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Overview

Students undertake an intensive, specialised study of history and/or methodology in a weekly seminar. The emphasis is on understanding primary sources through advanced conceptual frameworks and on developing individual research questions. Assessment is variable, but may include historiographical reviews, seminar presentations and research essay(s).

Portfolio

Office of the Provost

School

Humanities and Social Sciences

Subject coordinator

Yves Rees

Subject type

Honours

Year level

Year Level 4 - UG/Hons/1st Yr PG

AQF level

Level 8 – Bachelor Degree Honours

Available as elective

No

Available to study abroad / exchange students

Yes

Capstone subject

No

Academic progress review - Schedule A subject

No

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Career ready

Work based learning (placement):No

Graduate capabilities

COMMUNICATION - Communicating and Influencing
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 - Ethical and Social Responsibility

Subject intended learning outcomes

On successful completion you will be able to:
1.
Collaborate to reflect critically and explicitly on the use of primary sources in a student's inquiry and/or to contrast historians' lines of arguments and use of sources on a historical problem, placing them in their contexts.
2.
Present orally or in multimedia an aspect of the past which offers a sustained line of argument or narrative, referenced in accomplished ways, that assimilates a wide variety of primary and secondary sources.
3.
When constructing their own historical account, find and reflect explicitly on the strengths and weaknesses of other historians' accounts.
4.
When constructing their own historical account, find primary sources (visual and/or textual and reflect explicitly on their use.
5.
Write a sustained historical argument or narrative based on primary sources (visual and/or textual which also engages with scholarly debates in the field.

Learning activities

Two essays of 3000 words each OR One 1000 word historiographical essay reviewing weekly reading and one 5000 word research essay OR One 1000 word historiographical review and one research essay of 4000 words and one seminar presentation OR one summary and critical review of a book or article of 1000 words and two essays of 2000 and 3000 words respectively OR one essay of 1500 words based on seminar presentation and one research essay of 4500 words

Requisite rules

Prerequisites: Students must be admitted in one of the following courses: AHA