A personal account of a course called "Themes in 20th Century History" at Monash University, Melbourne, is offered. Cooperative group work was encouraged, and the course focused on the major social and cultural themes that impacted the twentieth-century person. The central problem was the "I/World" relationship. (LBH)

This course, one of 16 sequential courses comprising phase one of a part-time Bachelor of Arts degree program in Australian Studies, illustrates that the concept of work has not been a universal or historically consistent category. Some of the distinctive features of work in the Western world are covered, along with some effects of the Industrial…