01ENGPL

Level 1 English: Pasifika Literature

Course Description

Teacher in Charge: Ms L. Pizzini.

Exploring the Pasifika Literature through English

Students will look at the experience of living in the Pacific across time as it is represented in films, books, poems, and oral traditions etc. Students will also create texts that reflect their own experiences in and knowledge of the Pacific.

As part of this course students may explore the experience of colonisation, indigenous identities, traditional vs. contemporary expressions of culture, and grappling with identity in contested and changing spaces.