Skills in research, interpretation, analysis, written and oral communication are emphasised in each of the units. Our focus on EcoCultural History provides an innovative approach to history and a program unique to Southern Cross University. EcoCultural history starts with an interest in culture and its interrelation with the environments in which people move through time. This involves re-engaging historical analysis with the shifting philosophical rationales of other studies and disciplines, in particular cultural studies, ecology, geography, and anthropology. The major in EcoCultural History places culture in the context of time and place.
EcoCultural History is situated at the intersection of environmental history and cultural history.
Emphasis is placed on the representation and cultural appropriation of nature and landscape . In turn, the way the environment may also impact on cultural practices and the production of knowledge will be given attention. Nature and culture have their own historical specificity, as they are articulated by different groups of people at different times and spatial locations , from the global to the local . The major in EcoCultural History provides a forum for theoretical and historical understandings of cultural practices and their relation to the physical world .