Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
|---|---|---|
| Gold Coast | Term2 | Term2 |
| Online | Term2 | N/A |
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 Different ways of reading landscapes in visual and literary historical documents linking time and place will be introduced.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
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: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | identify and interpret different visual and literary and historical texts |
| 2 | critically review contemporary historians' theories and approaches to place of contemporary historians |
| 3 | discuss the relationship between place and the historical, social, political and economic contexts in which it is imagined and interpreted |
| 4 | construct an evidence-based argument using skills in historical writing and research. |
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.
Prescribed Learning Resources
- No prescribed texts.
- No prescribed resources/equipment.
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
Domestic
Commonwealth Supported courses
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International
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