School Of Humanities And Languageshom/e/scapesWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 101000.1
Discipline: SOCIOLOGY
Student Contribution Band: 1
Level: 3
Credit Points: 10
Equivalent Units
100259 - hom/e/scapes
Unit Enrolment Restrictions
Successful completion of 60 credit points at Level 1.
About this Unit
This unit aims to develop an understanding of how meanings for "home", "homelessness", "homeliness", "homeland" and "exile" are produced by modalities of cultural meaning, such as institutions and their discourses, the media, non-fictional and literary texts. The history of the idea of home will be traced and some theorists who have considered home as imaginary, personal, social, national and global spaces will be studied.
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