James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2000

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School of Humanities

Disciplines of:

English

Special interest

Australian literature

General

Computer-assisted Old English pedagogy
Old English Poetry
Early Middle English romances
Middle English religious literature
Shakespearean and Jacobean drama
Eighteenth-century fiction and poetry
Victorian fiction
American literature
Contemporary women’s fiction
North Queensland writing
The literature, culture and history of Tasmania
Literary responses to the South Pacific
Society and culture in nineteenth and twentieth-century Australia
Twentieth-century Australian fiction
War literature
Contemporary literary theory
Feminist literary theories
Feminist pedagogy
Theories of embodiment, including the construction of sexualities
The cultural construction of families, of gender and madness
Modernist literature and theory
Postmodernist writing
Literature of spirituality
Experimental academic writing
Popular fantasy
Creative writing — fiction and non-fiction

Individual Authors

Martin Boyd
Byron
Peter Carey
Chaucer
Henry Fielding
Janet Frame
William Langland
David Malouf
Milton
Frank Moorhouse
Pope
Shakespeare
Randolph Stow
Evelyn Waugh
Patrick White

History

History of anthropology
Biomedical history
Australian rural and pastoral history
History of Australian women
History of mining and metallurgy
Australian race relations
Southeast Asian history (with emphasis on Philippines and Thailand)
History of European ideas
Cape York history
North Queensland regional history

Journalism

Formal education levels among country press journalists
Political satire and satiric verse published in newspapers
Asia Pacific media systems
The role of community radio in journalism training
Cross cultural program-making
Media coverage of race relations

Modern Languages

Seventeenth and eighteenth-century French literature
French Cinema
Proust
French feminism
Marion Campbell
Japanese linguistics
Language teaching methodology
Japanese grammar
Japanese popular Buddhism

Politics

Australian politics and policy
Energy and environmental politics
Public policy formulation and implementation
Business government relations
Japanese politics and foreign policy
Comparative Asian politics
International relations of East and Southeast Asia
Industrial relations


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