HI2441:04
The European Kingdoms Overseas
Townsville
Prerequisites: 3 units of level 1 HI or PL subjects
Inadmissable Subject Combination: HI2460
39 lectures, 12 tutorials. Second semester.
Major topics include: Navigation and early voyaging; the growth of trade, the Iberian kingdoms and Pre-Columbian America; English and French Colonialism in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; the institution of slavery; colonialism and metropolitan European culture.
Learning Objectives:
- to equip students with a broad knowledge of important aspects of the history of European colonialism;
- to enhance skills in locating, reading and interpreting historical sources;
- to improve written and oral expression.
Assessment by tutorials (30%); bibliographic exercise (10%); major essay (30%); examination (30%).
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