Learning Outcomes

1. demonstrate an understanding of the nature of the complex and multifaceted relations between communication, culture, language and identity;
2. demonstrate an understanding of the limits of translatability of key concepts across languages, and the implications of these limits for international communication;

3. analyse cultural assumptions underlying expressions such as “the ideals of freedom, democracy, and the rule of laws (Obama 2006: p. 284) and explain their linguistic underpinnings;

4. explain the sources of miscommunication between speakers of different linguistic and cultural backgrounds who communicate using English as a lingua franca;
5. demonstrate an understanding of potential sources of miscommunication within multilingual and multi-cultural societies such as Australia; and
   
6. communicate effectively in another language in many contexts and understand the issues that can arise in international communication due to linguistic differences.

Requirements

This major requires the completion of 48 units, of which:

A maximum of 12 units may come from completion of 1000-level courses

A minimum of 6 units must come from completion of 3000-level courses

The 48 units must consist of:

6 units from completion of LING2021 Cross Cultural Communication

A minimum of 6 units from completion of courses from the following list:

ASIA2001 Language in Asia and the Pacific

ASIA2014 China: Discourse and Political Culture

ASIA2308 Linguistic Histories in Asia and the Pacific

HUMN2001 Introduction to Digital humanities and Public Culture - Tools, Theories and Methods

INDG2003 Gamilaraay - Introduction to an Australian Indigenous Language

INDG2004 Continuing Gamilaraay

INDG2005 Introduction to an Australian Indigenous Language

INDG2006 Continuing Australian Indigenous Language 

LING1002 Language and Society

LING2015 Language, Culture, Translation

LING2018 Languages in Contact

LING2027 Language and Society in Latin America

LING2034 Communication in Health Care

LING2106 Language and Social Interaction

SPAN2604 Multilingualism and indigenous peoples in the Americas

A maximum of 6 units from completion of courses from the following list:

ANTH1003 Global Citizen: Culture, Development and Inequality

ANTH2009 Culture and Development

ANTH2017 Culture, Social Justice and Aboriginal Society Today

ANTH2025 Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective

ANTH2129 Crossing Borders: Migration, Identity and Livelihood

ANTH2130 Violence and Terror

ASIA2084 Study Tour: Modern Mongolia - Challenges to the Environment, Economy and Empire

ASIA2311 Gender and Cultural Studies in Asia and the Pacific

ASIA2516 Indonesia: Politics, Society and Development

GEND2035 Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective

HIST2243 Vikings, Crusades, Mongols: Shaping Medieval Europe, c. 850–1300

INDG1001 Country, Kinship and Continuities: An Introduction to Australian Indigenous Studies

INDG2001 Indigenous Cultural and Natural Resource Management

MEAS2000 Iranian History and Culture

MEAS2003 Modern Turkey: History, Politics and Culture

POLS2101 Refugee Politics: Displacement and Exclusion in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

SOCY2163 Identity, Difference and Racism

A minimum of 6 units from completion of 3000-level courses from any of the following majors and minors, and the following list:

Arabic major

Chinese Language major

French Language and Culture major

German Language and Culture major

Hindi Language major

Indonesian Language major

Italian Language and Culture major

Japanese Language major

Korean Language major

Persian major

Russian minor

Sanskrit Language major

Spanish major

Thai Language major

Vietnamese Language major

ANTH3017 Indigenous Worlds: Challenges of Emergence, Recognition, and Change

BUSI3029 Cross-Cultural Management

LANG3001 Translation across Languages: the translation of literary texts

LANG3002 Translation across Languages: specialised material

LING3031 Papuan Languages

LING3035 Semantic Typology

LING3036 Advanced Sociolinguistics

POLS3037 Globalisation: Communications, Culture and Democracy

PASI3001 Politics and Development in the Contemporary Pacific

SCOM3029 Cross Cultural Perspectives in Science Communication

SPAN3031 Advanced Spanish Topics in Language and Linguistics

24 units from completion of courses from any of the following majors and minors, and the following list:

Arabic major

Burmese Language minor

Chinese Language major

French Language and Culture major

German Language and Culture major

Hindi Language major

Indonesian Language major

Italian Language and Culture major

Japanese Language major

Korean Language major

Literary Chinese Minor

Mongolian Language minor

Persian major

Russian minor

Sanskrit Language major

Spanish major

Tetum Language minor

Thai Language major

Tok Pisin Language Minor

Vietnamese Language major

INDG2003 Gamilaraay - introduction to an Australian Indigenous Language

INDG2004 Continuing Gamilaraay

INDG2005 Introduction to an Australian Indigenous Language

INDG2006 Continuing Australian Indigenous Language 

LING2107 Advanced Academic English

PORT1001 Introductory Portuguese I

PORT1002 Introductory Portuguese II

PORT2001 Continuing Portuguese I

PORT2002 Continuing Portuguese II

TURK1001 Elementary Turkish A

TURK1002 Elementary Turkish B