HIS3AAH

ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORY: THE COLONIAL WORLD

HIS3AAH

2016

Credit points: 15

Subject outline

This subject examines the histories that Aboriginal Australians made following British colonization. It offers students an overview of the long colonial relationship between Australian settlers and Aboriginal peoples, from violence and friendship on rural and urban frontiers, to museums, missions and contemporary unease over the meaning of 'Aboriginality' in Australian national identity. Subject material introduces students to the independent interactions of Aboriginal peoples across the South, as well as the controversial concepts of 'discovery' and 'first contact'. Students will trace the increasingly international reach of Aboriginal agency, resistance and political activism from the 1840s onwards.

SchoolSchool of Humanities & Social Sciences

Credit points15

Subject Co-ordinatorNadia Rhook

Available to Study Abroad StudentsYes

Subject year levelYear Level 3 - UG

Exchange StudentsYes

Subject particulars

Subject rules

Prerequisites 30 credit points of second-year History and/or Art History

Co-requisitesN/A

Incompatible subjects HIS2AAH

Equivalent subjectsN/A

Special conditionsN/A

Graduate capabilities & intended learning outcomes

01. Identify some ways historians show continuity and change in the contexts of the pastEnter text

Activities:
1 x Individual 1250 word EBL research essay illuminating one aspect of the shared power point ; and 1 x 2500 word individual SELF-CHOSEN and SELF -DIRECTED RESEARCH essay [abstracts and annotated bibliography MANDATORY]
Related graduate capabilities and elements:
Inquiry/ Research(Inquiry/ Research)
Critical Thinking(Critical Thinking)
Writing(Writing)
Creative Problem-solving(Creative Problem-solving)

02. In a team and individually investigate aspects of the histiography of a historical problem and frame a response in any one of a variety of historical genres

Activities:
1 x 10 minute team power point and shared oral presentation; 1250 word EBL research essay illuminating one aspect of the shared power point; and 1 x 2500 word individual SELF-CHOSEN and SELF -DIRECTED RESEARCH essay [abstracts and annotated bibliography MANDATORY]
Related graduate capabilities and elements:
Speaking(Speaking)
Writing(Writing)
Creative Problem-solving(Creative Problem-solving)
Teamwork(Teamwork)
Inquiry/ Research(Inquiry/ Research)
Critical Thinking(Critical Thinking)

03. In a team and individually, assimilate historians' lines of argument and use of sources in relation to a particular historian problem placing all in their time and context

Activities:
1 x 10 minute team power point and shared oral presentation
Related graduate capabilities and elements:
Speaking(Speaking)
Teamwork(Teamwork)
Inquiry/ Research(Inquiry/ Research)
Critical Thinking(Critical Thinking)
Creative Problem-solving(Creative Problem-solving)

04. In a team create a properly referenced talk using primary and secondary sources to frame an argument about the past

Activities:
1 x 10 minute team power point and shared oral presentation
Related graduate capabilities and elements:
Teamwork(Teamwork)
Creative Problem-solving(Creative Problem-solving)
Inquiry/ Research(Inquiry/ Research)
Critical Thinking(Critical Thinking)
Speaking(Speaking)

05. In a team present a properly reference power point presentation using primary and secondary sources to frame a line of argument about an apect of the past

Activities:
1 x 10 minute team power point and shared oral presentation
Related graduate capabilities and elements:
Teamwork(Teamwork)
Creative Problem-solving(Creative Problem-solving)
Speaking(Speaking)
Inquiry/ Research(Inquiry/ Research)
Critical Thinking(Critical Thinking)

06. Individually identify schools of thought in historical inquiry, and apply and analyse them in a particular historical inquiry

Activities:
1 x Individual 1250 word EBL research essay illuminating one aspect of the shared power point; and 1 x 2500 word individual SELF-CHOSEN and SELF -DIRECTED RESEARCH essay [abstracts and annotated bibliography MANDATORY]
Related graduate capabilities and elements:
Inquiry/ Research(Inquiry/ Research)
Critical Thinking(Critical Thinking)
Writing(Writing)
Creative Problem-solving(Creative Problem-solving)

07. Write properly referenced individual essays using primary and secondary sources to frame a line of argument about an aspect of the past

Activities:
1 x Individual 1250 word EBL research essay illuminating one aspect of the shared power point; and 1 x 2500 word individual SELF-CHOSEN and SELF -DIRECTED RESEARCH essay [abstracts and annotated bibliography MANDATORY]
Related graduate capabilities and elements:
Writing(Writing)
Creative Problem-solving(Creative Problem-solving)
Critical Thinking(Critical Thinking)
Inquiry/ Research(Inquiry/ Research)

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Start date between: and    Key dates

Melbourne, 2016, Semester 1, Day

Overview

Online enrolmentYes

Maximum enrolment sizeN/A

Enrolment information

Subject Instance Co-ordinatorJennifer Jones

Class requirements

LectureWeek: 10 - 22
One 2.0 hours lecture per week on weekdays during the day from week 10 to week 22 and delivered via blended.

TutorialWeek: 10 - 22
One 1.0 hours tutorial per week on weekdays during the day from week 10 to week 22 and delivered via blended.

Assessments

Assessment elementComments%ILO*
1 x 2500 word self-directed individual research essay [abstracts/ annotated bibliography MANDATORY]5001, 02, 03, 06, 07
one 10 minute team power point presentationEquivalent to 200 words of assessment2002, 03, 04
one 1250 word EBL research essay illuminating one aspect of the shared power point2501, 02, 06, 07
one 2 minute oral presentation as part of a 10 minute team power point presentationequivalent to 50 words of assessment502, 03, 04, 05