HI4443:06
Writing History
Townsville, Cairns
Prerequisites: Admission to honours program
26 hours seminars. First semester.
Staff: Dr R McGregor.
This subject explores a range of approaches to the writing of history. It focuses on the changing trends in historical writing from the 1950s to the present.
Learning Objectives:
- to become familiar with the historical development of the discipline of history;
- to acquire competence in research appropriate to the honours level of study;
- to gain an appreciation of the diversity of interpretative and theoretical perspectives available to the historian;
- to develop skills in the organisation and expression of research findings appropriate to the honours level of study.
Assessment by written critiques of set readings (80%); seminar attendance and participation (20%).