HI2420 - Aborigines and Settlers - 2003

[an error occurred while processing this directive]

HI2420:03

Aborigines and Settlers

Townsville

HECS Band 1

26 hours lectures, 12 hours tutorials. Semester 1.

Staff: Assoc. Professor D Menghetti.

This subject presents an overview of post-contact Australian history with particular reference to race relations. It will be taught by a combination of lectures, videos and student discussion based on historical documents.

Learning Objectives:

1. to acquire an overview of the history of Australia;
2. to gain an understanding of the use of primary source documents in historical writing;
3. to improve skills in developing and arguing an historical thesis.

Assessment by essay (30%); tutorials (40%); examination (30%).

[an error occurred while processing this directive]