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Ancient Greek was the language of the poets Homer and Sappho, the symposium and the festival, the lawcourts and the theatre. It was the language in which new ideas were imagined: from the philosophy of Plato to the new tenets of Christianity,...
Understanding the relevance of language and linguistics to real-life situations is more important than ever, particularly within our increasingly modern and linguistically diverse world.
Applied Linguistics equips you with the skills to apply...
For further information on Australian Indigenous Studies offered across the university, please check the AuIS website!
If you have an interest in issues of relevance to Indigenous Australians, adding Indigenous languages to your knowledge in this...
Classical Studies explores Ancient Greece and Rome through its literature, material culture, history, and society from the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity. It examines big questions which are just as relevant today as they were thousands of years ago....
In creative writing courses, you will write poetry, fiction, play scripts and screenplays. You will read and analyse recent and contemporary published writing to develop a capacity for reading carefully and critically.
Courses include an...
Drama subjects offer you the chance to learn about theatre history and to explore plays as texts written for performance. Course activities include lectures, tutorials and practical workshops.
You do not need acting experience to enrol in Drama at...
We live in an information-rich and hyper-connected age. Studying English at ANU will focus your attention on a diversity of print and audio-visual texts, deepening your understanding of literary history and transforming how you think about reading...
Students in the French Program are exposed to the linguistic and cultural richness of France and other Francophone (French-speaking) societies. Our students not only acquire competence in the language, but also gain different perspectives on a...
The German Language and Culture courses at ANU are aimed at students who seek to develop a high level of competence in German language as well as a critical understanding of German-speaking cultures.
You can choose from courses in German language,...
Today more than ever, clear communication among people of different nationalities and from different societies is essential.
In a world where English is widely spoken, its use can conceal deep differences in cultural assumptions.
When travelling...
Learning Italian will give you access to one of the richest European cultural traditions, spanning the renaissance to the present day. Italy holds 60% of the World Art Heritage, is the country of innovative technological and fashion design and...
If you want to understand a culture, you need to understand its language. Latin was spoken by Romans drinking in the tavern, watching games in the arena, or debating politics in the senate house. It is the language of graffiti scrawled on walls in...
Linguists study languages from various points of view, including meaning, structure, acquisition, evolution and functions in society.
If you study linguistics, you will explore and learn to describe features commons to all languages and speech...
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Globally, Portuguese is the eighth most widely spoken language with over 250 million speakers across eight countries and five continents. Portugal...
Russian is the language of a major world power. It is also the common language of many millions of people in the fifteen countries of the Former Soviet Union, which cover a large part of Asia, making it the 6th most spoken language in the world.
It...
Screens mediate interpersonal relationships, they shape our understanding of national identities and provide a means of border crossing. The Screen Studies major focuses on transmedia and multimodal storytelling and provides students with the tools...
Studying Spanish opens the door for you to excel at a major international language. With more than 400 million speakers globally, Spanish is the third most spoken language in the world. Spanish is a language rich in literature, significant in...
