HI4443 - Writing History

Credit points:	06
Year:	2007
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	Discipline of History

This subject explores a range of approaches to the writing of history. It focuses on the changing trends in historical writing from the 1970s to the present.

Learning Outcomes

• to become familiar with contemporary historiographical debates;
• to develop skills in the organisation and expression of research findings appropriate to the honours level of study;
• to gain an appreciation of the diversity of interpretative and theoretical perspectives available to the historian.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments;
• The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to speak and write logically, clearly and creatively;
• The ability to use and interpret different media;
• A coherent and disciplined body of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to learn independently and in a self-directed manner;
• A commitment to lifelong learning and intellectual development.

Prerequisites:

Admission to History Honours program

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 30-Mar-2007
Coordinator:	Assoc. Professor Russell McGregor
Lecturers:	Dr Janice Wegner, Assoc. Professor Russell McGregor.
Contact hours:	26 hours workshops/Seminars
Assessment:	tutorial attendance and participation (10%); essays (90%).
Cairns, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 30-Mar-2007
Coordinator:	Dr Janice Wegner
Lecturers:	Dr Janice Wegner, Assoc. Professor Russell McGregor.
Contact hours:	26 hours workshops/Seminars
Assessment:	tutorial attendance and participation (10%); essays (90%).

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