HI4443:06
Writing History
| Townsville, Cairns | HECS Band 1 |
26 hours seminars. Semester 1.
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 contemporary historiographical debates;
- 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 assignments (50%); seminar presentations (30%); seminar participation (20%).