FROM PIRATES TO REGGAE: THE HISTORY OF JAMAICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

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Overview

In this subject students will look at how the Caribbean became a major theatre of contestation between the great maritime empires and saw Jamaica become the centre of British piracy. But the importance of Jamaica goes well beyond this colourful past. In the 20th and 21st centuries this little island has become a cultural powerhouse. Reggae and its musical derivatives emerged as the sound of global resistance from South Africa to East Timor and for Indigenous Australians, Maoris and even African-Brazilians.

Portfolio

Arts, Social Sciences & Commerce (Pre 2022)

School

Subject coordinator

Natalie Araujo

Subject type

Undergraduate

Year level

Year Level 2 - UG

AQF level

Level 6 - Advanced Diploma

Available as elective

Yes

Available to study abroad / exchange students

Yes

Capstone subject
Capstones provide students with a way of integrating and applying knowledge and skills gained throughout their course.

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Career ready

Work based learning (placement):No

Graduate capabilities

COMMUNICATION - Communicating and Influencing

COMMUNICATION - Cultural Intelligence and Global Perspective

DISCIPLINE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

INQUIRY AND ANALYSIS - Creativity and Innovation

INQUIRY AND ANALYSIS - Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

INQUIRY AND ANALYSIS - Research and Evidence-Based Inquiry

PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL - Adaptability and Self-Management

PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL - Ethical and Social Responsibility

Subject intended learning outcomes

On successful completion you will be able to:

Assimilate historians' lines of arguments in relation to visual materials, placing the arguments and the sources in their contexts.

Discuss disciplinary skills as articulated in readings and as modelled in lectures.

Identify and assimilate sources, lines of argument and evidence on a history topic.

Identify some ways historians show continuity and change the contexts in a past.

Identify some ways historians use the present to shape their interpretations of the past.

Investigate aspects of the historiography on a historical topic and frame a response in any one of a variety of history genres.

Write properly-referenced essays using primary and secondary sources to frame a line of argument about an aspect of a past, including an annotated bibliography .

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