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Regional Universities Indonesian Language
Consortium
Shared Advanced Units The following letter was for UNE students. If you are at another university and wish to enrol in any of the units/courses mentioned below, talk to the Indonesian lecturer and Course Adviser at your own School/Faculty/University. Email the relevant lecturers below if you want more detailed course content information. [Note: a full one-semester unit at UNE is worth 6 credit points there, equivalent to 12 cp at USC, and probably ten elsewhere, etc. It would be translated in to the correct number of points back at your own university.] ____________________________________________________________ 24
October 2007 1 Dear
Student If you are
considering further studies in Indonesian for 2008, we are pleased to advise of
additional advanced level units which are available via cross institutional
enrolment through the Regional Universities Indonesian
Language Initiative (RUILI). Regional
Universities Indonesian Language Initiative (RUILI) As a result
of a Grant awarded to UNE by the Department of Education, Science and Training
(DEST) for the RUILI Project, a consortium of four universities have
collaborated to broaden the availability of Indonesian units on offer at each
university. The universities are:
Students
from all four universities will now be able to enrol cross institutionally in
the following units:
This unit explores the contexts in which native speakers of bahasa
Indonesia use
Indonesian. It is aimed at sensitising students to the social and cultural
norms that may underlie the use of Indonesian by Ônative speakersÕ. These
social and cultural norms are placed in a wider theoretical framework, that of
Ôcommunicative competenceÕ. Students also explore some of the ways in which an
understanding of this notion of Ôcommunicative competenceÕ can inform the
teaching and learning of Indonesian as a foreign language. Prerequisites INI202: Two years of Indonesian or
equivalent. Unit
Coordinator: Dr Richard Curtis, Charles Darwin University Tel: 08 8946
7171; Email: richard.curtis@cdu.edu.au
This unit
seeks to introduce students to the history of Malay/Indonesian. Topics include:
Malay and its relatives, Old Malay, Classical Malay, Colonialism and the
development of Malay, nationalism and the rise of Indonesian, language
planning, diglossia in Indonesian, the influence of English and other foreign
languages and the relationship between regional languages and Indonesian. Many
of the topics will include the study of original texts that illustrate various
aspects of the discussion. Through study of Indonesian's history students will
gain a greater understanding of the various forms of Malay/Indonesian in the
Indonesian archipelago (and beyond). Prerequisites: INDN330 - Two years of Indonesian
or equivalent; INDN430 - Three years of Indonesian or equivalent. INDN430
students will be required to complete extra assessment tasks and demonstrate
higher levels of understanding of the texts. Unit
Coordinator:
Stephen Miller, University of New England; Tel: 02 6773
3932 Email:
smiller6@une.edu.au
This unit gives an overview of the major events, periods and
trends in Indonesian society in the twentieth and early twenty-first century,
through the use of translations of Indonesian literature. Literary and
quasi-literary writing is used in the unit as a guide to the social and
political history of a period. On completion of this unit, students will: á
understand
that literature, like history, non-fiction and biography, can bear witness to
social reality; á
appreciate
the blurring of the boundaries in Indonesia between fiction, journalism and
non-fiction; á
have a
broad understanding of twentieth century Indonesian history; á
be
familiar with the work of the most important writers and literary figures in
twentieth century Indonesia Prerequisites: For students doing HMN304 as part
of an Indonesian major - Two years of Indonesian or equivalent. For students
doing HMN304 as part of an Asian Studies or English major - Two years of the
relevant discipline or equivalent. Unit Coordinator: Assoc Prof P Allen, University of
Tasmania; Tel: 03 6226 2357 Email: pallen@utas.edu.au
This unit teaches students about a range of major issues in
contemporary Indonesian Islam using a variety of Indonesian language texts. The
issues covered include Islam and politics, the role of Islam in the state,
liberal Islam vs. fundamentalist Islam, 'radical Islam vs. 'moderate Islam',
jihad and terrorism, 'cultural Islam', the role of Muslim women, Islam and
local culture, Islam and business. Prerequisites: INDN331 - Two years of Indonesian
or equivalent; INDN431 - Three years of Indonesian or equivalent Unit
Coordinator: Dr
Zifirdaus Adnan, University of New England; Tel: 02 6773 3516 Email: zadnan@une.edu.au Further
Information: Units on
offer: Please contact the Unit Coordinator as mentioned at
their respective university or:
Enrolment: At
UNE For more information contact Helen Creagan on Tel: 02
6773 3503; email helen.creagan@une.edu.au or contact the Student Centre
on Tel: 1800 818 865 or 02 6773 4444; Website www.une.edu.au/studentcentre. We wish you
all the best for your studies in 2008. Yours
faithfully CRICOS Provider No. 00003G |