Pacific | 6 |
| FREN2022 | French Literature and The Pacific | 6 |
| FREN2026 | New Caledonia: Field Work and Research | 6 |
| PASI2002 | Australia in Oceania in the 19th and 20th centuries | 6 |
| PASI2003 | Environment and Development in the Pacific | 6 |
| WARS2004 | War in the Islands: The Second World War in the Pacific | 6 |
| PASI2010 | Talking the Pacific: Melanesian pidgins and creoles in social context | 6 |
| PASI3001 | The Contemporary Pacific: Society, Politics and Development | 6 |
| PASI3005 | Pacific Islands Field School | 6 |
| POLS2055 | Pacific Politics | 6 |
| STST2003 | Australia and Security in the Pacific Islands | 6 |
| ENVS2005 | Island Sustainable Development: Fiji Field School | 6-12 |
