James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2001

School of humanities

Disciplines of:

English

Special interest

Australian literature

General

Computer-assisted Old English pedagogy
Old English Poetry
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
Australian literature and culture
War literature
Contemporary literary theory
Feminist literary theories
Feminist pedagogy
The cultural construction of families, gender and madness
Modernist literature and theory
Postmodernist writing
Literature of spirituality
Creative writing — fiction and non-fiction

Individual Authors

Byron
Peter Carey
Chaucer
Henry Fielding
Janet Frame
Helen Garner
Kate Greville
George Johnston
William Langland
David Malouf
Milton
The Pearl Poet
Pope
Shakespeare
Christina Stead
Randolph Stow
Thomas Usk
Patrick White
Tim Winton

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
Migration and citizenship
Transnationalism

Journalism

Formal education levels among country press journalists
Media coverage of high profile trials
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

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