Taught completely in on-line mode. Explores the ways in which Australia has historically been depicted and understood. Investigates how Australia has come to exist in the consciousness of its own and other people: rather than a story of the nation moving forward from the moment of colonisation, Australia is seen as the subject of many culturally disparate 'ways of seeing'. The concept of 'seeing' itself is analysed in this process. 'Seeing' stands for many different ways of knowing and representing and these will be explored in a range of texts: written texts in poetic, narrative and dramatic form; popular culture texts such as advertising; visual texts, including painting, photography and films.