HI4444:06
History’s Past
| Townsville, Cairns | HECS Band 1 |
26 hours workshops/seminars. Semester 2.
Available only to level 4 honours students.
Staff: Dr R McGregor, Assoc. Professor P Turnbull, Dr J Wegner.
This subject provides a critical appreciation of the historical development of the discipline of history from antiquity to the present day. It explores a diversity of ways in which the past has been apprehended and understood across a range of temporal and cultural contexts.
Learning Objectives:
- to gain familiarity with the historical development of the discipline of history;
- to acquire an understanding of key theoretical and methodological debates that have shaped the evolution of historical scholarship;
- to develop skills of research and analysis appropriate to the honours level of study.
Assessment by written assignments (50%); seminar presentation (30%); seminar participation (20%).