Unit of Study HIST2001 Writing Place: Landscapes, Memory, History (2024)

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Unit Snapshot

Unit type

UG Coursework Unit
Credit points

12
Faculty & College

Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
Placement

No

Unit description

Examines the connection between people and place, community and identity in terms of how a sense of place is imagined and interpreted over time. Different ways of reading landscapes in visual and literary historical documents linking time and place will be introduced. Students will be encouraged to reflect on their practice as historians and their craft as writers to develop their own writing skills in the process of making history.

Unit content

Module 1: Country

Module 2: Great Southern Land

Module 3: Colonial Encounters

Module 4: The Bush

Module 5: The Beach

Module 6: Memory and Landscape

Availabilities

Location	Domestic	International
Gold Coast	Term2	Term2
Online	Term2	N/A

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

identify and interpret different visual and literary and historical texts

critically review contemporary historians' theories and approaches to place of contemporary historians

discuss the relationship between place and the historical, social, political and economic contexts in which it is imagined and interpreted

construct an evidence-based argument using skills in historical writing and research.

Teaching and assessment

Teaching method

Workshop 1 hour (Weekly)

Tutorial 2 hours (Weekly)

Assessment
Critical review	40%
Essay	60%

Teaching method

Workshop 1 hour (Weekly)

Tutorial 2 hours (Weekly)

Assessment
Critical review	40%
Essay	60%

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts

No prescribed texts.

Prescribed Resources/Equipment

No prescribed resources/equipment.

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.

Fee information

Domestic

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