ICLS3002: Oceanic Literatures

2026 unit information

Drawing on critical frameworks in oceanic studies, this unit will focus on the Indian Ocean, the Caribbean, the Pacific and/or the Mediterranean as creative and plural spaces in which cultures, languages and imaginaries intersect. Through critical reading of the diverse forms of story-telling that arise from and in these spaces, we will examine how living with, in or near these bodies of water informs cultural memory, regional imaginaries and notions of identity and belonging.

Unit details and rules

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Details

Study level	Undergraduate
Academic unit	International Comparative Literature and Translation Studies
Credit points	6

Enrolment rules

Prerequisites: ?	12 credit points at 2000 level in ICLS or English or 12 credit points at 2000 or 3000 level in Arabic Language and Cultures or Chinese Studies or French and Francophone Studies or Germanic Studies or Modern Hebrew or Indonesian Studies or Italian Studies or Jewish Civilisation, Thought and Culture or Japanese Studies or Korean Studies or Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies or Spanish and Latin American Studies
Corequisites: ?	None
Prohibitions: ?	None
Assumed knowledge: ?	None

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Semester 2 2026	Normal day	Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney	Outline unavailable

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